Better events.

[Catlemur]

I was wondering if making much bigger events is possible.Not just a random dueling challenge or a market.It would be cool if the PS community organised a fair of epic proportions lets say once per two months.
What I am trying to say is:A merchant market,dueling tournament,a show with singers and storytellers,a rivnak race and much more all at the same place and time.
This way people from all parts of Yliakum will gather in one place.The epicosity of this event would really help the game's PR.
P.S. I am willing to help with making it true.

[LigH]

We used to have entertainers who made such a kind of events regularly.

[Vakachehk]

I don't mind tournaments, I don't mind markets. In fact I have never recalled a market before KIC first began the Oja markets, about a year ago. I do know there were random markets, but never saw a regular one.

Yes we need some more player done events, not many guilds seem to celebrate their birthday.

But also I haven't seen many GM events lately, (I am meaning like Improv Everywhere, out of the blue events like someone getting robbed) but we are low on GMs at the moment, so it might be awhile yet.

[Roled]

The Spring Festivals (I forget the spelling - Oniden?) have been an attempt at gathering all players at a variety of smaller and bigger events within the context of a weekend full of events all celebrating spring. Last year there were two parades, races at the Outpost and in Ojaveda, feasts and community potlucks on the Temple Green, three performance / storytelling events, one at each tavern (this year we have Amdenier!), lectures and services on all the major religions, market places, and several just down and out parties during that time. Since my school goes well into June I don't think I can be a main organizer this year so, you guys, go for it!
It was way fun last year, and the year before!      

RR

[LigH]

The Spring Festivals (I forget the spelling - Oniden?)

Close: Unodin

The larger the playerbase, the more epic festivals may be. But in these days we have neither the number nor the reliability. People have less and less spare time. We have now the number of visitors what was earlier the number of organizers.

[Sarva]

Events seem to draw more people onto the server. I would be if we looked back at the number of people on the server it was probably pretty big for the Unodin festival last year. I seem to remember a pretty large group of people taking part in the parade into Hydlaa. Just when we have a Dev Q&A event we are seeing player numbers in the 100 range. I think a well organized festival with a few different activities going on like one of the past Unodin festivals with events like a religious ceremony or two, dueling tournament, KIng and Queen of Unodin contest, races story telling contest etc would see over 100 people on the server during the event. Maybe during events we can start tracking the number of people on the server and that might give something event organizers can use as bragging rights, who had the event that drew the most people onto the server

[Sangwa]

I wouldn't call those "big events." I'd call them "common events." But yes, they should be bigger and they should happen more often.

We don't need to rely too much on GMs for that, though. We just need some Guilds to agree doing it together. Most markets *advertises the Twilight Fair that is happening tomorrow at 21 GMT* are good examples of cooperation between guilds already. The next step is to have some representatives of these guilds and some GMs sit at a table and discuss the periodicity and structure (i.e. name, official propaganda through the calendar and forum sticky, etc)
Baruden (Bloodstone Brotherhood) spoke to me about this a while ago and it made sense then and it keeps making sense now.


Not Related: To me a "big event" would include some change to the settings, as I classify my events by the impact they have on creation of RP material.

[Aramara Meibi]

Not Related: To me a "big event" would include some change to the settings, as I classify my events by the impact they have on creation of RP material.

but... first we'd need settings

[LigH]

We have settings. They are just not completely public. Partially for a good reason (not to spoil the undiscovered), partially due to a lack of human resources to present the current state in an attractive way (starting with updating the "Player Guide").

[Catlemur]

So we just need the leaders of some guilds participation and a good date.

[Sangwa]

I'll have my end of the bargain pushed forward. Soon enough we should hava a response here about that.

[Knightspark9]

I don't mind tournaments, I don't mind markets. In fact I have never recalled a market before KIC first began the Oja markets, about a year ago. I do know there were random markets, but never saw a regular one.

Yes we need some more player done events, not many guilds seem to celebrate their birthday.

But also I haven't seen many GM events lately, (I am meaning like Improv Everywhere, out of the blue events like someone getting robbed) but we are low on GMs at the moment, so it might be awhile yet.

Way back in 4.0 we had a summer market.

[Mordaan]

I just got finished posting about our upcoming magic fair.  I am hoping it will be a somewhat big draw.  The thread is designed to get people to come up with ideas to make it as good an event as we can.

The Octarchal Society for Progress was a promising idea that sparked some things in the short run, including our fair series.  But as the series went on, turnout was less and less until it didn't seem worth doing any more.    Now I am still trying to hold them occasionally as good ideas come up.

Organizing such events is time consuming and often exhausting.  And it isn't made easier when people just show up and complain or disrupt things.  But all it takes is one or a few people to take the time and organize something properly.  The forums are full of decent events from years past.  No reason it can't happen again to some extent.  Though it doesn't help with such low numbers as we have now.

[Mekora]

In all honesty I like events that focus in one one thing rather than the clustered ones with multiple events. But that's mostly because I don't find this game enjoyable to play after an hour or two on it.

[Sangwa]

We're going after that with the Twilight Fair. We've (refer to the already linked thread) agreed to make it monthly and to have a single, different subevent each time we go at it. We're hoping this gets people motivated into checking out the fair each time, to see what's cooking.