Greetings Royallers! The Halloween Event has now concluded, and we thought we'd try a new thing. We are interested in your thoughts on the event; what parts were fun, nostalgic, charming, and which parts were less so? Each year we run a great many events, that take a lot of time to put together. With your help, we'll know where to direct our attention, and how to prioritise! Please take a moment to share with us your thoughts! You can comment on anything, but here's a quick refresher on the contents of the event, and possible points to consider: In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? The Pierre fight: Rewards? Difficulty of the fight? Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? Halloween Challenge (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? Witch Tower (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Rewards? Olivia Party Quest: Design? Rewards? Pumpkin Party Quest: Design? Rewards? The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so? Again, thank you for taking your time to help us improve these events in the future! We look forward to hearing from you, - The MapleRoyals Staff
Hello! i really want to bring my opinion about Halloween event, hope you guys actually take this as a feedback post and not as attacking. In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? No issues so far but i think i get laged on halloween jump quest event sometimes. The Pierre fight: Rewards? Difficulty of the fight? Pierre and boss in general was a good implement but i really feel the mount of HP was alot. Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? Absoluty nothing, was the same event gear as 3/4 years back then and to be honest if wasn't for the people who collect this event equips, i will just drop from my inventory (Talking about more then 50k+ candies) Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? The drop rate was really good on my POV, but i feel you guys wasted a potential from the candies. I really hope next year there is a option to charged 500 candies for 1 token coin or so, since how i said before, it was a waste of space from my inventory since there was nothing new to exchanged :/ so think about this option, can be good for market in geneal. Witch Tower (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Rewards? I remember back in 2016 or 2017 there was a special/random reward like Door of truth if you complete in the hardest difficult, but i understand why you guys changed to a boss so im fine with it. Maybe change the rewards should be good since is a halloween theme, means we need more CANDIES like Chocolates AKA gelt, cheese maybe for mages, etc. But in general still good like the previews events. Olivia Party Quest: Design? Rewards? I totally ignored olivia PQ so i can't opine on this one. Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? I totally ignored Pumpkin os i can't opine on this one. The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? Forum halloween costume was a really politic one since the "people choose" rule.. anyone can farm likes from friends so i think most popular wins over a random pick like you guys usually does. There rewards are awesome and good job making this as a exclusive event reward! Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so? Forums events are a specials one since not mush people has accounts but at the same time it is a good idea to bring more people here as well, nice one over there! Over the "people choose" rule, i feel it was a good idea That's all i can said for now and i'm pretty happy to see you guys are checking events feedbacks!
Only wanted to comment on stuff I actually participated in: In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? A few times I couldn't join Pierre because it said I was on cooldown, but I hadn't done the boss the entire day. Wasn't sure if it was related to something else so I didn't report it. Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? I find the Candy drops to be a bit underwhelming. The chase items have been in the game for a while now (Namely Halloween umbrella, graveyard chair, etc) resulting in their value approaching worthless. To a new player its definitely nice to get almost free seasonal NX, but older players basically don't care about it anymore. I would probably add some sort of reward box/gamble feature to exchange for Halloween candies. Giving players more options on where to spend their candies would potentially result in less abundance of the seasonal NX items which would hopefully bring their value up. Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? These feel perfectly balanced. Farming on maps would net me ~10-20 coins an hour which seemed like a reasonable number to me. I did really like the additional Halloween mob spawns from mini bosses and Pap - I don't remember this being a thing before so perhaps I'm outdated but this was a great source of tokens on days that I couldn't play much and I'm sure others have the same sentiment. Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? The gauntlet feels good and is rewarding to those dedicated to it. I don't think there is anything I would change here. Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so? The Royals Discord has picked up a lot of members and I think it would serve as a good springboard for forum events. There are many players just don't use the forums anymore because the Discord provides most of their update information. I would probably add an opt-in Events notification channel (or just in announcements) and let users know when events are happening. General forum feedback Personally, I think the front-end of the forum could use some seasonable graphics. It doesn't need to be anything crazy but given the very high quality event graphics we get (example, by @Dasha I believe?), I believe something simple and reusable would splash some life back into the forums.
In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? nothing except for the bug for Pierre saying that I am on cooldown. The Pierre fight: Rewards? Difficulty of the fight? During the Halloween event I have participated in over 100+ Pierre fights. Pierre fight didnt feel rewarding enough even after lowering the hp of Pierre. Most of the time I would either get a transformation potion or pumpkin taffy as my reward after spending 10-20 minutes hitting the clown. A rough estimate of how long it takes to kill Pierre in ch1: 5-10 mins, ch2: 8-12 mins, ch 3-20: 10-20 mins. The time it takes to kill Pierre in my timezone(EST) differs from that of Malaysia timezone as I feel more players are on during that time. Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? The droprate/rewards of candies were ok as it was basically the same as last year. Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? I felt like this was kinda busted in my opinion. I hunt area bosses in TOT(Lyka, Lilynouch, Dodo) Dodo/Lilynouch/Lyka spawns 2-3 halloween cat/frog that drops dark tokens. If we take into 20 channels into consideration: 20*2-3= 40-60 dark tokens per area boss. In a round trip through TOT(assuming best outcome) you would end up with 120-180 dark tokens farmed which is like 48m earned if dark tokens are 400k each + nx/item drops from TOT bosses. Other low level area bosses drop like 1-2 cat/frogs. In terms of other ways of getting dark token I think those methods are ok. Halloween Challenge (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Map design is great no need to change what is already great. Difficulty is ok just need to do it over and over to get the hang of it. Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? It was great last year still great this year. Witch Tower (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Rewards? It's good source of income when it comes to people who are good at witch tower JQ. Olivia Party Quest: Design? Rewards? Didnt get to do Olivia PQ. Pumpkin Party Quest: Design? Rewards? I didnt know this existed The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? "Can i get a like?" Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so?
Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? I like the map is random every time. The legacy of client side sometime confuse me who win. Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? I like the drop rate from bosses. Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so? I like the forum events. It's cool and fun. Maybe give random prize to every player who participate (1 prize per person) and don't give prizes to winners (because it is subjective). Ghost Hunting Nightlord's flash jump and availability pretty much dominate other classes. I like how players team up and make strategy to compete each other. I hope it could have more detail either on forum or in-game so more players aware of it and participate the hunting. Maybe make a notification 5 minutes before the ghost appear and which channel. (like Gauntlet JQ notification). Mention what might white ghost drop in event forum post or have a notification of what items the hunter received from the white ghost.(like the LHC exchange notification). Jump Quest I gave up after few tries.
In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? Nope! The Pierre fight: Rewards? Difficulty of the fight? Didn't really do pierre this year, but people told me the hp change was good. Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? Pretty decent I think. no complaints. Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? I farmed tokens using the witch tower and area boss so it was fairly easy to get a lot. Halloween Challenge (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Didn't do.! Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? Didn't do! Witch Tower (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Rewards? I hated it at first, but once I figured it out it was pretty fun. Took me about 100-120 tries to master it @.@ Olivia Party Quest: Design? Rewards? Didn't do Pumpkin Party Quest: Design? Rewards? Didn't do The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? I think removing the popular choice award was a good idea. I like the category, but there are so many ways to abuse it. Maybe add a short film contest as a category, I think that'll be interesting! Ghost hunting! My favorite part of the event was the ghost hunting! I caught 9 ghost this year (well, 10 if I include the one I accidentally KSed PostSnipe! sorry again ). To Dann's point, NL have a clear advantage because of their avoid and mobility. This year I used my shad mainly to hunt, but I tried using my mage as well. I like how guilds/group of friends work together to find the ghost. Over the course of the event you get to see who were the active hunters so you know who to /find. Thanks for the people who didn't cut me off! You're the real mvp! If I were to make a suggestion, I would make the event harder by instead of giving a specific channel where the ghost will be. Maybe designated certain channels as the ghost spawning channels. Now that'll be a real hunt
In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? Yes https://royals.ms/forum/threads/event-collect-pumkins-collect.196910/ The Pierre fight: Rewards? Difficulty of the fight? Rewards sucks!! Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? The drops are correct. The rewards suck, they are the same every year. Change some or add new ones. What if you add smegas or owls? Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? The drops are correct. The rewards could get better, nobody nobody!! you exchange tokens for use items. What if you add smegas or owls? Halloween Challenge (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Correct Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? Correct Witch Tower (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Rewards? Map design Correct. Rewards Correct. Olivia Party Quest: Design? Rewards? Design correct. Rewards you could add drops tokens from boss. Pumpkin Party Quest: Design? Rewards? Meh!! The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? Meh!! Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so? Meh!!
In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? To be honest the only "bug" I found was during Halloween Challenge that for some reason I got tped for the left when I fall on first jump, I tried to do it again and record, but nothing. Spoiler: I hadn't any clean picture save, so I stolen :v The Pierre fight: Rewards? Difficulty of the fight? I was looking for Witch's staff at least was the only good reward in my opinion and was expecting more on market cause the only person I saw selling for a normal price was Becca because the rest was using any any kind of poisonous mushroom. About Pierre: insane high HP wtf I'm not the batman . Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? Plz we had the same rewards during 3 or 4 years in a row, I was expecting any new chair or new clothes that I could exchange for candies, drop rate same as usual. Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? good for sure. Halloween Challenge (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? ez . Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? all good, some times I wanted to kill myself, but all good. Witch Tower (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Rewards? If Witch Tower was a squid game phase I would be the first one out. (no opinion) Olivia Party Quest: Design? Rewards? didn't do. Pumpkin Party Quest: Design? Rewards? didn't do. The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? For sure I wanna talk about it, but only about rules and what happened, so first of all people's choice awards was the biggest mistake ever, sorry and with all due respect but Spoiler: this is ridiculous and got more likes than others good pictures, so it become "can you like my post?" even if was good or not. Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so? no FriendStory choice awards for sure, otherwise I need farm friends for next year and buy Like service.
In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? 1) Pierre's incorrect spawn point. Even though I'm unsure if it was a legitimate spawn issue or a vac hacker who decided to make us participate in squid games. 2)This one went unreported. Once you handled in your pumpkin you were able to continue to fight Pierre on the same character. 3)Incorrect map tiles on the 3rd stage of the Fitness GM event. The Pierre fight: Rewards? The difficulty of the fight? The rewards: Underwhelming. We have missed a great opportunity to introduce another high-quality item such as the Witch Staff. By the end of the event with 50+ runs under my belt and an inventory full of gummies, I was left disappointed and with the conclusion that my time could have been invested better elsewhere. I suggest encouraging participation and rewarding active players by implementing a guaranteed chance at the top event prizes on your 100, 250 (and so on) pumpkin hand-in. High stake items aside, It would be awesome to see the common drops getting some love too by introducing new Halloween-themed potions such as the Olivia Transformation Potion. Fight Difficulty: Pierre is not a difficult boss to face but he ended up being very time-consuming. Ideally, HP should be adjusted seasonally to match the player count. Players are more eager to participate in the event once it starts so once the hype died down the HP issue went noticed and unreported. That's a bit unfortunate as it likely discouraged many players from fighting Pierre after getting the Zombie ring and resulted in lower event NX and chair circulation. I really like the new map design but I think it can be made smaller, it feels quite unnecessarily large for the number of participants. Most of the time players successfully pinned Pierre to one of the corners, so if the big map was an attempt to make the boss fight more engaging, it failed to accomplish its purpose. Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? The drop rate was tweaked to the point where the majority of players seem to be happy with it. It's a bit disappointing to see that there were no new additions to the rewards you can get from the exchange. Those new shiny things really do wonders for my motivation to participate in the event. I wish there would have been a system to exchange candies for Dark Tokens and vise versa. Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? I think that the drop rates from bosses were excellent this year. Same as mentioned above, I wish there was an option to trade in the Dark Tokens for candies. Halloween Challenge (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? This is hands down my favorite JQ. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it and I'd argue that this is the most fun JQs out of all our seasonal events. Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? Same as last year. I really enjoy the PvP aspect of this JQ! I think that a good addition to this event would be recognizing the top 3 -5 players on the leaderboard to solidify their accomplishments once the event is concluded. This can be done on a separate forum post, GM blog, unique forum signature/title, or by allowing all players year-round access to the scoreboard using the event NPC. The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? This is why we can't have nice things. I'm very happy with Sens's decision to remove the people's choice category and even happier with our decision to introduce exclusive forum rewards. Forum events in general: What would encourage you to participate in forum events if you have not done so? Better visibility and advertisement of the event prize pool. Be that on discord, or in-game announcements.
In general, did you encounter any issues or bugs? 1. False CD notice when trying to enter Pierre 2. If you disconnect while in the lobby or exit of the Halloween gauntlet it causes you to rank down. I can understand this happening if you disconnect during the race, but I don't think it should be the case while in the lobby or exit. Even if you've won the race, if you disconnect in the exit you will rank down and be rewarded with no tokens . The Pierre fight: Rewards? Difficulty of the fight? The HP of Pierre was far too high initially so I'm glad it was adjusted to be lower. However the rewards felt absolutely terrible. I don't remember how many times I did Pierre but I can definitely say I feel like I didn't get a single good reward from it. Also, I really feel that for these types of event boss fights there should be some universal event claw usable by all classes like there is for the snowman boss during the Christmas event. It feels so much easier to do these bosses with ranged characters, it kind of discourages me from participating with melee characters. Halloween Candy drops: What did you think about the rewards/drop rates? I wish we could've seen some new/unique rewards here. Unsure of drop rates, I didn't really do any farming. I like the ideas stated above about having candies and tokens exchangeable with each other at a certain rate, and the idea of having a reward box/gamble feature as an option too. Dark Tokens: Rewards? Drop rates? Much like the Halloween candies I wish we could've seen some new/unique rewards here, although the current rewards here are still great. The drop rates for tokens felt good and fair. As a side note I would really love to see the stacking limit of these (and honestly ALL event etc items) increased greatly. I think it's pretty annoying for the people that are most active in events to be hampered by limited inventory space. I would love to see dark tokens stackable to 1000+ as well as increased stacking limits for all other event etc (candies, snow, maplemas stars, Easter ribbons, candles, sunshine, etc) Halloween Challenge (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Fun JQ, although I wish it was a bit more rewarding. Maybe you could add a 'hard' difficulty with increased reward where you're teleported back to the beginning for any mistake made, and/or with an added timer (similar to witch tower). Even without a 'hard' difficulty, I believe the reward should be increased slightly. Halloween Gauntlet (PvP JQ): Map design? Points system? Difficulty? I love the Halloween gauntlet . Would be nice to see some new maps of similar difficulty added to the current mix. I was glad to see the leaderboard was wiped clean at the start of this year rather than a continuation like last year. Maybe we could have separate 'This Year' and 'All Time' leaderboards to show some consideration for top runners in the past, but this may be already too late to implement for previous years leaderboards. Access to the leaderboard outside of the gauntlet lobby would be a nice addition as well. Also I think it would be nice to have some unique rewards for the top 3 -10 people on the leaderboard (maybe some NX items, chair, or a unique 'Gauntlet Master' medal). This would encourage participation and create more competition among the top runners for sure. Being able to run 2 characters in a single gauntlet is fun and very possible, and I believe should remain allowed next year. However you should not be able to match your own characters in a race. This seems to happen often if your characters are at the same rank due to how gauntlet matchmaking works. I'm not sure exactly how it works but I think the matchmaking could use some adjustments in general. For many people it felt as though we were racing the same few people almost every time. Not sure how feasible this is if matchmaking has to do with peoples ping rates though. Witch Tower (JQ): Map design? Difficulty? Rewards? Fun JQ with great reward. Very worth it for those who master it. Would be great to see new maps introduced and new rewards, but overall it is already good as is. Olivia Party Quest / Pumpkin Party Quest: I didn't participate in either of these a single time so I can't really say much. If there was some good rewards from them I wish they were better advertised because I honestly have no idea what the rewards were like. The Forum Halloween Costume Contest: Design? Categories? Rules? Themes? Rewards? I'm glad to see the people's choice category is being removed from future forum events. I really love the idea of forum exclusive event prizes, I think it's a great addition and definitely encourages participation. I personally wasn't very fond of the looks of these particular forum exclusive prizes for this event, but definitely looking forward to seeing more to come in the future, and I'm sure many others are too. I think runner ups should be rewarded with an RP prize instead of just NX, maybe ~10 RP like many previous events (or both NX+RP, or a choice of 1 or the other). Overall the Halloween event is easily my favourite event and I'm happy to see you guys taking feedback to make improvements. Can't wait to see how Halloween event is next year .
