With the recent changes there have been several people camping outside of the event area waiting until the snowblower is at 80% before joining. This is unfair for those who aren't camping outside and are doing something else at the moment. I suggest possibly sending out notifications at 50% and at every 10% interval afterwards until the snowman spawns just to let those who aren't camping outside know beforehand.
I don't really see any problem with this, they're spending their time waiting for it. It's like the line during Black Friday. First come, first serve!
I think having a 50% full notification would be good. Would definitely goad people into filling in earlier.
I see what you're trying to say and it is true that the people who arrive first are obviously more entitled to get in than someone who arrived later but at the same time it's nearly impossible for a person who isn't camping outside to be able to participate in the snowman boss. As soon as the 80% notification goes off, within seconds the map is closed.
It's a suggestion that can maybe improve the quality of the event so more people are able to enjoy it.
Basically this. These people are wasting their time just sitting there and not training while someone like you and others are PQing, fighting mobs/bosses, selling items, etc. So while they may win this prize of being able to get into the map, you spent your time wisely and actually were productive while waiting for snowman to spawn.
I'd definitely vote for notifications at 50%! This means the snowblower will fill up more quickly and also people can actually go out and farm snow while they're waiting for the snowblower and still have a chance of getting in. Hopefully this would lead to more regular snowman spawns throughout the day and night (ideal for our global community!), rather than loads at once and then almost nothing for ages because everyone's run out of snow.
Hm, so I was confused why people were AFKn' outside of snowman (as in, what's the difference between being outside or in? You're still sitting). But I think its because people are afraid of waiting inside and DCing and losing 100 snow? The last bit of perfection here would be making it so if you log out while inside snowman, you can long back in to being in the snowman but only if its the same snowman (i.e. when that timer after snowman goes, all accounts are kicked).
I already considered this when making changes, but figured all it would do is allow players to 'reserve' a spot, go back to grinding, only to come back when snowman is close to dying. Which is pretty poor participation in my opinion.
I meant as in, if you're inside snowman and DC, you'll log in and still be inside snowman, if you leave, you leave, you can't go back in. You couldn't add 100 and go do other stuff. If you mean as in they log out and get on a different account and grind, people multiclient anyways
But there's is no way to tell a difference between a DC and a log out. If there were, rewarps would probably be a thing of the past.
is it possible to make it so that you can only go back in if you dc after the snowman spawns? I don't lag but dc quite often after the snowman spawns
Doesn't matter where you are. It cannot be implemented just for that (coding wise). Unless I'm wrong, then please feel free to correct me. Like it's been mentioned, maybe it is possible to have people log back in in that map, but then people could bypass rudolph by logging off as well. Not really as much of a big deal about multi client or afk considering that you HAVE to donate to get in anyway and you HAVE to attack to get a prize anyway. I think people who are complaining about this at this point should realize that others have spent a long period of time and deserve the chance to receive items (especially untradeable) ones just as any other character.
That's what Matt was saying, he doesn't want people to move a character into the map, then log out and get on a different character to do other stuff. I don't really see a problem with this as people already multiclient anyways, and sitting there alt-tabbed or AFK outside the event waiting for others to take the 100 snow plunge isn't much "participation" anyways IMO.
Well what Matt was talking about is when you log off in general ( as in Before the snowman spawns). What I was asking about was the possibility of allowing players to go back in IF they DC AFTER the Snowman Spawns. This way people can only log off and come back in if they were present for the snowman spawning, which I dont think anyone would do since it only takes 5 mins to kill it. In any case if that is difficult to manage with coding than ill just live with it
