I'm referring to the event map where players need to kill the Angry Snowman for the gift box. I feel that players who are idle and/or not actively participating in the event map should be removed from it. They do not contribute anything at all in taking down the boss, yet in the end, they still shamelessly loot the gift box from the ground after everything is said and done. I think this is utterly unfair to other players who are actively participating the event in the proper fashion; by actually throwing the snowballs at the boss. These are my suggestions on this issue: Remove inactive players that have stayed idle for more than 60 seconds in the event map Gift box can only be looted after players have done a minimum damage on the snowman (eg, 30 hits, or equivalent to 300 damage) to ensure minimum participation effort Regarding the second point, it may be unfair towards the late comers who didn't reach the event map on time, as the snowman's spawn isn't time-based. Hence, I suggest locking the event map after the snowman has reached its third form. The snowman has a very huge hp, so I think players who barely made it in would still be able to deal the minimum damage onto it. That, or change the snowman's spawn type to time-based spawn, for example every 2 hours. Or I don't know. 2nd point is a little questionable. More (and better) suggestions are required on that. All in all, the event is great and fun, but the participation from a few minority party is rather disappointing. It feels awfully similar to the "lazy dude who did not show up in group assignment meeting and did nothing but empty promises yet want to share the end grade given by the professor in college" situation.
+1 from me. It completely breaks the game IMO by having a half dozen or more of someones characters eligible to gain these boxes which contain some extremely sought after items. This bothered me last year, when some players I knew had 10 or more afk characters in a map doing nothing, walking away with their 5th pair of red socks. Some had even more characters afk in the event map than that. Limit the amount of characters a player can have in a map to 3 or something. Not sure thats even feasible. Or atleast make it so they have to do a certain amount of damage, thusly limiting the amount of mules that way. Keep rare items like the Red socks rare event chairs and NX rare
I'm also in favour in removing characters from the map that aren't actively taking part (sorry because I know a lot of my friends/guildies do it). It really is tedious having to kill the snowman with just a few people while the majority of the map afks and still gets the same rewards. Not to mention the amount of lag we have to endure with all these extra characters online. I know it's unlikely to get amended as we'll be into new source soon but consider a change for future events please!
Hopefully the new changes made today help some! It should make it more fun, as well as limit the ability of people to AFK easily.
I love the changes, it's certainly a step in the right direction. Not seen anyone die yet but I'm still hopeful!
It's not really meant to make people die. Because if it did, then it would end up killing mages too, and that's no fair.
