(Sorry for bad grammar & formatting.) Ive been thinking of this little idea which I mainly got from a community & I thought that this idea would fit in Royals. Its pretty simple, Certain events occur on a certain day of the week, hosted by a volunteer GM. example : Day : Friday Event : Russian Roulette Time : 18:00 GMT +1 Reward : None The idea where I got it from has it occuring every day of the week. But since GMs are busy & whatnot,what about just hosting one (or two) weekly event just for fun? Like of course there can be rewards, but the main point is to get these scheduled events Some fast Pros/Cons Pros : People now have a good opportunity to try-out events that they never been in before People will generaly have a good time. Events are always fun! Cons : People will just login to do the event and afterwards logout. A GM have to spend their time on the event which they could of used to something else. Trolls. No rewards. Summary : The main point of this suggestion is that there are scheduled events that happens once (or twice) a week, where you can see what event it will be & what time it will be, so you will have a good opporunity to join. Reason for this is that people like me usually miss alot of events & they would love to have a better chance to get into one! Of course there are more pros/cons but that is what I could of think of right now and stuff can always be discussed about, example reward. Even though I dont really care about it, some people might. Thoughts? Opions?
Events are hosted at the discretion of a GM, they host when they have time. If you want a scheduled event, that's what around the world's intentions were. Events haven't been hosted lately due to circumstances involving lag, whether it's adding on to exsisting lag or creating it due to massive amounts of players changing channels all at once. GMs already give a 15-30 minute warning before hosting so I think that's enough. Edit: Before the lag issues, events were hosted quite frequently and I'm sure it'll slip back into that routine whenever the lag issue is gone. We have plenty of new staff members that are dying to host, so you can count on them and existing staff members to come through for the community. Plus, if there's no incentive to go to an event (no prize) I don't see many players attending or taking the event very seriously.
I'd just like to add that personally I didn't like the idea of having events scheduled as I can't always promise I will have the time or be on at the same time :/ It's probably not just me, but I feel like I shouldn't commit to be on at a certain time when I'm not sure I can make it. Also, events usually take quite a bit of time, if we're looking at no sign-up events (and when they are notified in advance so people log in especially) it can be maybe 150+ people.. that kind of event takes about an hour and a half to host (I think @Christine correct me if I'm wrong). I'm happy to dedicate that time when I have it free, but I guess my point is that in between other commitments and things we have to do, I can't promise the same time every week And lastly, once the server is more stable I believe you should see enough events that missing some when you're off won't be an issue. Hope that made sense, I can blab too much sometimes. <3
