If you liked the R121 bug, you will love this idea.

So everyone was pleasantly surprised when all the scaling worlds were bugged and easy. And everyone was equally disappointed when it was fixed just over 24 hours later. It got me thinking... turn it into a new kind of event. Right now there are two kinds of events. The big ones with event progress and then merchant/ander sales. This would be the first of a third kind.

The concept:
For a short period of time (Say and hour or two) at random times every couple of days, either a particular Parallel World or all of them would be made easier for the duration. There would be no event progress or rewards... the event itself would be reward enough. It would be unannounced so people couldn't plan for it and they would be at random times each time it show up so people would have to be playing to even know it came.

The benefit to BigPoint:
If people know that it is for a limited time and they have no clue when they might see it again, I think people would be more likely to spend andermant to make the most of the time available (I'm thinking things like Fragment goggles, essence for boss runs, etc...). Furthermore, it could re-energize farming of PWs. Most people finish a PW and never want to return. However, if Caves was the "Map of the Hour" and people went in, they may continue to work on the map even after the event ends.

The future of this idea:
I said earlier that this would be the first of a third kind of event. What I mean is that this could act as a gateway into doing other events like this. For example, there could be one geared towards lower levels that offered extra XP if farming particular areas. Or think what would happen to 6v6 if double honor was offered for any 6v6 match for a couple of hours (or the other PvPs too). Or what would happen if the drop rate for gems or COTs or Uniques were improved significantly for certain areas or a particular boss for a short while. These are all ideas that could excite the player base and get people out of whatever rut they are stuck in and maybe to try something new.

The bottom line:
This benefits the regular faithful players by giving them a reason to play so consistently (due to the random nature of the events). It also benefits the players in the obvious way (for a short time making their farming a little less dull). And we can not forget that this could indeed benefit BigPoint because of the money they would make from players looking to make the most of their small windows of opportunity. If BP timed it well with say an essence sale or a buff sale or an ander sale, they would be able to make even more.

I know that most of you, if not all of you, will like this idea, but I'm looking for more ideas to make this even better. If you have something constructive, please add it. I ask that the moderators keep it nice and clean here (of course it all starts with the people commenting exercising some self control to begin with) and make sure that trolls leave this alone because I truly believe this has potential. If the Devs do look at it, I want it to be a well thought out and developed idea. I don't want it to be a battle ground of name calling and insults like happens so very often on this forum.


That being said, Please, Contribute!

P.S. Sorry about the "Wall of Text"... I usually hate doing those, but there was no other way to say everything I wanted to say.

 

Great idea but I fear the servers who would get the prime playing time would be the EU servers. Tegan we would be stuck with after midnight but most likely during our PST work hours so it wouldn't be anything for us. Call me negative but they would have to cater to the fullest servers to make any money off of it.

 

great idea! but i m afraid if one of the PW becomes easy, anyone will notice and players will finish the ammon quest in several hour, then the 1h andermant discount complain all over again from players who r working/sleeping or whatnot.
i think it is better that give everybody a 1h ticket,u can choose whatever dungeon to be easy in 1h.

 

They need server restart to apply the changes. So it's easy to know when the monsters weaken. Won't be a surprise anymore.

Still a good idea though, from player's side.

 

Not if they program in 2 versions of the maps with different scaling codes and only activate the easy ones on command. The programmers are smart enough to find a way to implement it. They just need to be told to do it by the game designers.

The short time is simply a part of it... like the anderment sales, sometimes you get it sometimes you don't. To make it fair, all they need to do is hold the event regularly and different times each time. Only someone who is on 24/7 would hit them all. And I gave some consideration to that ticket idea, but what if you are using yours, but you are grouped with someone who is not. How should that work? I think that the fairest way would be to do it like the ander sales. After all, isn't the point of this idea to reward players who play consistently and regularly?

Like I said above, random times would be key. It might be 5PM Eastern Standard time one week and it might be midnight EST a week later. As long as the times rotate so that over time, all times of day would see these new events, then it could be fair. People might not like missing one because they were at work or asleep, but when they get one, they will have all the more reason to be excited.

 

I think this would be an awesome event and everyone would love it!

 

i tottaly agree with this one. im not even wasting my time to do current paralells. event not for ess or ander q3. thats just waste of time. 30 -45 mints with full team. full runn is still too long. alone or 3 players. pretty much same time.