mrstevieorder666
Active Member
Scorp - Can you please pay attention to what people are saying about this event. I cannot believe how soul-destroying shitty this Christmas event has been.
Much of the problems have already been talked about at length, but here are the main issues from my POV ...
*Due to the way the event has been planned, with SANTA and trees only spawning on an open map it's a complete PK fest - it's more like a Christmas purge and sucked most of the fun from the event on day 1. Most of the server do not play the game for PVP, so why enable the servers wankers to force people into it in this way? If this was done deliberately as some suggest, then its one of the most epic dick moves I have ever seen pulled on a server by its operator. if you want to make money from the server you are more likely to do this if people have fun, not if you make it a nightmare!
* Finding SANTA and Trees is like finding needles in haystacks, a problem amplified by the number of PK'ers looking to ruin peoples fun and the number of other people also looking for them. In previous events, like the spiders and the Haloween event the mobs that dropped the items needed to get into the private rooms, which is the main goal for these events, have spawned IN the event maps. Why was this not done here?! It blows my mind that the Xmas event has been done in this way as it just makes things frustrating.
It is good that there is a noob only map where the santa's and tree's also spawned, but the siege mode has now made that map borderline impossible as it gets seiged but there is no one there to kill the mobs, meaning there is always 1000+ mobs handing about? I will say though, the fact people have to go on noob accounts and search for items on the noob maps shows that there is a huge problem with how this event has been planned! We shouldn't need to go on noob characters and try and work our way around this problem, it simply should not have happened!
* Not being able to combine gifts - Again, WHY?! We can do this in every other event but not the CHRISTMAS event?! Are events not meant to be fun and rewarding? In this event, we are rewarded with a total shaft.
* Seige mode is crap, pure and simple. it sounded great in theory but the execution is terrible as it happens on the map WHERE ALL THE PKING IS HAPPENING, it locks the event caves where PKing is generally not happening, and there is no reward other than slightly better XP! Also, as stated, it has made the noob way too difficult.
* The xp on the noob map and in the noob caves make no sense and are unreasonably low considering how hard the rooms are. My 115 wiz gets way better xp by just avoiding the event and going to the savage wooma temple. This is a problem the last few events have also had as the events are made only really catering to lvl 180 + characters, who all have a flipping ball while everyone else is forced to eat shit.
* The event caves are boring as sin. There is no reward for going into them and nothing is a challenge, oh sorry, except for boss which for me is impossible to kill and unreasonably difficult when you consider how abnormally easy the rest of the cave is!
And last - The scaling of difficulty in the private rooms. I finally, after 5 fucking days looking, I found a large gift. The Small and Medium gift rooms were no problem to me yet with the big room I spawned in and had 5 fucking champs found me and ended up getting killed. All that work for that?! Seriously?? I mean how the hell is that fair or fun? I am just lucky I never dropped any of my kit considering the private caves are set in a way that means you can DROP KIT AND NEVER RETRIEVE IT!!! (again, what the actual hell?? how is this fair?).
I get there are people who are having a ball and having no issues, and I am happy for you all. This is my take on this crap event as a lvl 152 warrior who plays the game every day and expected the Christmas event to be fun. As is the event is just making me angry and leading to me wanting to quit the game as its making me feel shit irl and falling out with in-game friends. The irony is I had a bit of cash saved up to buy GG and use it on the private caves, but after spending 2 (pissed off) days trying to get the feel for the event I decided nah, screw that, I am not spending money on a game where the admin thinks he can take the piss out of his player base in this way. I am not here to be dicked about by an admin with a warped sense of humour. We are all here to enjoy the experience and be his customers and frankly, if a shop treated me like how scorp treats his customers I would never go into that shop again, and I am very close to that point here.
Sadly, I doubt he will pay any attention to this as he never seems to give a crap about his customers, a point which was kinda proven with the dead-cat response to the initial event complaints (event fixes which all conveniently went away a few days later leaving the event back where it started). The fixes to this event, things that would make it actually fun, have been posted on this forum multiple times and would have taken him an hour (or less) to impliment. The fact he hasn't bothered kinda shows how little he cares about the player's experience in Arcadia.
TL;DR - it feels like scorp has gone out of his way to make this event, the Christmas event, not much fun. I like many others think it is the drizzling shits.
Much of the problems have already been talked about at length, but here are the main issues from my POV ...
*Due to the way the event has been planned, with SANTA and trees only spawning on an open map it's a complete PK fest - it's more like a Christmas purge and sucked most of the fun from the event on day 1. Most of the server do not play the game for PVP, so why enable the servers wankers to force people into it in this way? If this was done deliberately as some suggest, then its one of the most epic dick moves I have ever seen pulled on a server by its operator. if you want to make money from the server you are more likely to do this if people have fun, not if you make it a nightmare!
* Finding SANTA and Trees is like finding needles in haystacks, a problem amplified by the number of PK'ers looking to ruin peoples fun and the number of other people also looking for them. In previous events, like the spiders and the Haloween event the mobs that dropped the items needed to get into the private rooms, which is the main goal for these events, have spawned IN the event maps. Why was this not done here?! It blows my mind that the Xmas event has been done in this way as it just makes things frustrating.
It is good that there is a noob only map where the santa's and tree's also spawned, but the siege mode has now made that map borderline impossible as it gets seiged but there is no one there to kill the mobs, meaning there is always 1000+ mobs handing about? I will say though, the fact people have to go on noob accounts and search for items on the noob maps shows that there is a huge problem with how this event has been planned! We shouldn't need to go on noob characters and try and work our way around this problem, it simply should not have happened!
* Not being able to combine gifts - Again, WHY?! We can do this in every other event but not the CHRISTMAS event?! Are events not meant to be fun and rewarding? In this event, we are rewarded with a total shaft.
* Seige mode is crap, pure and simple. it sounded great in theory but the execution is terrible as it happens on the map WHERE ALL THE PKING IS HAPPENING, it locks the event caves where PKing is generally not happening, and there is no reward other than slightly better XP! Also, as stated, it has made the noob way too difficult.
* The xp on the noob map and in the noob caves make no sense and are unreasonably low considering how hard the rooms are. My 115 wiz gets way better xp by just avoiding the event and going to the savage wooma temple. This is a problem the last few events have also had as the events are made only really catering to lvl 180 + characters, who all have a flipping ball while everyone else is forced to eat shit.
* The event caves are boring as sin. There is no reward for going into them and nothing is a challenge, oh sorry, except for boss which for me is impossible to kill and unreasonably difficult when you consider how abnormally easy the rest of the cave is!
And last - The scaling of difficulty in the private rooms. I finally, after 5 fucking days looking, I found a large gift. The Small and Medium gift rooms were no problem to me yet with the big room I spawned in and had 5 fucking champs found me and ended up getting killed. All that work for that?! Seriously?? I mean how the hell is that fair or fun? I am just lucky I never dropped any of my kit considering the private caves are set in a way that means you can DROP KIT AND NEVER RETRIEVE IT!!! (again, what the actual hell?? how is this fair?).
I get there are people who are having a ball and having no issues, and I am happy for you all. This is my take on this crap event as a lvl 152 warrior who plays the game every day and expected the Christmas event to be fun. As is the event is just making me angry and leading to me wanting to quit the game as its making me feel shit irl and falling out with in-game friends. The irony is I had a bit of cash saved up to buy GG and use it on the private caves, but after spending 2 (pissed off) days trying to get the feel for the event I decided nah, screw that, I am not spending money on a game where the admin thinks he can take the piss out of his player base in this way. I am not here to be dicked about by an admin with a warped sense of humour. We are all here to enjoy the experience and be his customers and frankly, if a shop treated me like how scorp treats his customers I would never go into that shop again, and I am very close to that point here.
Sadly, I doubt he will pay any attention to this as he never seems to give a crap about his customers, a point which was kinda proven with the dead-cat response to the initial event complaints (event fixes which all conveniently went away a few days later leaving the event back where it started). The fixes to this event, things that would make it actually fun, have been posted on this forum multiple times and would have taken him an hour (or less) to impliment. The fact he hasn't bothered kinda shows how little he cares about the player's experience in Arcadia.
TL;DR - it feels like scorp has gone out of his way to make this event, the Christmas event, not much fun. I like many others think it is the drizzling shits.
