TAKP Anniversary events - move forward one reset?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by showstring, Sep 2, 2021.

  1. showstring

    showstring I Feel Loved

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    Hi all

    First of all, I want to say TAKP anniversary events are amazing, and I greatly appreciate the variety and custom content they offer.

    I just wanted to put forward for consideration if people think the TAKP Anniversary events which typically run around the Christmas period, would be possibly be enjoyed more if they were moved forward one reset?

    So instead of anniversary events running from 22nd December to 4th January, if they could run from 5th January until 18th January instead?

    Considerations in favor of changing it:
    During the Christmas holidays people are away with their families and away from EQ. Usually normal raids are noticeably lighter in attendance. As such, less people get to enjoy these anniversary events.
    Additional stress may be put on players to both try and attend and organize raids during this busy holiday period, while also trying to find time to enjoy the anniversary events.
    I believe TAKP anniversary falls exactly 1st January, so starting the anniversary celebrations after this date may make more sense, rather than finishing them just after this date? Perhaps?

    Considerations against changing it:
    Some people may prefer to enjoy the anniversary events during the holiday period instead.
    The Christmas period is the 'festive season'.


    What do others think? Would love to hear other people's input.

    Thank you for everything devs, we love you <3
     
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  2. Faults

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    I personally would greatly appreciate this move since the holidays are difficult to get playtime to enjoy the events during.
     
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  3. Inacht

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    It can be pretty rough to get any time in over the xmas + new years stretch beyond whatever we have in the rotation. I'd love for the anniversary events to be moved back a bit myself.
     
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  4. Placer

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    An anniversary event really should fall on the anniversary. Having it at a time whether the other stuff isn't going on as much is an ideal opportunity to get more collaborative play vs. having guilds just try and build things into their raid schedules. Mistmore has been a good example of people getting together that might not have happened as well during time when regular raid traffic might have pulled players away.

    The players who are on during the normal anniversary period arguably need a chance to do more, when others are not free. They could use the good busy the events provide. It also tends to keep more people in game who might decide not to be without them, turning the server into possibly a ghost town.
     
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  5. Auyster

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    I like it before new years because the time after new years I am really busy.
     
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  6. Secrets

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    I'm in favor of just starting the festivities on December 1st and ending Feb 1st. That's a solid 2 months to do your holidays with your family or job, and then do whatever you can on TAKP during those times.
     
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  7. Devour_Souls

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    Could we have the anniversary events start on April 26th? That's when my vacation starts over.
     
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  8. GreldorEQ

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    I haven't been able to participate for many years, due to the busy holiday family schedule. I'd love an opportunity to participate in the future!
     
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  9. Phillosopher27

    Phillosopher27 New Member

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    This is a welcomed proposal imo and I like the idea of opening up such a ritual for more to participate!
     
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  10. Yarnee

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    Orthodox Christmas is like Jan 7. You gonna make all the Russians suffer
     
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  11. Verdent

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    I'm pretty indifferent. I can't play during all the days due to family/holidays but I also have time off and can play longer periods of time. Also, weather is usually pretty crappy around that time and there's more days I stay home than normal.

    I'm just happy there is one, it could be anytime though I think starting or ending Jan 1st makes sense.
     
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  12. eldrich

    eldrich New Member

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    TBH, most of the anniversary events are locked out anyway (last year CC was perma camped almost around the clock by 60's when we wanted to xp and maybe get an herbal pack with some alts). if you don't have the previous experience around knowing the spawn clocks and "where to find", it basically amounts to, "oh, it's anniversary..... /shrug". not begrudging it's existence, but to be really honest, it has a slight "oh nifty" aspect and that's about it.

    more power to anyone who has the knowledge, time, and perseverance to really dive into the anniversary event, but for the casual people, it's .... /shrug
     
  13. showstring

    showstring I Feel Loved

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    All the events appear to be tailored for the casual player though. It's all easily trioable / groupable content. Only the most recent events had raid bosses, and even those contain raid content of various tiers that can be enjoyed by anyone with a guild tag.
     
  14. Pithy

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    It could be fun to level-restrict the zones where anniversary items drop. No toons above 40 in CC during anniversary reset, or whatever.
     
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  15. Placer

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    Similar to Pithy's suggestion, you could alter the existing events in small ways to balance levels or cut back on past knowledge of the events. For example, take the best token away from some places where it was easier to do and perma-camp for some drop people didn't do/have before. Could even cut across expansions a little now. Also, there may well be a lot of interesting new stuff this year with PoP (I hope) added for events?
     
  16. showstring

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    I'm still not sure why the weapons are the same each year, allowing for a year of pre-farming. I don't think that's the spirit of the event?


    That seems like a very bad idea.
    I'm sorry, during the anniversary you can't powerlevel chars in any of the affected zones, you can't hunt your epic quest drops, and you also can't rez any chars in those zones.
     
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  17. Mokli

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    Rotating weapons that change every year, randomly would be nice. Someone would have to hold onto weapons for years and likely forget when the events rolled around that they even had them. However, bear in mind we don't really want to kill the devs with extra work on this stuff that only lasts 2 weeks every year.
     
  18. sowislifesowislove

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    I’m for the events happening on the actual anniversary. Either way you go, you’re going to take away opportunity from some and give it to others.
     
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  19. sowislifesowislove

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    Yea. Hopefully this changes this year. I’m sure there are some very against this that already have 100 runed falchions stored. I don’t think it would be too hard on the devs to change it up. But what do I know!
     
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  20. necra

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    Random global drops off every mob with a very tiny drop chance.

    Could even be tiers based off mob level so good bye to locking down camps
     
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  21. gardnerjens

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    or making tashaki targetable during anniversary event, so we can try and fight him
     
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  22. showstring

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    and how would you get across the lava bridge?
     
  23. gardnerjens

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    Click in the air
     
  24. necra

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    Fill the lava bridge with gnomes
     
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  25. Saenayil

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    Imo make the event last two resets and get the best of both worlds.

    Also, inc RNF, but "move forward" means start earlier, "push it back" means start the reset after. I was quite confused with the mismatch between the thread title and your proposal.
     
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  26. necra

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    He is Australian I believe it's all backwards down under
     
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  27. Devour_Souls

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    Backwoods, Austrayin fo foowds.
     
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  28. Auyster

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    Just make the anniversery event last all the rotations.