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An opinion for repetition events and persistence.
This current event, where you craft mannequins -and the previous similar event, where you crafted desks- made me wonder why these recipes don't remain after the event ends and give a way to permanently craft chairs (or crafting anything at all, which I find fun regardless of utility). After a while, I still can't come up with a reason that doesn't involve a greedy approach to punish an unworthy-of-nice-things audience, *BUT* I did think of an idea that I believe would be awesome to be seen, so I came to share it, even if unappreciated and ignored. It's nothing new, just a mix of things that have been done in the past.
As it stands right now, repeating an activity a certain number of times grants a day, and a certain number of days, a reward. How about if this gets expanded to a server-wide, persistent reward? In other words, how about if, after the whole server reached a number of repeated activities, something would get unlocked or added permanently to the game? Like, let's say, the permanence of that ability to craft mannequins? Or the inclusion of a pattern/blueprint that doesn't exist yet or that can't be obtained through independent methods? Perhaps not a permanent, but seasonal? Something to give a sense of relevance to community and developers' interventions, rather than a sense of repentance and a lingering thought that mabinogi becoming a private server/single player with lan game would definitely be a better choice.
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Who ever thought it was immersive to drop whatever activity one may be doing to painfully go through the obnoxious endeavor of getting into a crowded town to talk to an npc ON A DAILY BASIS? It wasn't even acceptable to do it weekly, as was the case for the next update master plan, but at least it was less malign.
In other words, having to withstand the overcrowded places designed for these events may just end up being the product of a decision founded on education. To educate for an equally unpleasant reality outside of the game. One often filled with situations of crammed humans in unfit habitats.
If this is the case, maybe our characters should starve to death when no food is provided too, for it is what I have understood happens whenever a living organism doesn't feed.
At first, I thought that video games could take whatever good things we could gather in our experiences as humans and transport them into a new, cleaner world, but the more time passes, the more I feel to be wrong, naive or just plain stupid, for it seems impossible to leave the bad vices and unpleasantries behind -at least for the humans I've come to meet, in person or through their actions and creations.
Maybe there's no way for any of us out of here. This reality may be a quarantine zone that we call hell, one in which all the missdeeds stand and permeate into any creation we attempt to make, thus condemning them. And for any of us trying to make something good or trying to save something from all of...*this*, the only thing we can do is impotently watch it become stained, damaged and hurt. It's what we have learned and what we go to teach, right? Even if from exposition.
I appreciate you providing such depth and feedback for this! It coincides with player sentiment from other players as well, and I'd like to take it into consideration for future events to the best of my ability. ❤
So what exactly happens if your character DOES "starve to death"? Our characters die all the time, yet we just revive. Would starvation just be another version of that? If it is, then the good news is that it's basically trivial, in that you don't lose your character forever, or worse, have to give Nexon money to have them revive you (WAIT WAIT NOTHING TO SEE HERE NEXON; MOVE ALONG). The bad news is that, it would add a major annoyance to the game, without making it funner or more "interesting" that the inevitable incessant beaching, from the community, would lead to it being removed.
Dieing because a monster kills you is acceptable as this is what the game is all about. "Don't Starve" is a different game entirely. The idea, outlined above, is how Minecraft works but it is a single-player game that happens to have a multi-player option. Plus, other than the very early game, the ability to obtain and hold food is made mildly inconvenient, in Minecraft. In the old old old game: Ultima II, you could starve to death. As soon as your food is gone, you starve quickly and, once dead, you have to start a new game. At least it was a single player installed game and not an online multiplayer deal, but that ain't saying much. Needless to say, that mechanic was not repeated in future sequels. Sure Ultima III had starvation but it took longer and you could play a party of characters which could revive you if you died anyway.
The system we have now, regarding food, is good. Food is not necessary but using it boosts stats, and so on. Sure, it's not realistic but this is a game and, first and foremost, a game should be fun. Simulations are fun but tedium, for most people, isn't. This is why we don't have sleeping (although, I suppose, one could argue that "Rest" is basically sleeping), taking a shower, and using the toilet in Mab. Mind you, I suppose they COULD implement that using a similar approach; you don't HAVE to poop but, if you do, your stats get better.
Still, as we have witnessed in this very here example, unpleasantries are -or 'seem', if you still have 'hope'- unavoidable. But, at the very least, if something good (enjoyable, rather than pure, for purity only last fraction of seconds in this life -if even) comes from all of this, then we can indulge ourselves into the creation done and forever ask its forgiveness afterwards when we witness their unavoidable -or 'seemingly unavoidable'- desecration and demise, thus making each rightfully deserving of the same evil each do.
I honor Nexon for -often, not always- having a good sense of taste, so I believe something, as mentioned, enjoyable has the potential to result. A critic, though, is that the mechanics set in place are REALLY HARDLY revisioned. Maybe due to pride, or not considering said perceived details as in need of fixing (those are, after all, opinions, be them popular or otherwise), or the difficulty existing in code correction, or just resource allocation into other tasks. Things are done, and rarely changed. But what do I know? You're likely to have sessions of testings, trial and errors and iterative development (not to mention, teams of individuals trained in behavioural conduct) that are unseen to the public and set on creating a product that clients want to come back to. Yet, I'm grateful for the existence of a forum for suggestions that can allow me to express my opinions (and even more for the acknowledgement of a member from the development team, I'm not going to lie), and if I manage to state something that hasn't been considered by your team, and that something makes the world of mabinogi better (not necessarily for other players, but for the world itself), then...nice! Right?
Maybe not?
^ what 6 months of back-to-back AFK events does to someone
I can relate to enjoying the results of a difficult task and, an included additional prize with it, makes it even better. But when I have done things just for the prize, I start questioning my actual commitment to the activity or activities I'm doing -which probably shouldn't always be 'the activity or activities I'm being told to do'.
Honestly, the more I read posts, comedically or otherwise, making mentions on the possible laxed nature of events, the more I wonder if nobody is actually smart enough to find something fun to do here without being told and the more I wonder if things would be done have them not prizes attached to them.
It's not my intention to lash out on other players, since I couldn't possibly care less about what anybody else is doing -If something, I probably would prefer to not even know- but, if players keep bullying the company running the game, and this eventually (eventually? no, rather, continuously) makes them surrender to the demands of the toxic and mediocre, then I guess I should state that *at least one* is against all of it. This in case said decisions are executed against their vision and against their will, rather than because some elements inside the company also share the previously mentioned vision, if it can be called so. Still, even if this other way of thinking gets to be thought by myself alone, that won't necessarily make it the wrong one.
Though, some of the AFK events actually root characters and make them unable to do anything else, in which case I support your suggestion for using that time for insight thinking.
First of all, I would like to point out how you were pretty much saying someone is evil for having put a poll to get people's opinions with their options for the poll being Yes or No.
You have posted a poll doing the same. EXCEPT your options for your poll is:
1) You agree with me.
OR
2) You are a terrible person.
As for shared goals to unlock stuff for the server, I do agree with that as it will get people to cooperate with eachother more and would add a really nice touch to an MMO.
Even when it was npcs that you didn't have to talk to after the first time, like some of the puzzle ones, people still chose to stand there. Not to mention its became a weird trend for people in--channel 9 for instance--to stand at the sidewalk of dunbartion when you first enter. Sadly, I don't really see how there's a good fix for it either, but I doubt making it so you can complete event quests in the quest box will change much when it comes to crowds. And I kinda feel like it'd just make it boring, but that's just my opinion.
The town in question could and should feel lively if everyone just took to themselves to become actors of good or beauty in the enviroment, rather than always wanting to be the protagonists and always only caring about themselves or what's convenient to them. There are many voids to be filled, but it more and more feels as if nobody wants to *do* anything and they just want to be given things, or (maybe) only do things *if* they are given things.