Anniversary Event Today(Oct-6-2019) Around 9-10 PM Eastern

[Baler]

Anniversary Event Today(Oct-6-2019) Around 9-10 PM Eastern

Who else is excited for this? Will you be going?
:D

[Axlrose]

What level requirements?

[Octopath]

Would have been able to go last night. Will probably be in bed tonight and miss it.

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Anniversary Event Today(Oct-6-2019) Around 9-10 PM Eastern

Who else is excited for this? Will you be going?
:D

Location for the event? EC tunnel?

[stewe]

I will not, walking dead new season starts and unlike some im still watching it

[Octopath]

I will not, walking dead new season starts and unlike everyone im still watching it

fixed for you

[Baler]

fixed for you

lol, nice :cool:

[Vizax_Xaziv]

WC Crashed already LOL

[skorge]

yep, lol was 630 peeps last i looked.

[Cecily]

hmm probably not. Dont think I remember my passwords.

[Obrae]

They arent ready to make event, it took 5 minute for the zone to crash, bad planning

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Gonna be a whole LOT of drowned rezzes inc LOL

[Baler]

600 people swimming in WC lake, excellent stress test.

[Octopath]

Was the event going on?

[Zeboim]

Event is pretty fire not gonna lie

[Jungleberry]

WTB Rez in WC

[UglyTater]

Do you mean Rez for WC?

[cd288]

They arent ready to make event, it took 5 minute for the zone to crash, bad planning

Not their fault. The event wasn't announced as being in WC, everyone just went there to stage. Not P99's fault we were all idiots and filled one zone with 600+ people for no reason and crashed the server.

[Settle]

Not their fault. The event wasn't announced as being in WC, everyone just went there to stage. Not P99's fault we were all idiots and filled one zone with 600+ people for no reason and crashed the server.

We're all going to go where the event is anyway.. doesn't matter if it's WC or not

[Jungleberry]

Do you mean Rez for WC?

Both. Let's do both.

[Grimstrike]

WC is still sluggish as hell and EC has approx 140 roaming around now.

[Grimstrike]

Befallen just crashed? Lol, is everyone just trying to guess where the event will start?

[Baler]

WC crash again?
Nope, Guess everyone just D/C'd

[ibanezjs100]

Yeah, WC crashed once again.

[Grimstrike]

Rogean just sent an ingame message, they are trying to put something together (maybe a small event or a giveaway) with limited staff/resources tonight it doesn't sound like a huge event is possible to pull together. Hope all is well for their families, life comes first.

[Jeni]

If you already have a guise don't bother it seems to be what everyone is getting.

[Baler]

man I love this server

[Crico]

Where do I go to make this event?

[Zeboim]

The event is in ur heart, bro.

<3

[Grimstrike]

Zone into WC!

[Dulian]

I saw everyone running in WC and then promptly crashed. Where was everyone going?

[Lanys-Pewj]

WC down again

[Madbad]

head to north karana

[Grimstrike]

WC crashed again, how is the NK crew doing?

[Madbad]

https://imgur.com/a/FcHBEgq some images of the event so far

[Freakish]

Thanks for the event! Appreciate the effort.

[Wiltan]

Is there any official announcement about when bonus xp ends?

[stewe]

fixed for you

Dumbest "fix" ever (apparently doesnt even know what the word everyone means), hope you enjoy your 1 chance per zone for an illusion mask for 3-4 hours of your time, i really enjoyed seeing on a stream a lvl 24 shaman winning one of the masks LOLOLOLOL.

[Zeboim]

Dumbest "fix" ever, hope you enjoy your illusion potions for 4 hours of your time LOLOLOLOL.

What, you didn't like trading 4 hours of your time for .5% chance at a guise?

[UglyTater]

It was a fun event, but it started several hours late due to zone crashes and the rewards were nothing. Sad to see we couldn't have a fun event, we were killing a Griffin, not something fun like a god, and there were 200 of us and 1 person got a reward? I love the people I group with and have gotten to known, but tonight's event would have been better if it hadn't existed cause if it hadn't existed I'd have been in my groups, my guild would have gotten to do its raid, but instead we spent 5 hours doing nothing except reconnecting and wondering if we were stress testing Green. At the end of it we got a few illusion potions, and an EQ so late in the night we couldn't go after targets cause we're an Eastern Time zone guild, who had lost people to being disconnected several times. I'd love to redo the event next Saturday with 4 Griffins spawning at 8pm EST in NK, WC, IC, and DL and when they die an EQ happens and for people who attend the kills Guises and second tier items being handed out. But the way it happened tonight I was left hoping for more, but happily not hopping for more.

[Madbad]

that fucking conga line in WC was classic

[DMN]

It was a fun event, but it started several hours late due to zone crashes and the rewards were nothing. Sad to see we couldn't have a fun event, we were killing a Griffin, not something fun like a god, and there were 200 of us and 1 person got a reward? I love the people I group with and have gotten to known, but tonight's event would have been better if it hadn't existed cause if it hadn't existed I'd have been in my groups, my guild would have gotten to do its raid, but instead we spent 5 hours doing nothing except reconnecting and wondering if we were stress testing Green. At the end of it we got a few illusion potions, and an EQ so late in the night we couldn't go after targets cause we're an Eastern Time zone guild, who had lost people to being disconnected several times. I'd love to redo the event next Saturday with 4 Griffins spawning at 8pm EST in NK, WC, IC, and DL and when they die an EQ happens and for people who attend the kills Guises and second tier items being handed out. But the way it happened tonight I was left hoping for more, but happily not hopping for more.


Let's just say it was a "very classic" event. And I think Rog did toss in an earthquake for any would-be raiders.

[Zeboim]

We joke about Classic and all, but my best Classic memory is the Plague of Karana event. The GM essentially challenged us all to roleplay, and we all roleplayed our damn hearts out and ran all over WK doing stuff for the unknown reward. It turned out the reward was an artifact BP with regen, and I won that motherfucker and it was an incredible moment. So I kinda take issue with that 'Classic' claim. Not that I think volunteer gms should be forced to run ultra elaborate stuff or anything, I understand where that is coming from and sympathize. But use that as the reason, not the classic meme.

[aaezil]

What, you didn't like trading 4 hours of your time for .5% chance at a guise?

.033333 repeating % chance

[Khikik]

For the complaints...

If you play EQ "strictly by the numbers" and your only in it for the potential rewards then maybe GM events are not for you. Because if you think staff is going to give out 900+ Guises (the number of people that attended across the 4 event zones). Then you are sorely mistaken and have not been paying attention to how staff works around here

As for the delay. Staff is all volunteers and have different schedules + there was a RL emergency. Aside from staff issues we also had to rethink the event a little bit when our original plan was clearly not going to work when WC crashed...twice. Which further delayed it and we decided to split the event across multiple zones so players partaking in the event could all you know... actually play the event and not just crash more zones. Attendance was high enough that we had to split it across 4 zones (WC, NK , DL, Iceclad) with 200+ people in each zone in order to have the event be playable

Complaints aside I hope people had fun

[Dolalin]

I think people need to stop bitching like entitled toddlers, sounds like a very classic event the likes that any GM/Guide team back on Live would be doing.

Very interesting that 200 were crashing zones though, yikes for Green launch day. But that's classic too! Sony had to give everyone in EQ a free two weeks after launch because the servers were barely up. :D

[aaezil]

I think people need to stop bitching like entitled toddlers, sounds like a very classic event the likes that any GM/Guide team back on Live would be doing.

Very interesting that 200 were crashing zones though, yikes for Green launch day. But that's classic too! Sony had to give everyone in EQ a free two weeks after launch because the servers were barely up. :D

No 600+ was crashing zones. Ended up being 200 in each of 4 zones and no crash anymore.

[Baylan295]

For the complaints...

If you play EQ "strictly by the numbers" and your only in it for the potential rewards then maybe GM events are not for you. Because if you think staff is going to give out 900+ Guises (the number of people that attended across the 4 event zones). Then you are sorely mistaken and have not been paying attention to how staff works around here

As for the delay. Staff is all volunteers and have different schedules + there was a RL emergency. Aside from staff issues we also had to rethink the event a little bit when our original plan was clearly not going to work when WC crashed...twice. Which further delayed it and we decided to split the event across multiple zones so players partaking in the event could all you know... actually play the event and not just crash more zones. Attendance was high enough that we had to split it across 4 zones (WC, NK , DL, Iceclad) with 200+ people in each zone in order to have the event be playable

Complaints aside I hope people had fun

I had a lot of fun, and Murof getting a guise was awesome. Dude was AFK when he became the newest dark elf ranger on the server and freaked out when he came back.

[zodium]

For the complaints...

If you play EQ "strictly by the numbers" and your only in it for the potential rewards then maybe GM events are not for you. Because if you think staff is going to give out 900+ Guises (the number of people that attended across the 4 event zones). Then you are sorely mistaken and have not been paying attention to how staff works around here

As for the delay. Staff is all volunteers and have different schedules + there was a RL emergency. Aside from staff issues we also had to rethink the event a little bit when our original plan was clearly not going to work when WC crashed...twice. Which further delayed it and we decided to split the event across multiple zones so players partaking in the event could all you know... actually play the event and not just crash more zones. Attendance was high enough that we had to split it across 4 zones (WC, NK , DL, Iceclad) with 200+ people in each zone in order to have the event be playable

Complaints aside I hope people had fun

i had fun. :>

gm events are fun and exciting to participate in even when they don't go smoothly, so thank you and big ups for making the effort to celebrate the 10th year of p99. also i feel like people think running an event is mostly a question of 'planning things out well', and not the complete shitshow of manually spawning, configuring, moving and otherwise micromanaging NPCs using nothing but # commands it really is. it's awful. i could basically feel you guys typing out all the parameters for the awkward commands. thank you for doing it. :3

[AbstractVision]

Highlight of the event was Galach's vorpal burritos.

There are plenty of classic events we could have had happen for the 10th anniversary.
The butcherblock hammer, end of the plague, mayong mistmoore, undead invasion, ect, ect.
I love what the staff does for us, but I have to say overall I was very disappointed.

I wish we had something that everyone could participate in, the raid mobs in the four zones were killing low levels left and right and dropped nothing.

It would have been nice to see a server wide trivial loot code with random rare drops.
That way we could enjoy our time with friends, groups, and the bonus exp (which was the real highlight of the weekend). While indulging in the true spirit of everquest which is adventure and exploration with our friends and guild mates.

The server puts entirely too much emphasis on go here kill big monster.
As well as in guises. The newbie player who won it, wanted to trade it for a fungi.
There are enough elitist asshats without adding more pointless stuff like guises and it would be nice to see everyone who has been around making this server what it is get a guise so that the market could relax. Over 1 million characters have been made and there was ~900 characters in the events last night. I don't get it.

Anyways, thanks for what you do do Devs and Guides and I'm sorry if I come off as a dick. I just hope to raise a little awareness that there is a bad form of tunnel vision on the server and it could be addressed in times like these with just a bit more thought while putting little to no pressure or reliance on the staff.

[enjchanter]

As well as in guises. The newbie player who won it, wanted to trade it for a fungi.


are you telling me no one was willing to trade a fungi for a guise

[Baler]

Thank you for the Event P99 staff. I took lots of screenshots but imgur is doing dumb with multi uploads for me.

[Jimjam]

Classic GM event would be giving an amazing ranger only bow to a wizard.

[DMN]

Highlight of the event was Galach's vorpal burritos.

There are plenty of classic events we could have had happen for the 10th anniversary.
The butcherblock hammer, end of the plague, mayong mistmoore, undead invasion, ect, ect.
I love what the staff does for us, but I have to say overall I was very disappointed.

Apparently this was thrown together in short time period due to real life issues/schedule. It is a free server after all and with green coming a lot of resources/time are probably being dedicated to issues involving that.


I wish we had something that everyone could participate in, the raid mobs in the four zones were killing low levels left and right and dropped nothing.


What? I think it dropped like 5-6 items in the zone I was in. Three of them being Pegasus cloaks.



The server puts entirely too much emphasis on go here kill big monster.
As well as in guises.
Anyways, thanks for what you do do Devs and Guides and I'm sorry if I come off as a dick. I just hope to raise a little awareness that there is a bad form of tunnel vision on the server and it could be addressed in times like these with just a bit more thought while putting little to no pressure or reliance on the staff.

Go here and kill big monster was about 95% of GM classic events if we ignore the handful of once-a-server events. For the most part this server is supposed to be trying to emulate the original game with as much fidelity as possible.

[Lhord99]

Gonna quote an exotic dancer friend of mine:

“It’s okay being left wanting more. That’s what this whole thing is about.”

[elwing]

It was a funny slideshow event... And that knockback, lol epic ! Thanks for that, thanks also to have been so late otherwise I would have missed it completely as euro...

[Sarkhan]

What? I think it dropped like 5-6 items in the zone I was in. Three of them being Pegasus cloaks.


the one in dreadlands definitely dropped nothing. I got to loot and it was empty :'-(

On the + side, my brother ended up the lucky winner of the DE mask! I'm as jealous as I am happy for him lol

[Nirgon]

Take the pet window out

[Chapelle]

the one in dreadlands definitely dropped nothing. I got to loot and it was empty :'-(

On the + side, my brother ended up the lucky winner of the DE mask! I'm as jealous as I am happy for him lol

NK dropped nothing as well

[Modwolf]

The highlight for me was the cats in DL.

[Valion]

Big Thank You to the Staff!
It was a fun event, I was on my ranger in SK so I zoned over. Not that I was able to do any real damage at that level, those knockbacks took off almost 1/4 of my health each time.

No idea what items were going to the highest randoms despite winning one. I got bugged when summoned before Galach and couldn't open a trade window, hahaha now that classic. :)

A big Thanks to Shammazing (hope I spelled that correctly) he inspected me before it started and gave me a Lamentation used it instead of my Springwood club in the offhand.

[Rang]

Pras 'Gean and the staff for a great event! That turnout was very telling for Green expectations - it's gonna be crazy!

[Wiltan]

What? I think it dropped like 5-6 items in the zone I was in. Three of them being Pegasus cloaks.

No, it didn't. People in the zone you were in messed with you.

[gkmarino]

First and most importantly I hope things related to the family emergency improve as best they can. We are all wishing and praying for a hopeful recovery for any and everyone involved.

Now about the event. No one expects 900 guises as was said previously in this thread. Please don't be unreasonable, however maybe reward more than 00.5% of the participants for an event that dragged players along for hours on a Sunday/Monday.

You gave away 4 guises for 800+ people that's rewarding so few. This was a 10 year anniversary no less. So many people claiming that 4 guises is amazing I completely disagree. Give out 10 to celebrate 10 years. Rewarding less than 00.5% of participants for 3-4 hours seems way too conservative, even if you gave out 8-9 guises at a closer to 1% participant reward rate I would say you are being way too conservative.

A very classically scary mob. We were all hoping you would spawn something more creative. Terrorantula, lockjaw, quillmane, giant of any kind, ghoul lord, nagafen, vox, efreeti, idk maybe something other than a griffon (NK and IC). Honestly if you just spawned Cazic Thule (god) and saved us all time we would have appreciated it.

[Wiltan]

You gave away 4 guises for 800+ people that's rewarding so few. This was a 10 year anniversary no less. So many people claiming that 4 guises is amazing I completely disagree. Give out 10 to celebrate 10 years. Rewarding less than 00.5% of participants for 3-4 hours seems way too conservative, even if you gave out 8-9 guises at a closer to 1% participant reward rate I would say you are being way too conservative.

So much whining on this thread. You got your participation trophies: three illusion potions per attendee was pretty cool, even if you just end up selling them like a lot of folks did.

[gkmarino]

So much whining on this thread. You got your participation trophies: three illusion potions per attendee was pretty cool, even if you just end up selling them like a lot of folks did.Yes it's a complaint, do you have anything other obvious points to make?

[Lhord99]

Made a whole thread in RNF for people to post their stories of toxic pixel greed, so we can keep server chat wholesome, productive and respectful. Use it folks!

[Deathrydar]

so we can keep server chat wholesome, productive and respectful. Use it folks!

Are you new here? :P

[Wiltan]

Are you new here? :P

Haha, fair point. I should expect this kind of talk. Obviously the free stuff we got in the game we play for free when the staff that donate their time for free spent some hours struggling to solve issues so that they could run an event for free is going to result in some people feeling ripped off.

My bad.

[zodium]

First and most importantly I hope things related to the family emergency improve as best they can. We are all wishing and praying for a hopeful recovery for any and everyone involved.

Now about the event. No one expects 900 guises as was said previously in this thread. Please don't be unreasonable, however maybe reward more than 00.5% of the participants for an event that dragged players along for hours on a Sunday/Monday.

You gave away 4 guises for 800+ people that's rewarding so few. This was a 10 year anniversary no less. So many people claiming that 4 guises is amazing I completely disagree. Give out 10 to celebrate 10 years. Rewarding less than 00.5% of participants for 3-4 hours seems way too conservative, even if you gave out 8-9 guises at a closer to 1% participant reward rate I would say you are being way too conservative.

tbh I think this is correct. I had something similar in my post but deleted it so as not to detract from saying thanks. I don't think you're coming from a selfish place, and I hope the staff don't feel unappreciated reading your post. imo it's coming from a place of passion about p99 and speaks to how things often turn toxic on p99 when we allow things to become too relatively scarce.

at the end of the day everquest is played by people, and people respond a certain way to scarcity. guises and other legacy items have been handed out so rarely over many years that their perceived valued is simply stratospheric, and the certain way people respond to that tends to be irrational. even as someone who mostly doesn't care for guises and who already owns most legacy items, it ends up negatively affecting my event experience too because in the back of their minds people are disappointed they never had a "real chance" at something they desperately want. like i'm not saying it's rational, but it is a very human way to respond to scarcity. even if you announced no aspirational content would ever be given out again, it would still be there in the back of people's minds, just in case you change your mind again.

i also think you're right to talk about the chances. aspirational content is good but there can be too much of a good thing, you need more than lemons to make lemonade, etc. if gm events gave participants a 5% chance rather than 0.5% chance to win their manastone, it would not make me enjoy my ~legitimate~ manastone any less, but people would leave events with a sense of "dang i'll get it next time" contributing to a sense of excitement about the event rather than undermining their ability to enjoy the staff's hard work fully.

hopefully one takeaway for future events in addition to "better spread the players out over zones than have one big event" can be "better give participants a significant chance at aspirational content than a guaranteed minor reward."

[FungusTrooper]

like, this wasn't the event, tho. this was an emergency something shoved together as it happened.

real event will come later. or it won't, who knows? but yeah there's not really anything to learn from this event, since it wasn't the event anyone wanted/had planned/etc.

[Mblake81]

This is why GMs don't do events.

[zodium]

theater's hard

[Jibartik]

https://imgur.com/a/FcHBEgq some images of the event so far

lol what was the event, waiting for your spot to loot a guise on green99? :D

Thanks for the pics! I was drawing UI and totally missed this! :(

[honeybee12874]

like, this wasn't the event, tho. this was an emergency something shoved together as it happened.

real event will come later. or it won't, who knows? but yeah there's not really anything to learn from this event, since it wasn't the event anyone wanted/had planned/etc.

Yep. Of course people are disappointed with the event, and I'm sure it was miles away from what it could have been had the staff not been dealing with IRL emergencies. And that is 100% understandable. I think they did a good job under the circumstances putting something together.

I don't know if the real event will come later, but I really hope so. 10th Anniversary is a huge milestone and deserves an event worthy of that title.

[Danth]

I showed up on a character that already has a guise, shouldn't I be outraged?

Realistically it was nice seeing the community get together for something. Crashes/etc were expected and did not disappoint. Nice way to goof off for a couple hours and bring the community together a bit. Got to hang around with some old friends I hadn't seen in awhile.

Danth

[Deathrydar]

I wanted to be there, but I am normally in bed by 9-9:30pm during the week...

[fortior]

MMO players' brains are broken to the extent where they cannot do anything 'just for fun', there needs to be some kind of benefit or reward.