Prizes do matter..... Just look @ TheManorSet ....
participation went way up, then went back to ho-hum for ElvarianGames.
the current FA format with prizes and the prizes themselves are a big part.
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@mikeledo , you might not be concerned... but Inno should )
The Elvenar devs a bunch of ignorant morons honestly, in large part because they've long admitted that they don't actually play their own game. (kinda like having a math teacher who's never taken a math course in their life!)
Sure in FoE, we still get a sizable swing of really OP event prizes vs. a few odd clunkers, but generally, you can *always* count on at least half of the year's many events to offer up some ridiculously insane grand prizes.
Elvenar on the other hand seems the exact opposite;
maayyyyyyybe 1 or even 2 decent grand prizes, followed by a literal dumpster full of hot garbage.
Really, the Elvenar team needs to learn the 40k principal: "If *EVERYTHING* is over powered, then NOTHING really is."
If at least half of each year's event prizes were all Fire Phoenix/Brown Bear power level, then no one would be getting left behind sinply because they started playing after 'X' date/time. And as the Sorc's event proved, a solid event building/set is a license to print money.