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Your Elvenar Team
I really like the stories that are presented in many of the chapters and the mini events. I've wished that the major events did the same and was excited that this event was embracing story telling and much better than the bard in my opinion. Then it stopped and sadly reverted to the repeating of a few phrases. In a very disappointing event for an end of chapters player, this was but another nail in the coffin.
Indeed. I get it, for randomized infinite quests attaching dialogue/storyline might have been difficult, but for a fixed quest line? I mean, we're really talking about 200-300 sentences for a month-long event.
I took the liberty to bold @Risen Malchiah post. This may be a good contest? Write the storyline.....but then again they probably wouldn't use it.
I think my ideas would be unique. They might require a tiny adjustment to the quest window's UI but beyond that, the quests wouldn't require anything the game hasn't already shown the ability to track. And it would give me something extra to do while I'm inside for a month.
The only reason I am working so hard at this event is to pile up coldfire artifacts for conversion and it's been days since I last saw the option (not even counting the option I had upon waking the morning the event started!) And I have made sure to check every cycle. Since it is only an option "For a limited time after the event ends", we'd need it to show up in the MA to have a chance of using them.
And now for something completely different...
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Ummmm... are we feeding troops to the hungry Phoenix? Haha Inno, it would be super awesome if the quest dialogue matches the tasks. I realize that requires a little work, but it avoids dumb situations like this. While almost none of the dialogue matched the quests for this event (again), it might be good to avoid making the dialogue imply something odd like this. Especially since there was a quest to produce groceries just a few quests before this one.
To further illustrate what I mean, last year's Carnival event had a quest to get "new fabric from the Fairy woods that was gentle on the skin." The task was to make 9hr Steel productions. (So gentle on the skin!)
Quest dialogue is not difficult. This year it started out really interesting with competing cults who worshiped different Phoenixes, I was curious where the story would go, but then it never really went anywhere and quest givers started repeating their dialogue.
Please solicit event & story ideas from the players. We have a TON of them. Some good. Some not so good. But at least it might get you pointed in the right direction. I'd write up a whole event for ya if I knew it might actually get looked at.
OMG!!! the bad quest dialogue was totally worth it, if only for your extremely witty commentary here! I wasn't even around last year, but I am still now chuckling at your wit. (And yes - I think it is probably true that "everyone just starts drinking when there's a fire.")
wish we could TRADE these in the Trader!!!lolThe sad part about it is I desperately need fragments and I hardly ever seem to get them in the spire. (Of course, I only do the lowest part). I always hope for them and instead get a 2 hour time booster or ensorcel. I won't go to level 2, so I guess maybe that's where they are all hiding.
I saw my 1st one this morning. I hadn't cashed any essence in, so quickly did enough to get 2 artifacts and start it. I now have 5 burning pools in inventory, but since my city produces 250K or so mana a day … Well, that would be true for any buildings this event. Since it was worth 20 VV I thought I'd try and hold on to it until there was another VV quest, but sadly, that's 20 quests away. I'm going real slow.
OH MY - ME TOOOOOOO!
I think what is happening is that Inno pays the bills by selling diamonds. Consequently, they can't give too many away for free so cutting back on wishing wells. They also need to have something special for people to spend diamonds on so they are trying to establish a new (lower) normal for event buildings so that diamond buildings can really stand out. It's hard to sell magic houses if event buildings give as much or more than the diamond buildings so it looks like they are really cutting back on how much pop the event buildings give. Maybe what they are finding is that the big players mostly already have all the diamond buildings they are going to buy and the money is in selling diamonds to smaller cities that want to become bigger more powerful cities faster. Consequently, it doesn't pay to to be offering too many really awesome event buildings. So what we're seeing is a move to focus more on the little cities more so than the bigger ones.
