The Rites of Spring event has concluded, and we hope that you enjoyed the event! We'd appreciate it if you could answer the following questions to give us your thoughts on the event.
I over all give the event a grade of B, it could have gotten an A if it wasn't for the limited spawn/rates.
In the areas like talking island and elmore the spawn rates weren't that much of an issue with the smaller land mass, but the mainland was their just wasn't enough bunny spawn points for the mass of the mainland.
For some, there was _no_ event thanks to low spawn rates on the bunnies. And for some, the bunnies were worthless so unless you got extra lucky and some spawned next to your original hunting grounds, it was a waste of time.
My friend found a total of one bunny, and we shared the XP on it. at my lvl the bunny was blood red and gave my sin eater 29%. for m e I mite of goten maybe 3% at the most..and thats pushing it.
how ever one of my clanies found 30 bunnys, and made a ton off it, I wasn't that impressed with looking for them. Waste of my time honestly.
The spawn rate and the size of the bunnys made the evnt too much to me.. if I'm out xping I need to pay close atention to my surroundings or get over ran by mobs!
This poll needs more options Mistryl. I selected "Not interested", but i participated somehow (i found 1 (o-n-e) bunny with normal hunting, that counts right?). Also a question about the balance would be fine, gettin 0.2% and 10k SP at lvl 70+ in a 70+ area is, well, not good!
And just btw, next time u should add some kind of collision-detection. A friend found 2 bunnys he couldnt attack, they spawned inside a hill (he posted some funny screenshots in our board ^^)
Wasnt my favourite event, the rabbits could have had more to offer or been a bit more interesting. Finding something and 1hitting it for x amount of XP is nice sometimes but can get boring.
I spent an hour looking for Rabbits in the beginning and found two. I have found about 7 more just by running around PvPing or hunting.
I'm not that unhappy at the frequency of them, I just wish it was more interesting when you did find one. It wouldn't hurt to have a better XP reward as under 200k XP isn't exactly a lot at higher levels. Apart from that it was ok.
the poll clearly lacks an option to state something like 'rewards were not worth it' ... 'not interested' is the closest option i guess, but it could also mean not interested in events at all - which would be an entirely different statement...
the poll clearly lacks an option to state something like 'rewards were not worth it' ... 'not interested' is the closest option i guess, but it could also mean not interested in events at all - which would be an entirely different statement...
I already talked to Mistryl about that in a PM. :D
Personally, I think these kinds of events are fine. I particularly liked that fact that the super rich didn't get super richer. I made 40% EXP with about 1.5 hours of looking for rabbits (found 2). Didn't play most of the event because I was out of town (Austin weather sucks, by the way).
Well, I knew when the event started but I didn't know when it ended because I lost interest in it within the first hour of it starting.
I lost interest because of the spawn rates and that I was not benefited from the event. There was no way that time invested in doing the event would remotely be worth the effort.
I killed two rabbits because they were there, if they had not of tbeen there I would not have killed them. I didn't perticipate. An event is when you have players wanting to find the rabbit during the entire time that the even is running.
IMO, the dark lord event with a mazzive spawn with raid bosses was an event :)
Oh noes >< I accidentally voted for "not interested" when "not being able to play" was more accurate. So take one vote from "not interested" and put in on the other :p
Personally, I think these kinds of events are fine. I particularly liked that fact that the super rich didn't get super richer.
Events are usually geared towards those who are willing to put in more effort - and those who are, are more likely to be rich before the event. I like that kind of event, even if there's luck involved like the pumpkin event. Because it depends on myself and my friends, how much I'm gonna get out of it. Not just freak luck. That being said, I did like the letter event a lot, even though that was mostly freak luck, what you got from it. No boss jewelry for me, but I was happy to try my hardest to have a chance at it. :)
I realise I'm pretty much all over the map here... I blame it on too little sleep and no caffeine :confused:
Perhaps I am being overly aggressive with my thought on this event but it simply wasn't worth my time to even attempt to find a Rabbit. An incredible dissappointment!
For the duration if this event I had a /target macro on hand and never once came across a Rabbit in my travels through Aden and Elmore.
To be honest the Exp/Sp given for the Rabbits ( that has been reported on the Forums) is quite insulting to any player 60+
178K Exp is the highest I remember reading was rewarded for a single Rabbit kill.
For me (Dark Avenger with Panther) that would equate to 154K Exp (-15% Exp for Panther) I can solo grind at the Wall of Argo's and get 12K - 18K per kill averaging 1 Kill every 15-20 secs.
At the lowest I only need 12 Kills to = one rabbit, aprx 4 mins of Grind. There is absolutley no reason for me to go out of my way, spending hours searching for a Rabbit I may never find. When I am guarrenteed to get my Event Exp in 4 mins of normal grind.
Well, I spent a few hours (last year I spent 7-8 hours) looking for Rabbits again this year, and again I found nothing.
It's funny how a lot of people seem to say "Oh I was hunting and found a Rabbit!". Whereas some of us who actually try and participate don't find anything at all. I don't care about the reward (although I'd prefer useless things such as Echo Crystals/Party masks etc.), I just want to feel as if I've participated in an event, rather than just running pointlessly around Aden (again).
I'd say this would be a good event if the Rabbits were actually more common, and in my opinion they shouldn't spawn in places like Necros/Catas or any dungeons.
I know unless something changes with this event, I wouldn't take part for a third time. I've already deleted the /target Rabbit macro I've had since last year :(.
Ya, thats why i wrote about balance. The only lil one i found was in an area where mobs for me r white or yellow. It was shared with a friend and for duo it was 110k exp. Thats equal to around 10 mobs in that area done with a party (these angellike mobs at wall of argos give around 10~11k exp in a 6-7 ppl party, depending on the party). And normaly ur r not alone in a 70+ area, so exp is ever shared, this event was complete unbalanced.
First day of the event many people were complaining they couldn't find any rabbit. Second day I was told someone was actually killed by a rabbit.
I didn't actually go hunting rabbits, I chose carrying on with my quests instead.
Last day of the event was April 20th, and it was a server maintance day. The 21st, and while doing a quest at the Sea of Spores, I found the first and last event rabbit -- someone had forgotten it there. It was deep red to me, but nevertheless I chose to give it a try. It was killed in one shot (over-hit 1680 damage) and I received 223,510 xp points plus 2 medium grade SP scrolls. I was level 43 at the time, and for that level xp points were as good as of any raid's could be, I suppose.
I don't think passively stumbling on a rabbbit(s) could be considered participation.
I think that was part of the problem, it wasnt worth participating. It was much more beneficial and a lot less frustrating to go about the normal grind and hope a bunny crossed your path.
Let's not nitpick over this..... The point is most people did not go out and actively look for rabbits because the reward wasn't worth it plain and simple. :mad:
nope I was out big booming behind oren when I found a rabit. 1 big boom train of mobs = about .1 Rabit that cons blood red .3 ( i think) and the 2 sp scrolls that don;t amount to >< at my dwarves lvl. (just missing skills to summon seige golems 2 medium sp scrolls don;t make even a dent
It would help if you stated your level and just how many K of Xp you got, so we can give more indepth input. Because saying you got .01 doesnt give much detail.
Not having much information to work on, i'm thinking the rabbits weren't level dependant based on the surroundings. But were a fixed rate.
With all of the threads about this event, I think there's been plenty of feedback. The rewards weren't great, the spawn was barely there, and people didn't feel like wasting grind time just to look for a rabbit.
For a good majority of players, the event was a failure.
I give this event a D- for the minimal reward and very limited spawn :confused: Found 2 rabbits :eek:
Bring back the medal event! With the rewards of jewelry and level 11-13 SA crystals and at a cost that you dont have to play 7/24 or be a farmer boos to get enough medals to buy something worthwhile :D
I only saw bunnies on the last 2 days of the event, even though I hunted at various levels, with various characters throughout. :(
An event in and of itself is a rare occurence. When you host an event with even rarer goals and prizes, it becomes a non-event.
More bunnies the next time. Much more. I don't see the harm in that. After all, the bunny that I dispatched only gave me 114000 xp. When you consider that I was hunting Vanors in Aden, that equates to just about 15 Chieftains. Very small drop in the bucket for such a rare find, wouldn't you agree? You're better served hunting regular mobs.
You say the event was a failure, i say the event was a success. This is the feedback we need to talk about.
How can two people have such a night and day view of it?
Simple... you're a lot lower than I am, so the XP rewards would be better for you. I was not going to waste my time looking for a rabbit when I could have grinded it out faster.
Remember, there are always opposing opinions to everything.
Here's my feedback..... higher spawn rate, more area spawns, more XP, better SP ratio.
Simple... you're a lot lower than I am, so the XP rewards would be better for you. I was not going to waste my time looking for a rabbit when I could have grinded it out faster.
Remember, there are always opposing opinions to everything.
Here's my feedback..... higher spawn rate, more area spawns, more XP, better SP ratio.
I understand that, but lets give NC some hard numbers. I figure the bunnies where progressive in their rates, just not enough is all.
Using myself and yourself as a guide. I was in elmore which i would call a level 1-20 area on my level 27 monk. I was pulling in 73K of xp and getting a 5K sp scrolls. To me it was worth it.
So what level are you and what level would you call the area your in, and what kind of rates would make you happy?
ATM I'm 59. I hunt out around Aden and Goddard mostly.
I'd would have liked to actually see a rabbit, but based on the responses here, 115k and SP scrolls wouldn't cut it for me considering at 59 I need 59 to 60 = 12.5M XP.
That amount of XP at higher lvls wasn't worth the time and effort.
Here's how it works out for me.... 12,500,000XP TNL/ 115,000 Rabbit XP= 109 appx. Rabbits to lvl.
Using my rates at the low end compaired to your rate of 5k xp..... I get a bunny rate of around 400,000 xp. I think thats about right, what do you think?
If you like that kind of figure lets move on to the SP rate.
Using my rates at the low end compaired to your rate of 5k xp..... I get a bunny rate of around 400,000 xp. I think thats about right, what do you think?
If you like that kind of figure lets move on to the SP rate.
Did anyone actually find a rabbit that gave 400k XP????
Yes, but you can't say what it would "make" it for me since that's not what actually happened. People got 0 XP and 0 SP from rabbits. How is that even good ??
I was looking forward to the event. I didnt get enough time to really to play during the weekend it was going on. I made a macro /target rabbit ran all over the place and never found 1. but I only had 2 days in which I was able to look and about 3 hours of running around.
I wouldnt mind having this event again. infact I would love another chance at it hehe. just increase the spawn rate on mainland I would have to guess heh. offset could be lower the xp gain or something. I remember the other bunnie hunting event. and well that was sweet running up Toi my group came across like 5. got some nice XP, and good drops too.
tho my best fun with bunnies was on PTS during chaos week hehe. but yeh. would like to see more rabbits spawn on mainlands.
All in all, for the larger proportion of the player base who have characters above at least level 50, the reward was minimal at best to negligible at worst. Most of the problem was likely caused by the rabbit's awarded experience not increasing exponentially to match the amount of experience a player needs to achieve the next level, an amount which does increase exponentially, so even if the rabbit's were to have awarded an amount of experience that was increasing linearly based on the player's level, it simply would still fail to be a significant return, as the disparity between a linear growth and exponential growth model is too high.
Thus in order for an event of this sort to award what would seem to be enough experience to make participation both fun and rewarding, the experience given out by rabbits ought to increase with a similar function as the experience needed to level function [which is roughly equal to f(x)=(rabbit experience at level 0)*1.18^X, where X is the level of the player]. While this would allow higher level players to level drastically faster than the developers would (i.e. they would receive the same % to inext level increase for killing a rabbit as a level 0 player), this could be overcome by adjusting the 1.18 to some number greater than 1 but less than 1.18.
Now that we can know how much reward a rabbit should give, it must be decided how to go about rewarding rabbit kills. Should higher level players continue to be penalized for hunting rabbits in lower level areas, or shouls the rabbit perform a check to determine the player's level, and then adjust the experience award as per above based on this level?
The final concern, which is the hardest problem by far, is the spawn rate. Too high, and some players will earn too much; too low, and some players will earn too few. There is then some happy equilibrium which perfectly balances the two problems, though what that equilibrium is I do not know, and judging by what we saw during the event, NC does not know either.
Therefore, because we can at least know how much is too much, I would prefer using an artificial means of control, which places a limit on the number of rabbits a person can kill which corresponds to the exact number of rabbits just before they reach the too much number. With a high spawn rate, one can guarantee then that there won't be too few rabbits, and the control guarantees that no player will earn too much experience, even with a spawn rate that would have lead to too much experience being earned without the control.
As to the means of the control, I am again unsure, though I imagine it could take the form of a quest which can only be repeated a certain number of times. Award anyone who kills a rabbit one quest item, and disallow anyone from ever holding more than one quest item at a time. Then place in town an event NPC who will exchange experience and sp for the quest item of an amount based on the previous discussion up to some X number of exchanges, at which point the NPC will refuse to allow further exchanges. As the rabbits are now awarding quest items and not exp or sp, there is no need to make different level rabbits, though this now rewards higher level players for searching in lower level areas as their risk of dying is almost 0, though for lower level players, they cannot then go search in higher level areas when the higher level players are killing all their rabbits, as the risk of dying is simply too high. Once again creating a solution for a problem introduced another problem, which I am unsure of how to solve.
And here I conclude it would be far easier to simply have 4 days of double rates instead of trying to randomly spawn mobs that yield larger than normal amounts of experience.
Yes. The rabbits had to be red so that L2 players of all levels could participate, regardless of where the rabbits spawned. For example, in the Aden area alone you can have level 40+ to level 60+ gamers in the region. The only way to avoid the xp penalty is to design a high level mob that everyone can hunt.
Well I choose an Area NE of Giran from Timak orc to the far East Medusa, worked along the hill tops then back down the valley around the castle etc just about everywhere for the duration of the event, Not Many people or Non people hunting about and I found ZERO bunnies, so after covering a fair size area for 3 of the 4 days I guess I picked the wrong area, but unless you do pick an area there's no way to search the whole of the map. Out of interest how many spawn points was there?
I must say it was too short, too limited, way too few kinds of rewards, its a huge letdown from previous events (and showing a concerning trend), it sets a negative outlook on future events which would mean more disappointment than needed be when a good event comes along. (Simply because some people won't participate thinking its going to suck badly like previous event, then getting mad when they find out they missed out on a good event)
Did anyone actually find a rabbit that gave 400k XP????
The biggest one I found was a level 70+ rabbit in GC that gave 250K XP (and thats with party bonus), which of course was 50.000 per character, or 15 mobs we could have killed in the timespan it took to get to the bunny.
The second bunny there gave the same, but we all got killed trying to get to it, so it was pretty worthless.
Well I choose an Area NE of Giran from Timak orc to the far East Medusa, worked along the hill tops then back down the valley around the castle etc just about everywhere for the duration of the event, Not Many people or Non people hunting about and I found ZERO bunnies, so after covering a fair size area for 3 of the 4 days I guess I picked the wrong area, but unless you do pick an area there's no way to search the whole of the map. Out of interest how many spawn points was there?
I saw one rabbit in Aden. I saw three in Sea of Spores. I was hunting on my level 50 - 52 Hawkeye when I spotted all rabbits.
Earlier in the event, I hunted in Valley of Saints with my 67 Spellhowler; in and around Elven and Dark Elven Villages with a newly created Elf Fighter for 15 levels; in Heine and Alligator Island with my 51 - 52 Blade Dancer; and finally, in and around the Devestated Castle area with my 61 Shilien Knight. I did not spot a single rabbit with these characters.
There was probably some method to the madness, but I would have hoped that NCSoft shared the wealth, so to speak, and put rabbits throughout Aden and Elmore.
Thats what i'm wondering about....! I need more details from those people.
How can a person get 0 xp/sp.. Where they hunting low level rabbits with a high level character?
There were dark blue rabbits that gave 0 exp in my hunting grounds. My hunting grounds are the swamp of screams. I am level 7x, the monsters i am hunting are also 7x. Nc screwed up and they screwed up bad AS USUAL.
Nobody got 400k exp from these things, i found a yellow rabbit, i killed it, i got .13% from it.
Level more and post less.
I found 5 event rabbits total, 1 didn't give me any exp, 1 i used on my hatchling which didn't give any exp, all 5 added together didn't result in a single % gain.
I love events and get excited when they get close. my first event was the valentines day event last year. I didnt find any rings and was very disappointed. I thought wow what a waiste.
Then we had rights of spring. I found a set of bunnies and the chest the first day and was hooked. Spent the rest of the event just looking for bunnies nothing else. I found a total of 4 and was very happy with the event. After the bunny event I was hooked on events. Me and my clannies participated 100% in events from then on. Specialy loved the independance day and holloween events.
Then came the dreaded pumpkin event. It was very fun and entertaining beating on or watching other beat on those pumpkins. Then the market got flooded and everyone started complaining about how the pumpkins ruined the economy. Ya enchants were cheap for a long time after that. But look at the price of enchants now.
Since then every event has been a non event. What I mean by non event is the effort/reward was no where near balanced.
Xmas = Special trees barely did what they were advertised to do so were not worth grinding for the parts to make.
C4 intro event = Gk were great until the became gank tools. Then it went down hill. Not NCSOFT's fault players fault.
L2 Day event = Big nerf from last year, you could make money off the event but not really participate buy turning in words. If you did turn in a word you had a better chance for a ful item drop from a mob than to get special jewelry.
Battle tournament = Less than 1% from each server gets to participate. Ok I'll give them one for making an event for top players in the game. No other comments on this one.
Rights of Spring = Total nerf from last year. Just dont understand why they ruined this event.
Movie Contest = Im sure some people will participate. I dont have the artistic abilities to make it worth my while. Im sure there are others who will enjoy this event/contest. To me its another targeted event.
What I am seeing is that NCSOFT did listen to us about events. The problem is they went to far. After the pumpkin event the rewards for events were almost completly removed.
All I can say now is please bring back the reward vs effort to events. I dont really care if you repeat events from last year just dont nerf the life out of them.
Yes events are suppose to be fun. I dont think they should also make you uber rich either. But they should take you away from the norml routine.
I hope you use this thread to help in the decision making of upcoming events. Keep them coming NCSOFT we always want events.
By the way anyone who was on PTS during chaos week is spoiled now. Including myself. I look forward to new chronicles to test on PTS and for chaos week it is the most fun you can have in this game for 1 week.
First day, i searched for rabbits and couldn't find any...
Second day, i searched for rabbits and couldn't find any... Got frustrated, exited Lineage2, launched Eve online, and had lots of fun fitting a brand new thorax cruiser and playing with my new toy...
More events like this, and i will manage to find the time to try to get my hands on a faction cruiser!
Yes, but you can't say what it would "make" it for me since that's not what actually happened. People got 0 XP and 0 SP from rabbits. How is that even good ??
That might not be true. A clanmate killed a rabbit and insisted he got nothing from it except 2 SP scrolls. We asked to to check again, and he found that he got about 220k. He is a level 73 SPS, and had overhit the bunny. It is easy to miss the XP reward in all the like colored text.
Once we heard the reward, my party decided to stick with the grind.
Then came the dreaded pumpkin event. It was very fun and entertaining beating on or watching other beat on those pumpkins. Then the market got flooded and everyone started complaining about how the pumpkins ruined the economy. Ya enchants were cheap for a long time after that. But look at the price of enchants now.
DRIVEL!!
This is not true. Only people selling overpriced enchants complained. Those of us who use all the enchants we can get were very happy.
On Erica, A grade weapon enchants sell for 20+ mill. With such greedy pricing, I am never sorry to see more enchants on the market.
First day, i searched for rabbits and couldn't find any...
Second day, i searched for rabbits and couldn't find any... Got frustrated, exited Lineage2, launched Eve online, and had lots of fun fitting a brand new thorax cruiser and playing with my new toy...
More events like this, and i will manage to find the time to try to get my hands on a faction cruiser!
Then came the dreaded pumpkin event. It was very fun and entertaining beating on or watching other beat on those pumpkins. Then the market got flooded and everyone started complaining about how the pumpkins ruined the economy. Ya enchants were cheap for a long time after that. But look at the price of enchants now.
DRIVEL!!
This is not true. Only people selling overpriced enchants complained. Those of us who use all the enchants we can get were very happy.
On Erica, A grade weapon enchants sell for 20+ mill. With such greedy pricing, I am never sorry to see more enchants on the market.
I agree with you but many many many people complained about the enchants floodeing the market.
Then came the dreaded pumpkin event. It was very fun and entertaining beating on or watching other beat on those pumpkins. Then the market got flooded and everyone started complaining about how the pumpkins ruined the economy. Ya enchants were cheap for a long time after that. But look at the price of enchants now.
DRIVEL!!
This is not true. Only people selling overpriced enchants complained. Those of us who use all the enchants we can get were very happy.
On Erica, A grade weapon enchants sell for 20+ mill. With such greedy pricing, I am never sorry to see more enchants on the market.
I agree with you but many many many people complained about the enchants floodeing the market.
I can trump you on complaints with the GG post (arigato Arigato). People will always complain, it's a question of how much they complain...
I play a Overlord....really, really, really slow run speed. (Don't have WW yet...and even with WW2 from pots its still too slow.) It can take me 20 minutes just to GET to a single hunting spot from wherever I am. Now ask me to run around the map for a single chance to possibly, just MAYBE find a rabbit?
ITS JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
Now add that to the fact that I never saw a single rabbit in the FIRST rabbit even either and you have one big NON-EVENT. (And I do level in some out-of-the-way spots.)
As for the rewards....they were so not worth it. XP? SP? Hell I'm considering killing myself a few times (AND I'm on one of those 'level walls') JUST to make a the level I am at take longer because I need the cash I get from the manor where I am at!
So there you have it. Never found a rabbit....no DESIRE to find a rabbit. And a complete lack of rabbits in general do not an 'event' make. (I never even considered participating in the Battle tournament...and I am getting MORE out of it than the Rabbit event by just watching the matches in Replay.)
But hey, I'm more than willing to help you make this event better for the next time you decide to re-run it...
1) Bump up the Rabbit rewards a bit. Not a Huge %, but at least give out some consumables. A double handful of buff scrolls and/or potions at the least.
2) Have the rabbits spawn in regular areas...no need at all to 'hide' them. (A low spawn rate alone will be enough for that.)
3) Add some additional event items that comes from just killing mobs. How about easter eggs? Or easter baskets? Then just have a Bunny NPC in town and let people turn them in for items or give them a choice to 'gamble' (Bingo being a better choice than the coin toss of the medal event.) for better items. For even more fun, have both Eggs and Baskets. (Basket being a 'compressed' pack of eggs perhaps?) Only make it so that Eggs weigh a fair amount and baskets can't be stacked! (Just a special suggestion from me to our fine 'unattended' friends. ^_^ )
Make the 'drop rate' of the items fairly high and instead make the reward rate/amount lower to compensate. So normal people get plenty of chances to participate even if they don't get a huge amount of goodies.
For egg/basket rewards, make the 'turn in' rewards be consumables, materials or Graded/SA Crystals. And for the 'gamble' rewards make the prizes commesurable. So maybe a 'booby' prize of 10 Spirit/Soul Ore and the high end rewards be Enchants OR Recipes. (HINT, HINT A grade HELMET Recipes! Although some rare B Recipes would be welcome also...)
Oh, and yes please make one of the rewards just simple Adnea/Ancient Adena...maybe reduce the value compared to consumables but at least make it an option.
I think some people have nailed this event's weaknesses pretty well. Too few rabbits to search for and not enough reward for the time spent.
The previous poster mentioned something about hunting easter eggs and the like. I kinda like that. I remember all sorts of eggs when I was growing up. There were the normal ones, silver, and the ever-sought gold egg. Perhaps something like that could be implemented.
I'm not looking to wreck the economy or get a whole lot of something for little effort (e.g. Pumpkins) but a little break from the grind and something fun would be nice. I had a blast with the Elven Firecrackers. Stuff to have fun with and not necessarily all of the consumables, enchants, etc. would be fun.
I think I saw 2 rabbits during the entire event, and I usually play for an unhealthy amount of time every day. This wasn't the worst that an event could possibly be, but it was pretty close. Grade: D-
Many of the prior events were great. Not only could high level players benefit from them, but even players that were brand new could participate. Much of the enjoyment of Lineage comes from:
a) community
b) level
c) gear
Past events provided great adena and xp boosts for ALL players. Helping a new player to get started in the game is a great way to keep them interested.
As for the past 2 events:
Lineage II Anniversary - By far, the most common rewards were buff scrolls. Completely useless to 95% of the people that play Lineage II. What happened to the Ant Queen / Core epic jewel rewards? On Erica, I heard of only 2 Ant Queen ring prizes during the entire event. They both came on the last day I believe, and were received by the SAME player. Terrible.
Rites of Spring - While 180k is a nice boost for a level 20, practically anyone higher than that would be wasting their time if they actually ran around looking for the rabbits. For a soloing 70+ mage, 1 rabbit is approximately 20 mobs. Considering how rare they were, I hope you didn't actually expect anyone to look for them. As for the reward... 2 Medium SP Scrolls... enough said. Worse than terrible.
The new style of events is not impressive, even the Christmas event wasn't very good. Pumpkin event was OK, but the best ones by far were the "Mob Siege" events where raid mobs spawned outside of town with a lot of extra mobs around them. Drop rates were great, and even low level players could participate by killing the ones around lower level towns. Not only did these events provide better rewards, require more organization, and promote cooperation between many players at once, but they actually were INTERESTING. We're playing an RPG. While most of us don't really care if we role-play or not, it's still cool to do something in-game that is related to the game's lore. Monsters raiding a town is interesting. Looking for random rabbits the size of an elpy is not.
I tried to participate in this event however playing a few hours every day and NEVER finding a rabbit falls short of participating. I still think you should fire the Dev's that designed this one as they are incompetent and Mistryl needs to be better informed about things as they come up "more rabbits then last time my ***'
The event was a bit lackluster. To anyone above newbie levels, it's unlikely that hunting for rabbits was worth the time investment when compared to simply doing normal hunting.
I did "participate" by stumbling across a rabbit while doing my normal hunting. I would have done the same thing, minus using up an arrow to shoot the rabbit, had the event not been running. The experience reward, ~130k, was a solid % increase for the alt character I specifically brought over to kill it. I think that killing the bunnies on low-level characters/alts or pets (bunnies didn't fight back) was more beneficial than getting a percent or less on your main.
Thus, while I "participated", I didn't feel like I was in an event. I basically went around doing exactly what I would always do and, other then two minutes (tops), had exactly the same game experience as always.
I have no problems with this event, I just found it lackluster.
man I looked for those stupid bunnies everywere and couldnt find any maybe if there were more bunnies this event would be more fun *pout* i never got one bunny
I think this poll pretty much tells NCSOFT how we feel about events. Some things may be misleading though.
Length : just right 89%
For an event with minimul rewards and almost impossible to participate in 1 week we almost all agree on. But I would say that if there had been plenty of bunnies and more rewards we might have said to short. Like the medal and pumpkin events we wouldn't want them to only be 1 week long. Raid boss events 1 week was long enough because there were plenty mobs to participate and drop were abundant.
Participation : Participated 97%
This can very alot depending on your definition of participate. My definition of participate is actively looking for bunnies wether you found one or not, or killing a bunny period.
Would you participate in an event like this again : NO 94%
This one can be misleading also. Does this mean 94% of us would not participate in an event like this? No I don't think so. I think it means that we would be very happy to go out anf kill little white bunnies. We just want it to be worth the trouble looking for them.
So NCSOFT dont take this poll as everyone saying we dont want events. Take it as saying keep the events coming just make them worth doing. More event mobs/items/whatever and definatley better rewards.
Thank you to everyone who voted in this poll and shared your thoughts in this thread and the other threads here on the board. Your comments will help us in the planning of future events.