great a carbon copy of the pig event with mice and horrid rewards, gee good game ncsoft way to reward the palyers you stil have left, as the mass exodus from this game continues...
Judging by your username, Furious, I wouldn't imagine there is anything NC could do to make you happy. Other than continue to take your money which you're willingly giving them.
Anyway, back on track - fantastic. An event! Wooo go-go Siren. Was Alyra behind you, egging you on, while you posted your first event? It's great to see another in-game event, unfortunately those who bad mouthed NC for NOT having an event will not bad mouth NC for not giving them the kinda event they want... some people are never happy.
Can't wait :cool:
My question though - will this event, in line with the current quest in game for the wonderous cubic, allow for the stacking of cubics? For instance, if I have 20 cubics and one from the one-time-quest, will the timer (24 hours) be per individual cubic or per character?
I really hope it is not the latter.
EDIT.... I've found the answer in another thread. This is unfortunate. :confused:
Just means all who got the cubes already, have gotten a head start on the whole deal. But at least it means you will have a chance at the better rewards without wasting a chance on a cube. So i'm still happy.
If this is really supposed to be an event, and ewa should go for 1,000,000 and an EWS for 4,000,000.
Give us an fing break for once, I already lose several million adena every time I hunt, there is nothing left to buy more shots with, never mind these scrolls.
If this is really supposed to be an event, and ewa should go for 1,000,000 and an EWS for 4,000,000.
Give us an fing break for once, I already lose several million adena every time I hunt, there is nothing left to buy more shots with, never mind these scrolls.
umm... the cost of the scrolls is market driven - and just sell the cubic parts - if the price is right people will buy them.
Siren, its sad that NCsoft cant come up with a better event then this crap. Its the same event as before but now we have to hunt for other creatures then pigs, and the rewards is something we already have in game.
I remember when the raid-like monsters attacket the towns in periodes and dropped lots of stuff instantly when they died. That was an event that was fun and that didnt benefit the farmer on "auto".
for all those [censored] remeber this, This is the FIRST ingame event weve had since the Rabbit event back in April? i think, be glad that they are acaully doing an event instead of just saying Screw you all weve got other things to do.
Acaully I give Kudos to NcSoft, we wanted an event and they gave us one, Yeah it may be a mirror event to the pig event but still its an Event. Quit [censored] about it.
As for the enchants, Ive acually made well over 200 mil from the cubics I have already, start off with the EWD and work your way up the EWS on Devianne sells for 55 mil thats a 40 mil profit. you get EAD, EWD, EAD, EAC cubic pieces more then you get the higher lvls ones so start out there, save like half of it for Shots ect, then put the other half into getting more enchants, or saving it up and eventually you can get that almighty EWS scroll and sell it, rinse and repeat. Since that cube came out Ive been able to get my Full Maj light set, the rest of my DC Robe set, All my Jewels Augmented, my BH, WS, EE, (secondary SE), ES, and DA all fitted with C grade (not Common Items) And ive been able to sustain shots, Potions, ect.
and I think you missed my point, we were asking for an event and they gave us one, So what if its a recreation of an old event, its still an event all the same. if you dont like it then dont participate. simple as that.
Siren, its sad that NCsoft cant come up with a better event then this crap. Its the same event as before but now we have to hunt for other creatures then pigs, and the rewards is something we already have in game.
I remember when the raid-like monsters attacket the towns in periodes and dropped lots of stuff instantly when they died. That was an event that was fun and that didnt benefit the farmer on "auto".
OMG I LOVED THAT EVENT Everyone from the L2 Community pitched in and helped take down the RB it was tottaly FUn!
They could have made a recreation of a far better event in that case.
"its still an event all the same"? No, its not -all-the-same-. Some events was actually really good and some are really bad. And yeah, I want to attend to events to.. if they are good.
Everybody whines and complains for 4 or 5 months that they want an event. We get an event and people are still whining and complaining. Unbelievable.
well, its not a nice event. its crap dude. we re waiting for 6.5 months and we ll
a. grind in towns
b. get crappy rewards
c. get lag in towns cause of mice
d. spam chat cause mice (like pigs) will definitely have something stupid to say
e. no need to say something more. the above are more than enough to not take part.
This is no event it is an adena sink.
the market is already flooded with Enchant armor and wepon scrolls LOL.
where are the pizes Siren? Redemption Circlets ? Cubics most already have and do daily?
Siren what other prizes are there?????
atleast the bunny event was new and fun and the pig event was also cool with stones.
i agree but if they wanted a true adena sink, they could at least give usefull consumable rewards that cost a lot.
eg
elemental stones
mastery codexes
L2day QHP with 5 weight (they did that once)
and many more that i dont remember to add right now.
(From Siren) In addition to the cubic, you can also receive things like buffs scrolls, BSOE's, BSOR's, enchant scrolls, Life Stones, Circlets, a Hunting Cap, etc...
If you guys happen to look in the other post about the event youde see that Siren already said what some of the other events are.
I assume that the majority who voted as a feedback for pigs event that it was great and they would like to see it again, as well as all those who regularily posted they would like to see the pigs event again in the numerous "We need events" threads, are not very loud in this thread.
So I will talk for them.
YAY PIGS/MICE EVENTS ARE GREAT! THANK YOU! :)
I always have my Salvation Bow with me to spread love around ^^
If this is really supposed to be an event, and ewa should go for 1,000,000 and an EWS for 4,000,000.
Give us an fing break for once, I already lose several million adena every time I hunt, there is nothing left to buy more shots with, never mind these scrolls.
You obviously haven't seen marketprices on scrolls on Teon for example, one EWS costs over 60million on the market, so even if you get a Fine White Cubic Piece (gotten it once on all the chars me and my gf have over level 40), it costs you 15mill to get it and then to sell it for 60mill or so, going +45mill.
Also even with just getting the d/c scrolls that you mostly get, you can still sell those and earn money.
It's nice with a "new" event, but the rewards really needs to be a bit better, since you can afterall buy both circlets in the Luxury Shop and can get the cubic very very easily.
When already having the crops or fish needed for the quest, it takes not even 5 minutes to do and get the cubic so...
I have nothing against the event as it is, even if it sounds very much like the Pig-event, just changed a bit.
But the rewards...
hey can someone write names of the mouses so far i saw Giant rats and Super giant rats event description about mouses are funny
You'll find four different types of cursed crew:
Cursed Raiders: These ordinary pirates were turned into mice that travel alone, but are able to stun you when you attack them. Fire a Pardon shot during the stun for the most effective results!
Cursed Deckhands: These pirates travel in packs and will call upon a Cursed Buccaneer if attacked.
Cursed Buccaneers: The biggest, burliest of all the pirates, the Cursed Buccaneer is best taken on in a group.
Cursed Lookouts: These reclusive pirates were the masterminds behind the pilfering operation, so they carry the most Mouse Coins.
Who gives a **** about this event. It sux. Oh yea, fun getting stunned by the flipping rats. The pink ones give you 2 coins.... Woop... and for what.. maybe a wondrous cubic that most have? lawl... And it's creating major LAG! GG NC.
It's more fun healing the rats that the bot farmers are after. :p
The bottom line here is that the event page could have been worded more appropriately. And for that I apologize. But the thing to remember now is that regular mobs only have a chance of dropping coins.
What's up with the crazy balance in this event?? Surely you must have done something wrong to it when you set it up?
The "rare" lookouts, that are supposed to have lots of coins, only drop 2 coins, and the big buccanneer rats, which take 10 times as long to kill, only give 2 or 3 times the reward of the normal ones. Why would people even try to kill them?
I haven't even found any buccaneers or anything.. just one lookout.. but eh, I didn't do the pig event, I don't think I was playing or didn't care at the time, don't really mind this one. I'm having fun with it so far.. I like the BSOEs I've gotten, and a level 30 character has a cube. Not too bad.
Nothing extraordinary, but for a small amount of time, it's not terrible either.
I did notice that nothing really drops from regular mobs.. which I thought was odd, but I suppose it makes sense now. Must be a very, very low chance.
I can't say if it's the worst ever but I have seen something not observed in previous events:
People don't seem to care much.
The human newbie town is filled with mice, yet even at prime time there are periods when nobody is hunting them. The same for dwarf town, there are a couple of bots but little else. Outside Aden the same, I had a dozen mice all for myself.
Perhaps the mess with the cubic/circlet rewards is partly responsible. Why spend an hour with boring mice to get buff scrolls, a useless cubic or a cosmetic circlet I can buy from the npc anyway?
I did that with Shiny Fish gems ages ago. Someone was selling them at a reasonably cheap price so I bought all of them... for a few mil. Some time later (about a month ago) I saw someone buying for a much higher price than I had originally paid. Roll on 8m profit!
Difference is with fish gems you can keep them for a few months till somebody gets a sudden urge to craft a feathered hat. With the event coins you know they will default to value = 0 on Oct 7th
I would do that but I want to discourage people from playing lol, not encourage.
I'll even give you a screenie of my cancelled accounts if you give me your gear :p
Nah, I don't really mean it, but it's fun to do so since it's the trend now :) I still think you should donate your gear to someone that still wants to play and will make better use of it. Seems such a waste of time and effort to just delete everything.
I bet some newb out there would really be happy to get gear to help him / her level.
The chance seems to be the same chance we used to have before CT2 of getting a full drop from mobs...
Why even make it have a "chance" to drop from mobs is beyond me...
+1 on this one.
I have been grinding whenever I have free time since the event started; And I have yet to get a single coin.
What is the logic of making a slim chance for a drop for an item worth so little? Even the past-full drops are explainable by their potential worth. But you could never collect coins by hunting based on this system, and it was that thought that got people interested and happy in that news, not the chance to get "1 or 2" extra coins in the ensuing days of the events.
I'm sorry but even the revised text seems to me to be a play on words to garner some extra popularity (in fact that one addition may have won the event my full support).
I want a new event structure. Or at least more modified structures to the repeating events.
1. Hunting Cap = Pig wranglers cap.
2. Silver/Gold circlets....omg just buy them in luxory shop.
3. Wondrous Cubic....lol we already have that quest.
WTF? o.O
I LOVE U NCsoft!!!!! MORE, MORE NEW FANTASTIC EVENTS PLZ!
Honestly....it's not a surprise for me but still. If u keep doing things in such a way....i see a foggy future of this game! QQ
The bottom line here is that the event page could have been worded more appropriately. And for that I apologize. But the thing to remember now is that regular mobs only have a chance of dropping coins.
I am guessing about a 1/10000000000000000000 chance >< They need to check on it, I have killed many and no coins drop, same for my whole alliance :( Has anyone here gotten a coin from a normal mob? (screenshots plz)
Is the hat transferable? Don't want to turn in coins and get it on a storage dwarf lol :p
Also Siren or Alyra could you put in a suggestion that all event items that are non-tradable and even special items like the Pig Transformation that I got with the purchase of the 4th Anniversary box, be made so you can freight them to any toon on that one account? Wouldn't hurt anything and would fix some of the problems getting stuff on the wrong toon :)
Anyway I am having fun with this event even though I liked others better (want elemental stone rewards like the bunny event lol) and the one that spawned mobs that dropped oodles of basic mats and keys.
PS: There is no reason an event has to be created from scratch each time, I dont think you would a lot of complaints from us customers if you re-run the ones that everyone loved based on your polls :eek:
ps: and another suggestion... if its a buff scroll or something that stacks, plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz don't make new stacks just with a different name... takes up way to much space :confused:
I don't know if this event has brand new buff scrolls, brez, bsoe, etc. that don't stack with the others yet as I haven't turned in but one set of 20 coins so far, saving them for later when I find out if any of the prizes are not transferable ><
1. Hunting Cap = Pig wranglers cap.
2. Silver/Gold circlets....omg just buy them in luxory shop.
3. Wondrous Cubic....lol we already have that quest.
WTF? o.O
I LOVE U NCsoft!!!!! MORE, MORE NEW FANTASTIC EVENTS PLZ!
Honestly....it's not a surprise for me but still. If u keep doing things in such a way....i see a foggy future of this game! QQ
PS: There is no reason an event has to be created from scratch each time, I dont think you would a lot of complaints from us customers if you re-run the ones that everyone loved based on your polls :eek:
The Pig event was an event voted highly by the Customers. ;)
special items like the Pig Transformation that I got with the purchase of the 4th Anniversary box, be made so you can freight them to any toon on that one account?
Um......you can already do that. Have you even tried it before asking that question? :p
Problem is, Siren or anyone from NCSoft in the US cannot change how the events are, I don't think. They're bound to the events that were made by NCSoft Korea... I hardly think that this new improved (hah?) pig event was because people chose and loved it, but because Koreans got it before we did. Simple as that.
Now I have to say that I liked the Pig Event compared to this one. And that's saying a lot, since I really HATED the Pig Event. Shows how much I am enjoying this one lol
True but from what he said I was just telling him that besides how we end up with the event when she did a poll of the Pig event more people liked it then hated it.
for me the most funny thing was that i didnt update when event started so there was no Npc Bonny but there was Event manager for mouse hunt event and mouses were named like giant mouse super giant mouse LOL
thx goodness i updated it :P
Problem is, Siren or anyone from NCSoft in the US cannot change how the events are, I don't think. They're bound to the events that were made by NCSoft Korea... I hardly think that this new improved (hah?) pig event was because people chose and loved it, but because Koreans got it before we did. Simple as that.
Now I have to say that I liked the Pig Event compared to this one. And that's saying a lot, since I really HATED the Pig Event. Shows how much I am enjoying this one lol
Eh are you so sure? Some of the past events seemed to be western specific. I honestly don't know what events are going on over there, but it stands to reason that they have more pull on events than they have on normal game mechanics.
This Event apparently was held in Korea before CT2 (I think during Hellbound?). So that's why it gives cubics, while now we have the quest available and all...
The pig event itself was a Valentine's day event in Korea (hence the hearts and all), we got it in like october? I don't remember exactly, but it was definitely not valentine's day. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the Mouse Hunt for Valentine's day too.
I am yet to see an event that has any of our suggestions (we meaning the Lineage 2 NA player community). I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
What's up with the crazy balance in this event?? Surely you must have done something wrong to it when you set it up?
The "rare" lookouts, that are supposed to have lots of coins, only drop 2 coins, and the big buccanneer rats, which take 10 times as long to kill, only give 2 or 3 times the reward of the normal ones. Why would people even try to kill them?
This Event apparently was held in Korea before CT2 (I think during Hellbound?). So that's why it gives cubics, while now we have the quest available and all...
The pig event itself was a Valentine's day event in Korea (hence the hearts and all), we got it in like october? I don't remember exactly, but it was definitely not valentine's day. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the Mouse Hunt for Valentine's day too.
I am yet to see an event that has any of our suggestions (we meaning the Lineage 2 NA player community). I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
That is very true... because in the begining, NCNA forgot to "grind a set" and split from NCK - so what that means is that without NCK approval, they can do nothing.
Also Siren or Alyra could you put in a suggestion that all event items that are non-tradable and even special items like the Pig Transformation that I got with the purchase of the 4th Anniversary box, be made so you can freight them to any toon on that one account? Wouldn't hurt anything and would fix some of the problems getting stuff on the wrong toon :)
you can freight the pig lolypop to any toon on your account
Also Siren or Alyra could you put in a suggestion that all event items that are non-tradable and even special items like the Pig Transformation that I got with the purchase of the 4th Anniversary box, be made so you can freight them to any toon on that one account? Wouldn't hurt anything and would fix some of the problems getting stuff on the wrong toon :)
you can freight the pig lolypop to any toon on your account
I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
I do not understand why this particular line is parroted among the player base, and has been done so for years.
All of the items, npcs, monsters, system messages and spawn locations from korean events are coded into the lineage 2 client. They are already properly translated and ready to go. If you did not update your l2 client on tuesday, the event npcs showed up as giant rats. Why? Because that's what the koreans had.
Why are they called cursed raiders? Because ncsoft made some simple changes to a client side file and had us patch it. Ncsoft has access to literally hundreds of event items and monsters. They always have. We could theoretically have every single event the koreans have had up to their gracia part 2 update.
There is no excuse for ncsoft to be repeating a copy of a year old event with 2 year old rewards, rewards that were completely devalued with the introduction of ct2 part 1.
Considering we have only been having events every 2-6 months, I think the rewards should be worth wild. At the very least, each event we have should introduce at least one of the 50 unused hats that were patched into the client back in ct1.
I would love to know who exactly is on our "event team". I would also like to know when the last time they actually played the game because they are clearly out of touch.
While I understand a lot of you are very happy with 7 wonderous cubics per account, I personally don't care for them. Out of the 3 characters I took the time to do the quest for and use every day since ct2, i have never gotten anything worth wild from it. The ability to generate tokens for d and c grade enchants scrolls which cost me more to buy from the npc then from some farmer bot does not appeal to my s grade character.
Speaking of useless event items: why did you revert back to another uniquely named l2day buff scroll? I thought we were beyond that when you finally gave us the juices and cocktails?
As for the fiasco on event webpage: When you post that monsters drop event items, and then change it to read "has a chance to drop", that is rather obtuse. Aside from the fact that they mean exactly the same thing in mmorpger speak, not once in my many hours of hunting high level monsters did I get a single mouse coin. Considering I got multiple common items, armor and weapons mind you, as well as elemental stones, I think the drop rate was either not there (ie you messed up and lied to us twice) or it was so low that not even a 24/7 bot train could get one. Either way... words fail me.
I've been a big fan of this game for a very long time. My character is end game, my gear is top notch, but this event was the last straw. I could deal with you banning a good portion of the high level people on my server. I lost a lot of friends but it wasn't the end of the world. I try to stay positive about these kinds of things Things started looking grim when people began to transfer out to other servers or move to WAR but then someone told me we were gonna have an event.
I perked right up. Surely that would keep some people interested. Then I read the event, and harsh reality hit me like a ton of bricks. Even in this game's darkest hour, you fail us. And it really is for some servers. You've had literally 6 months to come up with a spectacular event and the best you could do is a cosplay contest with prizes which are composed of leftovers from the PAX convention and a rehash of an event from last year which was already 6 months old from when korea had it.
Don't even get me started on gracia part 2. It's a nonupdate like ct2 part 1 is. Wait, I take that back. It's a slap in the face. Introducing a cash shop to a pay to play game that's unpopular as l2 is in na/europe isn't going to be accepted like it is in korea. Oh who am I kidding, will you guys even bother to turn that part of the update on and give us the option? Hell, when it came to fixing the net cafe only instance issue what didyou do? You changed the npc text to make him sound like a ****** instead of just flagging all our accounts as net cafe and giving us access. I imagine ct2 part 2 pts will be 1 week long, with .25% rates while we test the only meaningful non cash shop part of the update -the part were we make sure vitality doesn't drain from a character below level 9.
Oh sure, the update will also add new hats and a bunch of other korean/twaiwan/SEA/Japan/China event items, but we will just be getting event teleports and christmas trees.
I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
I do not understand why this particular line is parroted among the player base, and has been done so for years.
All of the items, npcs, monsters, system messages and spawn locations from korean events are coded into the lineage 2 client. They are already properly translated and ready to go. If you did not update your l2 client on tuesday, the event npcs showed up as giant rats. Why? Because that's what the koreans had.
Why are they called cursed raiders? Because ncsoft made some simple changes to a client side file and had us patch it. Ncsoft has access to literally hundreds of event items and monsters. They always have. We could theoretically have every single event the koreans have had up to their gracia part 2 update.
There is no excuse for ncsoft to be repeating a copy of a year old event with 2 year old rewards, rewards that were completely devalued with the introduction of ct2 part 1.
Considering we have only been having events every 2-6 months, I think the rewards should be worth wild. At the very least, each event we have should introduce at least one of the 50 unused hats that were patched into the client back in ct1.
I would love to know who exactly is on our "event team". I would also like to know when the last time they actually played the game because they are clearly out of touch.
While I understand a lot of you are very happy with 7 wonderous cubics per account, I personally don't care for them. Out of the 3 characters I took the time to do the quest for and use every day since ct2, i have never gotten anything worth wild from it. The ability to generate tokens for d and c grade enchants scrolls which cost me more to buy from the npc then from some farmer bot does not appeal to my s grade character.
Speaking of useless event items: why did you revert back to another uniquely named l2day buff scroll? I thought we were beyond that when you finally gave us the juices and cocktails?
As for the fiasco on event webpage: When you post that monsters drop event items, and then change it to read "has a chance to drop", that is rather obtuse. Aside from the fact that they mean exactly the same thing in mmorpger speak, not once in my many hours of hunting high level monsters did I get a single mouse coin. Considering I got multiple common items, armor and weapons mind you, as well as elemental stones, I think the drop rate was either not there (ie you messed up and lied to us twice) or it was so low that not even a 24/7 bot train could get one. Either way... words fail me.
I've been a big fan of this game for a very long time. My character is end game, my gear is top notch, but this event was the last straw. I could deal with you banning a good portion of the high level people on my server. I lost a lot of friends but it wasn't the end of the world. I try to stay positive about these kinds of things Things started looking grim when people began to transfer out to other servers or move to WAR but then someone told me we were gonna have an event.
I perked right up. Surely that would keep some people interested. Then I read the event, and harsh reality hit me like a ton of bricks. Even in this game's darkest hour, you fail us. And it really is for some servers. You've had literally 6 months to come up with a spectacular event and the best you could do is a cosplay contest with prizes which are composed of leftovers from the PAX convention and a rehash of an event from last year which was already 6 months old from when korea had it.
Don't even get me started on gracia part 2. It's a nonupdate like ct2 part 1 is. Wait, I take that back. It's a slap in the face. Introducing a cash shop to a pay to play game that's unpopular as l2 is in na/europe isn't going to be accepted like it is in korea. Oh who am I kidding, will you guys even bother to turn that part of the update on and give us the option? Hell, when it came to fixing the net cafe only instance issue what didyou do? You changed the npc text to make him sound like a ****** instead of just flagging all our accounts as net cafe and giving us access. I imagine ct2 part 2 pts will be 1 week long, with .25% rates while we test the only meaningful non cash shop part of the update -the part were we make sure vitality doesn't drain from a character below level 9.
Oh sure, the update will also add new hats and a bunch of other korean/twaiwan/SEA/Japan/China event items, but we will just be getting event teleports and christmas trees.
I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
I do not understand why this particular line is parroted among the player base, and has been done so for years.
All of the items, npcs, monsters, system messages and spawn locations from korean events are coded into the lineage 2 client. They are already properly translated and ready to go. If you did not update your l2 client on tuesday, the event npcs showed up as giant rats. Why? Because that's what the koreans had.
Why are they called cursed raiders? Because ncsoft made some simple changes to a client side file and had us patch it. Ncsoft has access to literally hundreds of event items and monsters. They always have. We could theoretically have every single event the koreans have had up to their gracia part 2 update.
There is no excuse for ncsoft to be repeating a copy of a year old event with 2 year old rewards, rewards that were completely devalued with the introduction of ct2 part 1.
Considering we have only been having events every 2-6 months, I think the rewards should be worth wild. At the very least, each event we have should introduce at least one of the 50 unused hats that were patched into the client back in ct1.
I would love to know who exactly is on our "event team". I would also like to know when the last time they actually played the game because they are clearly out of touch.
While I understand a lot of you are very happy with 7 wonderous cubics per account, I personally don't care for them. Out of the 3 characters I took the time to do the quest for and use every day since ct2, i have never gotten anything worth wild from it. The ability to generate tokens for d and c grade enchants scrolls which cost me more to buy from the npc then from some farmer bot does not appeal to my s grade character.
Speaking of useless event items: why did you revert back to another uniquely named l2day buff scroll? I thought we were beyond that when you finally gave us the juices and cocktails?
As for the fiasco on event webpage: When you post that monsters drop event items, and then change it to read "has a chance to drop", that is rather obtuse. Aside from the fact that they mean exactly the same thing in mmorpger speak, not once in my many hours of hunting high level monsters did I get a single mouse coin. Considering I got multiple common items, armor and weapons mind you, as well as elemental stones, I think the drop rate was either not there (ie you messed up and lied to us twice) or it was so low that not even a 24/7 bot train could get one. Either way... words fail me.
I've been a big fan of this game for a very long time. My character is end game, my gear is top notch, but this event was the last straw. I could deal with you banning a good portion of the high level people on my server. I lost a lot of friends but it wasn't the end of the world. I try to stay positive about these kinds of things Things started looking grim when people began to transfer out to other servers or move to WAR but then someone told me we were gonna have an event.
I perked right up. Surely that would keep some people interested. Then I read the event, and harsh reality hit me like a ton of bricks. Even in this game's darkest hour, you fail us. And it really is for some servers. You've had literally 6 months to come up with a spectacular event and the best you could do is a cosplay contest with prizes which are composed of leftovers from the PAX convention and a rehash of an event from last year which was already 6 months old from when korea had it.
Don't even get me started on gracia part 2. It's a nonupdate like ct2 part 1 is. Wait, I take that back. It's a slap in the face. Introducing a cash shop to a pay to play game that's unpopular as l2 is in na/europe isn't going to be accepted like it is in korea. Oh who am I kidding, will you guys even bother to turn that part of the update on and give us the option? Hell, when it came to fixing the net cafe only instance issue what didyou do? You changed the npc text to make him sound like a ****** instead of just flagging all our accounts as net cafe and giving us access. I imagine ct2 part 2 pts will be 1 week long, with .25% rates while we test the only meaningful non cash shop part of the update -the part were we make sure vitality doesn't drain from a character below level 9.
Oh sure, the update will also add new hats and a bunch of other korean/twaiwan/SEA/Japan/China event items, but we will just be getting event teleports and christmas trees.
There is no excuse for ncsoft to be repeating a copy of a year old event with 2 year old rewards, rewards that were completely devalued with the introduction of ct2 part 1.
I think this pretty much sums it up for the topic of this thread.
I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
I do not understand why this particular line is parroted among the player base, and has been done so for years.
All of the items, npcs, monsters, system messages and spawn locations from korean events are coded into the lineage 2 client. They are already properly translated and ready to go. If you did not update your l2 client on tuesday, the event npcs showed up as giant rats. Why? Because that's what the koreans had.
Why are they called cursed raiders? Because ncsoft made some simple changes to a client side file and had us patch it. Ncsoft has access to literally hundreds of event items and monsters. They always have. We could theoretically have every single event the koreans have had up to their gracia part 2 update.
There is no excuse for ncsoft to be repeating a copy of a year old event with 2 year old rewards, rewards that were completely devalued with the introduction of ct2 part 1.
Considering we have only been having events every 2-6 months, I think the rewards should be worth wild. At the very least, each event we have should introduce at least one of the 50 unused hats that were patched into the client back in ct1.
I would love to know who exactly is on our "event team". I would also like to know when the last time they actually played the game because they are clearly out of touch.
While I understand a lot of you are very happy with 7 wonderous cubics per account, I personally don't care for them. Out of the 3 characters I took the time to do the quest for and use every day since ct2, i have never gotten anything worth wild from it. The ability to generate tokens for d and c grade enchants scrolls which cost me more to buy from the npc then from some farmer bot does not appeal to my s grade character.
Speaking of useless event items: why did you revert back to another uniquely named l2day buff scroll? I thought we were beyond that when you finally gave us the juices and cocktails?
As for the fiasco on event webpage: When you post that monsters drop event items, and then change it to read "has a chance to drop", that is rather obtuse. Aside from the fact that they mean exactly the same thing in mmorpger speak, not once in my many hours of hunting high level monsters did I get a single mouse coin. Considering I got multiple common items, armor and weapons mind you, as well as elemental stones, I think the drop rate was either not there (ie you messed up and lied to us twice) or it was so low that not even a 24/7 bot train could get one. Either way... words fail me.
I've been a big fan of this game for a very long time. My character is end game, my gear is top notch, but this event was the last straw. I could deal with you banning a good portion of the high level people on my server. I lost a lot of friends but it wasn't the end of the world. I try to stay positive about these kinds of things Things started looking grim when people began to transfer out to other servers or move to WAR but then someone told me we were gonna have an event.
I perked right up. Surely that would keep some people interested. Then I read the event, and harsh reality hit me like a ton of bricks. Even in this game's darkest hour, you fail us. And it really is for some servers. You've had literally 6 months to come up with a spectacular event and the best you could do is a cosplay contest with prizes which are composed of leftovers from the PAX convention and a rehash of an event from last year which was already 6 months old from when korea had it.
Don't even get me started on gracia part 2. It's a nonupdate like ct2 part 1 is. Wait, I take that back. It's a slap in the face. Introducing a cash shop to a pay to play game that's unpopular as l2 is in na/europe isn't going to be accepted like it is in korea. Oh who am I kidding, will you guys even bother to turn that part of the update on and give us the option? Hell, when it came to fixing the net cafe only instance issue what didyou do? You changed the npc text to make him sound like a ****** instead of just flagging all our accounts as net cafe and giving us access. I imagine ct2 part 2 pts will be 1 week long, with .25% rates while we test the only meaningful non cash shop part of the update -the part were we make sure vitality doesn't drain from a character below level 9.
Oh sure, the update will also add new hats and a bunch of other korean/twaiwan/SEA/Japan/China event items, but we will just be getting event teleports and christmas trees.
Nice & True 2 Bones post.
KR/JP/CH have, more events in month than we in year
I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
I do not understand why this particular line is parroted among the player base, and has been done so for years.
All of the items, npcs, monsters, system messages and spawn locations from korean events are coded into the lineage 2 client. They are already properly translated and ready to go. If you did not update your l2 client on tuesday, the event npcs showed up as giant rats. Why? Because that's what the koreans had.
Why are they called cursed raiders? Because ncsoft made some simple changes to a client side file and had us patch it. Ncsoft has access to literally hundreds of event items and monsters. They always have. We could theoretically have every single event the koreans have had up to their gracia part 2 update.
There is no excuse for ncsoft to be repeating a copy of a year old event with 2 year old rewards, rewards that were completely devalued with the introduction of ct2 part 1.
Considering we have only been having events every 2-6 months, I think the rewards should be worth wild. At the very least, each event we have should introduce at least one of the 50 unused hats that were patched into the client back in ct1.
I would love to know who exactly is on our "event team". I would also like to know when the last time they actually played the game because they are clearly out of touch.
While I understand a lot of you are very happy with 7 wonderous cubics per account, I personally don't care for them. Out of the 3 characters I took the time to do the quest for and use every day since ct2, i have never gotten anything worth wild from it. The ability to generate tokens for d and c grade enchants scrolls which cost me more to buy from the npc then from some farmer bot does not appeal to my s grade character.
Speaking of useless event items: why did you revert back to another uniquely named l2day buff scroll? I thought we were beyond that when you finally gave us the juices and cocktails?
As for the fiasco on event webpage: When you post that monsters drop event items, and then change it to read "has a chance to drop", that is rather obtuse. Aside from the fact that they mean exactly the same thing in mmorpger speak, not once in my many hours of hunting high level monsters did I get a single mouse coin. Considering I got multiple common items, armor and weapons mind you, as well as elemental stones, I think the drop rate was either not there (ie you messed up and lied to us twice) or it was so low that not even a 24/7 bot train could get one. Either way... words fail me.
I've been a big fan of this game for a very long time. My character is end game, my gear is top notch, but this event was the last straw. I could deal with you banning a good portion of the high level people on my server. I lost a lot of friends but it wasn't the end of the world. I try to stay positive about these kinds of things Things started looking grim when people began to transfer out to other servers or move to WAR but then someone told me we were gonna have an event.
I perked right up. Surely that would keep some people interested. Then I read the event, and harsh reality hit me like a ton of bricks. Even in this game's darkest hour, you fail us. And it really is for some servers. You've had literally 6 months to come up with a spectacular event and the best you could do is a cosplay contest with prizes which are composed of leftovers from the PAX convention and a rehash of an event from last year which was already 6 months old from when korea had it.
Don't even get me started on gracia part 2. It's a nonupdate like ct2 part 1 is. Wait, I take that back. It's a slap in the face. Introducing a cash shop to a pay to play game that's unpopular as l2 is in na/europe isn't going to be accepted like it is in korea. Oh who am I kidding, will you guys even bother to turn that part of the update on and give us the option? Hell, when it came to fixing the net cafe only instance issue what didyou do? You changed the npc text to make him sound like a ****** instead of just flagging all our accounts as net cafe and giving us access. I imagine ct2 part 2 pts will be 1 week long, with .25% rates while we test the only meaningful non cash shop part of the update -the part were we make sure vitality doesn't drain from a character below level 9.
Oh sure, the update will also add new hats and a bunch of other korean/twaiwan/SEA/Japan/China event items, but we will just be getting event teleports and christmas trees.
:eek: for an Elpy that Has to be the Greatest most Epic Post ever.......in fact I'm going 2 read it again.
Events recently have all been "same old, same old", and while Korea gets new stuff, on the NA servers these things are just disabled/ignored. Sometimes you get the feeling as if the "NA event team" is just one single guy who enables a 2 year old event and then spends 5 minutes changing a few text files for NPC names to cover up that it is all just reused old crap. Sadly, I think it is not just a feeling, but the truth. This newest event was really bad, the old pig event reused, but no "unique" rewards except for the useless bows - just things you can get from the store anyway, or buff scrolls which every other event handed out, too (and which are far less useful now with newbie buffs up to 62).
I don't think they have the power to change anything without the approval from Korea, really.
I do not understand why this particular line is parroted among the player base, and has been done so for years.
All of the items, npcs, monsters, system messages and spawn locations from korean events are coded into the lineage 2 client. They are already properly translated and ready to go. If you did not update your l2 client on tuesday, the event npcs showed up as giant rats. Why? Because that's what the koreans had.
Why are they called cursed raiders? Because ncsoft made some simple changes to a client side file and had us patch it. Ncsoft has access to literally hundreds of event items and monsters. They always have. We could theoretically have every single event the koreans have had up to their gracia part 2 update.
There is no excuse for ncsoft to be repeating a copy of a year old event with 2 year old rewards, rewards that were completely devalued with the introduction of ct2 part 1.
Considering we have only been having events every 2-6 months, I think the rewards should be worth wild. At the very least, each event we have should introduce at least one of the 50 unused hats that were patched into the client back in ct1.
I would love to know who exactly is on our "event team". I would also like to know when the last time they actually played the game because they are clearly out of touch.
While I understand a lot of you are very happy with 7 wonderous cubics per account, I personally don't care for them. Out of the 3 characters I took the time to do the quest for and use every day since ct2, i have never gotten anything worth wild from it. The ability to generate tokens for d and c grade enchants scrolls which cost me more to buy from the npc then from some farmer bot does not appeal to my s grade character.
Speaking of useless event items: why did you revert back to another uniquely named l2day buff scroll? I thought we were beyond that when you finally gave us the juices and cocktails?
As for the fiasco on event webpage: When you post that monsters drop event items, and then change it to read "has a chance to drop", that is rather obtuse. Aside from the fact that they mean exactly the same thing in mmorpger speak, not once in my many hours of hunting high level monsters did I get a single mouse coin. Considering I got multiple common items, armor and weapons mind you, as well as elemental stones, I think the drop rate was either not there (ie you messed up and lied to us twice) or it was so low that not even a 24/7 bot train could get one. Either way... words fail me.
I've been a big fan of this game for a very long time. My character is end game, my gear is top notch, but this event was the last straw. I could deal with you banning a good portion of the high level people on my server. I lost a lot of friends but it wasn't the end of the world. I try to stay positive about these kinds of things Things started looking grim when people began to transfer out to other servers or move to WAR but then someone told me we were gonna have an event.
I perked right up. Surely that would keep some people interested. Then I read the event, and harsh reality hit me like a ton of bricks. Even in this game's darkest hour, you fail us. And it really is for some servers. You've had literally 6 months to come up with a spectacular event and the best you could do is a cosplay contest with prizes which are composed of leftovers from the PAX convention and a rehash of an event from last year which was already 6 months old from when korea had it.
Don't even get me started on gracia part 2. It's a nonupdate like ct2 part 1 is. Wait, I take that back. It's a slap in the face. Introducing a cash shop to a pay to play game that's unpopular as l2 is in na/europe isn't going to be accepted like it is in korea. Oh who am I kidding, will you guys even bother to turn that part of the update on and give us the option? Hell, when it came to fixing the net cafe only instance issue what didyou do? You changed the npc text to make him sound like a ****** instead of just flagging all our accounts as net cafe and giving us access. I imagine ct2 part 2 pts will be 1 week long, with .25% rates while we test the only meaningful non cash shop part of the update -the part were we make sure vitality doesn't drain from a character below level 9.
Oh sure, the update will also add new hats and a bunch of other korean/twaiwan/SEA/Japan/China event items, but we will just be getting event teleports and christmas trees.
Not gonna touch the "you banned my friends" but this is a very well written post, and I agree about it 100%.
true.
Waste of Level time
No coins while hunting
give out Not worthwhile
wonderous cubic, spews constant crap
Buffs - I Can ask someone for buffs, and most people
box a PP or something ANYWAY (i don't)
result - Boring crap that i probably should have just ignored, and will probably increase inflation on Enchant scrolls on the server, making things more difficult for me in the long run.
positive side, i got a brez and 2 bsoe. ..yay...
Here's an Idea, spawn a weak(attack / p.def)valakas / antharas or some sort of epic boss monster twice a day that we can all battle and have fun fighting and get alot of experience? even if we don't get the same drops from the regular bosses (because it would likely make the economy implode) it will give us an opportunity to gain alot of experience and level up?Oh and No death penalties (exp etc) from them either! Im not some genius with event planning but this event was a big load of fail, isnt it a bit LATE to be celebrating the year of the rat anyway?
The pig event was voted as good satisfaction from players, hence the recycling of it for this event. A one week break from what is "normal" in L2 is exactly what an event should be... Who cares if Korea had it first? :S Makes no difference if we get an event first or Korea does.
People here moan when we get an event, and moan when we don't - I would not blame the NA team if they could not be bothered to do anymore events, at least the moaning from no events takes them no time.
Finally, do people really think a one week one-off event will ever bring people back to game? Of course not, people left for many reasons, throwing a short event in retains players, not returns!
The point is not that the event was a sucess last time.
I for one think that the implemented this event better then the pig one. less coins for reward, about 1h aday etc.
The point is that after 6 months with no event the only thing they could muster up was a event that has allready been done and with less rewarding event loot this time around.
PS: There is no reason an event has to be created from scratch each time, I dont think you would a lot of complaints from us customers if you re-run the ones that everyone loved based on your polls :eek:
The Pig event was an event voted highly by the Customers. ;)
That's why we should have it every 6 months and it should be the only event we ever get.
Same with many others, I havent really been bothered to whine here lately and this event is the last straw for me. I'm closing all my nearly 5 year old accounts today.
People like me are diff than Ashley. We do not deserve a great game like lineage 2 that's
1. full of bots
2. one recycled event per 6 month
3. no event till next year (thats 3 month at least)
The pig event was voted as good satisfaction from players, hence the recycling of it for this event. A one week break from what is "normal" in L2 is exactly what an event should be... Who cares if Korea had it first? :S Makes no difference if we get an event first or Korea does.
Luthiene you're so right. Who cares if the koreans and japanese and taiwanese and even the chinese get brand new events every other month, as long as we can have pig/mouse event every 6 month till the end of time!
PS: There is no reason an event has to be created from scratch each time, I dont think you would a lot of complaints from us customers if you re-run the ones that everyone loved based on your polls :eek:
The Pig event was an event voted highly by the Customers. ;)
That's why we should have it every 6 months and it should be the only event we ever get.
Same with many others, I havent really been bothered to whine here lately and this event is the last straw for me. I'm closing all my nearly 5 year old accounts today.
People like me are diff than Ashley. We do not deserve a great game like lineage 2 that's
1. full of bots
2. one recycled event per 6 month
3. no event till next year (thats 3 month at least)
GL all.
So the way your different from me is that you keep playing then because I quit the game a long time ago. I'm Just waiting for my account to expire :p
Not to derail the thread, but there is so much more to be done with mmos and events that it's really a shame that you're not more interested in it. I used to attract players every week to the game when it had just released because we had events very frequently and some of them were awesome. I especially remember the event where random bunnies appeared around the world and when you killed them, you got a truckload of xp. I got 1.5 levels for one swing at level 31 (back when there was no vit, blessed shots or top grade gear).
Anyways, this event was terrible. I don't understand how someone is paid to come up with crap like this. Forgive me for sounding harsh, I love the game. But let's be honest.... mice? Bows of salvation? What's the rating on this title again?
Please try to develop something beyond the scope of a 5 year old's imagination. I don't need anything fancy; double xp weekends, full buff weekend, no death penalty pvp weekend etc etc.
If you're looking for ideas, just send me a pm. Off the top of my head, I can see a great event where your hunting area will randomly despawn and a mirror image of your character will approach you and challenge you to a duel. Reward? +1 OE the weapon used to fight.
If NC wanted a true measure of the success of each and every event they would hard code the poll into the Log in screen. That way every account would have to answer before being able to log in.
As helpful as the forums are we all know that only a minor % of the actual player base even bothers to log on here and speak their piece of mind on any given subject.
We see a lot more of the complaints because lets face it; it's not worth most peoples' time to log in and say thank you. Aside from the regulars and the trolls, only when your players are fed up and angry with the current situation, when they see that the money they are spending for enjoyment is turning to dust, do they take the time to log in here and rant away.