The Elpies From The Past GM Event (http://www.lineage2.com/archive/2010/06/elpies_from_the.html) was the first of its kind. As such, we have gathered feedback and statistics from the player participants to see how well the event worked. In the future, we will strive to make events like these as balanced, fair, and enjoyable as possible.
All of the data below is determined by counting players that received at least one Revita Pop. We are counting in terms of Revita Pops because every loot-filled Elpy contained Revita Pops, and therefore every loot-Elpy can be tracked.
THE FOLLOWING DATA IS FROM THE GAME LOGS DURING THIS EVENT:
Over 612,700 Elpies were killed during this entire event.
122,556 Revita Pops were collected during this entire event.
6,442 players (accounts) and 7,048 characters (could be same account) that participated in this event collected at least 1 Revita Pop.
The top three most successful player classes were Adventurer, Spectral Dancer and Storm Screamer. (Keep in mind that these could have been played as a subclass. Also, Adventurer is the most popular class in Lineage II in general.
Data Table: Participation by Day (http://www.lineage2.com/archive/global/uploads/Data_Day.jpg)
Please note that we only counted characters that received at least one Revita Pop during this event. The Total numbers in the Characters and Accounts columns are not over the 7 days because many players played on multiple days, and therefore a player would be counted multiple times. These Total numbers are literally the number of individual characters and accounts that got at least one Revita Pop during this event.
THE FOLLOWING ARE RESULTS FROM THE OPTIONAL PLAYER SURVEY:
We wrote a short survey, to which 449 players responded. Please keep in mind that because only 449 players responded, these results may be skewed from what they would be if every participant had taken the survey.
Thanks for the info. I love seeing statistics about stuff like this. I'd love to read more about, for example, server populations (how many of each class, what % of ppl being what lvls, etc).
very interesting.
yeah, i only got 22 vita pops, but i also missed 3 days.
the last day i was online, but i had no idea where to go, i missed the announcement by 30 seconds.
and read island, so i went to talking island... nobody there, i gave up, then i heard it lasted an extra 30 minutes...
as a dominator, i had no good aoe for the event...
arcana mace aoe nuke augment, Stone: aoe earth...
cast slowly, even with 15% robes and 15% arcana +5 wit.
and Seal of Blockade, aoe self centerd.
same cast time as Stone.
apparently OL was not the right class for this event.
and clearly shown in the data, not played by many.
apparently OL was not the right class for this event.
and clearly shown in the data, not played by many.
It was very easy to understand that dominator was not the right class for the event. On the other hand, you have a tyrant as a sub. Why didn't you use this? It made much more sense.
I played tk in all days but the last one where i played sagi and worked cool for me, got arround 50 =P and i have no AoE on my tk so is not all about aoe casting adn stuff
Can we have a "percentage of people who got at least one revita pop/killed at least one event elpy, but didn't say a single line in any chat for the duration of the event" statistic, please?
Can we have a "percentage of people who got at least one revita pop/killed at least one event elpy, but didn't say a single line in any chat for the duration of the event" statistic, please?
overal nice event with lot fun-drama-pk's-wins-looses.
i enjoy it very much even when you ruin the last day of event putting elpys on fantasy,which i still dont want to believe that players voted as the second succesfull place.
however emotions are mixed,but yes i think everyone enjoy that.
so under 7k ppl played in this event in all the servers ?? ><
in the merge forum is says each server should have 3k ppl on it around the clock. does this mean they going to merge all the servers into like just 2 servers ? did gm's find out what servers will be merged with?
It is interesting.
The data shows, that except the doomcryer most third prof classes managed to get between 16 and 23 pots per player. Of course you can say, that 23 is almost 50% more, than 16, but first - 7 pots difference is not like difference between say 100 and 150 :) and second - these are edges, also some classes have too low number of representants, which may skew the result. For most of players it was more like between 18-22.
So after all this event wasn't as unfair, as people made it look like.
Also, I noticed, that cardinal is the most popular support class, except spectral dancer and doomcryer (which both are often boxed), and one of the most popular classes in general.
I don't like it :(
If saggi's better performance can be explained by his longer range of shooting, and higher number of fully stacked saggis, than MSes or GSes, I have no idea how to explain lower performance of Shillien Saints, as all healers use inquisitor anyway.
I'm gonna guess the whole SD being in top three is just due to the fact that there are a ton of us lol. Cause besides the couple of times they spawned them in aggro areas where shadow helped (TOI/LOA), there wasn't any advantage to being on an SD.
PS- I got 36 total during event, which I thought was average at best.
Nice stats.
I got like 50+ in total because i was playing alternatively my mains (se and sh made to level the SE actually).
So one day i was with se one with sh, this way distributing the PKs equally also.
I only had one answer iirc in the poll, could only choose one class, but contrary to what ppl may think, se was more successful than SH, perhaps maybe that it had luck to have plenty of space in ev or sea of spores to be able to avoid PKs and have a chance to get to the elpies.
This was a very good event in my opinion, can be tweaked.
Regarding 7k only participating, i know many ppl that didnt, even tho they are not botting and also saw many bots participating. Why they need vita pops, that i didnt understand, perhaps they were after the other drops.
Nice stats, thanks for letting us know, it gives a good image of the game status right now.
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