So, im going off an idea i had, as i read this message from Zack below in spoiler. It was something he said in Hiro's thread about interguild events. Its just a general idea, however i think it is a way events can be held in order to award exp and such, and not add much of a work load on top of the mod's already increasing work.
- Undead Queen:
"The issue with events for the most part is activity.
The BP, ES one died off as far as I recall.
The one before that was Edolas and guess what...it died off.
The one before that was the grand magic games and again it died off.
The one before that was the Acnologia/Warden attack on Era. This one actually worked. However, it took forever and the 'timeskip' was how exp and the like was judged and that took ages because there were dozens of people involved.
However, guild events and interguild events will not offer exp or rewards. You get rewards for posting in the form of jewels (which a lot seem to forget). It is incredibly difficult to work out viable rewards for events particularly if say 20 people join. Do we base it on rp quality? What they did during the event?
it easy with jobs because we have set goals and set rewards.
Its much harder with events.
However, should a player wish to set up an event and feels that they can find a viable way to grant exp for it rather than 'staff have to judge how good it is and how much it is worth' then feel free.
Though there was meant to be some big event happening in the near future...not sure what has happened to it though XD"
I thought of the idea while reading Zack and chao's world gourmet thread. However there could be an NPC guild, our own IGO of sorts. These gourmet kings will create "event jobs" once a month. These jobs range in rank, which might seem like alot at first, however not really specifically when every member of the site can be allowed to help come up with the next month's event. All that is need are:a weak,normal, strong monster and a boss. Per each rank event job. So let me give a basic example real quick.
Lets Say we have a B ranked event job. This is available to for B rank users only, or two C rank users. A user can never accept one below his rank.
Now the event is 7 days long, and each user has their own thread, or partners with 1 individual and share a thread, although they share the rewards as well. Every day, the user will roll the monster dice once. What ever monster the dice gives, he has the entire day to destroy for their "item". This item is what we return at the end of the week to IGO. At the start of the next day, the user rolls the dice again. If a user and/or his partner cannot defeat the monster of that day, their event is over prematurely and they must wait till end of week. Although we could easily add a way to turn these "items" in for event points and yadda yadda kinda like the dungeon system. It would be much easier to just give each creature a specific amount of exp. To make it very simple, id just have each rank creature give a certain amount of exp.
So another full simple run down would be this:
James the b rank mage accepts a B rank event job. Average B rank job gives -250 exp.
weak(B ranked mage) -30
normal(B.5 ranked-75
strong-(A Ranked)125
boss-(A.5 rank)175
So even if some one only rolls weak monsters all week, they would still be awarded 210 exp. Which isnt bad, when a weak creature wouldn't take but 1 good post to take down. So once a month users have the possibility of getting a nice boost in exp.
The max this user could get, if for some ungodly reason he rolls 7 bosses, is 1225. However can be made that no one is allowed more than 1 boss per week or something. Plus getting a boss that much wouldnt really be a blessing, as your hp and mp, as well as spells dont naturally reset on the next post. Even though your waiting 24 hours for the next roll, its as if no time has passed. So receiving multiple boss fights could be bad luck, ending the event for you sooner. Meh, i had a lot more going. However i realize how disorganized this is, and instead of rambling more and more, im gonna just let you all see what you think. Perhaps if you understood my mumbo jumbo, we can build off it for a good event, with good rewards, that doesn't require too much assistance from mods or admin.
I feel like this way, it can be just like a job. Each ranked event job, will have a required amount of words for each creature. And the person has to complete that battle, that day and in one post. At the end of the post, they put the amount of words used, and spells. A mod should be able to just skim over their RP, and understand the gist, or certain members of the community can be hired specifically just to grade event threads, to make sure that it was done properly. Not necessarily post quality, although there will be an obvious standard you should meet. its just to ensure everyone met all words, didn't cheat spells, and didn't roll a boss and go "I slash you die". Perhaps only the strong and boss fights are the only ones need to be looked at to ensure they were fought properly here and there. However i think although this is an event idea,that will rely heavily upon the community, and its honesty as well, it could definitely work out.