Rare pet swarm?

saikuro

Etherblade had a rare pet swarm, derjan's spawned in wellspring village and I can't find anything about this
'event' anywhere. Did I miss a post or was this a surprise? How long does this go on for? When does it happen? Anyone know anything? ​​

obielle

There's an announcement post about it here: https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/pwi/#/discussion/1207979/event-psa-rare-pet-swarms-appear

bluedragon54

obielle wrote: »

There's an announcement post about it here: https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/pwi/#/discussion/1207979/event-psa-rare-pet-swarms-appear

The twitter page for the swarm information doesn't seem to be working.

ailiadrake

for being a swarm, there aren't many around. Especially since I've seen ASSASSINS coming and killing a lot of them...

And I was so close to getting a spotted felis...

zombiemaster123

ailiadrake wrote: »

for being a swarm, there aren't many around. Especially since I've seen ASSASSINS coming and killing a lot of them...

And I was so close to getting a spotted felis...

Peopel sabotaging special events like this should be banned for their provocative behaviour. Nothing but causing mischief. They need to be gone.

bluedragon54

Well... missed another one cuz twitter page wouldn't work... got there and it was over. THEN All the venos there said people showed up and killed most the ones that did spawn.

deceitsoul

bluedragon54 wrote: »

Well... missed another one cuz twitter page wouldn't work... got there and it was over. THEN All the venos there said people showed up and killed most the ones that did spawn.

That's a bit upsetting on both sides.
There is fun in capture your own pet....

laiwaisan

makes my pet super rare mawhaaaa plus i spent coin on my pets why you getting them for free then again i think they should just add rare pet spawning every 30 minutes all rare pets cause lets face it pets are not op at all but there very nice companions

obielle

bluedragon54 wrote: »

Well... missed another one cuz twitter page wouldn't work... got there and it was over. THEN All the venos there said people showed up and killed most the ones that did spawn.

Yeah I noticed the system announcement go out on Twilight Temple but doesn't seem like they gave a Twitter announcement for it. I guess it would've been the same for Etherblade. I also noticed there wasn't really much warning either, maybe a few minutes while the other servers got 30 minute warnings via Twitter. I guess they might've been a bit low on time because of maintenance

I did get there to witness the mobs and yeah sadly there were some people that were killing them but some venos managed to tame some of them before they all died unfortunately you had to pretty much rush there before most other people came by.

I do wonder if maybe some people weren't aware of their purpose which was to be tamed. The system messages didn't really indicate what the swarms were for and I don't think a lot of people saw the announcement go up especially since it wasn't posted to GD. Still, there were definitely some party poopers there.

bluedragon54

obielle wrote: »

bluedragon54 wrote: »

Well... missed another one cuz twitter page wouldn't work... got there and it was over. THEN All the venos there said people showed up and killed most the ones that did spawn.

Yeah I noticed the system announcement go out on Twilight Temple but doesn't seem like they gave a Twitter announcement for it. I guess it would've been the same for Etherblade. I also noticed there wasn't really much warning either, maybe a few minutes while the other servers got 30 minute warnings via Twitter. I guess they might've been a bit low on time because of maintenance

I did get there to witness the mobs and yeah sadly there were some people that were killing them but some venos managed to tame some of them before they all died unfortunately you had to pretty much rush there before most other people came by.

I do wonder if maybe some people weren't aware of their purpose which was to be tamed. The system messages didn't really indicate what the swarms were for and I don't think a lot of people saw the announcement go up especially since it wasn't posted to GD. Still, there were definitely some party poopers there.

Well they also really screwed a lot of venos over by doing it during nation wars. It was the end of NW but still... If they are going to do events like this they need to do something to pervent others from killing them.

ailiadrake

bluedragon54 wrote: »

obielle wrote: »

bluedragon54 wrote: »

Well... missed another one cuz twitter page wouldn't work... got there and it was over. THEN All the venos there said people showed up and killed most the ones that did spawn.

Yeah I noticed the system announcement go out on Twilight Temple but doesn't seem like they gave a Twitter announcement for it. I guess it would've been the same for Etherblade. I also noticed there wasn't really much warning either, maybe a few minutes while the other servers got 30 minute warnings via Twitter. I guess they might've been a bit low on time because of maintenance

I did get there to witness the mobs and yeah sadly there were some people that were killing them but some venos managed to tame some of them before they all died unfortunately you had to pretty much rush there before most other people came by.

I do wonder if maybe some people weren't aware of their purpose which was to be tamed. The system messages didn't really indicate what the swarms were for and I don't think a lot of people saw the announcement go up especially since it wasn't posted to GD. Still, there were definitely some party poopers there.

Well they also really screwed a lot of venos over by doing it during nation wars. It was the end of NW but still... If they are going to do events like this they need to do something to pervent others from killing them.

That would be a nice idea, but how?
All I can think of is increase the number of pets spawned (for being a huge swarm, their number wasn't that high), or take a time-limited quest that spawn a mob that can't be killed by others like some of the homestead quests (but to do that, we would need china to code it for us)

bluedragon54

ailiadrake wrote: »

bluedragon54 wrote: »

obielle wrote: »

bluedragon54 wrote: »

Well... missed another one cuz twitter page wouldn't work... got there and it was over. THEN All the venos there said people showed up and killed most the ones that did spawn.

Yeah I noticed the system announcement go out on Twilight Temple but doesn't seem like they gave a Twitter announcement for it. I guess it would've been the same for Etherblade. I also noticed there wasn't really much warning either, maybe a few minutes while the other servers got 30 minute warnings via Twitter. I guess they might've been a bit low on time because of maintenance

I did get there to witness the mobs and yeah sadly there were some people that were killing them but some venos managed to tame some of them before they all died unfortunately you had to pretty much rush there before most other people came by.

I do wonder if maybe some people weren't aware of their purpose which was to be tamed. The system messages didn't really indicate what the swarms were for and I don't think a lot of people saw the announcement go up especially since it wasn't posted to GD. Still, there were definitely some party poopers there.

Well they also really screwed a lot of venos over by doing it during nation wars. It was the end of NW but still... If they are going to do events like this they need to do something to pervent others from killing them.

That would be a nice idea, but how?
All I can think of is increase the number of pets spawned (for being a huge swarm, their number wasn't that high), or take a time-limited quest that spawn a mob that can't be killed by others like some of the homestead quests (but to do that, we would need china to code it for us)

Or make them immune to non-venos. No bothering asking me how. This would have to be something the GM's look at and determine if they wanna send the idea up or not.

kwyl

I am not a very regular player anymore but I don't recall them ever doing this "event" before so maybe it was kind of a test. If that is the case, the solution is simple. Don't send a public message. Send private messages to venos only. That must be easy coding. Even better would be if they could scroll the message to venos only. That's probably not much more difficult. Unless it is by design that they allow the scalpers in order to keep the rarity and value of the pet high. Only China knows.

nene#6448

kwyl wrote: »

I am not a very regular player anymore but I don't recall them ever doing this "event" before so maybe it was kind of a test. If that is the case, the solution is simple. Don't send a public message. Send private messages to venos only. That must be easy coding. Even better would be if they could scroll the message to venos only. That's probably not much more difficult. Unless it is by design that they allow the scalpers in order to keep the rarity and value of the pet high. Only China knows.

But if you're logged to your non-veno character you wont get notified about the swarm happening.​​

nunuator

Simple solution add a custom instance or make use of an old one, cough mount races, and put a veno only filter on an instance or simple enough just put a quest to take to spawn a Dino/cat thing kind of like the pumpkin system where only you can attack it.

kalystconquerer#0876

Hello!

Yes this was actually a small "test", because this was another big project I was working on in secret and actually was unable to verify until I checked it on live.

We now have the ability to spawn monsters as long as they are whitelisted!
It has taken nearly a year of talks to get this functionality back in some capacity, and I am very grateful to the devs that they would consider this and open it up for us! It requires some reporting on my end when I do them (Number of participants, how many I spawned etc.) but a small price to pay to have this in some sort of capacity. This could mean in the future, I can ask them for custom mobs rather than full on events- so things like exclusive veno pets specific to our version, or monsters that could drop all class pet versions of themselves...the possibilities here are nearly unlimited.

I had to stop the live Tweeting for the last two times since it was closing on maintenance, sorry about that!
The next monster spawning event will have an official blogpost, so please keep an eye out for it when it happens!

catgirldesu

I was wondering why GMs never spawned fun monsters for us anymore until this mini-event... now I know why. One of my favourite spontaneous events was when a certain GM spawned monsters named after various players or bosses named after factions. I'm very happy to hear our GMs have this functionality back. Looking forward to see what kind of events this will open up!​​

bluedragon54

kalystconquerer#0876 wrote: »

Hello!

Yes this was actually a small "test", because this was another big project I was working on in secret and actually was unable to verify until I checked it on live.

We now have the ability to spawn monsters as long as they are whitelisted!
It has taken nearly a year of talks to get this functionality back in some capacity, and I am very grateful to the devs that they would consider this and open it up for us! It requires some reporting on my end when I do them (Number of participants, how many I spawned etc.) but a small price to pay to have this in some sort of capacity. This could mean in the future, I can ask them for custom mobs rather than full on events- so things like exclusive veno pets specific to our version, or monsters that could drop all class pet versions of themselves...the possibilities here are nearly unlimited.

I had to stop the live Tweeting for the last two times since it was closing on maintenance, sorry about that!
The next monster spawning event will have an official blogpost, so please keep an eye out for it when it happens!

This is actually a good project idea and it's great for venos since so many are having issues catching the dino. If this is done to other rare veno pets though won't that make them less rare? Also, is there any hope of having the Felis tameable like other rare pets, or is it ment to be rare on events only?
Just a question or a thought but is there ever any chance of having new rare/common pets to tame? Putting a couple in Primal or a couple in NeverFall would be awesome!