New Forum Events! [Update 3/5/14]
sparkiesoft
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Hey all,
So after a few discussions, we here at the office found that it was about time to start bringing you all more events! To start off, here are the first two we have planned.
PWI Guest Blog: Most, if not all of you, know a ton about PWI, possibly things other players may not know. For this event we're asking you, the community, to create a blog/guide on your favorite topics. Examples are "How to Farm", "Dungeon Guides", "PvP", "Ascension", "Economy", etc. All you need to do is "pretty-ify" it so it can go up on the main PWI page. Yes, you heard that right. Your blog/guide will be shown to everyone on the PWI site.
PWI Foundry: Ever want to write your own quest text? Well with this, we're allowing players to take their favorite quest line and re-write it. Obviously, it has to be appropriate, but start gathering your ideas!
For now, all we're asking is that you gather your ideas. The Guest blog contest will not start until next Friday, 3/7.
The PWI Foundry will start next TBD.
*Dates subject to change
So there you go. Start getting your ideas ready, so when next week hits, we can get these contests started and off the ground!
Update: Discussions and Submissions can be seen here: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=331
Update: The Lore Weaver event is on hold for now. We are coming up with more ideas to make it a better/smoother process. That said, feel free to discuss and continue hashing out your ideas.
So after a few discussions, we here at the office found that it was about time to start bringing you all more events! To start off, here are the first two we have planned.
PWI Guest Blog: Most, if not all of you, know a ton about PWI, possibly things other players may not know. For this event we're asking you, the community, to create a blog/guide on your favorite topics. Examples are "How to Farm", "Dungeon Guides", "PvP", "Ascension", "Economy", etc. All you need to do is "pretty-ify" it so it can go up on the main PWI page. Yes, you heard that right. Your blog/guide will be shown to everyone on the PWI site.
PWI Foundry: Ever want to write your own quest text? Well with this, we're allowing players to take their favorite quest line and re-write it. Obviously, it has to be appropriate, but start gathering your ideas!
For now, all we're asking is that you gather your ideas. The Guest blog contest will not start until next Friday, 3/7.
The PWI Foundry will start next TBD.
*Dates subject to change
So there you go. Start getting your ideas ready, so when next week hits, we can get these contests started and off the ground!
Update: Discussions and Submissions can be seen here: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=331
Update: The Lore Weaver event is on hold for now. We are coming up with more ideas to make it a better/smoother process. That said, feel free to discuss and continue hashing out your ideas.
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Oh cool, this seems like an awesome idea. looking forward to participating/seeing what other people have to show us
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Is there going to be a specific sub-forum created for these events? Or will we just post in the current sub-forums?[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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sparkiesoft wrote: »PWI Foundry: Ever want to write your own quest text? Well with this, we're allowing players to take their favorite quest line and re-write it. Obviously, it has to be appropriate, but start gathering your ideas!
I think that you should be careful what you change when you do this, some things not to change are lore specific details as some of us keep up with that. This would include the Morai, Twilight Temple, and Chrono Wheel quests. As well as the cultivation quests, including the stuff about sage and demon. In addition, things like the origin stories quests of the races, and much beloved quests over the years should also not be changed. That would be like Goshiki Quest Chain, Drunken Warrior, Duke Blacke and his 7 wives, Kun Kun (Beautiful Chang's Wish), and maybe Token of the Seven.
I also think there should be a word limit.
And that you should remind people that you can reserve the right to change the text if it messes up something. Since I doubt anyone there are very many people that have a full knowledge of every single quest and how they link, although if you do that would be quite impressive!
That said still leaves an awful lot of quests that could be changed, and it will be interesting to see everyone's creativity!
edit:Zheii - Archosaur wrote: »Oh cool, this seems like an awesome idea. looking forward to participating/seeing what other people have to show us.
Is there going to be a specific sub-forum created for these events? Or will we just post in the current sub-forums?
Ohh good point! This should maybe take place in the fanatics forum, seems appropriate, and that place could use some activity. Not to mention it would be easier to view each entry since it wouldn't have to compete with all the other topics of the day. With maybe a link in the launcher or a sticky here announcing the prizes for all to see!0 -
sparkiesoft wrote: »Hey all,
So after a few discussions, we here at the office found that it was about time to start bringing you all more events! To start off, here are the first two we have planned.
PWI Guest Blog: Most, if not all of you, know a ton about PWI, possibly things other players may not know. For this event we're asking you, the community, to create a blog/guide on your favorite topics. Examples are "How to Farm", "Dungeon Guides", "PvP", "Ascension", "Economy", etc. All you need to do is "pretty-ify" it so it can go up on the main PWI page. Yes, you heard that right. Your blog/guide will be shown to everyone on the PWI site.
PWI Foundry: Ever want to write your own quest text? Well with this, we're allowing players to take their favorite quest line and re-write it. Obviously, it has to be appropriate, but start gathering your ideas!
For now, all we're asking is that you gather your ideas. The Guest blog contest will not start until next Friday, 3/7.
The PWI Foundry will start next Wednesday, 3/5.
So there you go. Start getting your ideas ready, so when next week hits, we can get these contests started and off the ground!
Does the {Guest Blog - Part} Mean that you guys will be centering all the preiviously existing 'help threads' into this new section?? If so, then thats a heck of alot of work to do, with the 'sorting, sectioning, prioritizing & even merging' of all of those prior threads that already exist in the forums about alot of that stuff, once you send it into all of the 'relevant sections' that they would need to be placed into (Not to mention that some of those threads would also have to be redesignated as being 'non-necroable' once the were found again and brought into this sort of arrangement)....0 -
That's cool Mr. Soft!
I have a question though:
Does it have to be a new guide?
I mean..there are quite a few nice guides around here that are very good and one might want to participate with an old guide they are proud of (provided it's up to date) especially in the case that they want to write about a certain subject but there's already a good guide for it.[SIGPIC]http://i.imgur.com/MtwcqjL.png[/SIGPIC]
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Good questions, let me address them individually if I can.
1: Yes, there will be a sub-section in the forums. In there, we will have a discussion section and submission section.
2: Ya, the rules haven't been outlined just quite yet for the Foundry. I'll be sure to post up all the rules once the ball gets rolling.
3: We won't be taking all the help threads and moving them there, at least not yet. For now, this is the chance for the community to get together and create guides/blogs they think are worthy of being front pages news for the rest of the community.
4: No, it does not have to be new! If you have a previously created thread/blog/guide that you think will fit with the idea, go ahead and pretty it up and use it as a submission!
Love the questions, and if you also have suggestions we're open to hearing them.0 -
sparkiesoft wrote: »Good questions, let me address them individually if I can.
1: Yes, there will be a sub-section in the forums. In there, we will have a discussion section and submission section.
Great!! Sounds awesome.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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Oh sweet, events where players get to the the job of the devs cause they are too lazy.
How about an event for every **** up you find in game you get 1 zen per **** up?
How about a wikipage of all the things that don't work?
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Heh, guess I'll have to revive my ideas on making a guide for barbs. I've held aggro in places I really shouldn't, and maintaining chi for prolonged periods of time while still holding aggro is an art.
Probably not what they're looking for, but I don't care. It's the only insight I have to offer that others may not.
Be curious to see what additional details come forth as this gets closer."Impatience walks with disaster." My own phrase.
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While I do not disapprove or anything, I do believe that this will be an Event for the Forum regulars in particular; most people in-game have no clue what is going on in here whatsoever. And also, will benefit those with more free time on their hands to actually create something meaningful.
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Evalria - Sanctuary wrote: »While I do not disapprove or anything, I do believe that this will be an Event for the Forum regulars in particular; most people in-game have no clue what is going on in here whatsoever. And also, will benefit those with more free time on their hands to actually create something meaningful.
Good luck to those who will participate!
We're planning on announcing this in-game as well, so those who do not visit the forums will get a chance to participate as well.0 -
Conalll - Archosaur wrote: »Heh, guess I'll have to revive my ideas on making a guide for barbs. I've held aggro in places I really shouldn't, and maintaining chi for prolonged periods of time while still holding aggro is an art.
Probably not what they're looking for, but I don't care. It's the only insight I have to offer that others may not.
Be curious to see what additional details come forth as this gets closer.
Personally, I think we need a revamp Barb guide with deep analysis of what the class does, can do, and what the skills contribute under various situations along with stat info and basic explanations. The guides are extremely outdated imo.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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sparkiesoft wrote: »We're planning on announcing this in-game as well, so those who do not visit the forums will get a chance to participate as well.
Then I hope you guys have some type of forum only event at some point. Some of the people here have contributed massively to the playerbase by creating tools and guides and giving advice etc, for years. And it would be nice to have something just for them. Rather than just 1 person who doesn't even care about contributing and just wants the prize. b:surrender To date, the forum using subset of players has been the most neglected in terms of contests/prizes/content. Maybe a prize a bit less valuable or mostly nice for the forums, like a custom avatar.0 -
sparkiesoft wrote: »Hey all,
So after a few discussions, we here at the office found that it was about time to start bringing you all more events! To start off, here are the first two we have planned.
PWI Guest Blog: Most, if not all of you, know a ton about PWI, possibly things other players may not know. For this event we're asking you, the community, to create a blog/guide on your favorite topics. Examples are "How to Farm", "Dungeon Guides", "PvP", "Ascension", "Economy", etc. All you need to do is "pretty-ify" it so it can go up on the main PWI page. Yes, you heard that right. Your blog/guide will be shown to everyone on the PWI site.
PWI Foundry: Ever want to write your own quest text? Well with this, we're allowing players to take their favorite quest line and re-write it. Obviously, it has to be appropriate, but start gathering your ideas!
For now, all we're asking is that you gather your ideas. The Guest blog contest will not start until next Friday, 3/7.
The PWI Foundry will start next Wednesday, 3/5.
*Dates subject to change
So there you go. Start getting your ideas ready, so when next week hits, we can get these contests started and off the ground!
Update: There will be a new sub-section for these events. We will try to include a discussion and submission thread in it.
This sounds pretty neat. About time you guys picked up habits of this kind again with the playerbase. I won't be participating thanks to real life but good luck to all you guys out there! b:victory[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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I dont know where to ask. Can you tell me what hapened with ORB Scammers? Becouse i see lot of ppl who possible did /like 33k HP BMs, 25k+ Archers-Sins, 40-58k HP Barbs/ dont tell me all got orbs from packs !! Becouse before Orb Scamm was 30k+HP Barb a rly big thing!! And others Not even got 1 Orb, i think its not rly fair! Thx For answear! /Btw my barbi have +6 r999 gears 2RB with 28K+ HP/0
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o.O?...
Don't we have guides/videos for almost everything already?? Or at least, for all lastest content..
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-Titles
-Long Chain-Quest Guides from expansions...
And ofc, the old instances, nirvana, warsong, lunar...
What's the point on this event exactly
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Give me something with art/screenshot and I might be interested. Not much for guide writing o,o[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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XxWilxX - Heavens Tear wrote: »o.O?...
Don't we have guides/videos for almost everything already?? Or at least, for all lastest content..
-Fsp
-Primal Daylies
-UCH
-Titles
-Long Chain-Quest Guides from expansions...
And ofc, the old instances, nirvana, warsong, lunar...
What's the point on this event exactly
b:bye
This.
I suppose the point is to make the guides a bit more visually appealing...at least enough so that it could be similar to a news post.
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I think that you should be careful what you change when you do this, some things not to change are lore specific details as some of us keep up with that. This would include the Morai, Twilight Temple, and Chrono Wheel quests. As well as the cultivation quests, including the stuff about sage and demon. In addition, things like the origin stories quests of the races, and much beloved quests over the years should also not be changed. That would be like Goshiki Quest Chain, Drunken Warrior, Duke Blacke and his 7 wives, Kun Kun (Beautiful Chang's Wish), and maybe Token of the Seven.
I also think there should be a word limit.
And that you should remind people that you can reserve the right to change the text if it messes up something. Since I doubt anyone there are very many people that have a full knowledge of every single quest and how they link, although if you do that would be quite impressive!
At least it would give an opportunity to create a story line about how freaking motorcycles ended up in an ancient mythical world. That was one of the largest breaks in PWI lore continuity I've ever seen.I **** bigger than you...
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Jadsia - Lost City wrote: »At least it would give an opportunity to create a story line about how freaking motorcycles ended up in an ancient mythical world. That was one of the largest breaks in PWI lore continuity I've ever seen.
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sparkiesoft wrote: »PWI Guest Blog: Most, if not all of you, know a ton about PWI, possibly things other players may not know. For this event we're asking you, the community, to create a blog/guide on your favorite topics. Examples are "How to Farm", "Dungeon Guides", "PvP", "Ascension", "Economy", etc. All you need to do is "pretty-ify" it so it can go up on the main PWI page. Yes, you heard that right. Your blog/guide will be shown to everyone on the PWI site.
I've been doing general guides to each expansion and content update since the Descent expansion.
I was planning to do my own blog but seeing this means this would kill that idea.
My latest guide is here, I could opt to do submissions like this for the blog, but only if the community as a whole can participate.
Most of the information I get comes from everyone, I even link to more specific guides on complex features.
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Bubbles - Morai wrote: »Why are links white? It is impossible to tell what's text and what's text leading to a link.
We know.
http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1672171&highlight=forum0 -
KingCrash - Dreamweaver wrote: »
Excuse me for not being active as usual again... I'll just change my text in the guide to something other than white.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]0 -
Bubbles - Morai wrote: »Excuse me for not being active as usual again... I'll just change my text in the guide to something other than white.
It's fine. The way you worded your post was good enough to find the link. For me anyway.0
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