Status of Unused Events?

Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973 · January 2012

This Friday we're going to be having the Assault on Archosaur event which is always fun.
While this event has only been activated pretty recently, it's been in the game for many years.

There are other unused events that we've just never had. Some may have been actually removed but others seem ready to go. I know that other versions of pw have had at least some of these. Here are some examples found in random browsing on pwdb.

1) Expedition
This is a massive series of quests divided into 3 phases that has you running all over the map killing mobs and talking to NPCs, for level 40+. At the end you get some neat time limited boots.

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/20286
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/20287
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/20288

2) Sky High Laughters
This one has you talking to a bunch of NPCs where each one gives you an item the next one wants. They give out lots of fireworks and if you talk to enough of them you can combine their items into basic genie gear / eyes of observation.

It's not quite fully translated but seems functional.

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/25218

3) Stone of Love
This seems to be a Valentine's type event made to be done with a partner. It involves collecting flowers and various other quests to collect stones of love. Get enough of them and you can get some neat boots.

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/23225

4) Ashura Gound
I think this is the old arena. You can collect Scarlet Soul Jades to make various OHT gear. Collect enough to makes those ☆☆☆Yin and ☆☆☆Yang necks people got in packs.
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/21069
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/21488

5) Monthly / Yearly Race
There are still relics of these old races available in game such as the Monthly Race Qualifier, only there is no monthly race! There is also a yearly race where the ultimate prize is ☆Wings of Cloudcharger (yes this is the original method for obtaining that cape lol).
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/11599

So what's the status of these things? How hard is it to turn these things on right now? Anything else in pwdb you'd like to see? (I bet people are wanting a way to get that Supreme Robe Dominance and Helm of Total Annihilation)

Nahktuul - Archosaur · January 2012

Clearly there is too much effort involved for PWE to look into/activate/translate these events.

I had no idea there were so many unactivated ones. I am beginning to sense people are getting bored with the same events over and over and over and over.

I'd love to see all of those activated, and try them out!

Cytte - Harshlands · January 2012

What would ever give you the idea that our staff knows how to turn on events other than assult on arch?

But seriously I doubt PW will turn those events on (especially the ones with the pack gear), they already get away with slouching around doing just about nothing. or so they make it seem.

Well' I'd love to see these events implemented (especially ashura ground)..

Hey (paid) Staff, why aren't they ever on?

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary · January 2012

PWE has no interest in these events, as it makes them less money and wouldn't break the economy worse than it currently is, so they're not gonna bother.

I'm also assuming that, like the Christmas event, while they may still be in the game, they aren't translated into English properly, and obviously the Translation Team is too busy translating upcoming expansions to translate some other content we would obviously enjoy now, and could have enjoyed for the past 3 years instead.

If there is a CM reply to this, it will be as murky and unhelpful as driving your car into a flooded creek, so...

b:surrender

X_trigger_X - Heavens Tear · January 2012

Wow, have Ashura's Ground and the Yearly Race been in the coding since release? If they were, I can't imagine how busy and popular them events would have been 2 years + ago with them snazzy rewards. Heck, I bet they'd still pull probably the best crowds out of any event if they were turned on...

Bobobejumbo - Raging Tide · January 2012

While I would like to see all of this dormant content as well, assuming its OUR staff simply refusing to turn it on or what have you could be misguided. If China says "no they can't have that, and you will not respond to any such inquiries" then that's the hand we are dealt.

Everyone has a boss, and if at some point in that chain-of-command a response like that is given as an answer, we won't really ever know. Even if Frankie tried to push it to the top for a response and that is what he got. People would continue to blame the staff, mainly Frankie, and PW wouldn't care. At most you'll make our liaison feel like **** by trashing him and his staff and he might not even be able to tell you that he tried...

I'm not saying this is the case every time, or even relates to this one, but i've dealt with Chinese ran organizations with an American branch many times before, and this is typical.

Ikarium - Dreamweaver · January 2012

Bobobejumbo - Raging Tide wrote: »

While I would like to see all of this dormant content as well, assuming its OUR staff simply refusing to turn it on or what have you could be misguided. If China says "no they can't have that, and you will not respond to any such inquiries" then that's the hand we are dealt.

Everyone has a boss, and if at some point in that chain-of-command a response like that is given as an answer, we won't really ever know. Even if Frankie tried to push it to the top for a response and that is what he got. People would continue to blame the staff, mainly Frankie, and PW wouldn't care. At most you'll make our liaison feel like **** by trashing him and his staff and he might not even be able to tell you that he tried...

I'm not saying this is the case every time, or even relates to this one, but i've dealt with Chinese ran organizations with an American branch many times before, and this is typical.

This +1
UNfortunately people don't get this and attack any staff member we may see here. No wonder they don't drop in much.

These events, if ready to go, would do quite a bit for PWI. More things for people to dthan hang around archo and complain there's nothing to do. Could generate some new interest as well as keep existing veterans as well. Some of whom who put money back into the game at some point, likely.

krittycat · January 2012

Cytte - Harshlands wrote: »

What would ever give you the idea that our staff knows how to turn on events other than assult on arch?

But seriously I doubt PW will turn those events on (especially the ones with the pack gear), they already get away with slouching around doing just about nothing. or so they make it seem.

Well' I'd love to see these events implemented (especially ashura ground)..

Hey (paid) Staff, why aren't they ever on?

Well, for one, you were looking for one of them when it was before 7am their time.

Two, everything that's been said above me is true. They give us what they're told to give us.b:surrender

EDIT: And sometimes what they're not told they're giving us (Secret Passage, anyone?).

Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973 · January 2012

Well if I remember correctly, PWE tried to have an "Archosaur attack" by manually spawning some random mobs and FB bosses around archo. It didn't really go that well and people complained that they should have just turned on the real archosaur assault event which is actually a part of the game. That is how we got our first archosaur assault.

I'm hoping some of these other ones are similar and just need a few cobwebs to be brushed away.

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear · January 2012

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

Well if I remember correctly, PWE tried to have an "Archosaur attack" by manually spawning some random mobs and FB bosses around archo. It didn't really go that well and people complained that they should have just turned on the real archosaur assault event which is actually a part of the game. That is how we got our first archosaur assault.

I'm hoping some of these other ones are similar and just need a few cobwebs to be brushed away.

Actually, they crashed the characters of everyone participating in that event because they tried spawning a few dozen mobs in the exact same spot (and underwater even though they were land mobs). Basically everything froze and you couldn't move like you were having a DC, though chat worked for everyone. If you relogged you would be able to move, but the entire map was empty.

It took them a day to fix it.

krittycat · January 2012

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Actually, they crashed the characters of everyone participating in that event because they tried spawning a few dozen mobs in the exact same spot (and underwater even though they were land mobs). Basically everything froze and you couldn't move like you were having a DC, though chat worked for everyone. If you relogged you would be able to move, but the entire map was empty.

It took them a day to fix it.

...That would have been hilarious to witness.b:chuckle

frankieraye · January 2012

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

This Friday we're going to be having the Assault on Archosaur event which is always fun.
While this event has only been activated pretty recently, it's been in the game for many years.

There are other unused events that we've just never had. Some may have been actually removed but others seem ready to go. I know that other versions of pw have had at least some of these. Here are some examples found in random browsing on pwdb.

1) Expedition
This is a massive series of quests divided into 3 phases that has you running all over the map killing mobs and talking to NPCs, for level 40+. At the end you get some neat time limited boots.

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/20286
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/20287
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/20288

2) Sky High Laughters
This one has you talking to a bunch of NPCs where each one gives you an item the next one wants. They give out lots of fireworks and if you talk to enough of them you can combine their items into basic genie gear / eyes of observation.

It's not quite fully translated but seems functional.

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/25218

3) Stone of Love
This seems to be a Valentine's type event made to be done with a partner. It involves collecting flowers and various other quests to collect stones of love. Get enough of them and you can get some neat boots.

http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/23225

4) Ashura Gound
I think this is the old arena. You can collect Scarlet Soul Jades to make various OHT gear. Collect enough to makes those ☆☆☆Yin and ☆☆☆Yang necks people got in packs.
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/21069
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/21488

5) Monthly / Yearly Race
There are still relics of these old races available in game such as the Monthly Race Qualifier, only there is no monthly race! There is also a yearly race where the ultimate prize is ☆Wings of Cloudcharger (yes this is the original method for obtaining that cape lol).
http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/11599

So what's the status of these things? How hard is it to turn these things on right now? Anything else in pwdb you'd like to see? (I bet people are wanting a way to get that Supreme Robe Dominance and Helm of Total Annihilation)

It's true, PWI over the years was coded with a lot of really cool automated events; in fact #3 was actually in-game in February 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2psU3b6lTU

The problem is that, over the years as new content has been added, some of the older programmed events simply don't run like they're supposed to anymore. What usually happens is that some integral NPC or monster won't show up when it's supposed to, rendering the event useless. That Valentines Day event and the old Christmas Event (remember the Christmas cards?) unfortunately fall into this category.

Still, I'll check on the ones you've brought up; they don't all sound familiar to me, so we'll see what we can find out, and if any of them work correctly, we'll definitely make use of them on the live servers.

Thanks for bringing this up.

frankieraye · January 2012

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Actually, they crashed the characters of everyone participating in that event because they tried spawning a few dozen mobs in the exact same spot (and underwater even though they were land mobs). Basically everything froze and you couldn't move like you were having a DC, though chat worked for everyone. If you relogged you would be able to move, but the entire map was empty.

It took them a day to fix it.

Actually that didn't happen and you shouldn't spread such silly rumors b:quiet b:avoid

Ajiuo - Harshlands · January 2012

Frankie stop double posting and fix avatars. >:

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear · January 2012

frankieraye wrote: »

Actually that didn't happen and you shouldn't spread such silly rumors b:quiet b:avoid

Rumors, rumors everywhere.

The event in itself was fun, though (if you happened to stay out of Tradewind Village and didn't get frozen).

Edit: it was actually Tradewind Village, not Wellspring.

Edit 2: Wrong link, the event was actually called ''boss breakout'' and there's even a video of it.

Lulznotwar - Lost City · January 2012

frankieraye wrote: »

The problem is that, over the years as new content has been added, some of the older programmed events simply don't run like they're supposed to anymore. What usually happens is that some integral NPC or monster won't show up when it's supposed to, rendering the event useless. That Valentines Day event and the old Christmas Event (remember the Christmas cards?) unfortunately fall into this category.
.

My question is if everything else is coded into the game realistically how hard is it to fix the tiny bug in the code that causes the NPCs not to spawn when they're meant to?

Dont the Devs have previous versions of the game where it worked and compare the coding from that to the current code and ***** the bug that way?

It really doesnt seem too hard to me and i dont do code..... THere are automated programs that check lines of code for bugs.

frankieraye · January 2012

Lulznotwar - Lost City wrote: »

My question is if everything else is coded into the game realistically how hard is it to fix the tiny bug in the code that causes the NPCs not to spawn when they're meant to?

Dont the Devs have previous versions of the game where it worked and compare the coding from that to the current code and ***** the bug that way?

It really doesnt seem too hard to me and i dont do code..... THere are automated programs that check lines of code for bugs.

While it does seem like the bugs could be fixed (though I myself have zero game coding experience), the Chinese version of PWI doesn't ever actually use these old events, so they basically see no point in continuing to technically support them. There is good news, though, which is that you'll be seeing some brand new events in-game soon..

Sympathi - Archosaur · January 2012

frankieraye wrote: »

While it does seem like the bugs could be fixed (though I myself have zero game coding experience), the Chinese version of PWI doesn't ever actually use these old events, so they basically see no point in continuing to technically support them. There is good news, though, which is that you'll be seeing some brand new events in-game soon..

I like that response, sorry no support for old stuff, good news we MIGHT add some new stuff into the game, if ur lucky!

give us your monies

Lulznotwar - Lost City · January 2012

frankieraye wrote: »

While it does seem like the bugs could be fixed (though I myself have zero game coding experience), the Chinese version of PWI doesn't ever actually use these old events, so they basically see no point in continuing to technically support them. There is good news, though, which is that you'll be seeing some brand new events in-game soon..

Thanks for the response Frankie

Could you ask if there is any chance of them re-implimenting them?

Deceptistar - Sanctuary · January 2012

i see astypoo likes to corner the GMs once in a while

Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973 · January 2012

frankieraye wrote: »

It's true, PWI over the years was coded with a lot of really cool automated events; in fact #3 was actually in-game in February 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2psU3b6lTU

The problem is that, over the years as new content has been added, some of the older programmed events simply don't run like they're supposed to anymore. What usually happens is that some integral NPC or monster won't show up when it's supposed to, rendering the event useless. That Valentines Day event and the old Christmas Event (remember the Christmas cards?) unfortunately fall into this category.

Still, I'll check on the ones you've brought up; they don't all sound familiar to me, so we'll see what we can find out, and if any of them work correctly, we'll definitely make use of them on the live servers.

Thanks for bringing this up.

Thanks for the answer.
#3 is actually different than the valentine event we had (I still have the belt from that) but it seems like it may be similar. Hopefully some are functional.

Decus - Dreamweaver · January 2012

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

Collect enough to makes those ☆☆☆Yin and ☆☆☆Yang necks people got in packs.

Ah I always wondered where those were taken from to put into packs

ViciousMinx - Dreamweaver · January 2012

Wonders why most have not been used... rewards for some found in packs... others could be put in packs... hmm...

On a side note marriage quest npcs don't always spawn either and you don't see them deactivated.

Segreta - Sanctuary · January 2012

I may sound too much day-dreaming but...

...have you ever thought how PW would be today if the Old Devs wouldn't have been kicked?

I had always the sensation that this game had tons of stuff that was just left incomplete...I truly believe that the original devs were planning really to make a Perfect World(<- Game),but maybe that concept wasn't accepted from the greedy management?

Seriously,PW was probably the best MMORPG released back in his year...

Seascraper - Sanctuary · January 2012

theres alot of broken quests also... does anyone here knows whats the Supreme Robe: Dominance? i bet most didnt even heard about it... its suposed to be the best ingame Robe wich is G14 with alot of bonuses. type that name into items search ingame next time if u remember... i wonder why the he** they either dont implement a way to get it with packs(or other way with gold) or make it be able to build with the suposed requirements for quest but in forges...

BerserkBeast - Sanctuary · January 2012

Seascraper - Sanctuary wrote: »

theres alot of broken quests also... does anyone here knows whats the Supreme Robe: Dominance? i bet most didnt even heard about it... its suposed to be the best ingame Robe wich is G14 with alot of bonuses. type that name into items search ingame next time if u remember... i wonder why the he** they either dont implement a way to get it with packs(or other way with gold) or make it be able to build with the suposed requirements for quest but in forges...

I think that cape is just too OP,even for today's standards...

Here's the stats for those who doesn't now

Grade 14
+190 Evasion <-- Pro
+10 Strenght
+10 Vitality
+10 Dexterity
+10 Magic
Magic Res +100
Phy.Res +216
Reduce P.Damage Taken 1%
Critical Hit + 1%
Hp + 105
Speed 0,10 Mt/sec
-3% Channeling <--- ONLY 3%?
-0,05 Interval

Zoe - Heavens Tear · January 2012

Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Actually, they crashed the characters of everyone participating in that event because they tried spawning a few dozen mobs in the exact same spot (and underwater even though they were land mobs). Basically everything froze and you couldn't move like you were having a DC, though chat worked for everyone. If you relogged you would be able to move, but the entire map was empty.

It took them a day to fix it.

I remember that event. They put like, 50+ bosses in the exact same spot at the same time. I was glad I was away from the actual area since I knew it would be too much lag for me anyway. Nothing short of restarting the servers could fix the problem.

VenusArmani - Dreamweaver · January 2012

BerserkBeast - Sanctuary wrote: »

I think that cape is just too OP,even for today's standards...

Here's the stats for those who doesn't now

Grade 14
+190 Evasion <-- Pro
+10 Strenght
+10 Vitality
+10 Dexterity
+10 Magic
Magic Res +100
Phy.Res +216
Reduce P.Damage Taken 1%
Critical Hit + 1%
Hp + 105
Speed 0,10 Mt/sec
-3% Channeling <--- ONLY 3%?
-0,05 Interval

Are these random adds or is that the cape. o.o It's like a freaking tome.

slitz · January 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33v10Ys94QA

Olbaze - Sanctuary · January 2012

VenusArmani - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Are these random adds or is that the cape. o.o It's like a freaking tome.

That is the cape.

ZackMystic - Harshlands · January 2012

i really want month and yearly races

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