The good and the bad and the Event!
 

Hi Community,

As you may noticed, we couldn't make the Regnum anniversary quest a lot different from the first one because we worked very hard to provide this last update on time. So, we thought about making an improvised special event with the developers to break the ice and don't sit in "pozo" only to chat to find out that everyone chats at the same time.

That's why we decided to explore what war could give us to have fun and put those big avatars to lead the crowds.

In Ra we had an organization problem (our fault) as there were 1200 users online and we managed to lead them all to the same point. Poor Ra. :(

In Horus it was a bit different, we think it went well but sadly Surak had to check what was going on with Ra (we think there were some malicious accesses but it's not yet confirmed) and he couldn't lead Syrtis to the battle. Then Syrtis got a leader and could threaten Ignis to have some fun!

Our conclusion is that with every update we feel closer and closer to what we want Regnum to become, but obviously we still have a lot to do! :)

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I'm sad the Ra event didn't go as well, but thank you very much for the fun on Horus =D

p.s You crash too much.

p.p.s Poor horse.

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lol @ kailer mounted

i just don't understand why both niclaim and chilko had to be on ignis while we had to wait for surak / his replacement. guess your top priority was pvping among each other. what's worse you said the event is starting on 9PM GMT, but never mentioned that is RA time only... oh yeah... and fps drops, untolerable. it was like trying to break the realm gate, massive fps drops.

I would also like to take the time to thank the devs for the fun tonight. I know your time is valuable and we appreciate you spending some time with your players. I'll agree that it was a success.

I hope you'll try this type of event again.

Sincerely,
Arwen

Hello,

Surak was analyzing the server crash and that's why he couldn't be on Syrtis. Being on the office on Sunday isn't even part of his job description so his top priority could have been staying at home, drinking beer and smoking good cigars, but instead he was at the office trying to organize a fun event.

I was "his replacement" (Im "Policia Montada" or "Mounted Cop" in english) and while I was trying to organize Syrtis army I was unpleasantly received with some ill-mannered users (you being one of them) which was weird because when I was playing for Ignis I didn't even had one single aggressive comment even tho I regularly play on Alsius. Fortunately, most people played along and enjoyed the mini-event and as Kailer mentioned, this was just a test and future events will be more organized. For instance, in this case the game didn't even support big sized characters well (hence the "pony" effect on Kailer's screenshot).

To Arwen and everybody else, Indeed, we want to do this more often. Being in touch with the community is what separates us from other MMO's, maybe it's because it has a small community in comparison or maybe it's because we are really attached to the game, in any case, this is a good thing and we hope to keep it that way as we grow along.

Regards

Oh c'mon niclaim, after we waited for you to show up so long did you really think some people (including me) weren't going to be at least a bit pissed off? You pvp'd with chilko at aggers for some time instead of trying to "organize" syrtis while we waited like fools when all other realms had their devs and something to do.

Oh btw, a tip on future mini-events, no war please. We war 24/7, it's not *that* interesting to war some more after a certain period of time, no matter if devs were there to try and lead the realms.

With Ignis, I played for about 45 minutes. For Syrtis, I was there for about an hour trying to lead an attack on Alsius (Granted, epic fail due to not knowing how the politics were at the moment) and then following the lead on other helpful users to do an attack on Ignis. So if anyone may complaint about not paying the same attention is Ignis or Alsius.

Anyway, your comment on not wanting a War event is duly noted. Un/Fortunately not everyone wants the same, so we have to do mixed events from time to time (Anniversary is different from Saint's Valentine or Christmas). Our goal is to try and entertain all type of users, so everybody gets their turn from time to time.

Regards

I think the part that annoyed everyone in Syrtis the most was that we got all these fucking messages on the screen, "Kailer vs Chilko! woohoo so much fun!" - too bad we were missing it...

But okey, of course shit happens, servers will crash etc, nothing out of the ordinary.

The announcement for the time change btw found most of us already in-game so we missed it on the forums. Would have been nice if someone could log in on Horus at 9pm GMT and say "Hey guys, event is postponed for 2h, sorry for the inconvinience, please do not reply to this in-game announcement, Regards" or smth like that ;)

On the actual event:

Too damn short! Moaarrrr xD I liked the idea of super-sized generals leading the army. Having a different color also helps, both in the name and in realm chat. (and the status of a dev...) Probably less in Syrtis than in other realms, Syrtis tends to be a bit more anarchist, we follow noone :p

Maybe this could be some sort of new feature? Elected leaders for 1 week or so, getting different color in realm chat, the ability to make global announcements (only for the realm to see them though). Would be nice.

Would be nice to close it off with a nice global chat and docks teleporting to central island, just for a bit ;)

Hint: Stop spying on our game design meetings please?

Ill go back and shut up before Kailer puts a duck tape on my mouth (fingers?).

Regards

Well, yeah I do understand that, but what I meant is that big wars on horus are starting to happen really often and it's nothing unusual and we can do them as we wish, so I kind of hoped that dev event would be something we couldn't do usually (I guess envy managed to do something like that by t-bagging kailer :D). Hopefully with new engine there will be more things to do in Regnum except daily slaughter (not that it's not fun but a little diversity would be just fine) and hopefully that'll open up some space for new types of events.

I'd wanna thank the DEVs too! I had some really nice time! :)
Keep up the good work!! :clapping5365:

Sadly I was out of range, probably down to the size difference.

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Thanks for this event, it was very funny. I hope the next time i will see a fight between the big devs avatars before the server crash on RA :p

Making the sytis chan back in waz zone was a good idea too, this remember me the "old good time" with great fights.

A good surprise, thanks !

Hey! Censor my crouch! :warning: Perv! :P

=D
 

HeHe Epîc *_*

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Thank all the Devs Team for this little event, its was different !

I dont have to thank anyone cause i didnt have fun :P

Syrtis dont have photos of pvps and shits like that... Only great global msgs telling us that there are pvps somewhere ...but where ? ^^

Thank god i laughed a bit with our mess in rlm chat. We had some nice bitching-moments. Now even Devs learnt that Syrtis means Anarchy.

Regards

Well, you better learn to organize soon or you'll miss out on the great new Invasion wis.....BZZZbzzz


NO CARRIER

Hint then!
Syrtis will only get organised if new invasion wishes gives them perma things, like stuff etc etc.
Dont ask why... There isnt any answer. This is Syrtis!

Seriously... Syrtians were kinda hot tempered due to that delay so we were a bit pissed off, but in general terms our rlm chat is shitty like that in daily base :P We are not surprised cause we have get used of it :P

Regards

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! NGD did the best event with us!!!! the problem was the server xD...hehehehe the server was down and fried xD.... but I think in the future with better updates and the new technology we won't have this problem again and we will have this event so much better!!! =).


THKS NGD FOR GIVE US THIS TIME OF FUN!!!! =)


(I'm spanish speaker trying to learn english.. if I have mistakes pleace help me to learn giving me the correct way).

:clap clap clap clap clap: I even logged into my barb that doesnt work half the time for this event (:D) it was a great deal of fun, not so serious as normal war (it is a game after all right?).

I was personally hoping that we would have been able to give/get a little more feedback about this latest update and the massive changes it brought, but thats ok too, even devs need to kill some elven scum from time to time :D

Seriously though, thanks for the great event, i hope very much that there will be more similar events from time to time......and maybe some scheduled group chat with the devs would be nice too, even if just an hour or two a month.

People take their gaming seriously, myself included, and beyond all the bugs, and the bitching, and certain aspects of the game being changed in a way that a lot of people dont like, its still a fine game, and i for one, would like to thank you at NGD for making it, as well as your business model of F2P with (nondisruptive) premium content, and for doing fun little events like this.

Thanks NGD.

I'd like to thank you guys at NGD too :)
Not only for this semi-funny event (that could have been kickass without server crashes :sifflote:) but for the orc/skeleton/goblin event that's been causing great action in the Warzone on RA.

If you have noticed, the user count on the Website has been ~1500 people on all servers early in the morning GMT + 2, where there would have been around 500 before.

Because of this, I've been having so damn fun in the last days...
It's like pre 1.0 again, with constant encounters anywhere in the warzone against any realm and massive RvR fights in the open!

PS. (Bug Report) The RP rankings have not updated for... 2-3 days (?) :p

Big grats to NGD for their involvement in the community! Hope to see you guys out there more often. :D

Well, i enjoyed the event. I have one suggestion to NGD guys: do more present in the game.
I'm new in Regnum compared others (6 months), but between this time i can count in a hand how much time i saw a developer online in the game, talking with ppl.
War Event may be adjusted to all. We have so few guys in Syrtis about 11 pm GMT. But we still tried some ignis rps. ;P Well, gratz for this event and please, try get closer to us.

[Horus]
I got a video of when Alsius and Ignis clashed about 200m east of pinos between Niclam, Kailer and Chilko - 8 reg alsians and about 40 igs. I will post tomorrow once I manage to get it sized properly and cleaned up.

Unfortunately I do not have videos of when I smacked down Surak (nothing like seeing something 10% your size whooping on you) or when we gang banged Niclam while he was logged as his Royal Canadian Mountie for syrts in Trelle.

This little event thing was fun, a pleasant change away from the norm. I think Chilko turned his damage reception off when we had him within 4% of dying a cpl times tho, its irritating to see like 10 or 12 hits @ zero dmg. Recommendations for next time would be better time promulgation (keep us updated when it would really occur) as some of us were just kind of standing around for and hour or so wondering when it will occur and then give us a time slot so we know how long we will have you guys on. Only reason why I mentioned that is that you guys seemed to head out in the middle of an invasion attempt.

Oh and get Kailer a new PC system, something newer than a commodore 64, caleco vision or intellivision. I think he crashed more than any Alsian during and after the fights.

On the whole I have really enjoyed the event, even though the server decided
to instantaneously combust last night.

When the realm chat was opened a few of us were hunting around Syrtis.
I think all of us decided swap to general for a bit as it was too busy in there.
This wasnt a good idea as we decided to have a quick look at Syrtis gate on the way
back to Alsius to take part in the event, what did we see??? THE WHOLE OF
FLIPPING SYRTIS IN FRONT OF US. (Did get us home a lot faster though :D)

Anyways, thanks ngd for taking the time on a Sunday especially to be with us
bunch of moaning bums, Your efforts were really appreciated.

P.S. Also thanks To Surak for popping in to let me know NGD had fixed the
'Invisible' party hat for us goats in time for the event

Missed it, was 1am for me, EU time GMT +2 :( (I wasn't home anyway).

Nice job for trying to improve where quest failed, these events would give more benefit for both parts (devs as game representers and players as customers). You could even do bigger event (or combo of PvP event in arena, RvR fort and RvR open field, also 3-realm fight, mob invasions etc) and dump this boring quest, and making hats during event just armor 0, not -80% hp too (after event -80%). Cause atm there's no anniversary spirit, since none can wear those hats in war during event.

Also, I thought devs would use realm mounts and realm armor but oh well.

About future events: as Nightchill said,we have daily fort wars so you could introduce some new fun besides mass fort wars.
You could do some mob + mob leaders invasions/boss attack on towns, where everyone can take part in it. Right now, this was in war zone, event and anni quest with mobs lvl 30+, which was kinda impossible for low level players and newbies to take part in celebration. IMO, this was more oriented to high lvlers, and for anni celebration, every player, no matter of lvl, should be included somehow. I d like if you d pay attention on this fact in future. When you celebrate anniversary of game, you should involve all players in it, even those newbies who just came in game. We, higher lvl players, can sure try to help them solve quest, but lvl 10 for example sees party mob as impossible with or without party.

Also, opening again PvP Island during event would be good move though I don't understand your idea to make that island PvP since you made Duel banners now(which btw needs some visual borders).

And one thing to say about quest: its boring because:
mobs are in water, on mountains, on almost unreachable places for archers (and totally unreachable for warriors), dancing in rocks too and so on. I did quest with barb and conju, because:
-support conju needs to turn into sm to solve quest if solo (like every other class can do solo), so support conju needed party to buff others to get a kill
-barb needs ranged unit to buff him (Onslaught, Owth) so he could get a kill when archer is shooting on mob that is unreachable (far in water, mountain, behind it etc)
-and because barb areas helped us to kill party mob who was dancing on top of Alsius realm wall, displaying to me (archer) "not facing" message non stop.

The only funny part of it was that enemies came to our lands or met us in theirs so we had some nice team vs team fights. Nothing else was funny or interesting in quest, at least for me. Uh and Syrtis hat...

To sum up, I m glad that devs improved their communication with community, and showing us these days they re trying hard to improve aspects that were weak in past. Fof that, big thumb up :thumb:

yaaay
 

It definitely was worth waiting :-)
The event was different and a lots of fun even for me (lvl30)
So like we can hope for something like "army leader" in the future ;-P
sssshhh .. ok ok allready.
Waiting for the crafting :-) oh and also more quest, the inner realm is still pretty boring remember and its the main reason of noobs leaving.

The event was fun even if it totally killed the server! Players do like some crazy thing to happens!

PS: Please no more copy paste quests for next events! I'd like a quests more oriented RvR (e.g. take all ennemies bases)

PPS: OMG BIG DEV!!!
PPPS: Thanks !

all i can say is it was fun funny and silly did i say fun?-lol:harhar:
Thanx all

I didn't make it due to my timezone, however I'd like to congratulate NGD for at least reaching out to the community and holding the celebration with us. Although it didn't go smoothly, a lot had fun, and that's what counts.

I missed the event, but it sure sounded fun.

More of this! No more copy + paste events!

LOL
This nearly happened to us in Ignis when we were headed to Imperia but luckily our political leaders decided to follow the 40 foot knight to Imperia. There was only muffled discontent by them on the long road to imperia but luckily, despite their nature of always being the ones calling the shots and not able to follow anyone be they 5 feet tall or 40 feet tall, they pressed on to Imperia for a great battle. Syrtis was already there even! Almost as if the giant could see over the horizon and lead us to the action!

*hopes he is not tossed out into the wilderness once again by his friends he likes to poke fun at* : P

I'd also like to thank the devs & especially Kailer for the Horus event. I had a lot of fun as I think did most in Alsius & Ignis so I'm sorry that it seems Syrtis got a raw deal.

Of course I have to echo some of the criticisms:

It was poor that everyone on Horus was expecting something at 9pm only to find out at the last minute we had to wait another 2 hours. Then by the time the event did start it was very late for European players.

I don't know for how long exactly Ignis had 2 admins while Syrtis was left with none but clearly this was wrong.

The event ended kind of abruptly, almost with just a "kthxbye". After mass armies had been lead around the war zone, the realms were left high-and-dry by the admins to take back their own forts/castles. It should have been managed so that it ended with a return to the status quo, so people could just enjoy the event and not have the normal worries and stresses of invasion.

And yeah Kalier try not to crash so much xD


Like others I also hope that we can see the devs ingame more often in the future. It really means a lot to people and after all, if you like the game so much, it's not really "work" is it :)

Thanks NGD, this was the best event you ever made ! I enjoyed it immensely, even though I only had a level 14 conju. This game is about RvR, so events should be like that as well, imo. :)

Hehe, I enjoyed myself up until the actual war where the fps drops made me log out.

Congrats to Kailer who had to cheat in a dual even though he was 100x the size of me xD Great dancing also ;D

This is the only screen shot i got of the event.

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I thought it was awesome
 

Don't really know if there were problems in other realms but as for me, playing during the event was wicked.* Because the dev' were on, alsius actually had huge numbers (lol, where is every1 when we need to take fort) and when the wars started it was really fun.

They aint been updated.. :(

Ranking generation should be fixed by now.

Regards