Carnival

[Ulti19]

NGD, people always make threads saying how crappy the events are well...
This event is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! great little island, you even added a soundtrack. Best of all you get to fight a super boss with each realm cooperating! This is super new, and super cool I think, gratz! More stuff like this would be EPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC! Don't delete the island after the event is done, do something with it! Make a 4th capturable fort there that's neutral for fun or something

[Awrath]

Originally Posted by Ulti19

NGD, people always make threads saying how crappy the events are well...
This event is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! great little island, you even added a soundtrack. Best of all you get to fight a super boss with each realm cooperating! This is super new, and super cool I think, gratz! More stuff like this would be EPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC! Don't delete the island after the event is done, do something with it! Make a 4th capturable fort there that's neutral for fun or something

Sounds different from the past events . Look forward to checking it out once I finish work. Another 8 hours to go \o/.

[Pwnography]

Originally Posted by Awrath

Sounds different from the past events . Look forward to checking it out once I finish work. Another 8 hours to go \o/.

Just drop 1.5k xim and enjoy!

[Mrreality13]

Originally Posted by Fighting_Irish

Just drop 1.5k xim and enjoy!

and again those of us who cant afford xim are sorta left out in the cold to TRY and grind for that badge

[_Enio_]

Originally Posted by Mrreality13

and again those of us who cant afford xim are sorta left out in the cold to TRY and grind for that badge

Kidna. However they added a Christmas-tree like Totem for 7.5k xim which 5 players can interact with to get the badge so maybe you run across a kind player who places one.

Edit: Wouldve been cool if that badge would drop off players aswell. The current implementation doesnt encourage war..

[Awrath]

Originally Posted by _Enio_

Kidna. However they added a Christmas-tree like Totem for 7.5k xim which 5 players can interact with to get the badge so maybe you run across a kind player who places one.

Edit: Wouldve been cool if that badge would drop off players aswell. The current implementation doesnt encourage war..

"Carnival Totem (this one will grant 5 realm badges to your friends for only 5 minutes!)"


I don't know what the events are, but seems a bit pricy for temporary items.

[Kyrottimus]

Originally Posted by Mrreality13

and again those of us who cant afford xim are sorta left out in the cold to TRY and grind for that badge

Don't waste your time grinding for a badge. I've wasted 3 hours grinding for one to no avail. In fact I've run into several who have been grinding more than I have, and have yet to hear of a single person dropping it.

The "drop badge from mob" part of the quest is put there to give people the illusion that the event is including all players, premium and non-premium.

This idea, however, is a complete joke. This incredibly small drop-rate is intentional to cause those grinding for the badge to get impatient and discouraged and just buy the xim so they can be part of the event and not feel left out.

Dropping the badge from a mob is a random situation so you have no idea the odds stacked against you or how long it may take to finally drop it (if ever). If it were a quest with a fixed amount of mobs to kill to be awarded the badge (Example: Kill 500 <insert mob of your player's level here>), people who couldn't buy xim could still work towards the badge with a quest counter to give them at least some kind of a sense of progress.

Instead, there is no progress or even a glimpse into the drop-rate odds of this badge, and most will give up and either buy the xim for the badge or log out.

The exclusivity of this event for premium-only players is ludicrous. From what I've been told the difficulty of finishing the island quest and getting the premium clothing reward is extreme.

Yet another example of creating a scenario where something is insanely difficult to accomplish in order to receive a very simple reward...or you can just fork over the cash and buy the reward, hey it's only a little bit of xim.

I have a question; if I buy the xim to buy this badge, can I get the 3 hours I wasted grinding returned to me?



I guess I completely have the opposite opinion of this event as Ulti.

I feel frustrated, duped and cheated. I've been looking forward to exploring this new island for awhile now (ever since I learned of its existence). I come home from work today to discover it's premium-only and that I can't explore it or take part in the community stuff going on there.

And yes, this is a premium-only event. Statistically, it will continue to be premium only until every non-premium player is able to drop a badge.

Premium Players = 100% badge acquisition rate
Non-premium Players = 0.000??% badge acquisition rate.

The law of averages applies here. Round accordingly. This event is premium-only. Nobody should have any illusions or false hopes here.

[Ulti19]

I didn't know it was such a low drop rate. I thought it would be super easy to get or something. Really sucks for none premium players to miss the event.. That island should be for all ro players it's the most unique thing ngd did for the game in the past 3 years I think, a new island to fight a boss together with all three realms. Even if it's small or whatever the idea is pretty cool, all should be included.

[standistortion]

Agree with OP, really nice work, hope this stays in the game, would be some great battles in there. Agree with other posts about drop rate too though, not heard of anyone dropping a badge so far and its a long run all the way across the map to find out it's either pay or grind. Some bugs but nothing serious so far and we'd be screwed if we had nothing to complain about.

[Sentrii]

Way better then the old reheat and serve events of the past, I've bought 2 totems for non xim players to get in after hearing about the non existant drop rate... that side of this event stinks.