A new event... (Held by Lone_Renegade)

Hello people.

I noticed some time ago that there would be an event on Sundays for players at and below level 50, and was called the Escape pod race...

I figure it never really had any success, because I never saw any event being held on Sundays in NY as predicted.

So I would like to hold an event, with the help of another volunteer assisstant called the Escape Pod Hunt.

Similar to the Nomad Hunt Gun, the Escape Pod Hunt's aim is to gather players at and below level 40 to gather experience and money. Also, this event is based on winning! Everyone can win! Even the people who participated will win some money. So here goes:

The Escape Pod Hunt event. (Held on Saturdays @ 7:00/7:30 GMT)

-Leader / Supervisor: Lone_Renegade_(Trader)
-Co-Leader: Tranquil_Dominance

The event takes place in Colorado in the Silverton Asteroid Field, near Ouray Station (the Xenos base). The event starts at Pueblo, and all contestants are required to meet there 15 minutes prior to the event.

Players will be organised in pairs, or groups of three (depending on the number of people present at event) and will take turn in penetrating the asteroid field to collect as many escape pods as they can. To do so, the players will have 15 minutes to kill as many Xenos as they can.

Onto the rules:

1. Each player will meet and dock at Pueblo Station in Colorado (to respawn from). They will be assigned on teams of 2 or 3 (depending on the amount of player). Players will be grouped depending on their level to ensure balanced teams.

Players will be scanned at the beginning of the event to ensure no one has escape pods in their cargo holds. Anything taking space in the cargo hold can be handed to me (I will have a Train at your disposal) or it can be kept. All belongings will be recorded and handed back at the end of the event.

2. Once the 15 minutes are up, each players will be scanned for the number of escape pods collected, they will then need to hand me the escape pods, and collect their belongings (if they left any).

3. Players are allowed to chase Xenos within a 5km radius (I will stay at Ouray to make sure of that).

4. Players are not allowed to shoot at other teammates/players, this will get them disqualified from the event and they will not be eligible to win anything. The use of batteries and nanobots is allowed.

5. The winning team will get 5 million per player. The escape pods will then be sold and the money made will be split evenly among the other players. So everyone has something to win!

Comments / constructive criticism and ideas are welcome! [8]

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After Cunningham's suggestion, if anyone is willing to help me on Friday evening to run the same event for players between levels 40 and 60 inclusive, please let yourself be known. Same rules would apply except the event would be held in Ommicron Gamma (because Theta doesn't have any hostile bases). I just need to do a spot check to find a station to land at to respawn from.

Carry on with your ideas and apply people! I need help to run these events! PM me or post here, but let yourself be known!

That is a good idea Cunningham. If the first event has any success, I will think about running a similar event for higher leveled players.

@ Laserjet: Hmm, perhaps I should move it to Saturday, or Friday evening then. Thanks for the heads up.

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Originally posted by darkjedi
great idea Lone, im sure u will get more then a few ppl for this

Would you be willing to help? Or do you know someone who might be interested?

C'mon people let me know who wants to help!!

Edit: Woo! Hundreth post... [13]

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Originally posted by Tranquil_Dominance
Sounds like fun, I'm willing to lend a hand

Great! When could you help me? On Saturdays or Fridays? Or both? Since you are the first one you get to choose!

I am aware of that Baldwin, which is why I set the times earlier. First of all because I don't like to hold events late into the evening (to me 8 pm GMT is 9 pm, and my curfew is at 10, meaning I only have an hour...) and second of all because I don't want to impede other's events.

But yes I will wait for OP's approval once he comes around. We need to get organized anyways.

Perhaps people got tired of these events? I mean, I participated in a few events, but there have been times where the organisation was a little hectic, people didn't know the rules and it took forever to get started.

Maybe its time we start looking towards new events? Or update some of the old ones to let newer players get involved. Because at the moment, all events are oriented at experienced players. Even I lack too much practice to do any good in Top Gun. The only event I have any success at is the Nomad Gun Hunt, because it doesn't involve massive PvP.

Which is why I came up with this idea of a new event. I know I can run this on a regular basis, and will be sure to let people know if I can't.

Fair enough that there won't be any new events until the ones we have are being run, but if no one cares about these, why run them anyways?

I think we should run a poll to see which event people prefer, and keep those. Then have a contest where people propose their own events with rules, times, places, prizes etc... Something like I did.

I'll definitely hold on to my idea, and I hope that you'll take into consideration the points I just stated.

Until then, I can only wait and see.

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Originally posted by Marshal Cunningham
By the way, did I read "prizes" in the last post?

You read correctly, although that means, what you can win if you win the event, not what you win if you win the contest.

I won't be online for a little while. I've deleted both my characters for now. I have important school stuff coming up, and since its most likely there will be a charwipe when 1.6 comes around, there isn't much point in me playing to improve anyways...

But as I said before, when 1.6 comes around, why not have a new set of events? If we have an upgrade in the mod, why not upgrade our events?

In any case, as soon as 1.6 is up, I'd be available to help you with the Pod Hunt.