Rant on Mad King

Originally Posted by Age

How did you get Tot bags when you weren't doing any emotes?When you go afk you only get the mask.It would be nice if it continude untill the weekend seeing as how Halloween falls on it.

Originally Posted by Dr.Jones

i agree i think the mad king should show up from the start of the event to the end. that way the max amount of people can see him and get the rewards from him. and i think that is something that needs to change for all events. i know the first day would be unrealistic for most of the events because of the "requirements" (like the jade orbs) to get the hats but i think the main event needs to last longer then just the one day. especially if the hole thing is done remotely. this would also make it so there is less lag on the last day of the event.

Originally Posted by Miss Drops Az

I strongly disagree. The main event is Halloween - that is one day event.
You wouldnt take your kids out trick or treating on the 1st Nov because you were too busy on the 31st after all.

Also the main event is supposed to be the "big ending" and everything else is just part of the build up. Your suggestion takes this away.

as far as lag is concerned, having the event longer just means lag for a longer period imho. A very high percentage of the people that afk'd for masks and ToT bags would continue for the free bags _ I think I am much happier with lag for 1 day than a small percentage less lag over the course of a longer event.

Originally Posted by Evil Genius

Summary: Game mechanics of Mad King are unsuitable and excludes some players.

As you can tell from the summary, I am not too pleased on the Mad King arrival and hat giving ceremony. Why:

Premise 1:
Halloween is at the end of October/first November (this of course cannot be changed) and therefore a busy time for those in the Southern hemisphere particularly. Many have exams, long work commitments etc.

Premise 2:
To have only 9 visits and spaced three hours apart results in less opportunity for one to attend the Mad King's arrival especially when a few are during the 12:30pm to 8:30am time bracket in Adelaide. To obtain both hats would require visits to both towns and presumably at different times because server-jumping doesn't work.

Premise 3:
The Mad King goes on and on for such a long time. Repeating the same stuff over and over is aggravating and annoying for those with limited time.

Conclusion:
The Mad King's visits are poorly designed. Why do we have decorated towns for an entire week beforehand and then have the Mad King visit relatively few times? I am not arguing the decorations are up for too long, rather the Mad King visits too irregularly or for too short a duration (i.e rather than 24 hours with a visit every 3 hours how about 48 hours with visits every three hours, or 24 hours with visits hourly?)

I know for many of you time is no issue. You can easily visit both towns a few times, remain afk for hours etc but not everyone has this "privelege" (i.e have other commitments).

You will probably argue increasing visits would result in all sorts of horrendous evils, like people obtaining too many virtual bags etc.

That's all folks.