Greetings fellow Britannians!
Starting on Friday, April 16th and running through till Sunday, April 18th, the Pacific shard welcomed all to show off their treasures. A sort of come all, community event that spanned across every world in our beloved game.
Although I wasn't able to attend their array of planned events, I did get a chance to pop over and take a look at the many goods on display. Some items were familiar as our shards often follow similar story lines, while others were unlike anything I'd ever seen. All of the event vendors were marked with the name, "Pac Rares Fest 2010", and wearing an electric blue robe.
The schedule ran all day for the entirety of the event. From a daily lottery and raffle, to a UO style Antique Road show. They held an auction, as well as various tours of local sights and even a scavenger hunt and Mongbat tournament. The creativity and planning involved was quite impressive. Many thanks go out to the Pacific Rares Event crew, all 26 of you, who made this possible.
I caught up with a few of the Pacific Rares planning committee the night before all was slated to begin, and found them relaxing before the coming chaos. Dani gave me a few moments to ask a couple of questions, as I was curious if this would be something ongoing.
I was informed, very enthusiastically, that yes, it was something Pacific would be happy to do again. In fact, they had a great showing already and the event had not actually started yet. Amazingly, others had begun to arrive on Wednesday, all excited and rearing to go.
I was a bit concerned at some of the price jumps, although Napa Valley was really the only shard I was able to gauge. Dani informed me that it was to be expected as most were hoping to get top dollar for their wares, and to cover the cost of bringing items to the shard as well as the inflation on vendor fees due to the out of shard traffic. Taking all that into account, I can understand a bit of a hike in price.
Dani felt that the cost was applicable as, and I quote, "Having all the rares in one place is a nice thing." I couldn't agree more! It is also a chance to see items that you might never have had a chance to see otherwise and if you had the gold, you might have been lucky to return with something that no one on your home shard owns.
The above image taken of Stormy Skye's Yardville vendors.
I even ran into one of our own, there called Q-bert, though we know him as Hawk. He was nice enough to give me the guide book for the event. The tomb was literally 63 pages long. As I glanced through it, I honestly couldn't tell you how proud I was of the Pacific players who put in the work to host such an event. For those of you, who like me, couldn't make it, there is a brief thread here, that talks of a rather exciting influx of Harbingers, the total number speculated by one to be about 40. A couple of pics give the true nature of the fun, and I'm doubly sorry to have missed it!
Again, thanks Pacific for such a great idea, and for allowing all of us to come join you! I sincerely hope you do it again!
A salute to Pacific, high five to everyone in Napa who went, and Best Gaming Wishes to all,
Salya Sin
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Starting on Friday, April 16th and running through till Sunday, April 18th, the Pacific shard welcomed all to show off their treasures. A sort of come all, community event that spanned across every world in our beloved game.
Although I wasn't able to attend their array of planned events, I did get a chance to pop over and take a look at the many goods on display. Some items were familiar as our shards often follow similar story lines, while others were unlike anything I'd ever seen. All of the event vendors were marked with the name, "Pac Rares Fest 2010", and wearing an electric blue robe.
The schedule ran all day for the entirety of the event. From a daily lottery and raffle, to a UO style Antique Road show. They held an auction, as well as various tours of local sights and even a scavenger hunt and Mongbat tournament. The creativity and planning involved was quite impressive. Many thanks go out to the Pacific Rares Event crew, all 26 of you, who made this possible.
I caught up with a few of the Pacific Rares planning committee the night before all was slated to begin, and found them relaxing before the coming chaos. Dani gave me a few moments to ask a couple of questions, as I was curious if this would be something ongoing.
I was informed, very enthusiastically, that yes, it was something Pacific would be happy to do again. In fact, they had a great showing already and the event had not actually started yet. Amazingly, others had begun to arrive on Wednesday, all excited and rearing to go.
I was a bit concerned at some of the price jumps, although Napa Valley was really the only shard I was able to gauge. Dani informed me that it was to be expected as most were hoping to get top dollar for their wares, and to cover the cost of bringing items to the shard as well as the inflation on vendor fees due to the out of shard traffic. Taking all that into account, I can understand a bit of a hike in price.
Dani felt that the cost was applicable as, and I quote, "Having all the rares in one place is a nice thing." I couldn't agree more! It is also a chance to see items that you might never have had a chance to see otherwise and if you had the gold, you might have been lucky to return with something that no one on your home shard owns.
The above image taken of Stormy Skye's Yardville vendors.
I even ran into one of our own, there called Q-bert, though we know him as Hawk. He was nice enough to give me the guide book for the event. The tomb was literally 63 pages long. As I glanced through it, I honestly couldn't tell you how proud I was of the Pacific players who put in the work to host such an event. For those of you, who like me, couldn't make it, there is a brief thread here, that talks of a rather exciting influx of Harbingers, the total number speculated by one to be about 40. A couple of pics give the true nature of the fun, and I'm doubly sorry to have missed it!
Again, thanks Pacific for such a great idea, and for allowing all of us to come join you! I sincerely hope you do it again!
A salute to Pacific, high five to everyone in Napa who went, and Best Gaming Wishes to all,
Salya Sin
More...
). It was a great event, lots of cool things to see and lots to learn. Was nice too is a lot of the sellers stayed close to there vendors, so you could ask about the items or even pay with gold from other shards! The rares festival can be done on any shard, no reason Napa couldnt do it sometime.