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* updated June 9, 2009
Apologies!
By EMSeppo
Today’s event was a complete mess! Things did not go quite as expected and I would like to apologize for it.
This is what was supposed to happen:
When the red team ran into the blue team, I was supposed to have a conversation with Olin - asking them to withdraw. After that, I was going to summon a Kraken to aid the red team but fail at it causing the Kraken to attack the red team instead.
However, this never happened and the blue team was swiftly taken over by the numerically superior red team. Also the sea battle idea did not really work out so well because once you are dead it is not that easy to come back into the play.
Anyways, I would like to thank everyone for their support and sincerely apologize for the disaster!
To summarize the event:
Gideon’s fleet successfully managed to deliver Lord Casca’s personal shipment. Surely, this will see Gideon’s star rise in Lord Casca’s court. This was a fully player driven outcome event, as in if the Indy Traders’ alliance had managed to stop Gideon then Gideon was going to be flayed by Lord Casca and his merchant empire dismantled.
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* Update:
Thanks everyone for your input. I realize now that it was not all that bad after all and the turn out was beyond excellent. However, I am still not happy with it. Based on some analysis, I have came to the conclusion that,
1) The biggest fault with the event was that there were some lapses in terms of information made available to the participants. This is generally the primary reason for things going haywire and I will have to make sure that it does not happen again. For instance, I probably should have made the blue team know in advance that the cargo was being taken to Britain dock so that they could mount another challenge.
2) I scheduled the event too close to another event (player wedding). This made things hectic behind the scenes. I should not have done that
3) Did not react well enough to the unexpectedly high number of people showing up for red team. There were few things that we could have done like placing a gate on blue team’s boats to mainland with a healer to support the blockade.
What can you as a player do to help things out?
The only thing I would ask is to register if you plan to attend. Even if you are not sure, register anyways and indicate that you are not certain if you will make it. This can really help with planning and setting things up.
Having said that, I still want people to feel welcome to show up if they hear about the event 15 minutes before things are going down and have not registered yet. But do make a good faith effort to register if you plan to come.
All in all, this was a great learning experience and I am very excited about employing lessons learned in the future.
PS. I have uploaded screenshots that were taken by me or other players over here
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* updated June 9, 2009
Apologies!
By EMSeppo
Today’s event was a complete mess! Things did not go quite as expected and I would like to apologize for it.
This is what was supposed to happen:
When the red team ran into the blue team, I was supposed to have a conversation with Olin - asking them to withdraw. After that, I was going to summon a Kraken to aid the red team but fail at it causing the Kraken to attack the red team instead.
However, this never happened and the blue team was swiftly taken over by the numerically superior red team. Also the sea battle idea did not really work out so well because once you are dead it is not that easy to come back into the play.
Anyways, I would like to thank everyone for their support and sincerely apologize for the disaster!
To summarize the event:
Gideon’s fleet successfully managed to deliver Lord Casca’s personal shipment. Surely, this will see Gideon’s star rise in Lord Casca’s court. This was a fully player driven outcome event, as in if the Indy Traders’ alliance had managed to stop Gideon then Gideon was going to be flayed by Lord Casca and his merchant empire dismantled.
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* Update:
Thanks everyone for your input. I realize now that it was not all that bad after all and the turn out was beyond excellent. However, I am still not happy with it. Based on some analysis, I have came to the conclusion that,
1) The biggest fault with the event was that there were some lapses in terms of information made available to the participants. This is generally the primary reason for things going haywire and I will have to make sure that it does not happen again. For instance, I probably should have made the blue team know in advance that the cargo was being taken to Britain dock so that they could mount another challenge.
2) I scheduled the event too close to another event (player wedding). This made things hectic behind the scenes. I should not have done that
3) Did not react well enough to the unexpectedly high number of people showing up for red team. There were few things that we could have done like placing a gate on blue team’s boats to mainland with a healer to support the blockade.
What can you as a player do to help things out?
The only thing I would ask is to register if you plan to attend. Even if you are not sure, register anyways and indicate that you are not certain if you will make it. This can really help with planning and setting things up.
Having said that, I still want people to feel welcome to show up if they hear about the event 15 minutes before things are going down and have not registered yet. But do make a good faith effort to register if you plan to come.
All in all, this was a great learning experience and I am very excited about employing lessons learned in the future.
PS. I have uploaded screenshots that were taken by me or other players over here
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If you would like to leave a comment for EM Seppo, please use this link ... click here