Bring Back THE RAIDS! (And Grand Tournament)

[Jack Kingpin]

Hey, your resident old man Jack Kingpin here.  Remember once upon a time when everyone ran to get on this dinky little boat to go on an island to fight waves upon waves of beast, and then at the end fighting a big boss? Pepperidge Farms Remembers. 

No but serious, I feel that it was a great stress reliever to just have these world events that were partly OOC with the chance of getting a cool reward benefit, coins rewards, ect. Now hear me out!

I understand that back in E1 it worked for different reasons, but I actually honestly really enjoyed the whimsical nature of it. Enemies from all factions would be there just chilling and OOCly mingling and really bringing down the OOC tension between people and bring back that fun OOC social contact once more. 

And the grand tournaments were just FUN. Why did those stop again? We need that back.

[Apollo Densin]

NGL, the loss of raids and the ooc dojo sort of sucks in a lot of ways and I support this 100%. Just being able to relax and joke around with people in other factions was really calming in its own right. Don't even need to make the rewards that much either and I think people would still do them

[mat13295]

"Partly OOC"

They were completely OOC. And they were awful cause everyone screeched to go during scenes because "Muh perms"

[GrayHood]

Grand tournament had vibes of Olympic games. All wars were on pause, Osronian king stood near Myllenoris Queen.

[Vriska]

the issue with running many grand tournaments is that instead of the 20-30 participants we used to get in e1, there’s often 60-70 signups. it takes a whole lot of time to organize something that huge and even longer to run it, so that’s why there’s less of them

as for raids... i do feel nostalgic for them, but they just don’t really fit with the game as it is right now. so no this is a bad idea

[Jack Kingpin]

the issue with running many grand tournaments is that instead of the 20-30 participants we used to get in e1, there’s often 60-70 signups. it takes a whole lot of time to organize something that huge and even longer to run it, so that’s why there’s less of them

as for raids... i do feel nostalgic for them, but they just don’t really fit with the game as it is right now. so no this is a bad idea

Hmm. That makes sense. Lot more people are around for the tournament so I can see how that would be a bigger pain to run and a lot more time consuming. 

And i get you on the raids part, I really do. Raids worked back then cause ways to get currency and rewards were limited and it was a nice sure fire way to do it. It is probably nostalgia for me but I still think it would be nice, not so much for the benefits of the rewards but the atmosphere it created alone. It was just a really fun 5-10 minutes.

.... that and I always loved watching people run from half way across the continent to get to one spot in time.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

I have too many memory's of people leaving mid-rp for me to ever want those cursed raids back.

[Oyster.]

uncomfortable truth: the existence of raids increased player activity & retention as they provided a slow progression of earning perms and gave something to do to break up monotony

[Shadovarn]

I loved the raids. Nice breaks in rp at times. Even if they were chaos incarnate.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

uncomfortable truth: the existence of raids increased player activity & retention as they provided a slow progression of earning perms and gave something to do to break up monotony

They broke up the RP environment and made the game worse and unequivocally shittier in every way, the game was never in my opinion monotonous and their was always something to do just like their is in the current game. The accumulation of mass amounts of currency and of the buying of perms incentivized one to join these things and interrupt perfectly good scenes for out of character reasons and led to the gross over-inflation of currency and things being sold for ridiculous sums of money as everything was based around the idea of people going to these places to gain fat stacks. At the time, I was against them and greatly annoyed when people flew off out of scenes to join them.

I am glad that the raids are gone and will relentlessly fight any attempt to reintroduce them frankly such is my disdain for them.