Trick or Treating looks silly in the day time

[Alchemystic]

[Vanden]

30 minutes ago, ZacKing said:

ok if you're getting depressed because it's nighttime in a video game, I don't know what I can tell you there. 

A little compassion, please. Don’t be dismissive about people’s mental health.

[ZacKing]

8 minutes ago, Vanden said:

A little compassion, please. Don’t be dismissive about people’s mental health.

where did I dismiss anyone?  I just said I don't know what to tell them.  it's not my area of expertise.  but hey, if you want to talk about mental health, I'm happy to tell you all about serving in Afghanistan and the mental, physical and emotional effects of IEDs and PTSD.  but hey, you go right on making assumptions about people.

 

Anyway, can a mod please close this thread?  Thanks.

Edited October 20, 2020 by ZacKing

[Vanden]

2 minutes ago, ZacKing said:

where did I dismiss anyone?  I just said I don't know what to tell them.  it's not my area of expertise.  but hey, if you want to talk about mental health, I'm happy to tell you all about serving in Afghanistan and the mental, physical and emotional effects of IEDs and PTSD.  but hey, you go right on making assumptions about people.

Please don’t get defensive and shoot the messenger when someone tries to gently tell you that you’re coming off as insensitive, either.

[Nerio72]

8 minutes ago, ZacKing said:

Anyway, can a mod please close this thread?  Thanks.

We get it, you think this is dumb. You can move on and let people discuss something you think is dumb.

[Jimmy]

FYI the Halloween event (with eternal night) usually only ran for 2 weeks during live.

 

So you're getting the same thing here, plus two weeks of Halloween without eternal night.

 

Now, please keep it civil so I don't need to perform surgery on this thread 🙂

 

Edit: Also, we did consider only allowing ToTing during daytime, but then realised it would be incredibly frustrating to those that only have a limited amount of time to play.

[ZacKing]

I guess civility only goes in one direction.  since my post was deleted, can a forum mod please close the topic?  Thanks.

[Jimmy]

No posts have been deleted.

The topic will not be locked just because you've requested it.

[AerialAssault]

I did some digging and, as it turns out, there was a thread last year asking for, you guessed it, perma-night to be removed.

So are we just meant to repeat the cycle? If so I'll gladly nominate myself to make next year's thread.

 

[Jimmy]

Now I am hiding posts.

 

This thread is for discussing the Halloween event. Not being petty.

 

Thanks.

[ShardWarrior]

7 minutes ago, AerialAssault said:

I did some digging and, as it turns out, there was a thread last year asking for, you guessed it, perma-night to be removed.

So are we just meant to repeat the cycle? If so I'll gladly nominate myself to make next year's thread.

 

Maybe instead of recycling this same topic again next year, just reduce the length of the event back to a week or two as @Jimmysaid it was on live.

[Glacier Peak]

Love the change and I disagree with this suggestion. 

 

Thanks!

[BZRKR]

How about giving Kallisti Wharf a "Halloween Makeover" mode, like the excellent work done in Atlas Park this year?

 

Then, set it to be "All Night, All of the Time" for the duration of the Halloween event.

• There would be no enemies except level-less event mobs, so any level character that can make it to a Tram/Ferry/Supergroup Base could join.
• It's a co-op zone so all alignments could join.
• It's really big so there would be plenty of doors.
• To my knowledge, only Market Crash takes place there, so night-averse folks would be unlikely to be routed there for mission arcs.
• Costume Contests during Halloween would be in the appropriate atmosphere.

 

Disclaimer: I have no idea if such a thing is possible, and of course it uses precious, precious Dev resources, but it's just a suggestion.

Edited October 20, 2020 by BZRKR
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[Darmian]

1 minute ago, BZRKR said:

How about giving Kallisti Wharf a "Halloween Makeover" mode, like the excellent work done in Atlas Park this year?

 

Then, set it to be "All Night, All of the Time" for the duration of the Halloween event.

• There would be no enemies except level-less event mobs, so any level character that can make it to a Tram/Ferry/Supergroup Base could join.
• It's a co-op zone so all alignments could join.
• It's really big so there would be plenty of doors.
• To my knowledge, only Market Crash takes place there, so night-averse folks would be unlikely to be routed there for mission arcs.
• Costume Contests during Halloween would be in the appropriate atmosphere.

 

Disclaimer: I have no idea if such a thing is possible, and of course it uses precious, precious Dev resources, but it's just a suggestion.

Love it. Meanwhile my Praetorian sits at home wondering where all the cool kids go of an evening.

[TraumaTrain]

I like the way it was on live. A two week event with the eternal darkness.

 

Last year's event ran for what felt like ever. Combined with the eternal darkness, it was too much. This year it doesn't feel as long because of the eternal darkness only being part-time. But a whole month for a one day holiday?

 

On live, it was a real treat. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it. Two weeks, for me, feels just about perfect. (With the eternal night for the whole two weeks.)

 

Thank you for reading my opinion.

 

 

[Vanden]

You're not gonna want the event to be shorter next year, because next time there'll be a brand-new, unique IO set available exclusively from the Haunted House trial, and you'll want time to stock up

 

he said, his eyes full of sparkles and his heart full of naive hope

[Jimmy]

We do eventually want Kallisti Wharf to grow up and be a real zone with a full set of content, so we probably wouldn't make it a special purpose event zone like that 🙂

[Darmian]

3 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

We do eventually want Kallisti Wharf to grow up and be a real zone with a full set of content, so we probably wouldn't make it a special purpose event zone like that 🙂

In the meantime, if you wander into the building over south of the stadium in Old Slough, the one with the hole in the wall from a glitch, there's a partial door inside buried in the floor.  If you click on that it reacts properly for ToT, but then the spawns seem to appear under the map and chase you outside, still firing at you from under the map! 

 

 

[Darmian]

Also, on the Christie Square side, beyond the park and near the building with the indoor garden (same set up as the one in Atlas Park) you can sometimes see a tide of spirits/ghosts just flow by you and up the street before all disappearing into a door.

[FoulVileTerror]

For what it may be worth to the overall discussion, I -do- appreciate the four week window.  The current 1-2-1 format for the weeks of darkness is perhaps a little . . . odd?  But for my play experience, the overall compromise is fairly solid.

[Grouchybeast]

7 hours ago, FoulVileTerror said:

For what it may be worth to the overall discussion, I -do- appreciate the four week window.  The current 1-2-1 format for the weeks of darkness is perhaps a little . . . odd?  But for my play experience, the overall compromise is fairly solid.

Look, you can't just expect the Halloween mobs to show up line-perfect once a year on demand.  They need a week of rehearsals before their big day!

[Lines]

I think this October has been ace this year. I'm sad that I've not had much time to play it, but really happy that there's been a nice long event so I can make use of the time I do have. The two eternal night weeks is a great compromise.

 

👍

[Force Redux]

17 hours ago, Davy said:

I haven't. Why isn't the Invisible Katana Bug fixed yet?!

Thank you. 

[ZacKing]

Nevermind.  Not worth it.

Edited October 21, 2020 by ZacKing

[The_Warpact]

Let common sense ring in now.

 

In different areas, states, towns, cities, villages, townships, etc they do ToT at different times.

So some are at night, some during day, some are house to house and some are trunk or treats at churches. 

So whats normal for one person might not be the same for another.