Hi WP! I've been thinking of ways to reignite my WP gameplay as of late. I've done a great deal of the content and kind of have been reduced to farming golden twiggies and spellcrafting spells (crumbled much?). I believe that player driven events are a really good way to keep people engaged and drive that sense of community that makes freeshards thrive. Admin driven events are one thing, but us players have the ability to create our own content in a way.
Since I joined in January, there's been one larger event (skull collection for Davohkin) and a few smaller events (find the blaze llama). Fun goals to shoot for and some rewards. I believe the reason we don't see more of this is because the players running the events need to offer up their personally earned goods (gold/tokens/scrolls/deeds) in order to give incentive to players to participate.
I think the incentive should be to the event coordinating player to start the event. Perhaps refunded gold/tokens/scrolls/deeds that they paid out, or even more creative.. like cosmetic event master clothing chance deed (crumble again!) or something along those lines. I believe you guys get the point.
There's some events I've thought about working with, like "Dragon Hunting" - bring me 2500 black dragon scales (probably a guild effort to collect) and receive a piece of crusader gear or two for your guild to roll on. Only thing is, I don't have extra crusader gear to give up, so I never started the event.
Let me know what your thoughts are on something like this. I don't want to make more work for Ghost or the admins.
