DUST Search - Sticky:The Community Team wants your feedback and ideas on events!

CCP Cmdr Wang wrote:

Gorra Snell wrote:

Before becoming a Dust addict, I was a Mass Effect 3 co-op multi-player addict for a few months. They had weekly (well, 'weekend') events that I completed (or tried to) almost every week. Some of them were fairly simple 'perform x revives', but the ones I think have the most potential here are those that encouraged you to give up your high-level gear for a few matches and run with what was that game's equivalent of militia gear. I should clarify you to had to use a specific weapon for each event...for example, militia shotguns...and I think that's a lot of fun. If you were to, say, add a militia HMG (wink wink, nudge nudge), then that week's event should be 'get x kills or assists using the militia HMG'.

I think this type of event has great tie-in potential with the recent occasions when a few copies of new AUR gear have been given to everyone. I think one was the "Mauler" suit? Say you're about to release an AUR CreoDron scout suit manufactured by CreoDron. The backstory of the event is that CreoDron needs field data for the suit before putting it into full production, and is asking us mercs to beta test it. We're all given 5 copies of the suit, and the following rewards are available:

Deploy in the new suit 5 times - get 100k isk
Get 10 kill assists wearing the new suit - get 20 copies of the CreoDron AUR shotgun (that's a thing that exists, right?)
Earn 1000 WP while wearing the new suit - get 10 copies of the new suit

For more immersion (but probably a little dev work), put the new suit in the marketplace so everyone can see it, but keep it locked for the first week (during the 'beta test') until you've deployed all the ones you were gifted. That's not a very substantial barrier in reality...if you want to buy them, of course you're going to use the ones you were gifted...but the idea of 'unlocking' things is just fun.

The specific rewards aren't that important, but I think what is important is that this sort of event compels you to change your play style. I realize that's exactly what some prior posts in this thread have spoken out against, but as long as it doesn't take long to complete the event, and the rewards aren't so substantial that you feel you have to participate or you're missing out (as is the nature of SP events), this encourages us to explore new playstyles that we might like if we gave them a try. As an added bonus, it would shake up the FOTM a little bit during the events, and I think that's desirable.

Unless it's a sniper rifle event - never run one of those Smile

This is something we can do in the near future. We can now track kills by weapon type on the DB, so expect to see events based on this.

Our next event will be fairly simple, you get double SP for the WP earned in your first win of the day. Starting in October, we will be extending that to the first 3 wins of the day for most of the month. We will also try to roll out an event based on kills made by weapon type in a new "Challenge" event, and yes, no sniper rifles, (though now that I've said that, I'm sure the sniper fans will be raging).

We are finalizing the event details for September and October, and should be ready to make them available to the public by early next week.


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Aeon Amadi A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. 2779	Posted - 2013.09.12 08:32:00 - [1] - Quote CCP Cmdr Wang wrote: Gorra Snell wrote: Before becoming a Dust addict, I was a Mass Effect 3 co-op multi-player addict for a few months. They had weekly (well, 'weekend') events that I completed (or tried to) almost every week. Some of them were fairly simple 'perform x revives', but the ones I think have the most potential here are those that encouraged you to give up your high-level gear for a few matches and run with what was that game's equivalent of militia gear. I should clarify you to had to use a specific weapon for each event...for example, militia shotguns...and I think that's a lot of fun. If you were to, say, add a militia HMG (wink wink, nudge nudge), then that week's event should be 'get x kills or assists using the militia HMG'. I think this type of event has great tie-in potential with the recent occasions when a few copies of new AUR gear have been given to everyone. I think one was the "Mauler" suit? Say you're about to release an AUR CreoDron scout suit manufactured by CreoDron. The backstory of the event is that CreoDron needs field data for the suit before putting it into full production, and is asking us mercs to beta test it. We're all given 5 copies of the suit, and the following rewards are available: Deploy in the new suit 5 times - get 100k isk Get 10 kill assists wearing the new suit - get 20 copies of the CreoDron AUR shotgun (that's a thing that exists, right?) Earn 1000 WP while wearing the new suit - get 10 copies of the new suit For more immersion (but probably a little dev work), put the new suit in the marketplace so everyone can see it, but keep it locked for the first week (during the 'beta test') until you've deployed all the ones you were gifted. That's not a very substantial barrier in reality...if you want to buy them, of course you're going to use the ones you were gifted...but the idea of 'unlocking' things is just fun. The specific rewards aren't that important, but I think what is important is that this sort of event compels you to change your play style. I realize that's exactly what some prior posts in this thread have spoken out against, but as long as it doesn't take long to complete the event, and the rewards aren't so substantial that you feel you have to participate or you're missing out (as is the nature of SP events), this encourages us to explore new playstyles that we might like if we gave them a try. As an added bonus, it would shake up the FOTM a little bit during the events, and I think that's desirable. Unless it's a sniper rifle event - never run one of those This is something we can do in the near future. We can now track kills by weapon type on the DB, so expect to see events based on this. Our next event will be fairly simple, you get double SP for the WP earned in your first win of the day. Starting in October, we will be extending that to the first 3 wins of the day for most of the month. We will also try to roll out an event based on kills made by weapon type in a new "Challenge" event, and yes, no sniper rifles, (though now that I've said that, I'm sure the sniper fans will be raging). We are finalizing the event details for September and October, and should be ready to make them available to the public by early next week. So, lemme get your thoughts on this. I threw out the idea a while back of having events split into two separate functions. One being mundane, which would be like "get 100 kills this week" or something, with the second part being the Double/Triple SP week. Now, the reward is what makes this interesting. If you get 100 kills in the first week (or whatever the goal is) you get a 7-Day Active SP Boost for the following multiplied SP week. I'd imagine marketing would hate you to death for it but considering that non-paying players would love you and even paying players can still benefit from it, there's less of a "I got a bunch of dropsuits and weapons I don't use" sort of thing.