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Socrates|Mindark

Socrates|Mindark

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In the spirit of creating some more regular, spontaneous and fun events - MindArk is turning OLA5 into our new area for mini-events!

Join in for the first MindArk Madness Event featuring a free for all PvP competition with some appropriately themed prizes!

This first event will serve as a trial for future events of this style.

When
Friday 28th 20:00 UTC. Runtime 1hr.
(Check Event List Ingame)

Where
OLA5, Nearest TP: The Land of Oz
/wp [Calypso, 36784, 36463, 132, Waypoint]

Rules
Most PvP Points, No Vehicles, No Radar, Accumulated Ammo/Decay added to Prizes

Ticket Price
10 PED
(Purchase From Event List Ingame)
You must have a ticket in order to participate, so if you want to attend ensure you buy a ticket ASAP!

Prizes
1st
  • [Marber Foxtrot-Type Plasma Annihilator]
  • [Infiltrator Arm Guards (M,L)]
  • [Infiltrator Thigh Guards (M,L)]
  • [MediStim 15mg] x10

2nd
  • [Infiltrator Shin Guards (M,L)]
  • [Infiltrator Harness (M,L)]
  • [MediStim 15mg] x5

3rd
  • [Infiltrator Gloves (M,L)]
  • [Infiltrator Foot Guards (M,L)]

You can also check out the Socrates Shed by the Land Area Marker and pay a visit to my office ;) Happy Shooting!

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Yes! Love this!

More small events like this with similar rewards.
Maybe having health brackets so there can be the same type of events for different groups of people.

50-150 hp
150-250hp
250-350hp
350-500hp
500+


Can a helmet be thrown in for an honorable mention? Maybe randomly won by someone in the top 15 kills?
Keep the good going Socrates ❤️
 
Angela Draniie Cloud said:
Yes! Love this!

More small events like this with similar rewards.
Maybe having health brackets so there can be the same type of events for different groups of people.

50-150 hp
150-250hp
250-350hp
350-500hp
500+

Keep the good going Socrates ❤️
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Great idea for future events, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

Edit: Yes I can throw in the helmet. Perhaps for the "worst PvPer" prize ;)
 
If ammo and decay are not at 10% of normal like in fort events, ok, but what will the distribution be pls? At full cost things could add up ...
 
Yeah, cause I’m sure you’re gonna be monitoring players using aim bot 😂😂
 
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This is awesome! Though free entry (at least for the first one) would have been best to get the most people participating as possible. Are you really hard up for the $100 max income if all 100 tickets are sold? lol

*EDIT* On second though it'll probably sell out in full even with a 10 ped cost... Guess it prevents too many people signing up with zero intention to actually participate.
 
jambon said:
This is awesome! Though free entry (at least for the first one) would have been best to get the most people participating as possible. Are you really hard up for the $100 max income if all 100 tickets are sold? lol

*EDIT* On second though it'll probably sell out in full even with a 10 ped cost... Guess it prevents too many people signing up with zero intention to actually participate.
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I guess it's to get around the someone paying 50 noobs to hide in a corner and slaughter them all when event starts.

We will all undoubtedly spend way more over the hour, but it will be fun!

I can't wait! ❄️
 
jambon said:
This is awesome! Though free entry (at least for the first one) would have been best to get the most people participating as possible. Are you really hard up for the $100 max income if all 100 tickets are sold? lol
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The reason was more so that only people with the intention of showing up sign up, to prevent what @Alainax said, and to prevent "griefing" whereby people can coordinate to take out remaining tickets, locking others out of the event.

However, this is just a trial so we can try different ways of doing it in future. Appreciate the feedback regardless! :)
 
Alainax said:
I guess it's to get around the someone paying 50 noobs to hide in a corner and slaughter them all when event starts.

We will all undoubtedly spend way more over the hour, but it will be fun!

I can't wait! ❄️
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Socrates|Mindark said:
The reason was more so that only people with the intention of showing up sign up, to prevent what @Alainax said, and to prevent "griefing" whereby people can coordinate to take out remaining tickets, locking others out of the event.

However, this is just a trial so we can try different ways of doing it in future. Appreciate the feedback regardless! :)
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Yeah, I realized almost right after I said it the possible exploits and reason behind it lol. I suppose it's still possible even with a 10 ped entry... I mean even just 4 or 5 noobs willing to march to death after every respawn would do it lol

It's too bad there's no option to expand on the PVP rules where like it's 1 point per kill but like 10 points for each unique avatar or something. Would encourage people to kill more different avatars than focusing on 1 or 2. Or like a diminishing kill points for the same avatar. First kill is 10 points, then 5, then 2 then a minimum of 1.

I do need to really take the time to reinforce that I really love the initiative of this event though!

I've been suggesting for years MA does sponsored in-game events like this. And the prizes are awesome! An UL gun top prize with some decent L gear and a very low entry cost. This is how you do it MA! Taking this a step further you could even create some unique L gear only available to be won in these events that kicks ass. Not just PVP events but regular HSL events too.

Imagine E.L.M style armor that's won in regular MA sponsored LA events. I mean it's win-win-win for everyone.
  • TT overhead for MA is basically nothing with a 1 ped TT value for each piece (which is tradable but non-refundable)
  • New gear that can have markup is created
  • An easily restricted supply based on events rather than crafting or random loot events so it should have minimal impact on armor crafters
  • The gear would have huge appeal for it's uniqueness of low TT E.L.M mechanic which would actually promote better returns for players since there would be less decay
  • Massively increase user activity though a highly condensed event (regular 1 hour events vs 1-2 week long grind-a-thon mayhems)
  • Hugely customizable to different player levels (different LA with different mobs, different event rules...etc)
  • Events that are widely available to all player levels
  • It adds LIFE to the game!!! I mean this is also a perfect opportunity to have interaction with MA and the players at these events. Could go as far as to have a livestream of the action in an event like this.
Focusing on expanding the event system and MA sponsored events is a VERY GOOD way to improve the game. I encourage any and all exploration of this path forward.
 
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Nice. Step in the right direction. Now what can you do to make this universe wide with other planets owned by MindArk?
 
jambon said:
It's too bad there's no option to expand on the PVP rules where like it's 1 point per kill but like 10 points for each unique avatar or something. Would encourage people to kill more different avatars than focusing on 1 or 2. Or like a diminishing kill points for the same avatar. First kill is 10 points, then 5, then 2 then a minimum of 1.
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You haven’t done a pvp event through the event system or you wouldn’t say this…. Those that know how the system works will be going for unique kills 😎
 
jambon said:
Taking this a step further you could even create some unique L gear only available to be won in these events that kicks ass. Not just PVP events but regular HSL events too.
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It's a great idea! Not going to make any promises I can't keep, but I will certainly explore that idea.
 
Great idea!!!

However, pvp is broken in Entropia so I rather see offorts spent making the game more fun and adventurous than try to use a broken system to give rewards.

I’m sure you know there isn’t any type of anti-cheat and using one would cost MindArk and the community too much so I doubt there ever will be one.

And anyone that says any or all the players who have insane hit rates are doing it naturally are kidding themselves and blind to the backgrounds of those players.

IMO, the pvp rewards should be removed from the game. PVP should cost but have very little to no tradable rewards. Any rewards from PvP should be non tradable or have 0 tt value, until the system is fixed.
 
jak said:
Great idea!!!

However, pvp is broken in Entropia so I rather see offorts spent making the game more fun and adventurous than try to use a broken system to give rewards.

I’m sure you know there isn’t any type of anti-cheat and using one would cost MindArk and the community too much so I doubt there ever will be one.

And anyone that says any or all the players who have insane hit rates are doing it naturally are kidding themselves and blind to the backgrounds of those players.

IMO, the pvp rewards should be removed from the game. PVP should cost but have very little to no tradable rewards. Any rewards from PvP should be non tradable or have 0 tt value, until the system is fixed.
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There are those who have relatively high hit rate that dont cheat.. Just because someone is on the other side of pvp and they kill you, does not mean they cheat..

Saying pvp rewards should be removed from the game is rather silly, the rewards dont affect you in the slightest, those who win the event, place in the event and are interested in pvp will probably spend more in ammo and decay than the rewards even justify, so imo they can stay.
 
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