We’ve been discussing some quest ideas on gossip:
Gorka gossips– ‘drach supply has been good in this version, I admit’
You gossip– ‘*this year’
Zuzu gossips– ‘im trying to address the only-on-holidays aspect of the manually led quests’
Zuzu gossips– ‘but you guys already know that.’
Gorka gossips– ‘I’ve done little questing off valk and coliseum and come up with 1000’
Zuzu gossips– ‘wrack your brains, what would a Labor Day themed mob be’
Gorka gossips– ‘well, that’s a problem but a managable one zuzu, for some of us, it’s your timezone’
Zuzu gossips– ’early 1900’s sweatshop mob? :)'
Gorka gossips– ‘well whats been done, kill big mob quests, subdue little mob quests’
Gorka gossips– ‘what else is there?’
Zuzu gossips– ‘puzzles but people Hate Puzzles from what ive seen :)’
Zuzu gossips– ‘competition quests but i tried that and you all wanted not to be split in teams’
Gorka gossips– ‘well some players know the game better than others’
You gossip– ‘it depends how u run the competitive quest zuzu’
You gossip– ‘for one area, that’s one thing’
You gossip– ‘for the entire mud, it’s another’
Gorka gossips– ‘sloth isn’t pkill, so most of us probably lack a little bit of that competitiveness to start with’
Zuzu gossips– ’there hasn’t been a trivia quest in a long, long time'
Gorka gossips– ‘besides everyone already knows gorka is bestest’
Zuzu gossips– ‘but i am not the best designer of trivia quests’
Gorka gossips– ‘I don’t watch those types of movies zuzu :p’
Zuzu gossips– ‘i dont thik theres been one since S3’
You gossip– ‘Neptune is’
Zuzu gossips– ‘yeah Bob could do one’
You gossip– ‘Neptune ran something, not sure it was drachma rewarded’
Zuzu gossips– ’trouble is there’s only one of me and i’m not always the smartest quest designer :)'
Zuzu gossips– ’there “should be” a half dozen people of equal rank.'
Gorka gossips– ‘what about a vehicle of some sort, group gets in a container, container has itinerary’
Zuzu gossips– ‘i like that, it could work like a Boat’
Zuzu gossips– ‘i mean it could re-use the Boat code’
Gorka gossips– ‘of like JB’s clown car to get to FOC’
Zuzu gossips– ‘could be some time pressure to kill mob A, before stopping at the next stop and possibly having to fight the next one at the same time, hehe :)’
Gorka gossips– ‘xp is always good’
Gorka gossips– ‘yeah, like waves in space invaders’
Gorka gossips– ‘TIME EXTENDED’
Gorka gossips– ’trouble with quests, is they tend to revolve around a few smart players'
Gorka gossips– ‘I’m never one of them’
Gorka gossips– ‘hehe’
Zuzu gossips– ‘quests with actual depth and planning put into em, yeah :)’
Zuzu gossips– ‘which i can’t claim to have done very many :)’
Gorka gossips– ‘what about something olympic’
Linx gossips– ‘you mean like potions to cheat, they already do that’
Zuzu gossips– ‘what were those mini games in arcade games between stages where you were frantically hammering on the buttons :)’
Gorka gossips– ‘haha’
Zuzu gossips– ‘hehehe’
Zuzu gossips– ’to like i cant remember inflate something or something'
Zuzu gossips– ‘or push a meter to the top’
Zuzu gossips– ’there were a bunch of those, for perhaps a dozen different arcade games'
Zuzu gossips– ‘i think i saw one where it was an eating contest’
You gossip– ‘hammer and whack-a-mole’
Gorka gossips– ‘actually that’s a good concept’
Gorka gossips– ‘what about a weighing scale’
Gorka gossips– ‘we bring big corpses to put on it’
Gorka gossips– ‘we have a time limit’
Gorka gossips– ‘reward to weight based’
Gorka gossips– ’everyone can contribute with corpses'
Zuzu gossips– ‘well corpses might be too easy, maybe finding items of a specific type that are known to be Heavy’
Zuzu gossips– ’like it HAS to be type food or type Keys or something'
Zuzu gossips– ‘and you’d have to think, what’s a heavy Key somewhere’
Gorka gossips– ‘I have the eq list in a mysql database… prepare for me to kick ass’
Zuzu gossips– ‘and the plot is they need scrap metal to melt it for some reason’
Gorka gossips– ‘I think it has object weights… checking’
You gossip– ‘how about a triathlon: orienteering (running to certain rooms fastest), a trivia and a round in a chaos pit solo’
Gorka gossips– ‘yeah, OBJECT_WEIGHT is the tag’
Zuzu gossips– ‘gos someone should capture this conversation and post it :)’
You gossip– ‘already captured’
Gorka gossips– ‘you would be good at the orienteering one taron, but a newbie?’
Zuzu gossips– ‘im liable to not remember most of it. im on oneof my middle of the night toots where i go back to bed in a little while and might forget most of it’
Zuzu gossips– ‘good. thanks for capturing it’
You gossip– ‘could include valk for newbies’
You gossip– ‘and newbie areas’
Zuzu gossips– ‘i like the key thing because it reminds me of sacrificing on JediMUD when you remort back to level 1’
Zuzu gossips– ‘you have to find like (the first remort) 150 of any Plusses to anything and sacrifice it’
Zuzu gossips– ‘you have to have it in your inventory when you type Remort’
Zuzu gossips– ‘2nd remort is 300, third is 450, and 4th and beyond is +600’
Zuzu gossips– ’er i like the Weight thing, not necessarily of Keys'