Thank you very much for your feedback. I've gone through it but I won't comment on everything that has been said, especially the messy bits
We cater for the majority and if you're from a country that does not have a lot of players or in an awkward timezone that does not match the majority, you might have some issues with times. I cannot help that unfortunately. Also remember, we cannot host more than 2 battles (3 pushing it) at the same time, therefore we have to slot some battles in the undesired time slots.
I am not responsible for setting the times of these battles, we have the event co-ordinator doing extensive research and sorting out the times.
There are going to be other changes in this event that I plan to role out for the next one. These changes are based on feedback from our playerbase and also considering the workload on the admin's side and some problems we had with this event.
- The registration process and sorting out accounts for this event is simply a nightmare. Getting everyone sorted out with skills and gear is also very time consuming. Ideally, we want to announce the event and have it start soonest rather than letting you wait a month so we can get the workload sorted out. Plus we prefer not extending the start date like what happened to this event. Some changes you can expect to see, but not guaranteed yet are allowing the players to register their own accounts. This is a lot easier especially when current email addresses/player names have already been registered. This responsibility will be for the player to sort out and then send the admins your account details.
- Gear migration will be removed completely. There were too many problems with gear migration and we would prefer to change the process instead.
From now on you will be entering the world naked and will be responsible to purchase your own gear. We will set campaigns on the world so that you can gain a lot more money a lot faster plus tombola items will be available for purchase using in-game cash. There will be restrictions on purchase dates and times for the more lucrative gear used for fort fighting.
- Level, Skills and Attribute points will remain the same at this time.
- Quests, there is nothing much we can do about this since it is connected to so many features within the game. It's not a simple case of disabling them so that players cannot do them. At this point this too will remain the same.
- A battle schedule including times will be provided before the event recruitment process starts. Each player can check the schedule and times and decide if they wish to participate in the event.
- Teams that did not fill in this event will have the opportunity to gain more players from other servers. It was done for this event but not communicated properly and one or two teams did fall short. We will also have a reservation pool of players that will not be allowed into the event world until such time they are specifically needed by a team that has lost players. This also to accommodate those who were not chosen to participate by their team lead.
- Hosting server of the event will also change. Either moved to the beta server or a new server and forum created. I prefer the latter as then everyone can have one forum to visit and view with all the announcements and information you will need. As it is now, some information for this event vary from server to server and we don't want incorrect information or changes not being delivered to you.
- The town setup will also change slightly. We would like to combine some of the smaller teams with others so we have the same amount of teams as there are counties. Each team will be given a county where they can found their towns and own the three forts in their county.
- Battle frequency will also change to every second day regardless of weekends. We will be hosting them weekends too. We don't want to spend 7 weeks doing pool battles. I would like to get a full IFBC championship done within a month.
- The problems with lag will be looked into on the new server and we will take measures to make it more tolerable than what it is now.
Thank you for all the feedback already, feel free to post more if you have any further ideas or problems with the current championship.
