Rate your Halloween

[Descent]

not related to RO but I am wondering when kids nowaday make pumpkin faces (do they still do that at school???)... are they going to make those faces found online/msn instead of the traditional :-) face?

i wanna see pumpkin with faces like

>_<

>_>

:Þ

¬.¬

etc


back to topic, isn't there always the well-made bloody prontera custom map for helloween? there should be a few variation of it by now.

My wife carved our pumpkin yesterday, it looks like this: >w<

[Pandora]

Alright, I wanted to wait until my Halloween stuff was released before posting it here, no spoilers for my players who browse rms ^^

The server is heRO, I can't "rate" it since well.. I made it, but I think we do a decent effort when it comes to Holiday celebrating and I think it's important to do something original for each holiday.



For the past 3 years we've had a "dark prontera" during Halloween season, it was made by one of our GM, we also change some npc for nif ones, such as the spooky kafra!

In 2007 the major cities of the kingdom were invaded by pumkingrings and autumn leaf cats, this year the pumpkingrings have received a buffing in stats/exp and rewards, and are now found in Niflheim.

Last year's quest involved a number of npc such as "Pumpkin Squire", "Pumpkin Minstrel", "Pumpkin Counselor", they all looked like halloween/dark monsters (pumkingring, jakk, bloody knight, etc.) they moved around in cities or field/dungeons, the quest was randomized so that not everyone was sent to the same npc, nor did they have the same items to gather (so you actually had to read what the npc said, those who didn't regretted it), part of the quest had you delivering food and you had a certain amount of time to do it or it would turn bad, the reward in the end was some chance items and a pair of Spiderweb Wings and a pumpkin mojo, a npc in the DB rooms was gathering mojos, once 30 players had handed in theirs it would summon the Hollow Poring, a hard MVP with sweet exp and items, similar to pori pori. This was the first quest where we introduced moving npc, which have since then been deemed as completely EVIL, and we re-used that concept in a few other quests afterwards.

This year's quest has players investigating a big mysterious creatures sighted in various cities, a scholar in Yuno hires you as his assistant, and sends you to talk to each victim to gather information. The quest sends you to most major city aside from the starting ones, and if the warp to that city is not unlocked you get it for free, if it's already unlocked you get some zeny instead. Most of the people that got attacked by the creatures did not get a good look at it, but as you interrogate them you find out that the mysterious monster is a big orange blob and that all the victims had on them something relating to pumpkin (pumpkin seed, pumpkin pie, etc.), you report back to the scholar only to find our he died! His brother gives you some of his items, as rewards for helping with his research, the player has a choice between last year's Halloween gears and 2 new ones: Witch Hat or Purple Bat Doll, they also get Exp and a wrapped mask, along with a few other small prizes obtained in the rest of the quest. The scholar's investigation got him killed before he could finish it, his spirit lingers in Niflheim, seems the creature got attracted by a concentrated pumpkin essence that he was creating, he tried to capture the monster but it fought back! He knows how to attract it now, so if the players gathers 4 pumpkin mojos they can summon the Hollow Poring! It's a toned down version from last year's Hollow Poring, a MVP doable by a small party of level 80ish players.

We'll also be having a Halloween event on friday (Oct. 31st) but can't give any spoilers on that ^_^

[Loki]

Alright, I wanted to wait until my Halloween stuff was released before posting it here, no spoilers for my players who browse rms ^^

The server is heRO, I can't "rate" it since well.. I made it, but I think we do a decent effort when it comes to Holiday celebrating and I think it's important to do something original for each holiday.



For the past 3 years we've had a "dark prontera" during Halloween season, it was made by one of our GM, we also change some npc for nif ones, such as the spooky kafra!

In 2007 the major cities of the kingdom were invaded by pumkingrings and autumn leaf cats, this year the pumpkingrings have received a buffing in stats/exp and rewards, and are now found in Niflheim.

Last year's quest involved a number of npc such as "Pumpkin Squire", "Pumpkin Minstrel", "Pumpkin Counselor", they all looked like halloween/dark monsters (pumkingring, jakk, bloody knight, etc.) they moved around in cities or field/dungeons, the quest was randomized so that not everyone was sent to the same npc, nor did they have the same items to gather (so you actually had to read what the npc said, those who didn't regretted it), part of the quest had you delivering food and you had a certain amount of time to do it or it would turn bad, the reward in the end was some chance items and a pair of Spiderweb Wings and a pumpkin mojo, a npc in the DB rooms was gathering mojos, once 30 players had handed in theirs it would summon the Hollow Poring, a hard MVP with sweet exp and items, similar to pori pori. This was the first quest where we introduced moving npc, which have since then been deemed as completely EVIL, and we re-used that concept in a few other quests afterwards.

This year's quest has players investigating a big mysterious creatures sighted in various cities, a scholar in Yuno hires you as his assistant, and sends you to talk to each victim to gather information. The quest sends you to most major city aside from the starting ones, and if the warp to that city is not unlocked you get it for free, if it's already unlocked you get some zeny instead. Most of the people that got attacked by the creatures did not get a good look at it, but as you interrogate them you find out that the mysterious monster is a big orange blob and that all the victims had on them something relating to pumpkin (pumpkin seed, pumpkin pie, etc.), you report back to the scholar only to find our he died! His brother gives you some of his items, as rewards for helping with his research, the player has a choice between last year's Halloween gears and 2 new ones: Witch Hat or Purple Bat Doll, they also get Exp and a wrapped mask, along with a few other small prizes obtained in the rest of the quest. The scholar's investigation got him killed before he could finish it, his spirit lingers in Niflheim, seems the creature got attracted by a concentrated pumpkin essence that he was creating, he tried to capture the monster but it fought back! He knows how to attract it now, so if the players gathers 4 pumpkin mojos they can summon the Hollow Poring! It's a toned down version from last year's Hollow Poring, a MVP doable by a small party of level 80ish players.

We'll also be having a Halloween event on friday (Oct. 31st) but can't give any spoilers on that ^_^

Pretty neat! I'd rate it 6/10 for now unless I see those spoilers

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

I want to see that move

[Hutchy]

It flips around all erratically, like jello.

[Guest]

*is rating pandora's event*
xD pretty evil in a few parts, asking for some.... once useless but still hard to find-ish items....

for difficulty i'd give it a 8.5/10
for story line more of a 7/10
for prizes, i personally love cute stuff so i'd give it a 9/10 (many might disagree with this though)
as for a general rating it'd get about 8.5/10



*will be rating other server's halloween events as well*

[-Bleed-]

Yey! Halloween is coming! Heh ...

[Pandora]

Happy Halloween everyone ^_^

[Aaronock]

I play the heRO server, I can rate Pand's Halloween event just like J J J for simplicity.  I'm stealing your format by the way Mr. Baby Novice.

Difficulty 7/10- A few really annoying spots like the pet eggs since I sold all my tames I can't just go get this super fast nuuuuuuuuuuuu

Storyline 6/10- Found typos in it, I'll probably note them next time and send it over.  Overall story, it was cute and kind of funny, I liked it, but it wasn't the best either.

Prizes- 9/10- Oh man both headgear prizes are sweet, and both of them form a really decent combo with the god awful spiderweb wings, thanks for the boost in those btw, my soul linker will love the combo ^_^

Overall Rating- 8/10- The Hollow Poring is fun to fight, he's definentely toned down a bit but you also made him hard enough by giving him HELL'S JUDGEMENT!  Fun MvP fight, good headgears this time around (you guys are starting to give us much better prizes than crap that just gives us giftboxes or whatever), and well, it definentely was heck of a lot better than last years event.  Last year's quest was really glitchy, but this one seems a lot more stable (since we fixed the cookie bag prize at that one npc).  So good job overall guys, I think Death Dealers will enjoy fighting Mr. Hollow for now 

[Pandora]

I wrote the script in one go, so yeah there may be some typos (it's too bad the people who tested it didn't notice them), pm them to me if you get a chance and I'll fix, I'll be doing the quest myself tomorrow so I might see them too. The good thing about what you said is that it means you actually read what the npc say, which is more than I can say for most people! xD

Regarding prize, over the year we got a lot of feedback about the unloved spiderweb wings, that's how we came up with the combo to make them more useful, they need some love too!  But don't dish the birthday gears, gift boxes are <3!

[Ayu]

Why does everyone think that MVPs will always have the standard things like Hell's Judgment. No one realized that it's not Hell's Judgment but just Venom Splasher or Desperado (giant jelly with guns, somehow = Win!) yet? May not seem like much, but I think players do prefer to see custom monsters and custom mvps to use "moves they have never seen before on monsters" even though it's nothing that special. Hollow Poring uses EDP, but in reality his level 3 EDP is just the same as your standard power up. Somehow a giant orange blob flashing purple scares people a lot more than red sparkly lightning

I liked witch hat better in cuteness. Somehow a lot of people thinks the bat is cuter though 

As for prizes, I know that it's been a year but we actually took the advices from players last year, and this is the result of those advices to buff the spiderweb wings a bit. However, I think most people did think that heRO GM team ignored them unless they stayed for a whole year to see the change. Just because we didn't implement changes immediately doesn't mean that GM is deaf on suggestions ;p


Anyway, seasonal quests have always been something I think people across servers are looking forward to, and sort of "expects" the GM team to cook up with something for each major holidays. Halloween always tend to be the prelude to the even bigger holiday of Christmas and the winter breaks, and certainly these are the times when servers "score" those eventfulness points in RMS reviews ;p missing out and not doing anything special for Halloween and the similar holidays tend to be a major letdown especially for new players in RO servers.

[Aaronock]

Actually Ayu, its a lot scarier to me for the Hallow to be EDPing over Powerupping...and that's due to the fact you can't dispel EDP!  This actually means when he EDP's I'm like "oh crap run!"

And I could have sworn it was HJ and not desperado, oh well its mah bad xD
The Venom splasher wasn't really killing me to be honest, it was that Desperado+EDP combo =/

But he's a fun MvP none the less, and I really do think this halloween event overall was a HUGE improvement over heRO's last year one.  I still stand by that :3

[Ratch]

It was s***, cold, no one had drink or eggs.

[bleu]

TalonRO Halloween Event 2008

1. Access to a Halloween Event Map (two versions: easy/hard). On the easy map, Halloween Event Monsters drop Pumpkin Coins among other items - Muffler[1], Lutie Pancakes, Buckler[1], etc.. On the more difficult map, Gold Pumpkin Coins are also dropped by Halloween Event Monsters, and whoever gets the most Gold Pumpkin Coins gets a prize at the end of the week (Prizes promised to top 3 players)

2. Pumpkin coins are used to exchange for
- Halloween Disguise Scrolls
- Trick or Treat Bag (goodies, junks, rares and even a small chance to get MVP cards)
- Old Card Album
- MVP Headgears
- Halloween Event Hat +3 to ALL stats and gives you a 5% damage reduction from Demon monsters. Furthermore, when killing a Demon monster, there is a chance of getting a Candy from them.
- Summon Halloween MVP

3. Halloween Event monsters
- Pumpkinring
- Halloween Jakk
- Halloween MVP (err.. i have not seen it yet, but I think its that same big orange jello)

4. Some other mini games (The NPC changes location every so often, so u need to look for it)
Questionnaire - ooo I like this one. The Quiz Master asks a question and u are given 4 choices, u pick the most correct answer. And if u pick the wrong answer - U and the rest who did not get it correct will be nuked.

Invisible Maze - err not my thing. Its like the hidden temple map. Just need to find away out of the maze. There is more than one maze, so... it changes.

Summon Halloween MVP - err, I wanna try this. But u can only do it once every hour. Give it 10 Pumpkin Coins.



Questionnaire: Lets all hope the Answer is TWO. Or we can all die together.



Halloween Disguise Scrolls



Halloween Event Monsters

I give a 9/10 approval rating. A variety of events suitable for lower levels and still challenging for higher levels. Lots of festive prizes - Halloween Disguise Scrolls, Trick or Treat bag and Pumpkin Headgear with bonus Stats. I feel its very important for servers to have good festive events - especially the important ones.

EDIT: I was wrong. The Halloween MVP is a Deviling (Custom) with Bapho jr as its slaves.

[DeePee]

As an addition to Bleu. Completely random during the event, everyone in the event maps died and the warper to the event maps did not work anymore. There was chaos and people wonder what the heck happened.

Then after about 15 minutes, ": Muwahahaha" appeared. It appeared that someone named Dr. Krispen messed up the event.
The event warper no longer warped people to the main event map, but to some strange lobby. A party of 5 minimum could enter the Tower of Dr. Krispen and try to attempt to defeat it. 6 floors (Endless Tower-like, just with Thanatos maps) of mobs and MVP's followed, and finally they had to face Dr. Krispen himself.

And eventually...they did! A huge party of 12 players were able to defeat him after a long battle. After defeating him, they saw the back-story behind all of it, explained by a mysterious boy that was locked up inside the tower. The main event opened again and people can now also attempt the tower as often as they want.