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Looking for a groundbreaking event idea? Look no further.

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THE EVENT: SURVIVOR

Basically, this is event is an artifical mini-Era where EVERYWHERE is a PK ZONE.

The waiting area is a plane.

When the event starts you're stripped of all your money, possessions, hp bonuses, etc.
Then you're dropped off onto a gmap that's kind of like Era but way way way smaller and condensed.

The goal of the event is to kill off everyone else. No respawns are allowed at all.

You'll have to make all your money again through jobs from Era like flower picking, mailing, mining, etc...
Then you gotta spend them on guns, buffs, traps etc.

Thankfully the jobs pay very well and the items are cheap because this is a condensed world.
Otherwise, the event would take forever.

You start off with a handgun with 100 ammo.
Items will be randomly generated and strewn about on the overworld such as ammo, guns, tools, food, etc...

There will be some buildings like warehouses that contain a gun and ammo.
(These should be rare though because the focus is gaining power and not randomly finding uber powerful guns)

There will be to be randomized buildings.
Basically these are special buildings which contents are randomized. It can be anything; from lockers, to beds, to placed furniture.

To add a curve to the event so that it doesn't take forever.
There will be shops that will sell mines and bombs. The shop will be closed at start, but it'll open up in like 10-20 minutes.
(The time will be randomized so it's not predictable.)

This opens up another problem though. People will make mini-bases to hide in and will trap them with mines.
To solve that, there will be another shop that's closed at the start that will sell buffs like frappes, caps, maybe elixirs (non-super), armor, and a new item that absorbs mine blasts.

When you die, you drop all the money you own and a random amount of items you carry. (There are no ATMs)
And then you're taken out of the event and lose all the stuff you gained from it and re-gain your Era stuff that was stripped from you.

NOTE: Max HP will be something around 300. If it was 100-140 people would die too quickly.

Required buildings:

At least three gun shops. (Their guns will be randomized, and maybe prices too! These are limited in stock.)
A hospital for healing.
A mine.
A mailhouse.
A girl who gives out flower pickers and will buy the flowers.
Some seashell shack that sells shovels and theres a beach.
Food shops.
A lot of other things. The sky's the limit!

Event exclusive items:

An item that untraps mines.
Goggles that will track any player so they can't hide.
A buff that will make a player run at an insane speed for a few seconds.
Heat seeking rockets.

The only problem is that this project would be very ambitious. You'd have to make all the new levels, and then you have to deal with the scripts.

It's obvious there will be complications when you strip the player of all their items and give them back after the end of the event. There would be two ways to do this: Actually remove all the items and store them in a database which will be accessed when they are given back -- however, it's at risk of accidentally deleting all their items. The other way is to make the event switch the player to another NPC system that has its own inventory the like; however, I think it would add a lot of strain to the server.

By the way I think this event can actually be the basis of a server alone, so if anyone wants to make a server consider this ;-*

Era event in your Era so you can play Era while you play Era.

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Originally Posted by fowlplay4 (Post 1673324)

Era event in your Era so you can play Era while you play Era.

Epic, looks like Erians will be stuck in limbo.

Yeah, thinking about it I think it would also be a great way to introduce Era to new players, because you give them a little taste of the best of it before they invest their work into it.

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Originally Posted by fowlplay4 (Post 1673324)

Era event in your Era so you can play Era while you play Era.

will never work, players would be complaining about the gun stats in the Era inside the Era.

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Originally Posted by Dark_Zeratul101 (Post 1673326)

Yeah, thinking about it I think it would also be a great way to introduce Era to new players, because you give them a little taste of the best of it before they invest their work into it.

That seems silly to me, rather than making an event to give them a taste why don't they lower the barrier of entry to the server so people don't have to "invest" 100s of hours into the server?

I see many people somehow duping stuff or losing all of their items when they are "Striped" / "restored".

Hide and seek with Axes.

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Originally Posted by fowlplay4 (Post 1673328)

That seems silly to me, rather than making an event to give them a taste why don't they lower the barrier of entry to the server so people don't have to "invest" 100s of hours into the server?

This event isn't just giving them a taste it's a whole new experience you can't get anywhere else.

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Originally Posted by jkldogg (Post 1673329)

I see many people somehow duping stuff or losing all of their items when they are "Striped" / "restored".

This is why you need to get someone who can write proper scripts.

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Originally Posted by fowlplay4 (Post 1673328)

That seems silly to me, rather than making an event to give them a taste why don't they lower the barrier of entry to the server so people don't have to "invest" 100s of hours into the server?

This is why zodiac is the most popular server on graal. ;)

couldn't be bothered to read but since it's raven's idea it's prolly a pk event so go for it!!!!!!

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When you die, you drop all the money you own and a random amount of items you carry.

I read this part and instantly thought of Mario.

I have a few problems with your event

1. That it isn't in the topic right below this that says new event ides. Seriously, it should be merged in there.
2. The sheer amount of developmental talent it would take, given Era's dev team (in relation to free time, am not questioning their competence) simply is not there
3. The whole 'having everything you own deleted and restored' bit JKL argued

other than this, I think you have a wonderful idea, and you're right when you say something similar to this could be its own server. What a concept..+rep to you

oh. this would take HUGE BALANCING WORK on the job system, and if they were gonna do that..might as well do it for non-event Era as well

Reminds me of a few different Zombie Survival (and other Survival) games I've played. It's always a huge rush running around finding crap and pwning people, robbing their bases, etc. Then when you die you rage and never play again so yeah.. qq.

I could see this being it's own server like Scoper said (granted everything that it would require to create it.. why not go full on and dedicate to improving/making different themes/etc) as a Survival or w.e server.

On the flip-side I highly doubt Era would even take on this project (seeing what small jobs they take forever to accomplish) it would probably get started then stop and rot.

There's actually no need to have any of your items removed. If I made this I would just use a custome inventory and hide your regular items.

This is dumb, just fix era.

all that for one event?
one EC?
yeah i like LMS better..

rofl now that i read the part about working it sounds like a terrible idea

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Originally Posted by Logababy (Post 1673434)

all that for one event?
one EC?
yeah i like LMS better..

you could make it like gang events, hosted rarely for special prizes.