Spar Tournement 23/09/2012
 

Hello,

I would like to announce, that there will be a big Spar Tournement at the 23rd September 2012 at 5 PM EST.

Eligibility Requirements:
Gold Subscription

K.O. System
Allowed Players: 16-24 (depends on the number of participants)

1st Prize:

Ring of War
(Str+3 / Dex+3 / Con+3 / Wis-1 / Int-1 / Pow-1 / speed+5 / wc+3 / ac+2 / armour+30 / resist magic -20 / regeneration +3)

2nd Prize:

Bunny Tail
(speed+1 / luck+1)

3rd Prize:

Farming Hat
(Wis+2 / ac+1 / luck+1)

To join this Event please PM me on the Forums or Graal Kingdoms.

Thanks, and see you soon.

psh why is gold required D:
i say we can choose to take a handicap to help make the match even

Well everbody in my eyes is able to buy 2 Gelat Codes and participate if they want to win a nice Prize. I will host more such events if it suceeds so Gold will be required, for sure.

Sounds like fun, looking forward to seeing the results :D
Not sure if I'll be around during that day so I probably won't join :<

i cant, and apparently since i have underscores in my acct i cant even do the super rewards malware/spyware stuff

Not everyone is able to buy 2 gelat codes. Fact.

Gold requirement is ridiculous and I won't be participating. Paying 20 bucks to spend 3 hours on a weekend beating up 12 y/os? nope bro i got better things to drop my coins on

2 Codes are not 20 bucks. Well of course it ur choice to join or not join.

10 People already registered.

Ya, Felix Nico isnt telling You that u must join the event.
Nico is trying to make the playercount bigger, maybe even for these 3 hours...
Gold is required cus people with trial gonna cry they lose cus they dont have gold, and it generate less complains from players about the event,
BTW. even if trial would be allowed, would it change anything?

Flawless logic. You guys are silly. Whatever enjoy the 10 playercount mad little sons

Ya, the "10 playercount mad little sons" will be better than
6 playercount iddlers, btw. pls stop making this idiotish posts...
Stop making bigger fool out of urself.

I would prob have a chance @ winning XD

Anyways! Nice to finally see a spar event with a decent prize.

Nico, Who are the people that registered to you so far?

Yah, against 2 lvl players :D

Ouch =[

Btw who r the participants?

By publishing the participants you might motivate even more ppl to participate in this event.

DripZ
Knux
NicoX
FailBoat
MLKJHP
MadScience7
Vartas
IXIs_Last_Stand


I had to take few people off because they are not able to do it on Sunday. So register :) It will be worth it.

ha ok brody

i still dont see the point of gold only. the reasons you listed were absolutely retarded. 8 people signed up so far and it's not very likely that 16 people are gonna come up last minute and sign up... gold players having priority over trials if the list was filling up would make sense tho...

Well there is still 1 week to register, so 8 people so far is not bad at all.

Players should be rewarded for buying a Gold Subscription, so Im limiting -my- Events for gold-only. Will host more if that Spar suceeds.

How about the fact they can play Graal Kingdoms with more luxury than a trial/classic account? It seems more like you're turning your events into a gated-community affair, because some people waste their money on a subscription doesn't mean they deserve bratwurst and hamburgers while the rest get kids lunchables and ramen noodles.

Well usually if you pay more you get better food too, am I wrong? So your comparison doesn't make sense to me really.
There are some high valued prizes to win, Im sure it would worth upgrading 1 month for it, which costs around 3-5 USD.
At the end its the players choice to participate or not. Im not telling someone that they have to join.

Also, please only post here if you have questions to the Event.

What I'm trying to say is that you're making events restricted to the players and that doesn't really seem fair. Events should be something players are all capable of getting into, otherwise you alienate people from your events.

Okay here's a question, since you asked, why do you want to keep it to gold only? Shouldn't everyone have a chance at the grand prices?

As for the comparison, I'll agree, not really the best comparison made.

Heres a better comparison I guess,

for the Lottery you also pay money to participate to win a grand prize right? Why should someone win a Prize without paying the fee.

And since the Prizes coming out of my own pocket, I would like to see people upgrading, even if its 1 month. Maybe it will bring some life back into the Server, maybe not, I dont know.

Allow me to answer your question with one of my own, why should a player have to pay 300 gelats (3.93 USD if google's currency conversion is accurate) a month to pay for what essentially can be done for free on Zodiac? What actual value is there?

Like I said, nobody has to join and upgrade, up to them. But the Prizes are not just few ECs, so its totally worth it in my opinion.
If someone thinks thats just unfair, then Im sorry.

But you're not here to convince yourself, you're here to convince someone like myself, why would I wish to pay hard earned money for this?
For 5 dollars, I could buy a real scratch off ticket and win a good 20 bucks If I'm lucky enough.

They don't have to join and upgrade, but as someone representing the server for a special event, wouldn't you want to try to encourage us to?

If you want to win the tourney, to win a Ring of War, which is the literally best Ring availible on GK, you would spend that 4 USD. But since you are not playing GK it could be useless for you and uninteressant, which I also understand. This Event is mostly focussing the older GK players.

I will host more -luck- Events later which are also availible for trials, though.

You're avoiding my question.

Why would I want to pay for this?

Already answered it though.

Okay, so let me translate it out of what you've said.

I would pay four dollars for a chance to get an item?
I'd be better off at an auction.

I promise no offense by this statement, but I feel like you're not even trying to intrigue me into why I would want to pay to play.

We could now endless argue about it, but the fact is that this Event is exclusive for Gold-Members.
Also trials are hugly handicapped for Spars, I cant balance each fight, would be unfair at some point.

Well, I know you can't do anything about it yourself, but technically it wouldn't be impossible to make a balance, but that's just trivial semantics.

I'll take my leave on the thread with a simple tip of advice: Work on the pitch for getting players intrigued.

Thanks for giving me some food for thought.

Thanks for your advice :)

From the list of participants I can already tell you that there's a huge gear difference between the best and the worst players on that list. Isn't that a balance issue as well? Should 30 30 30 be the requirement to join these exclusive events?

I have 385 hp with the trial level 10 cap. There are gold members who have less hp than this yet this isn't considered a balance issue? I don't see where you're going with this balance argument because it's not making any sense bro

Spars on GK are never fair and balanced because gear is factored in... I'm not paying 5 bucks to compete with 10 other nerds about a 30 dollar item

Up to you to join or not.

incorrect, Ring of Descending Darkness and the Golden Band; not that this matters seeing items with stats like your chestplate were released.. and the monthly points events giving out incredible prizes like SOCCER BOOTS and better to a community that's smaller than ever... I don't believe items still hold value.

Technically what nico said is correct. RoDD and GB are not available to all players. They are available to the one person that bought them and lets them sit in his inventory to do nothing. Those "SOCCER BOOTS" that everyone keeps crying about were already on the server. They weren't created which means no harm was actually done to the economy. They still hold the same value as they did before. 95% of the items that were given out as monthly prizes were items that were already on the server before. They were items either by garglius or items that were given to Stephen in the auctions he did. (His auctions were also garglius' items.)

As for being gold only.. not sure I agree with it, but it's not my event so it is his choice. GK is a "Gold" server and requires a gold account to do many things on the server. So his choice isn't technically wrong for making it gold only. His event and his items means his rules.

You're stating that if the proper price was not raised that RoDD or GB were offered upon generously they wouldn't be traded? I rest my case; Ring of War is not the best ring available in the game.

They WERE already on the server; owned by someone and sold properly for extremely generous overpay by Garglius; who aquired his vast wealth through spawning nearly ten thousand event coins. With you saying that Garglius' items are nearly all that was evented off gives no valid reasoning to say that a single item was "legit". He paid for every epic item he had with unreasonable overpay; seeing he could spawn any amount of EC he wanted... with this said, Nico's chestplate (3 str 3 con 3 dex 2 speed wat) seems awfully illegitimate.

I'm not saying good prizes shouldn't be given, but I'm saying the points system had many flaws; which you agreed on in the past. I believe that other tactics of getting good items should be investigated. And that the economy is extremely fragile; and giving TOP tier items every month to the same three contestants is quite ignorant.

GK is dead though.

They removed observer mode, so I don't see why trials can't participate, as paying for gold gives enough advantage anyway with levels and such. It seems way easier to just buy some items like everyone else did than pay 20 bills for 3 hours of gold use and attempt to win them. That would just be my opinion though.

Like, is it still possible to get a legitimate set of gear without USDing anymore? Since only like 5 people play and they already own the economy, people don't actually trade for diamonds or anything do they?

I vote reset.

Oh, and about the event itself I suppose...
Is there any restrictions? I suppose K.O. means something but I don't actually play so idk nothing is clear there. If I were to show up can I use a bow or what?

Oh please you rarely play kingdoms your self i see you come on for occasions for 30 mins and log off. You obviously never cared.

Felix like you said to me ''Whatever. Logic is clearly not going to win you over. I'm done here'' seems like you're the one struggling to understand this seen and understood logic. You have 385 hp once you're poisoned your done. Nico constantly said it's your choice to join yet you argued

Your not going to pay 5 bucks to make 25 Dollar profit Sure it's your decision.

Cause I got reset, bro.