Suggestion: Hunt Quests

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Suggestion: Hunt Quests Jan 30, 2013 12:25:17 GMT -5

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Post by KAZUYA on Jan 30, 2013 12:25:17 GMT -5

Hi moderation staff~

The other day Grackis/AOE, while in the middle of one of his extensive rants about something or another, mentioned Hunting quests. I thought it was a pretty good idea so I decided to reform it a little bit and put some thought into how these quests should go down.

THRILL OF THE HUNT
Reward: Something unique like a special crafting material or equipment. Weapons/armor with +stats, or special abilities/e-ranked sword arts. Increased EXP/COL in comparison to a normal quest.
Participants: Unlimited, although only one unique reward is given out per quest
Difficulty: Hard/Very Hard.

The Mark, or the named mob that the group/player will be trying to hunt, will be extremely difficult and should be DMd by a mod. While possible to be soloed by a strong player with appropriate items/skills, it is not recommended.

Maybe the quest has to be completed in a certain time frame or the Mark will evade the players.

Every couple of floors could have a unique Mark with a different reward for the players to rally and conquer.

These quests should have some sort of downside to them. Perhaps due to the extensive nature of tracking the beast, this quest can be the only one a character has active at a time (excluding socials). Only one player/group can attempt the hunt quest at a time so that a Hunt mod doesn't get overburdened with running monotonous threads across multiple players.

The penalty for failure should be extreme as well, although not necessarily death. Temporary negative skills? Unable to quest for a week? Unable to try the Hunt Quest for two weeks?
Just suggestions.

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Suggestion: Hunt Quests Feb 5, 2013 12:58:36 GMT -5

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Post by ARCELIA on Feb 5, 2013 12:58:36 GMT -5

Ooh, I like this concept, Kazuya. I think it's something that might be better made into a monthly or bimonthly event that is still run by GMs. This actually would give players a good chance to collect some new items that Kurome came up with a while back, too. I'll bring it up with the staff and see what they think but we'll definitely look into it for our future events!

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Suggestion: Hunt Quests Feb 5, 2013 17:10:27 GMT -5

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Post by grackis on Feb 5, 2013 17:10:27 GMT -5

The original concept, which I've discussed with Rien at length about, was of a extreme difficulty quest(s). My original concept was to make up for the lack of hardcore type threads. That is to say truly Death Enabled threads. Threads that offer slightly better than average rewards but carry a great risk.

I didn't concept this out to be a means of getting gear or other things. Merely a means of doing hard quests and getting the satisfaction of doing them. I don't particularly like the idea of it being made into a monthly/bi-monthly event. I don't like it being anything beyond a quest type that happens to be harder than standard quests and has the singular objective of hunting down and eliminating a specific creature.

I say you leave it as a stand alone quest type that offers nothing special in rewards beyond maybe a slightly better amount of EXP/Col thats just harder and requires a DM. Why must it be diluted into something "special"?

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Suggestion: Hunt Quests Feb 6, 2013 13:43:21 GMT -5

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Post by ARCELIA on Feb 6, 2013 13:43:21 GMT -5

By making it GM-moderated and enabling greater EXP/COL, it has already become "special" regardless of event status. Events typically eceive more than the usual quest rewards and they are also more difficult than the rest. Right there, it almost fits the description of an "event" perfectly. We don't want to be monitoring a ton of threads outside of events, and that was the very reason I recommended it be run as an event more than something any one member can do at any time. If we were to allow them to be normal threads, they would still be limited in number for the simple fact of the time it takes for GM-moderation. Our plan for Death-Enabled quests was that the moderators control the monsters.

Players might like it, until their character is killed. Is it realistic? Certainly. But then we run the risk that members might come complain to someone because a moderator killed their character and was accuse that a moderator was biased about the decision, stating they didn't kill -such and such- character for doing -such and such- action. Both suggestions posted by you and Kazuya are good but would need some touching up and refinement.

One idea might be that each floor has one or a few of these special / difficult quests in which players can hunt down these specific monsters and generate more EXP/COL. I'll bring it up with the staff and see what their thoughts are on the matter, too.

Thanks for clarifying~

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Suggestion: Hunt Quests Feb 6, 2013 16:07:11 GMT -5

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Post by KAZUYA on Feb 6, 2013 16:07:11 GMT -5

For the sake of moving things along on floors (I don't really know how long the staff thinks characters should be on a floor before progressing), I would think having one of these special events every couple of floors would be nice. That way, the player base isn't overpopulated by these rare/special items.

I wouldn't want progression to be bogged down by having a few of these every floor on top of boss fights/events. Some players seem to be having a real problem with that. :/

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