Whoever can reach the highest level on a new bufcore char. Not sure how to regulate it though.

Wasn't here for the last one, but seems like an awesome way to get the community involved and motivated to click! The prof idea with lottery system seems appealing to me as someone who only has a couple hours to play a day, but I do think it should be skewed more heavily toward the top places. Doesn't seem fair for first place to have like a 1/15 chance of winning or whatever the math adds up to.

The other ideas like finding a random Stat or highest Stat or whatever sounds really cool but also near impossible to regulate. Totally support the community event though!

E/ just read the original competition thread and that payout structure actually seems pretty perfect

This post was edited by Thoover on Oct 17 2023 06:36pm

Nice initiative! I will think about this and see if any ideas for improvement come to mind. As you said though ticket system might be the way to go

again an issue revolving around mutes. Would need a workaround there otherwise there will be issues on the proof side.
I also don't see why it differs from looking for EE, at least the EE hunt is exciting and also will be funny because we all know it'll be a robe that wins





Certainly doable, Although some of the new players will struggle getting to MQ even 2-3 times, let alone reaching monk.



If it helps i thought it was last year as well until i looked for it




Good to see this idea come out the woodwork.

I've thought about this one, and again the proof concept is again an issue unless it's recorded for anything buffcore related. Although i have some ideas of how this could work without needing a recording.
In terms of highest level, there's an issue of multiple active alchemists on both cores, I'm likely to avoid level related simply for that reason this year. I would find it more interesting if there was no buffcore, seeing the winner would possibly be the one who spammed the most +level up maps. Although 5 man mirror maze squads could also do well, as CoK have had some very high level MM finishes.



I find it interesting how you think the payout was perfect, care to elaborate? As personally i felt only 3 winners on each of the main categories didn't really reward some of the others who were close.




I terms of some other ideas:
Guess the event - I would have a minimum requirement, which is usually 1 MQ completed to be able to participate in this. We had this recently and had some decent feedback from those who played along. Most correct guesses in all the weeks leading upto christmas wins.
Something MQ related - Most MQ's is probably a little boring and in general just worse than using prof as a decider. Perhaps some other ideas on how this could work?
Best mob name - Had something like Hairyhole the disgusting recently.
Speedrunning - Fastest to solo to level 30, Fastest to group MQ this sort of thing.


One day events -
One way of getting round the "highest ee/stat" drop is to make it a 1 day event where you pick a time slot which suits you on a specified day. person who can find the best item in 1-2 hours of play wins.
Could be various different events on each weekend leading upto christmas.


Feel free to expand on anything currently suggested. I've got a few ideas on making buffcore legit without it needing to be recorded if this particular idea is of interest to enough people.

Part of the reason I said Bufcore was so that no one had an advantage if they already had gear, and everyone would "start" at the same place. I didn't really think about the alchys though lol. Hardcore hasn't been reset in a while, and it is still a long shot it gets reset

I do like the thought you are putting into this, and will be willing to donate to whatever is decided as well

This post was edited by Nemo-dude on Oct 17 2023 07:12pm

I suppose I meant it seems the most fair, as the people who grinded the hardest were rewarded properly, and everyone who made at least 15k prof (which seems like a very generous cutoff as 15k prof in 25 days should be very doable) got a little chunk of the pie. But, I didn't look at the placement and consider how close some might've been to that top 3 spot but just not quite there.

It got me thinking, it might make sense to do sort of a "tiered" payout structure. The breakpoints would probably need some work, but something like

100k+ splits 50% of the pot
70-100k splits 25%
40-70k splits 15%
15-40k splits 10%

Probably would need tweaking, but that would allow everyone who participates to be a little more involved, grinding super hard to get that 70k breakpoint without knowing it will be all for nothing cause someone else will blow you out of the water with 130k+

Problem is people would grab this item from their vault or mules and claim that they just found it.

I was thinking around christmas of doing something like the radios do:

Make a thread saying im online now and the 3rd person starting now to pass mq gets 1000 fg (or something like this)…..problem is i have a wife so i dont know what my availability to run this contest.

I also last year randonly put items worth 20 fg and up in the market for 1 fg….

I like the buffcore aspect minus the fact mine died and I won't be able to participate unless I deleted a shit ton of sc chars.
( and would love it)

Also I was thinking about my pass rate thing
Unfortunately you can't really do a fair gp competition. Because some people are able to mirror maze. Some don't have a squad.
Gear would be dependant too.
I was saying Passed rate solely cuz everyone can MQ easier than get gps lol
Doesn't necessarily have to be first one to monk with best rate.
I was just trying to think of a fair way to measure the amount of MQs done. And some ppl can do 6+ in a day.
I was just thinking it would be a nice way to get people to try to climb if it was just done via ratio.
But even then you could do prize for best ratio and worst lol (hoping ofc people aren't intentionally failing mqs for it)



If and when you decide to collect donations make sure you let me know. As much as I have "an awful personality" I'll gladly donate again this year if it breathes some life into the game.

This post was edited by Outraged on Oct 18 2023 05:25am

Items have IDs. You could check to make sure it’s an item found or muted after the event starts. Whether it’s muted or not would have to be on the honor system, though.

Ask Paul to activate the beta test server