2013 October Jumbo Update: Anniversary & Halloween Feedback

[Adellie]

Feedback for AnesisRO's Anniversary and the Return of the Pumpkin Festival

Anniversary Event

Anniversary Box
It's attracting people to the item shop, and people seem to be very happy with their prizes. I feel somewhat that mvp cards is a bit though. The classic raffle prizes are good.

I don't like that the boxes only come from the item shop. Suggestions for future boxes:
* On the first three days of the event, Event GM gives away 1 box a day
* On the last three days of the event, Event GM gives away 1 box a day
* After obtaining a 150pt+ prize at the Pumpkin Festival (not jake's quest), Anniversary boxes are available for 150pts.

Limited Edition Headgears
Great sink! Would prefer if you gave a hint of what the headgear might be good for without refines, for people like me who don't overup.

Facebook Raffle
Would prefer 20,10,5,5,5,5,5 to 20,10,10,5,5,5 just to make more people happy. ;p

In-game Celebration

• Anniversary Cake
• AnesisRO Pouring Rewards
  Very happy with the clever little bentos and kafra cards.
  I don't think you needed to give us a second slotted mid, but i'm not complaining, ehe.
• Job Agency Bonus
  I haven't seen a difference in chances, or maybe i'm just unlucky and getting only +10%s.
  Would prefer 12,25,50 to 10,25,50 at higher chances.

Match Me Anniversary Edition
I like that the locations seem pretty easy this time. I'm a little surprised that there aren't more people playing. Might i suggest that you slowly increase the size of the screenie a little for people who might actually be trying to find those locations?

Also the mini-game explanation was a little confusing at first.

Halloween Event

Jake's Quest (Umbala)
Very successful at getting me to party with friends and stranger again.
I would've like it if you could skip to the entrance of Yggdrasil after making it to the husband, rather than skipping to entrance of Skellington after finishing the quest... i think.

I think Nightmare Terror and Hell Poodle's effects should've be displayed.
And two people have mentioned that the terror's egg desc should say 100% instead of -100%. Not sure if that's fixed or not. I don't have an egg myself.

Pumpkin Festival Rewards & Traveling Cook Casper
The rewards are nice but gathering certificates feels a little bit tedious.
Also, extras of casper's dough and edible pumpkins makes my inner neat-freak sadface.

• Trick-or-Treating
  Would prefer if less ingredients are needed to make the masks.
  Would also prefer that the mask makers are closer to the warp-in location.
• Mysterious Pumpkins
• Old Cobby's Spirit
  Kinda sucks for melees but otherwise a fun thing for patient people. And my kaehos make me giggle lots.
• Pumpkin Harvest
  Still not really pumped about this minigame. I do play it... not sure how it could improve.

Other Updates

Spare Card and Blank Card Exchange (Unsure)
This seems like an excellent new way of obtaining cards.
I hope that in the future Spare Card can be made by merging a ton of card-album rejects.

I don't know for sure how Spare Card works. If it is a chance of gaining the card each time you kill, my worry is that Spare Card favours certain classes for when they solo-mob. (Major overkill suggestion: Add a 2 sec cooldown on rolling.)

Loading Screens
I kind of wish we had more drawn entries... but i guess the staff can't really do anything about that.

@Autotrade Extension
Thanks for adding an extension. It makes me feel like i can find what i want when i want.

AnesisRO Wiki (Unsure)
I can only hope that more people will contribute to the wiki and make it a solid resource for newbies.

I've got a couple of ideas/concerns but it has more to do with the website in general. (Major overkill suggestions: item and mob databases with sprites; item sprites and db info useable by item shop to prevent inconsistencies; item and mob sprites useable by wiki - linked by image code that uses either the db name or item id; additional wiki stylesheet editable by the public or organizers; item database private except selectively public entries; mob database private so bestiary is of use; quest checker in character cp to get people hooked on questing/partying; link all ingame accounts to forum accounts for certain event prizes or faction thingies; etc etc...)

Miscellaneous changes
Appreciate the little things as always, espcially the continued work on the classic quests.

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whew! @@ /spin

[singer of strange songs]

• Pumpkin Harvest
  Still not really pumped about this minigame. I do play it... not sure how it could improve.

It was reverted back to the way it was before I and a few others complained lol. I prefer how it was right before last year's event ended. You actually cared about getting higher rounds for those bonus certificates. Now I just feel like afking with my character all over again.

[Adellie]

can't get past round 2 on my priest.
I admit to leaving early after getting my certificate

[GM Ai]

Additionally, thank you for your feedback!  We will be sure to consider these thoughts in future events and content. 

In response to two particular points:
   The two sprites we chose for the limited edition headgears may actually be a very small hint at their shared future bonuses, but I realize that's still incredibly ambiguous.  Unfortunately, we will just have to wait to see what they are.    If we decide to introduce any more headgears like this in the future, perhaps we can include a brief description in their announcement to give players the opportunity to make educated guesses.  Your input on this is appreciated.

   I am not certain exactly how much the Job Agency EXP bonus chance was raised, but this is something we can re-examine before the weekend.

Also, from the other thread:
   I am personally quite fond of the idea of breaking up major update announcements into separate posts.  I would like to keep it in mind if we come across another large update collision, although it will likely depend on the announcer's availability.  Thank you for the suggestion!

[DirtySanchez]

Very nice feedback.

We got a second slot-mid? Hmm.

[GM Ai]

If you received either the Guardian Angel [1] or Demonic Whisper [1] before the update, the AnesisRO Reward Pouring will now give you the opposite headgear and new reward items.  Accounts that have not interacted with the Pouring before the update will only be allowed to choose one and will receive the rental Life Insurance and Battle Manual.  The Pouring will finally run away on November 17.