[Suggest] Building a better seasonal event.

Start a thread like this last year but July seems like a good time before the holiday season comes back around. Seasonal events are a good way to bring in elements of other FF title without break too much of the lore.

_________Theme_________
[ FATE --> Dungeon --> Trial ]

______________Rewards_______________
[ Glamour Items - Chocobo Barding - Minions ]

Using this two key formulas I will give an example for Halloween

Theme - Scary, unpredictable, fall

Story: A blind fortune teller by the name of Matoya arrives at Gridarnia.
FATE: retrieve Matoya's crystal eye from the Dark Elezen Mage Astos

Story: Matoya tells you a dark witch is plotting in the Phantom Forest on the border of Gridania and Ul'dah.
Full Party Dungeon: Phantom Forest - 2 Bosses -[Headless Chocobo Rider]--{Phantom Train]. The premise is you enter the forest that has haunted look to it. Random and unpredictable things about like quick pop outs, spiders crawling on the players screen, silence followed by loud noise. The first boss is the Headless Chocobo Rider. After defeat the player come up to an old Ul'dah mining station. The last boss is an abandon train that a witch changes to a eight legged monster. Has a random charge move but the entire screen is dark except for the trains light that is glaring in the smoke.

Story: Matoya tells you the evil witch Edea is planning on using dark magic to compress time as we know it.
Trial: The dark Witch Edea

Rewards would be doom train minion, barding of the headless rider, and outfit / weapon similar to Trail bosses theme.

It was the sorceress Ultimecia that tried to compress time.

On topic it would be nice to see more depth to seasonal events doing a few "talk to this person" quests and FATE's for seasonal currency is just so underwhelming even if I love the rewards

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Originally Posted by Dyvid

Rewards would be doom train minion, barding of the headless rider, and outfit / weapon similar to Trail bosses theme.

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So you want your lalafell to dress like Edea... hum....

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Originally Posted by Gelesto

It was the sorceress Ultimecia that tried to compress time.

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I know ;) Then again I'm not going to draft out an enter story board unless SE ask me too lol

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Originally Posted by lololink

So you want your lalafell to dress like Edea... hum....

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Depends on what version of the trial boss i'm talking about.

The next seasonal event due is Moonfire Faire, the summer event (which I presume will probably be in August). Last year's one was late due to game's release, and hence somewhat rushed, so anything is possible as to how it's going to be handled this time around. But some kind of FATE is likely.

The reason they have been doing seasonal events as FATEs is because they're obviously easy to implement into the game without too much trouble (as the basic system for the event is already active), where as event dungeons and trials would probably be too time consuming to have to balance, code and integrate into the existing game's server structure, especially for something that is only short term.

Still, a better way of doing seasonal events is not a bad thing - variety keeps things interesting after all.

The beauty of a seasonal event is it only last for 2 or 3 weeks so you can make something really good once then just reuse it for the next few years.

anything would be an upgrade from Camp Fate/Rare/Whatever -> Acquire McGuffin(s) -> Exchange for Goodies -> Repeat

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Originally Posted by Dyvid

Story: Matoya tells you the evil witch Edea is planning on using dark magic to compress time as we know it.
Trial: The dark Witch Edea

Rewards would be doom train minion, barding of the headless rider, and outfit / weapon similar to Trail bosses theme.

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And when she's defeated, you should hear her growl, "mrgrgr!"

adding a seasonal dungeon wouldn't be too hard from a difficulty setting PoV. Many events are for anyone in the 15-20 brackets (with a few exceptions here and there, like lightning event). Just tweak them, making them more for the joke side than the challenge.

It would require a bit of coding to put it in place though, and would nearly force to reuse the same for every occurence, as you can't ask them to code an entire dungeon/trial each time.

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Originally Posted by Amelia_Pond_Behemoth

And when she's defeated, you should hear her growl, "mrgrgr!"

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Somehow, I think your got the characters mixed up...

Asking for a dungeon/trial seems a bit much. I enjoyed the egg carrying in the easter event, so I would like to see more of those kind of mini games. If they have to implement fates, make them unique - no fighting, maybe using the right emotes on mobs, beckoning them to a certain place... events should be easy, accessible to everyone and different from your usual quest.

I miss the old 1.0 crafting events. Being able to craft HQ event gear and give it to other players was nice. It still involved a little combat to get other materials sometimes but it wasn't all about combat and errand running. I can understand why they want everyone to be able to access these things but events in particular should have a touch of personal hand made gifts to them (especially now that items are signed so you know that person made it just for you with care to get it to HQ rather than just buying something from an NPC or market board).

Granted some of the 1.0 crafting events could have been better done. I remember just logging in for a moment daily to get my random item from ringing the bells. That was as basic as you could get...

But there was variety. Some events were combat based (moonlet earrings that I still regret missing to this day!), some were crafting (I loved making my HQ usagi helms), some were trivia about the lore of the game (those tricky imps with their riddles!), etc.

I don't have to love all the events, I don't even have to be able to fully experience all that all of the events have to offer, but by offering variety beyond simple mindless activities like errand running and FATE zerging they whole concept offers so much more potential to be fun. The current system is just sad...

I will admit however that the races of the last Easter event were different so a nice touch. The majority of the goodies were from FATE zerging however.

Well I'm not saying every event needs to follow this formula, it's all comes back to the theme of the event.

Maybe they could make "theme" a pre-existing dungeon like they do with towns? Think of a special Haukke Manor for a Halloween event. A couple of reskins, some pumpkin/candle/spider webs around and a spooky remix of the soundtrack.

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Originally Posted by Moqi

Maybe they could make "theme" a pre-existing dungeon like they do with towns? Think of a special Haukke Manor for a Halloween event. A couple of reskins, some pumpkin/candle/spider webs around and a spooky remix of the soundtrack.

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I really like that idea. Running fates is so tedious especially now since we have Atma farming. An event themed dungeon would be so much fun to participate in. Make it a fun fight like gilgmesh where we have to wear event themed gear. :)