Merge-day celebration?

Well, this is convenient! Alright future Balmung-iers, let's do this!

So, if you missed my earlier threads, I'd like to plan a merge day celebration with various large-scale events going on throughout the day. I think this could help everyone meet each other, and beyond that, would just be plain fun!

Obviously, participation in this would be completely voluntary. I just think it would be a fun way to bring the communities together!

This event will take place Saturday, March 31st, 2012. This is the first Saturday after the event, and allows us to schedule events at given times, without the concern of how long it will take A) for SquareEnix to implement the patch, and B) for people to download and install it. Plus, as it's the weekend, it's probable more people could participate.

Schedule for the Day:

All Day: Crafting parties- Gather together around the Ul'dah central fountain and craft till your heart's content. All day event.

11am EST - Goobue Run

Meet at Ul'dah, will run to Camp Dragonhead, by way of up north past Bluefog and through Mor Dhona! (If you don't have a goobue/refuse to use it, chocos are fine. Goobue-ing is encouraged though. :P) No prize, just for fun.

1pm EST - Aetheral Gate & Node Hunting Expedition, Gathering Parties

Aetheral gate & node hunting expedition- Team up to go get those tricky glowing points. (Contact Points: Noloe Tazier, Isilud Tengille) Meet in Gridania Adventure's Guild

Mining/botany/fishing parties Fishers- meet at the Fishers Guild in LL. Botanists- Meet at the Botany Guild in Grid. Miners- meet at the Strip Club Miners Guild in Ul'dah.Parties will be responsible for choosing where to go based on the desires of those who attend.

3pm EST -Clear Cutting Run

Clear-Cutting Run- We go kill some Guardians of the Grove. (Molly Millions is the contact point for this.) Meet at Camp Crimson Bark.

5pm EST - Storming the Strongholds

Storming the Strongholds- with massive amounts of people. Meet at Camp Bald Knoll. We'll do U'Gahmaro Mines, Zahar'ak, and finish in Natalan. We're going to massively invade, wipe out their leaders, and head onto the next one. :) This is for fun, not coffer farming, so if anyone gets a key, grats to them, but they fall to who they fall to!

7pm EST - Mor Dhona Danger Race

Danger Race- Mounted race to see who can do two complete counterclockwise laps around Mor Dhona the fastest. Race starts at Camp Brittlebark, and racers must pass through Revenants's Toll (inside the camp, running between the tent and the aetheryte) each lap. First place prize: 1 million gil. Second place: 500k, Third Place: 250k. All entries must set homepoint at Brittlebark- if you die, you have to restart your lap. If another player is willing to revive you, they may do so, but at their own detriment.Teleportation between any of the points will disqualify you. Any abilities you posess (speedsong, fists of wind) that you feel will help you, are allowed. On the beginning of the second lap, you must pass thru the Brittlebark camp, inside the fence, between the tent and the aetheryte.

8pm EST - Underwear Run

Underwear Run- everyone strips to their skivies to run on foot from Gridania to The Lance, Coerthas. Meet at the Gridania Adventurer's Guild No prize, just a flock of scantily clad runners. :)

10pm EST -Rainbow Basilisk Killing

Over the Rainbow- Let's take down some of those pesky lvl 92 Rainbow Basilisks. :) Because we can. Meet at Camp Revenant's Toll

Midnight EST- World Wide NM Hunts

World Wide NM Hunts-... Dodore, Uraeus, Haughtpox Bloatbelly, Elder Mosshorn, and Great Buffalo. We're taking em out! We'll meet at Camp Bald Knoll, wipe out the Buffalo, choco down to Grid and Ferry over to Thanalan. Chocobo over to Elder Mosshorn, and teleport to Grid. We'll run up to Bloatbelly from there, over to Coerthas for Uraeus, and then tele to Brittlebark for Dodore! If anyone gets drops well and good, but they fall to whoever they fall to, cuz the main point is to have fun!

2am EST - Ending Celebration

Ending the Day with a Bang!- Party in the Amphitheater with fireworks, chocolates, prisms, and other shiny things. Meet at Gridania's Amphitheater.

Don't live in EST? That's cool. Neither do I actually. Handy time converter: HERE.

If you're interested in helping me coordinate this, or wanna volunteer to help out with it, please lemme know, via in game /tell or this thread. Thank you!

I'll be editing this post to keep everyone up to date on the current news. :)

Sounds like a good idea, storming strongholds is always fun and would be a good way to intermingle along with getting the achievements for those who need them. Could help people with their aethers. We already have a run planned to kill Guardians of the Grove this weekend but why not do it again with even more people and make videos, show the lodestone how Balmung rolls.

I'm all for going and killing things (rainbow basilisks) but also mining/botany/fishing parties--crafting parties.

Everyone in dodo subligar~ /danceing. /crotchthrust

Beats me the best stuff is usually spontaneous, we'll see what the new content between then and now brings.

Looking forward to it.

Anything would be great. Good idea ^_^

Sounds like a good idea! I want really good screenshots with lots of people!

Alright, cool! So far (cross posting in both world forums, plus some other stuff I thought of) here's our list of possible events:

Storming the Strongholds- with massive amounts of people.
World Wide NM Hunts-...just what it sounds like!
Underwear Run- everyone strips to their skivies to run from point A to B.
Clear-Cutting Run- We go kill some Guardians of the Grove.
Danger Race- Mounted race to see who can do a couple laps around Mor Dhona the fastest. :) Might be willing to offer gil prizes for the winners of this one.
Goobue and/or chocobo run- again, from point A to B
Aetheral gate hunting expedition- Team up to go get those tricky glowing points.
Mining/botany/fishing parties?
Crafting parties- gather together and craft till your heart's content

Plus any other ideas people come up with, or stuff we can do when the next patch comes out. So, please, keep throwing ideas out. My thought was that we could have a day-long celebration, with an event every couple of hours, so people across all sorts of time zones would have a chance to participate. So, the more events the better!

If you're interested in helping me coordinate this, or wanna volunteer to help out with it, please lemme know? Thank you!

Something useless, but fun would be best. Lets kill a rainbow basilisc or tree guardian or something outrageous like that.

Hm...maybe the Saturday after the merge would actually be a better day. It'd be hard to schedule events at specific times, when we don't know how long it will take the patch to be implemented or people to download it.

Plus, weekend.

I like the Mor Dhona Nascar Race :o if only Viagra would sponsor me.

Could we possibly hold some of these events on that Sunday, too? There's a convention in town here in Seattle that weekend, so I probably won't be able to make a lot of these events. I'd probably have a better chance of catching some of them on that Sunday. Figure this will be a way to hit most of the events on your list, too.

I did my best to spread events out throughout the day, so that hopefully everyone will be able to make some of them. As it is, it's gonna be a pretty busy day for me trying to organize all this stuff, and I don't know if I have the time, energy (or anima) to do it twice over. :D I hope you do manage to make some of them though!

So, final schedule is up in first post. Spread the word, tell your friends! Can't wait to see everyone there!

Edit: The other reason I wanted to keep it on a Saturday, is for players on the other side of the globe, where it's already a Sunday. I'd like to at least make sure it's on a weekend for everyone. :)

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I like the Mor Dhona Nascar Race :o if only Viagra would sponsor me.

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Merge Day log in QQ~~

Half the people's data still on Fabul after 20 hr >.<