What do you guys do for fun?

[IoneNightshade]

I've got a pretty wonderful community that I'm involved with. We put on a lot of social events and plan a lot of things around that. We're prepping for our next server-wide event currently so basically all our time is going into crafting, gathering, gardening, and the like for prizes and things of that nature.

[Kurogaea]

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FC's are perfect for spending time with, not to objectify your friends or players you meet, but its a community of players you can interact with, share ideas, tips, complaints, laugh with or roleplay if your into that stuff. So yeah i suppose you wouldn't get bored if you had people to associate alongside you as you play the game and may make your experience sweeter or even last, but the fc and community suggestions isn't what I'm asking for really. Perhaps I should have stated that in my post. Friends and company make anything better, no offense.

Aside from that I'd like to know what are the things you discuss and do in these social events. You struck my curiosity.

[Okashii]

things you discuss and do in these social events. You struck my curiosity.

You should go to 404's Harvestide Oct 24 @ 9 est! Bentbranch. I'm marking it on my FC's calendar. I always encourage my FC to go to their events.

[IoneNightshade]

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Well the social events I'm talking about come in a few varieties. We have in-guild activities that are sepcific for us. These sorts of things include guild darts (we fling ourselves off of high places and others try to land on that person along with a bunch of variations there of), we play hide and seek, dungeon dashes where we race to do the fastest run of a dungeon possible unsynced, we have bad movie nights where we get together and watch terrible movies together in Teamspeak while making fun of them. Then we have larger events where we cram a bunch of games together in one night like we did for our anniversary event on this past Saturday.

There is a lot of variety to our social events. Some of them are in game, some are out of game, but all of them are more about the interactions we have during than the actual games themselves. We play a lot of tabletops together, and generally focus on trying to just have a good time within the community.

Outside of that, we also host server-wide social events. We start advertising them about a month prior to the event. So far we haven't released the official details on our next one (Harvestide) but those details will be coming on Thursday.

A lot of work goes into the preparation of these. We put together a promotional video which requires filming events and things of that nature. We craft and collect a ton of different prizes to give away, we plan little events to have during the larger event, so on so forth. Basically the entire prep for them lasts about 3 months and we go go go the whole time. We make rounds on some news outlets and do some podcasts. We get other members of the community involved and really push ourselves to outdo the previous event every time. It's pretty fun seeing the whole server together like that.

This time is looking to be our biggest yet. We'll be giving away about 45 million gil worth of in game prizes as well as $330 in game time cards and other merchandise. So thats kind of what we do... We host events haha. As I said though, the full details will be coming out on Thursday for our next one in October.

You should go to 404's Harvestide Oct 24 @ 8 est! Bentbranch. I'm marking it on my FC's calendar. I always encourage my FC to go to their events.

So glad you guys will be coming out again! I always love seeing the Rain tags at our events. Really we have the community to thank for supporting us so much on these endeavors so it's really wonderful to see others getting excited already... Even before we've officially announced it lol! Hopefully you guys walk away with some awesome prizes as I know you're always active attendees =)

[Okashii]

...guild darts...

LMFAO that sounds like a game you play drunk

[Kurogaea]

Thnx, for info Ione and Okashii. Sounds like a blast to hang around those events so I'll look forward to it. (no Yoshi P pun intended :/ )