Hamlet defense feedback from a top 20 provisioner: Critical problems and solutions

[Asiaine]

Hello,

This has me worried, and sad. As a Botanist/Carpenter I had my little heart pinned on doing this so much. But after reading all this, now I'm hesitant to even try. This is why:

If you have to be in the top 20 contributors to get any reward, there are going to be following limitations:
1 - Only people who are willing to invest items worth millions of gil will be be in the top 20.
2 - If you invest 10Million gil, there is nothing to stop 20 other people investing 10.1 million gil at the last moment (thus rendering your 10 million gil investment worthless)
3 - You HAVE to then contribute to the physical defense. If for some reason you can not (sick, can't make it, can't convince LS friends to come help you fight 10+ times for no reward on their part) you loose out on your total investment. Not to mention you also have to win (which means you can't pick up 7 random people who are willing to go once, and have faith you will even win).

If the premise is true, the only real hope is:
1 - A lot of people loose interest in it, so that only 20 people in the world actually want to partake.
2 - You are part of a tightly organized LS with the people and the resources who can all work to pull this off (and invest a huge gigantic portion of gil).

If #1 does not come true (which would be sad, as then I am hoping the content is so unpopular I would like to do it.. but popular enough I can convince 7 friends to go with me), then the only recourse is #2 (which leaves this event only to really-dedicated-long-term-rich-well-formed LSs... which is rather exclusive ...)

Right now, DL gear is looking easier to me ^.^;;


I really really hope the premise is wrong, or some adjustements can be made so that it can be fun for all on a regular basis.


Maybe too pre-mature but some super easy adjustments:
1 - You donate, you get points. For every 'x' points you get a chance of an item.
2 - If you are in top 20 you get an EXTRA chance of an item.
3 - If you are 1st, 2nd, or 3rd you get an EXTRA chance of an item.

You do not need to contribute to battle to have a chance at item.

If you contribute in battle and win, you get a chance at an item (based on your score). You do not need to supply items ahead of time to have a chance at item.


If it was something like this then I can see this being happy and fun for many ^.^b


Thank you.