New event rule

[Gogeta]

I would like to suggest a new rule for our daily events because from what I have noticed only one person wins each event and does not give any other players a chance.

"You cannot win twice in a row before 48 hours have passed since your last win was announced"

In several old events there is a similar rule "You can only reply once every 24 Hours."

Thanks to this more players can participate in these events and enjoy them and win prizes.
It will also be more attractive because it will increase the competition in gaining FIMES.

 

[Elbereth]

I believe there's rule of max 3 IMES a day per EM for game events to prevent situations such as the one you first described.

I hope the MODs team can look into this and come up with a special way to make it so a more diverse pool of players can get a shot at enjoying and maybe win their fun events. .

Let me suggest maybe making the time of the events as random as possible or just not predictable so maybe people of different timezones/schedules can get a better shot at coming across them in a timely manner.

 

[Chuck]

Great suggestion, I agree. A certain someone @Amethyst , is taking up all the FIMES. I mean, it's great to see such dedication and effort paying off, but it doesn't leave much opportunity for others. Setting limits would make things fairer, just like in in-game events, as @Elbereth mentioned.

@Khaled , brother and Forum Chief, we trust in you!

 

[Shaanksie]

Hellooo

From my point of view, having a player to count his hours since the last win, or the Mods to do that, won’t make any sense or help the process for hosting events, but Elbereth’s suggestion to have some sort of max FIMES per day won, well that sounds much more like the events from in-game and would be more fair to all participants în the forum events
We all know Cris îs winning the events from forum because of his dedication and presence on forum, and it has nothing to do with GMT, because I’ve seen him online and replying to events regardless the posting time.
Maybe a max number of FIMES would do a bit of challenge for more players în forum, but also this would be a negative change for players like Cris who’s committed all the time into winning and being active

But în order to give more chances to new players into our community and the events to be more challenging, I’d be for Elbereth’s suggestion to add a rule for max no of FIMES / day.

 

[#Lucifer]

Maybe a max number of FIMES would do a bit of challenge for more players în forum, but also this would be a negative change for players like Cris who’s committed all the time into winning and being active

But în order to give more chances to new players into our community and the events to be more challenging, I’d be for Elbereth’s suggestion to add a rule for max no of FIMES / day.

I agree to this, also I would like to suggest to Mods who are handling events to post twice in a row, so that'll give chance to other players who are slow and not as fast as @Amethyst , well tho darling is so fast. My admiration to his dedication in winning fimes in incomparable.

 

[Tomioka]

In my point of view, change the mode or not, or put a new rule or not, there are people who make their discharge and at the time of the day they do not participate in said events that are carried out in the game or forum, and they only seek to harm "x" people for being more skilled than one, I will only say, let's play more and enjoy the game and the Forum events more. Blessings to all

 

[Gogeta]

I'll simplify it a bit if someone doesn't understand it.
It's not a complete limitation of the game, quite the opposite, I admire such determined players who want to achieve their goal, but sometimes it has its side effects, unfortunately.
So the rule I gave at the beginning can improve it a bit.
For example, if Shanks puts a round in the "find coordinates" event and let's say Chuck wins it, then Lux0R can put another round in this event, but Chuck can't win it, so another player has a chance to win and when this player wins, then Shanks can put his round in the same event again and Chuck can win it.
(yes there can be many rounds in one event on one day)
This way we won't limit any FIMES and we won't limit the players.
It's a proven method and it really works.
On our old sister server we had much much much fewer players but the forum events worked perfectly that way. Lux0R probably still remembers that.
Another thing, you don't have to count anything if the round is difficult and no one wins it within 48 hours, the previous winner can easily check when he can enter his answer and win.

 

[Lux0R]

I'll speak for both sides.

As a player who participated in events and as someone who hosts them now.

As a player and former participant of mainly forum events and a three-time FIMES winner, I also tried to win as many events as possible as quickly as possible. I set special markers just to get a notification if there was a new round. I had ready votes and so on. So here I'm not surprised that one person wants to grab everything they can. I guess it's normal.

However, as a host, I of course understand others who would also like to take part in something. Personally, I'm always happy when there are participants willing to take part in forum events. However, it's similar (I think) to those in the game, except that you get information that it will be in 15 or 30 minutes. There's no such thing here. The round is posted and first come, first served.
I try to post at different times to avoid predictions. However, these are also limited hours when I can prepare for events.
Despite everything, when I post an event and that one player is not there, they can still lie there and literally wait for them to appear.

As for the limitations.
In my opinion, limiting responses every 24/48 hours defeats the purpose. As we can see, we host events on average every 2 days.
The only reasonable solution is the FIMES/hoster limit. However, this is also an average situation, because we usually post the same level of difficulty for all events. For example, I post 3x HARD, which gives us 6 FIMES. The player replies to 2 of them with a limit of 3/hoster and what. Am I supposed to cut off 1 FIMES from him now because of the limit?
Let's say the limit is 4 FIMES/hoster, then by posting 4 easy or difficult events he can get everything anyway.

I will add that the response limits after 24/48 hours were removed on purpose, because they were there before, but there were no people willing to participate. The same with the limits, which were, as I remember, 5 IMES/hoster.

To sum up, until any decision is made, I suggest you visit the forum more often, follow the threads with events that interest you and, if you receive a notification, nike! just do it!

That's it

 

[Halfdanjal]

I appreciate the suggestion and the intent behind it and on the surface level I completely agree with it. However, I feel that the current level of competition might not be enough to justify a strict 48-hour cooldown on consecutive wins. Events can often remain unclaimed for hours, and in many cases, it’s a single player actively participating and claiming them. If we limit back-to-back wins without enough competition, it might slow down the event activity rather than encourage more participation.

We could consider diminishing rewards for repeat winners, but since the rewards are already quite small (only 1–2 FIMES), there's not much room for reduction. While we could lower GC rewards, FIMES are what players are primarily after. Alternatively, increasing rewards for new winners could encourage more participation, but that might also feel unfair to regular participants.

FIMES hunters are almost always on the forum. Personally, I try to post events when they’re not around, yet the moment I do, boom, they’re here. Honestly, I find this level of dedication admirable. If they’re the fastest, then they’re the fastest.

While your point is certainly valid, I don’t see a strong need to implement this rule given the current level of event participation.

Example: https://forum.infinitymu.net/threads/guess-the-object.139721/page-11#post-1717866

Where is the participation and competition?

 

[Lux0R]

Hi,
Thank you for your suggestion.
We have been observing the last month in terms of people willing to participate in forum events and, as I mentioned, we have been posting new rounds at different times available to us.
This has not changed the number of people willing to participate in them, so we believe that adding such a rule at this time is unfounded and unnecessary.
Therefore, the suggestion is rejected.
However, if the number of people willing to participate significantly increases, we will consider adding such a rule.