10 (uptime) year anniversary on 3650.

[EchoMan]

I still think there is time to get a few of the suggestions in place.

[in vitro...]

1. Small temporary design change. Gold banner + text. Will happen
2. Raffle
3. Implement fireworks
4. A new food or drink
5. A new jewelry or clothing
6. A new vehicle
7. A kite.

3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are fairly easy to do, with only 3 and 7 requiring some additional work to code usage of fireworks and kite event. i don't like 6, something only for decoration would be better imho. a colossus, totem or idol for example. and "magic" 8-Ball would be nice, could work similar to dice.

[Doug R.]

The raffle would be require programming if we wanted to automate it. However, for the the sake of simplicity, we could just post an announcement to send an email to enter, and we could draw names out of a hat.

Alternatively, the new survey system logs everyone's responses. We could just start a survey, "Do you wish to enter the 10-year anniversary raffle?" Yes answers would be entered in by hand (could be sorted in excel). It's my idea, so I'm willing to do the legwork.

[EchoMan]

Sounds like a good idea. Did we finalize the various options for the raffle?

[Doug R.]

Ground rules for miracle option:

-it can't harm another player's character (no asteroid crashes)
-it has to be possible given staff resources (no recoding the whole game)
-it can't be otherwise detrimental to the game, as defined as something that would lose us players
-it can be done privately or publicly

This is what we have so far. The only thing we've not determined is how many of these we want to give out.

[Doug R.]

Let's add another one - is subject to GAB approval.

That covers any possible contingency.

[EchoMan]

I agree.

[Doug R.]

Ok, I'll start working on the survey, so it'll be translated in time.

[EchoMan]

The text on the survey should probably have a link to a forum post with the explanation and rules.

[Doug R.]

Ok. Does that exist yet, or do I need to make that also?

[EchoMan]

I can make one from the information you provided above.

[Doug R.]

Ok

[EchoMan]

How do this look/feel/sound?

Cantr II's 10-year up-time anniversary is drawing closer.

One of the things that will happen during these celebrations is a raffle where all players may enter. One or more of them will get drawn randomly, and get to choose a miracle, or an accepted suggestion, which will get highest priority.

You can read the public discussion about the raffle and miracles here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22812

We will use the in-game survey functionality for you to enter the raffle.

Ground rules for miracle option:

• it can't harm another player's character (no asteroid crashes)
• it has to be possible given staff resources (no recoding the whole game)
• it can't be otherwise detrimental to the game, as defined as something that would lose us players
• it can be done privately or publicly
• it is subject to GAB approval

[Doug R.]

Sounds good.

[EchoMan]

*bump*

We now have about 2 months to decide and implement. These are the suggestions so far:

1. Small temporary design change. Gold banner + text. Will happen

2. Raffle Will happen
2.1 - 1 miracle to happen, with certain rules.

1. Ground rules for miracle option:
-it can't harm another player's character (no asteroid crashes)
-it has to be possible given staff resources (no recoding the whole game)
-it can't be otherwise detrimental to the game, as defined as something that would lose us players
-it can be done privately or publicly

2.2 - 1 select what you want (under certain restrictions) from accepted suggestions that will start getting developed.

3. Implement fireworks (should be easily implementable by common resources). Create an event when fired. RD?

4. A new food or drink (an alcoholic drink or a new pie). scrapped

5. A new jewelry or clothing. scrapped

6. A new vehicle. scrapped

7. A kite. RD?
Maybe something that would give you a special emote that comes from the game itself instead of originating from a character? E.g. "1234-5:67 You see <character name> fly his feather kite high up in the air" or whatever.

Updated. Does anyone in RD want to work with ProgD on 3 and 7?

We will also make a tool that allow us to manually create events that can come in handy for these festivities.