[Feedback] The Black Knights Event

[Schipperke]

So they took a popular adventure and gave it extra loot for a couple of days, and people were complaining? Seriously? Because of my time zone I got up just before the event ended so had time to do only one quick BK, and am very disappointed the event was cancelled so quickly. The monochrome colour scheme was a little annoying, especially on adventures where it made it hard to see the general, but weigh that minor inconvenience against the chance of getting a bone church or witch tower from BK, and it didn't seem like such a huge deal to me. And I say that as someone with cataracts whose vision isn't that great. I still think the idea was good and am sorry the event was cancelled before some of us even got a chance to take part.

[AvengerX]

My constructive feedback would be:
- add an option to override graphical overrides (like color in BK, and even the 'darkness' in sandman, if it ever takes the game 'as a whole' like BK's)
- send messages as coloured messages in the 'system' tab, and make it flash, or add a dedicated badge or even a dedicated chat tab to replace the annoying dialogs. When I woke up I seen there were three dialogs, one over the other, last atop the previous, and each adding a 'darkness' layer (modal) to the game. When I clicked out the last dialog all was b&w and I thought it was a glitch
- events build up nicely without game restart, good job! I could see the items in merchant, all b&w, and black knights walking around the village.
- the item above was great except that the event had already been cancelled for some hours after I seen it. I mean, the event build up but does not destroy down once put out -- at least not in the forced way it was now. I seem to have found other events "dismantle" nicely without game restart in the past.

I personally could live with the event without major issues, but I'm not a heavy player. I'm sorry the event didn't turn out as good as you expected and I believe it is required a lot of effort to bring up such a new unique event to the game, artwork, client-server, and also the marketing/communication. It is not a simple "bingo" or "trivia" that just takes chat to happen.

The surprise was a nice attempt too but maybe the drawback of the event would be revealed before going live if it sat on the test server for some days. In the future, surprise events should be put up risking less, so that it wouldn't be necessary to backstep it (minor modifications, and options to "undo" them specially if they affect gameplay and/or graphics).

Actually, a good idea would be a "opt-out" switch for people to be able to enlist out of such events. It should not allow the user to reactivate it once opted-out (for that specific event). BB and Mods should be able to mail "opt-in" tokens to users to opt back in for some reason (or a /opt-back-in <user> affecting other players). As far as the client is concerned, it will just not earn the prizes (when loot is changed), no visual effects (which won't affect multiplayer instances) and no merchant tab.

Well, that's a lot to suggest! I hope some of these helps!

[Erevan]

My main complaint is that I didn't get to see it myself to offer any constructive feedback. I appreciate those who tried it and also made time to offer specific suggestions rather than simply dismissing it. Experiments are worthwhile and fun. Mistakes are worthwhile and also can be fun if we don't take them too seriously. I agree it was a risk trying a surprise without putting it on the test server, though I enjoyed not knowing what to expect. Sorry it didn't work out better.

[Raubhautz]

i got a wt first bk i did others got mines and bone churches plus drop rate was increased [...]

Okay, thanks. So, it appears they just added a slot of rare (small %) drop rate.

[...] plus drop rate was increased [...]

I doubt that the rate for the special slots was moved above the normal 2% based upon the large number of peeps who noted no bonus slots in their loots. So long as each slot had a separate chance of dropping, that does not bother me.

[...] event was fine it was the stupid colour scheme that ruined it

For a quickie type event, I agree, not sure what all the sniveling was about. As a side note, when I began programming (a long time ago... galaxy far far away...), much of my work was on monochrome monitors. The grayscale was not much of an issue for me, though, I suppose it would have been nice for peeps to be able to turn it off, not everyone had zone buffs to clear it. I kind of liked running the BK in that mode.

[Koshko]

So I missed the entire epic disaster. BB was doing usually okay lately with their content, so I guess making the biggest mistake in years was inevitable.

PS: If you are going to try again, could you make the event last a week instead of 2 days? If it the event worked, I would have only been able the play 2-3 BKs over the next couple of days due to work and life.

[JackANinny]

Personally, the monochrome color made it hard for me to see, on adv. where anything was, with eye issue I've been having. That being said, I started out hopeful. Was not thrilled when I noticed, after I started BK adv. the

Update 24.07.2017
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as that looked like the best part of the event Maybe you could implement that if you plan on running this again. Thank you for the 1 day premium coins though, I was running low on star coins for 1 day prem. coins.

Sad I didn't get a chance to see purple ducks floating around.

[Gwalben]

Sounds like it could have been a good event aside from not being able to switch the color that may have annoyed some, but I didn't get to explore it very much before it went away. I never play BK anymore, but it would be good to see more reasons like this to go back to some adventures I used to do.

[Zeus9125]

if you made no color change except for BK or just leave it optional it would be an amazing event.

[ghannima]

For a quickie type event, I agree, not sure what all the sniveling was about. As a side note, when I began programming (a long time ago... galaxy far far away...), much of my work was on monochrome monitors. The grayscale was not much of an issue for me, though, I suppose it would have been nice for peeps to be able to turn it off, not everyone had zone buffs to clear it. I kind of liked running the BK in that mode.

It was not only on BK, Raubh, and not only black and white. All 'normal' adventures got the same misty gray maps, practically impossible to see where to land gens... or where the bandit camps are... or any red area. Imagine sending first block on BLT while you can't see the rocks...

I could live with an island buffed with white paint for a few days or a week, but this mist was cutting all normal adventures from me. I got the 2 co-op quest from pathfinder, we started them right after the event started and was a nightmare for me to finish them. (very poor eyesight here, practically i had to hover mouse over map to find the enemy camps, i knew where they were, but still not good enough so i did not need to see them before sending attacks).

[Lord_Sheffield]

How disappointed I was when the Event was cancelled by BB...every event takes about 2 hours to acclimatize to it...once I did, I was loading up and running back to back Black Knights for rewards...please reissue the event...TSO is all about challenge and I love a challenge!!!... :P