Dedicated LE team Event Ideas

Its pretty common knowledge that the live events team consists of
mainly beleagured dev team members, yet something occured to me last
night, I don't know wether anyone remembers the game Neverwinter
Nights, which had a DM client for DMs to access a server with rights to
affect the game anyway they please to make the game that was running at
the time more interesting for the players that were running at the time.



Currently smaller events revolve around the fact that now and then some
mobs may be spawned to fight players of players may get to meet
characters for meetings etc, its fun but doesnt happen enough and
doesnt really make that much sense or point, especially when it happens
to to few people for others to get the enjoyment out of it.



Now what I was thinking, which I believe would be a good idea to make
the game different from what it is now and certainly different to what
other games offer, is a dedicated few people that access the game and
affect it as they see fit, for example



Taking over an agent spawning with someone that is in a restricted
area, thusly scaring the bejesus out of a player when the agent turns
around and actually attempts to chase them properly ie through and over
buildings, and says something apart from the scripted responses.



Taking over bluepill npcs and engaging in conversation with redpills again apart from the scripted conversation



spawning random attacks to surprise the redpills and keep them on their toes.



creating mini events such as boxing a team of redpills on a mission
inside a building and them attempting to survive and get out without
getting killed such as when in happenned in the original matrix movie.



Creating matrix glitches that make the player wonder what the hell is going on.



These are just a few ideas to make the game more interesting, and I
feel would break the monotony of what can happen with the game, it
would keep players on their toes to know that at ANY time something can
happen, I don't mean that these events happen at particular times of
the day to become predicatable, I mean that they happen all the time,
the team dedicated to doing this is working all the time, they play out
one little event and move onto another area where someone else is
playing and do this continually.



All it takes is a few dedicated people to do this, and I'm sure the mxo
client is built to be able to do such things with an admin access
anyway, Hell i'd volunteer to do it if i could.



Thoughts?

Message Edited by NullWhite on 12-09-2005 01:24 PM

don't take the giving of player rights to do with these things that I
want, as it isn't, it was just a part of my ideas, as since the LET
consists of dev team members who havent the time or the effort to
continually take part in the games events.

I more suggest that a dedicated team be put together to do the things
that were suggested, people (not neccessarily players) do the things
that I have suggested on a full time basis, rather than a few times
every month or here and there when it suits them or has the time, the
reason i say players is merely on the basis of the fact that players
will work for free... and im sure SOE would not want to spend money to
pay a team of people to do these things (though i suggest they should)



Though having players do something like this would cause an uproar in
itself in a worse way than the people who complained about player mods,
but let me get it straight that I am not advocating this, and merely
offering ideas and not wanting to give players admin access to the
game..



Anyway..



Taking the time out to create player made events and scripting things
your way and making your own event as mentioned here is good, but is
limited by the system of what the game offers the player, and can not
influence the game on such a scale as a LE member can do. player events
are  the only option at the moment and in its own right is good,
but to be honest you shoulden't have to do it, you are paying to play
the game not paying to create your own game.



It is not neccesarily RP events that I am talking about, one idea that
I mentioned is the escape from the closed off building, its basically
new ideas, different things that can happen in the game, its all very
well having a few masked men attack in the open only to have the
innevitable beatdown occuring as everyone piles in beats them around,
its fun but doesnt serve any rhyme reason or purpose, whereas
targetting groups or individuals with smaller events that happen all
through the day to different random people makes for much interesting
gameplay.



If something happenned to you ingame such as this your bound to
remember it, want to play more to help in other peoples events or hope
it happens again as you enjoyed it when it happenned.



Occasionaly smaller events are targetted at individuals or groups but
happen all to rarely, for example in one such event i was targetted by
an LE assassin and was chased all over the place only to end up in a
club with a bunch of other players protecting me, I remember that
clearly because it was a surprise, it made me enjoy what was going on
and over all improved my feeling of the game, and I am sure many would
agree with that.

Message Edited by NullWhite on 12-09-2005 05:06 PM

Message Edited by NullWhite on 12-09-2005 05:08 PM

Message Edited by NullWhite on 12-09-2005 05:08 PM

I agree with you Abigor, as i've mentioned i didn't intend to make this
an issue at hand,  but if SOE woulden't pay for a team to do what
other choice would there be to do this. Players have shown that they
can organise and create their own events, and I am sure there are
people out there who could do the job adequatly.



The problems would arise when intentional (or unintentional bias) came
into play. Someone who is a player is more than likely going to target
someone that they know or a faction they know when playing out events
rather than someone they don't which would show an unintentional bias.
Unfortunatly this is why it won't really happen.



On the flipside there are people who woulden't care who was doing it,
just that someone was doing it to improve their gameplay or just make
it more interesting, after all players know this game better than
anyone else, yes the devs know the workings of the game on the inside,
but the players know who is who, what faction does what etc etc



Theres also the point that SOE would NEVER had over rights of the game
in this way to mere players which kind of scuppers all discussion about
the fact that players could do this.



My whole point is that there should be a DEDICATED TEAM going above and
beyond what they are already doing, and I would PREFER them to be SOE
employees



I proberbly should save this discussion for something like LESIG to be honest

If your January/February expectation is correct, things will pick up
around the time when it is mxos first birthday, and I think that around
that time the dev team may decide wether to begin work on the next
expansion of the game, as generally speaking around a year into a games
life is about the time when they think about bringing out an expansion.