Format for The New Approach

This is how the New Approach format should go.

Update Released

• Players view cinematic
• Org Leaders open up an in-character discussion on DN1 forums to give their INITIAL thoughts on the situation and encourage interaction from their operatives.

Weeks 1 and 2 - Chapter Missions

• Players run chapter missions and collect the needed items for rewards or for use in combat (such as antioverrides, etc.)
• Upper and lower level players should team up so everyone gets to experience the new content.  Requests for mission teams of course can be posted on forums.

Week 3 - Live Event (PVE)

• 3 LESIG (or call them something else) officers need to be assigned (1 per org) and events run as they did before latest changes.
• There should be 1 event per org and can be on any server.  In these events, players will interact with other characters besides org leaders.  Also, there will be key infomation that operatives will need to find or discover that will be needed in week 5.
• There will be NPC spawns that will need to be dealt with such as past events.

Week 4 - PVP Event

• Each server will have their own pvp event where all 3 orgs collide for a purpose related to the story. 
  
• These should last around 2 hours each.

Week 5 - Org Meeting

• Org leaders will update their original post on DN1 with information such as what the subject matter of the meeting will involve and any oustanding questions they (the org leaders) have regarding current storyline situation.
• Information from week 3 will need to be recalled and will contain answers to org leader's questions.
• The meetings should be held in the city as opposed to constructs and lvl 100 sentry guards should surround the meeting building and be on the roof to deal with opposing orgs who want to try and gain unauthorized access. This creates an immersive atmosphere.
  
• Org leaders need to be accompanied by other official members of their org to create a more "official" to the event.
• Org leaders should ask specific questions to specific operatives during the meeting to encourage involvement.

Week 6 - All Operative Party

• LE characters should eventually arrive at the event.
• At the end of the party there should be a climatic event (developers can be creative with this) that sets the stage for the next update.

New update released - repeat cycle

I think that pretty much covers it.

Some interesting ideas there, and i do congratulate you on being (one of the) first one(s) to post some clearly defined propposals for the new content format.

Not bad ideas, there, especially with regard to keeping players occupied and interested throughout the full 6 week patch cycle.

My only real concern with it is the fact that it is pattern based.  Knowing what week has what sort of event could make things too predictable.  Now, if they took the basic ideas in this thread and switched them around every time (including even leaving some out on occasion), it would be better.  Of course, even predictable happenings is better than the nothing happening we have now though

I like it, although some ideas should be generated for the pvp week thats a bit open ended.

that and it would be nice for the NPC spawns of the live events to drop some of what is needed for the gear

also I love the idea of having the org meeting with the sentries I hope that would be implemented at the very least.

So the truth is now flaming, apparently. I see what u did thar.

Edit: nvm, after hovering the SOE discussion area of the boards, I understand why the post was moved. Thanks.

I tend to agree with most of the suggestions but the idea to force all the 3 orgs to collide for a PvP event. Sometimes the story just does not justify a three-side conflict.

deimoslvov wrote:

I tend to agree with most of the suggestions but the idea to force all the 3 orgs to collide for a PvP event. Sometimes the story just does not justify a three-side conflict.

Agreed. Now that the Truce has fallen, the Machines are less likely to take notice of the Exiles/the Merovingian's organization, since they have more immediate threats like Zion to contend with.

Still, pvp events were great fun in the past, the third side might just show up for non-rp reasons, like they did pretty much every time we had an area flag anyway.

Thanks to everyone who responded.  I know some of this may seem undoable but I really don't know what the developers are capable of.  Alot of people seemed dissapointed with the first round of org meetings, so I figured maybe the developers can take bits and pieces from this and add to their new format. 

deimoslvov wrote:

I tend to agree with most of the suggestions but the idea to force all the 3 orgs to collide for a PvP event. Sometimes the story just does not justify a three-side conflict.

You have a good point here.  I didn't want to leave any org out of the pvp part, but if the developers were to actually put something like this together, hopefully they would have a way for it to make sense within the current phase of the story. 

Shinryu wrote:

My only real concern with it is the fact that it is pattern based. 

I had this thought also after I made this post, but again I would defer to the developers to maybe mix it up a little or do what they can to at least not make it seem as routine.  Hopefully, the content of the story would keep the format fresh.

well as long as they took some of your idea and put it into action it would be awesome.