Graaloween - 2013
 

With Halloween just around the corner, Graal Classic has just a little more than a week's time to surprise the player's! I think there's still room for contribution and feedback for this year's Graaloween, seeing as it is one of the more popular holidays' to be celebrated on Graal.

This thread's general purpose is to give your feedback, anticipations, ideas, and anything else regarding Graaloween. With that being said, I'll go on ahead and list my current thoughts.

Deadwood
Deadwood is a Halloween based town that has seen some major changes over the duration of this year. The previous Halloween quest expansions have been removed, and a large chunk of Deadwood (bat caves, cave maze, pumpkin patch) have been severed off, thus making this town a run-down version of its original self.
I want to see a Halloween update in Deadwood, and I'm not just talking about the opening of Club Crypt, no, no. An exclusive Graalloween quest, or a boss monster maybe? I mean, this town is like the epitome of Halloween on Graal..

What are your anticipations/thoughts for this upcoming Graaloween?

Honestly I would really like to see how this is gonna go, do they have like maybe a Halloween store or something? Like in Era they had a Easter Store I know that....

Id like to see a quest similar to the one with the maze and where you had to go around trying to find different body parts... I think. Obviously different though. Like Xerxes said, it be cool to have a boss baddie or waves of different halloween creatures that drop certain items. Which can be given to a witch for here brew or something.

Um, yeah i heard about that though, it was like ghost I think and if you follow them, they drop candy? I think so....

That was last year

Oh really? Hmmmmm.... I must have read the wrong thing then.....my bad,

I thought that the candy dropping ghosts and minor tileset alterations last time were nice, but that the real draw (that everyone STILL talks about when you use it) was the witch's broom, which I hope that they will bring back this year for one or two days.

Also, I would like to see some new content released, and this is anticipation based on the hints and cues that have been sprinkled here and there in the forum... supposedly the calendar date to watch is the 25th :)

I don't know about the witch broom, what is that?

Toothpick for a troll :)

I liked trick or treat game. Although I didn't prepare for it.
I and bobby hunt candies for few hours last year and we got bunch of hats from it.
It was pretty fun. :)

the broom is special

There's all ready a shop there its called club crypt. Incase you missed the other thread there are several of us that are hoping to get a DW upgrade but I still have my doubts. It just seems like they are busy with other stuff and probably don't have the time atm to fix up DW.

Im still hoping for a zombie morph

The idea of developing quests for specific days/weeks of the year is a waste. We don't even have regular quests that you can do all-year-round yet. In my opinion, holidays should have the same event every year, but with a different prize and the obvious shop restock of new items. It'd be more traditionalist, true to life, and doesn't require the attention of all of the staff on the team every time it comes up. Whether Halloween has that 'quality' attraction yet, I don't know, but I am personally uninspired when it comes to this holiday.

Yeah that would be cool, a morpheme for Halloween that does something. My cousin has really old Morphes. He's an admin also. Idk all of them but my favorite is the Yeti he has.

I enjoyed last years way of Graal-o-ween, it was fun and it was smooth and quick. It gave me a lot of surprises and I'm glad its all about to happen again

Maybe if they added more things to ride like the way in era. Like add custom pumpkin bombs that take 4 seconds to explode, but explode bigger, this could be sold in the shop.(do they already have this!?!)

I was a big fan of the underground maze in which you had to collect different ingredients to acquire the skeleton morph (2 years ago?), the trick or treat system and the candy dropping ghosts. Of course, the quest for the broom kept everyone busy for quite some time too XD
Last year's tileset looked awesome as well, especially with the addition of the catchable spider bug. Perhaps the black beetle bug will be catchable this Halloween...?
Let's see how it turns out :)

Pumpkin slimes.

I have to agree with Rufus,and as far as the shop for items we have Onnet general store for most and Club Crypt for Graaloween. I don't see why we have a building that's only open like one week a year? I think they could have it open 24/7 365 and maybe add something to do inside so its not just a hang out/idle spot 11 and 1/2 months out of the year.

Maybe some kind of Halloween inspired mini game. Like a room with bat baddies that you pay to enter and win a prize if you can kill them all with out dying. Maybe several rooms to clear out there could be a fee to try if you die you have to start over tho. or perhaps you could kill bats and collect fangs for a daily or weekly reward like pyrates. I figure something of that nature wouldn't be hard to make and would draw players into the area frequently.

Make a simple Halloween quest where npc's around graal will give you a candy piece. Once you find all twenty you redeem them for something.
Or we can do that random spawning thing where you have to find the witch cat or whatever it is. That was always fun. :P

Yeah but pumpkin bombs was what I was going for, if they like made it so that they were really awesome, and exploded bigger, but gave you more time to escape.

Ha yeah and they appear from no where

Already been made

Hmmm...... Crap. Wait, they've already been made? Is there like a special thing to ride? I don't play classic that much so...

I agree. And yes, we have had trouble with holiday events that could be repeated. Halloween 2011 via Azrael was amazing, but it wasnt something I would want to repeat every year. But last year's trick-or-treating was even better and was something that could be repeated every year. So yes, I do think we've found "that quality event."

D: aw ruffy, you break my heart when you say youre apathetic about my favorite holiday :'[

I want baddies that I can put in my house.... bats, slimes, whatever... something you can kill for bombs/arrows/gralats IN YOUR HOUSE.
I would buy as many of them as I could.

I liked last year's trick or treating. It relates somewhat to real life, and was overall fun. Though, with a few modifications, it'd be better. Imo the Ghost were too slow when it came to dropping candy, and then players would walk by and steal them. If it were changed, I could see it becoming a holiday event that happens yearly.

Do something like the 'Trick or Treat' method used in zone

The October VIP morph came out, and it looks absolutely horrendous; and not in a good way either.

How does that go?

You give us some good stuff and we complain and say its crap

You go in a shop, and must say "trick or treat". Then u will get some candy, u can go per hour in every shop/house once. And if u reach:1k,2k,3k,5k,10k u will get something special like:a trophy or a hat etc.

Not like zone but i like my own idea:)

I'd love to see a Thriller gani on graal so our graaloween would look a lot like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3HG2Ob8Hc

How about we DONT do Zone's ****ty ToT. Looks like they made it in 5 minutes. And it isn't fun whatsoever.

So basically promoting being a no-life. geez our dignity hasnt fallen that low on Classic.

I liked the witch broom quest last year

You're all getting hats. You give all these ideas and guess what YOU GET HATS!

I very much enjoyed last years "trick or treat" event, it was fun and simple. I would love to see that happen again this year.

It looks like a cheap squidward instead of a zombie

Got anything else to suggest as a worth while reward within Classic's constraints?

I happen to like the zombie morph, its pretty decent

But last year's Graaloween on Classic was amazing...

I'd be content with last year's trick or treat, minus the witch unless the prize is something else (the broom shouldn't be given out again) and of course new rewards if you get a treat.

its not bad I really wanted a zombie morph so I'm happy was just hoping for something a little more grotesque.

The Graal-O-Ween with the maze was the best one. Deadwood was my favourite place, but admins deleted the most&funniest parts of Deadwood. It's smaller than YorkTower

Chosing 1 from 5 free hats is better than doing these quests.