Posted by Cigam Graal

I dont think anyone listened to what I said -.-

I read it. You're right, people shouldn't be criticizing them for that mistake. It wasn't their fault. They tried their hardest and I thought they did pretty good even though some people were ignoring the script. If they make another play, it needs to be something attention grabbing. Maybe if they make one for thanksgiving the audience could be more involved. Let's say they make a giant turkey destroying the town and they have a giant turkey baddy npc come out and then the actors ask the audience "Oh no! We need someone to help us slay this beast! Anyone want to help us?". They then look for people in the audience who want to help fight the turkey and then they get dragged onto stage and they help fight the turkey.  

Posted by TylerMysTe

I read it. You're right, people shouldn't be criticizing them for that mistake. It wasn't their fault. They tried their hardest and I thought they did pretty good even though some people were ignoring the script. If they make another play, it needs to be something attention grabbing. Maybe if they make one for thanksgiving the audience could be more involved. Let's say they make a giant turkey destroying the town and they have a giant turkey baddy npc come out and then the actors ask the audience "Oh no! We need someone to help us slay this beast! Anyone want to help us?". They then look for people in the audience who want to help fight the turkey and then they get dragged onto stage and they help fight the turkey.

thank you :3 and thats a great idea... i can picture Azreal slashing the turkey while dragging people... i hope an admin (AKA Murder Mystery Theater producers) sees your request and does it  

This is a work in progress as we have never done a play on a server before. There's a difference between going to a live play and watching a movie. Hopefully later on I can put together an actual Graal Movie, but that will be more complicated for what I have in mind.

Stefan did make some last minute changes right before we were ready to go. They were changes we were not ready for so we did our best to adjust to the situation. The lag of players did not help the situation either. Second showing was the best, there were hardly any mistakes. I believe coco recorded the first two plays so I shall see if she can post it for comparison.

The whole reason I started putting these projects into play is to get more graal players involved in events and not just have them be with staff. And yes Higsbey they were mostly people that staff members knew. Seeing the issues we had already it would have been much harder to use random people the first time around. This will be the first of many plays and projects and more people will be given the chance to audition for spots.

The main problem we had was dedication. People would agree to be a part of this and then drop out, which made practicing in sync much harder. Once we get past the hiccups things should be fine.  

Posted by Trigger

The whole reason I started putting these projects into play is to get more graal players involved in events and not just have them be with staff.

I don't understand what you mean by this  

I mean most of the events we've done only involve stuff run by Admins, with little involvement from players. Stuff like hide n seek, trivia, halloween, there hasn't been much area for players to be a part of something bigger. I've started some stuff that will hopefully integrate players more.  

Posted by Trigger

And yes Higsbey they were mostly people that staff members knew.

This is true, but I'd like to say that Elly did not pick favorites. He got Storm and Lanky, who know many people, and had them pick those who would enjoy working on it and contribute. It wasn't a hat draw.  

Posted by Trigger

I mean most of the events we've done only involve stuff run by Admins, with little involvement from players. Stuff like hide n seek, trivia, halloween, there hasn't been much area for players to be a part of something bigger. I've started some stuff that will hopefully integrate players more.

Why not just host events?(No not play's)  

Posted by Gambit Drakul

Why not just host events?(No not play's)

We are going to. This is just the start of more things to come.  

All these just shows the stupidity of you all. If you knew the facts about what actually happened, then you should be able to rant; but like always all you players go by poor assumptions and stupid remarks. Lets put it this way, 1. The audience was extremely rude in the play, crowding around the front end and spamming emotes, spamming bombs, and shooting arrows to purposely lag them out, 2. The short period of time that we were given to make this happen, 3. There were MANY part switches, you all just cant blame it on Tucker; think about it, why would I switch someone out when we had only a couple days left to practice and bring someone else in that doesn't know the line, know where to go, and just bail out last minute just like 90% of the people did. I don't see any logic and sense in any of your rants or arguments. Short amount of time, extremely rude audience, materials were given to us late which went into short time to practice, and some un-reliable cast members (note that I used SOME). This was the first play, the first try at this; you peoples expectations are too high for what it should have been. It's an iPhone game, not an Xbox or Ps3, take it down a notch and give credit to those who actually tried and put effort into it instead of showing your age... In this case very young.  

You know how this all could have been excuted perfectly and been done over and over and over again and still have as much fun? Npcs. I'm telling you guys, it'll be well worth it and have a much better outcome, and still be fun, probably more fun since there will be no mess ups or awkward pauses while typing lines and such.  

Posted by Higbey

You know how this all could have been excuted perfectly and been done over and over and over again and still have as much fun? Npcs. I'm telling you guys, it'll be well worth it and have a much better outcome, and still be fun, probably more fun since there will be no mess ups or awkward pauses while typing lines and such.

Didnt Elly just say one of the problems was the audience, they honestly need the play to be watched, on the second showing Stephan ran in and yelled "Admins suck balls", having NPC's would fix one problem but leave another.  

Using npcs the play could be scripted to just be back to back, always showing. So new players could see it and it wouldn't be so laggy and crowded as time went on, it would be permanent, almost like a little built in cutscene.  

The improvs were fun. Using npcs removes the player aspect of it. Which is one of the reasons I even started this. Like I've said before, players. Later on we can make a movie theater.  

Posted by Trigger

The improvs were fun. Using npcs removes the player aspect of it. Which is one of the reasons I even started this. Like I've said before, players. Later on we can make a movie theater.

Movie theaters ftw. Definitly have that happen.  

i agree, id find it with npcs more fun and efficent. you could change it in a shorter period of time, have to constantly going to its not so crowded and laggy, and maybe inspire players to make plays up that can be turned into movies if staff likes said play alot.

plus if you want a more player involved thing id sugest a war thing, without guilds, made so if more than 15 players join then the group is split into 3 teams, and a big multiroomed arena where the group fights and the group with the most enemy pks by the end of the time limit win. kinda like a war version of ctf, with 3 teams, and no guilds, it would be fun, especially if there was a actual profitable reward for winning.

or you could make it so the rewards for ctf was raised so it would be actually efficent and fun to make money via ctf.

making these iniatives and rewards would mean more players would participate in war zone and ctf, and would make it actually fun to battle and ctf, without any guild stuff being attached to it so no guild could monopolize the war arena.

id suggest something like boat racing or horse racing, but i cant see how to get it to work seeing as someone could memorize any obstacle course sort of track, and if it was one of those tap button to go faster systems someone could just mod their ipod or pc to do it superhumanly fast.