Hello, I have a good idea which doesn't mean make graal have a big change but something that can keep players up and running and exploring when these things happen.
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Events
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Not the Staff events, but events that would be shown in the news. So once in a while something happens, maybe a huge storm that floods graal which makes some parts of graal in water, and maybe blocks some entrances for houses. To something happy and fun like in a cave thats not used or blocked off they decide to open it one day for a reason like. (We have decided to let some tourists enter) like in the cave in the middle of MoD and Graal City. Or the zorbis cave. If there was a flood maybe the zorbis would leave the cave and leave the guard so they can help because they are water, so maybe we can explore in there.
Or a tornado hits graal and maybe somethings are broken (the tornado doesn't literally come it just says it already came) and because everything is all messed up, the houses are kinda broken, the guards go and open the the secret hatch to let people stay in there, and because thee guards are not on duty it turns Graal City into a PK ZONE Until everything is cleaned up. Or a meteor could create a crater in graal once in a while and for 2 days it can be stuck there blocked off, next day there would be npcs trying to break it and fill in the crater (maybe gnomes can mine the meteor) and next day they would give free parts of the meteor which we can show off like how we can show off quest items. but it would be just for fun.
These events that can keep players surprised and always on their seats that even though there won't be a quest update or anything they can always hope for an event like this to happen, and to implement this u don't need the full animation or storyline just restart the server and restart server.
I hope this makes it, would be very fun and it doesn't necessarily have to be my ideas just these events that wouldn't be so hard to make just little effort but will keep graalians busy and temporarily change grails gameplay (PK ZONES, ETC).
They would range from
Surprise Disasters
Surprise Events