Um I can't find any goblins anymore and i haven't seen a pumpkin ever in my life so are they taken away?  

DO I GET ANYTHING SPECIAL FOR BEING TRICKED OVER 14 TIMES IN A ****ING ROW?  

Posted by Ivy

DO I GET ANYTHING SPECIAL FOR BEING TRICKED OVER 14 TIMES IN A ****ING ROW?

Coal for Christmas, jk  

Tbh, you have to watch out WHO you give your candy to not how much. I have got the whole furniture set - throne twice, by only giving 1-2 candies. Literally it is all about which NPC you choose.

Posted by Ruppy

Um I can't find any goblins anymore and i haven't seen a pumpkin ever in my life so are they taken away?

Pumpkin was near mod/onnet like an hour ago. Goblins pop up there where you cut grass, just had one 30 minutes ago.  

Posted by Sophia*

Pumpkin was near mod/onnet like an hour ago. Goblins pop up there where you cut grass, just had one 30 minutes ago.

Ok, thanks maybe they lowered the rate of them idk  

Posted by Thallen

I guess this is what I'd personally do in terms of structuring a prize pool for seasonal events like this:

• Take all of the public shop hats that have been phased out and lump them into some general pool that can be used across every seasonal event (Halloween's trick or treating, Christmas gifts, etc.)
• Take all prizes from previous years of the event and lump them into another prize pool
• Possibly even take items from previous years' Onett and other common shop releases (not Nexus, Revolution, or Club Crypt) and lump them into another pool
• Make sure to have some standard quota of new prizes introduced each year per each event (something like 10-15 hats, 5-10 furnitures, 1-3 bombs/bows, 1-2 mounts, etc.)
• Throw in fillers like food, gralats, etc.

Combine all that together to create one large and growing prize to compliment the playercount increasing over time. Yeah, people will cry about "BUT MY EXCLUSIVE SHOP AND SEASONAL HATS THAT AREN'T SOLD ANYMORE," but oh well. It'd make the event better for newer players and give older players a chance at collecting the entire prize pool over many years. Everything would still be pretty rare.

It's obviously hard to continue to come up with hats, mounts, and furniture, especially when themed to a holiday, so this would ease some of the pressure of people expecting 3 pages of hats (like some of us got during Halloween 2013). Stuff like previous Nexus, Revolution, and Club Crypt items should be kept sacred, but everything else could just contribute to a larger pool and a more "fun" event. Quotes around fun because I know 99% only care about how many items they get rather than the actual gameplay of the event.

Honestly this isn't a bad idea I'm pretty sure no one has every single hat in the game and if you are having trouble choosing those hats make a survey of which hats people would like to see being sold/obtainable again like you guys did with that one survey about the logo etc.  

The winged headbands from angel clan and the cat face hats  

Posted by Dusty

Well Rufus said early on the prize pool just can't be that big. There's also an issue that people want new stuff every year to keep things "interesting" as an incentive and that's just not possible. Not only is it it a lot of work(right before Christmas) but there's only so many halloween-themed things you can do. How many different witch hats can you make for example?

The good thing about the prize pool is that unlike the event it can be changed. Things can be added. But we still run into the same problem.

My suggestion is to just keep adding onto the pool every year, rather than making a new one. But there are always problems with that. Players wanting last years stuff to be "exclusive" and players wanting new stuff rather than old stuff. But it's the only way to keep the prize pool larger rather than smaller.

I agree with this idea. Keep the pool from previous years and as much new stuff as you can; and once the pool gets too large, remove the oldest stuff. Some people want hats that they missed out on previous years. I see no problem with giving out old stuff as long as there is a decent amount of new stuff. And Id say the only stuff that needs to be "exclusive" is nexus/revolution; giving out old seasonal hats doesnt matter as much imo.

And honestly, the prize pool may be small, but the quality is really nice. If I had a bone mirror, a bone throne, and an obese cat mount, I would be happier than the year I got 47 hats.

But Ive had no time the last 2 days so hopefully I catch up.  

Posted by twilit

If I had a bone mirror, a bone throne, and an obese cat mount, I would be happier than the year I got 47 hats.

It's called a fat black kitty cat tyvm
norlly that's the actual filename  

Posted by Coco

It's called a fat black kitty cat tyvm
norlly that's the actual filename

and i want it!  

Same  

Posted by Ivy

Same

but i can't find pumpkin or goblins and ghosts too laggy  

Posted by Ivy

Getting tricks and red gralats while figuratively everyone else is getting a mount and the one hat I actually want while hunting for hours makes me really hope they open up club crypt today or tomorrow.

ftfy  

@Coco, Dusty and GFX
Once you've run out of ideas, you could revisit old hat's concepts and make them into a better style or change certain aspects of them, I doubt players would even notice - just an idea. Awesome job on the hats btw!

In my opinion, I liked this year's event. It was fun hunting down pumpkin blobs and communicating with others to get candy. Probably my favourite event for Halloween so far - I liked the challenge and it was fun risking candy to get items, it honestly just made the event more fun. Goblins were a cool addition too for when you got bored of ghosts *thumbs up*.

It isn't even that hard to catch ghosts (given that you aren't catching them around Graal City). Pumpkin blobs spawn regularly if you know where to look and goblins aren't that hard to find. If some of you stopped AFK'ing and walked around for 30 minutes, you could easily see that candy is not hard to get. Honestly, some of you need to make up your mind - last year y'all complained about "Ugh, candy bowls were boring, bring back ghosts plz" and now you're complaining about ghosts? Kind of contradictory.  

Posted by Howl

@Coco and Others
In my opinion, I liked this year's event. It was fun hunting down pumpkin blobs and communicating with others to get candy. Probably one of the better holiday events - I liked the challenge and it was fun risking candy to get items, it honestly just adds to the gameplay. Goblins were a cool addition too for when you got bored of ghosts *thumbs up*

I agree with this. This is probably my favorite Halloween event so far. It's challenging and tough, but that's what makes it fun. The thought that constantly reminds you, "Oh man, I really want that hat!" or "That cat mount is so cool!" is what keeps the event running, which I really like. It's nice to know that future Halloween events will branch off of this one, because this one is quite fun.