Last year they had no tricks.. Only treats! They need tricks 2013 ones were good like the body swap one and the giant green thing. They need to bring back thaat  

Posted by Rufus

Goes back to this:



Still waiting for someone to suggest some kind of gameplay event for Halloween instead of 'do X from Y year' or 'do that thing with lots of prizes' because there's nothing progressive about that. If what we had in the past worked it wouldn't have been changed, like Easter hasn't for the past 3 years. Had the same issue last year.

"Out with the new, in with the old!"
Apparently there needs to be an OldSchool Classic server.

Halloween suggestion threads always seem to end up without much progress. I agree with Rufus. There needs to be a new gameplay idea that most of the players like. Suggesting content from years past doesn't help, it was not used again for a reason.

For now, until or unless a good idea is made, Club Crypt, Taylor Richaards, and half-off uploads seems to be the way to go since it works. There is a downside to this, though.

There has already been set an expectation that nearly every year something new is done for Halloween. Not just shops. So there will be negative feedback if nothing can be made as an "actual" event. People will complain about "laziness(despite there not being such a thing)" and lack-of-content. But as someone who helped the development of a different small-time MMO, it is hard to do something that pleases most of your population. I strictly do the Easter hunt to stock up on hundreds of rotten eggs to last me until next year. I like the Easter hunt, but I like it in a different way then intended.

EDIT: Holy crap I wrote a wall of text.  

I'm banking on the candy bowls being a thing still. Maybe being tweaked in such a way to limit the number you can get in a 24-hour period, thus causing the quick as you can house shuffle thing to not be an issue? That could also be useful in creating a more controlled gifting/random item exchange/purchase sandbox and minimizing the requirement of creative gifts/hats/treats required to be developed..?  

Yeah, I kinda hope they aren't doing the trick or treating houses again. It was a nice idea, but the event turned into a money-making event for maze houses so it took forever going through some houses lol.

Well, here's a very basic idea that's widely used: Make a Graal themed zombie apocalypse. The concept of getting candy gets boring over time. Since most of the community like to kill things.. from bandits to other players, I don't think it would be a bad idea to add in something like that. When they added in random baddies around Graal that you could kill for honor points, I enjoyed it even though I can't remember what they dropped. But in the end, we used the things we earned to get into the reward shop and bought the 10-15 things that were available. Also similar to what Aguzo mentioned about the fog/darkness & disabling effect, I think there should be a temporary night/day system for Halloween cause isn't that what most of us are waiting for anyways?

Instead of killing baddies like we usually do for the other holiday events, I think the building npcs that we all enjoy knowing like Sopia & Bernart(+ all the other ones, however many npcs there are) should turn into zombies at "night" for 15-20 mins, and spawn randomly attacking nearby players instead of standing in the same spot that they were always at. Other than being programmed like a baddy, those zombie npcs should also do more damage, and walk/hit faster since it would be too easy if we were just killing things that we already know how to do on the game so yeah, it would be nice to have something added in that was more challenging but fun at the same time too. Another addition that could also be added during Halloween is the use of a new temporary weapon(like a stake/special bow; yes i know stakes are for vampires lol) that players can buy to kill the zombies, and make our normal swords/bows/bombs/fire lanterns be immune to killing them. I also think there should be a leveling type of system for the event also. Just like a personal achievement thingy at the bottom of your screen that tells you that you've killed 200 zombies so that it keeps the players from not being bored of repetitively doing the same thing. So instead of the zombie dropping 1 loot, it could drop 2 when you've killed 200. Then you can trade like 50 loots for a 1 point or something.  

Bottom line, old halloween ruled.  

Getting trick or treats from npcs was the best system lol

Ghosts maybe not, but candy dropping at the rates of eggs would be cool  

AUTUMN TILESET  

Perhaps a haunted house/maze. Could make it dangerous with traps and scary pop ups? I know I'd wander through one  

Big update!!! NPCs also seem to be digging something.. Maybe something similar to Easter? Though that would be a bit boring.  

digging up zombies?=zombie baddies =candy ? :o  

Posted by Golden Panda

Big update!!! NPCs also seem to be digging something.. Maybe something similar to Easter? Though that would be a bit boring.

Digging up graves for ghosts? ;)

Posted by G Fatal

digging up zombies?=zombie baddies =candy ? :o

I really hope we won't have to kill a bunch of npcs to participate in this event... Like every single era holiday event, ever  

Posted by Ivy

I really hope we won't have to kill a bunch of npcs to participate in this event... Like every single era holiday event, ever

Classic's not Era though . Usually Classic goes top-notch with the events that they've done compared to the other servers with the way they organize/plan things. So even if they do plan to add npc's into the event, I don't think they'll disappoint us. Also I wouldn't mind digging for ghosts! It sounds fun.  

Posted by Theos

You should've seen graalloween 2011 fun times. Admins prepared a stage for an act and everyone came in to watch

The Obama and Mitt Romney debate was the last one if I'm not wrong ;(  

Posted by LiA

Classic's not Era though . Usually Classic goes top-notch with the events that they've done compared to the other servers with the way they organize/plan things. So even if they do plan to add npc's into the event, I don't think they'll disappoint us. Also I wouldn't mind digging for ghosts! It sounds fun.

It's nice for developers when you see stuff like this, because Classic hardly ever gets positive feedback for the work put in compared to other servers. I think a lot of stuff on Classic, especially in terms of its fine details and quality, is taken for granted and is just expected.  

Posted by Rufus

It's nice for developers when you see stuff like this, because Classic hardly ever gets positive feedback for the work put in compared to other servers. I think a lot of stuff on Classic, especially in terms of its fine details and quality, is taken for granted and is just expected.

it's cause classic players are salty for no reason