Well aside from winning multiple events (25) during the time it was frequently occurring, I just think its fair for the rest of the community to have a chance of glory. The tent at Mod Town can be an idealist location as an "Event House" and it already has pk disabled there. Plus instead of having just one event, have the events galore.  

It's dumb to host events that only support 50 people on a server with over 3000 people online.  

Posted by Bryan*

Well aside from winning multiple events (25) during the time it was frequently occurring, I just think its fair for the rest of the community to have a chance of glory.

The "rest of the community" had their chance of glory for, like, five years.

I mean, there was literally a guild dedicated to recruiting people who constantly go into and won events nearly every single time an event was hosted.  

Posted by fp4

It's dumb to host events that only support 50 people on a server with over 3000 people online.

ya, really sucks because events were one of the coolest things about this game and none of them can really be changed to support hundreds of people  

Posted by fp4

It's dumb to host events that only support 50 people on a server with over 3000 people online.

idk how laggy it would be summoning every player in an event like chance, but would it be possible that having players hidden wouldn't blow the server up?  

same people won't be picked again? then just host more frequently.
i had a solution to this.
http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32350  

Posted by Zetectic

same people won't be picked again? then just host more frequently.
i had a solution to this.
http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32350

The reason queues exist is so players don't group up to one area anymore.  

Posted by CM

The "rest of the community" had their chance of glory for, like, five years.

I mean, there was literally a guild dedicated to recruiting people who constantly go into and won events nearly every single time an event was hosted.

I would understand from a stability/performance standpoint about too many players in a location but this excuse about a guild dedicated for a specific aspect of Graal is not acceptable.

EDIT: Keep the queue system but host more frequently OR if you add an Events House, it will randomly place you in games that several admins pick but you cannot decide which you want to go to.  

ET was just good players getting together and sharing information about event warper locations, if they ever teamed in events then staff could easily do something about it
It's really no different from a spar guild like Alumni

One thing that is bad to me though is (to my knowledge) there's no minimum requirement to queue, like I really don't think players with less than 10, or maybe even 100, hours should be eligible
Seems like just giving event spots to people who have a much lower likelihood of actually playing or returning to the game  

Posted by Bryan*

I would understand from a stability/performance standpoint about too many players in a location but this excuse about a guild dedicated for a specific aspect of Graal is not acceptable.

It's a perfectly acceptable excuse. They were literally asked to quit winning so many events at one point because everyone was fed up with it.  

Posted by Yog

It's a perfectly acceptable excuse. They were literally asked to quit winning so many events at one point because everyone was fed up with it.

Like Thallen said, no different in Alumni, a guild dedicated in sparring and winning many GST's. Should staff stop hosting GST's due to this? With the queue system installed, there's no way this "events guild" can win many events. Must have occurred during the period of the warpers. Since warpers are barely used, I don't see why you or any other member of the staff can't host events. Hell I don't mind having Trivia 24/7 since it can both be educational and productive for players aside from "Googling" it.  

Posted by Bryan*

Like Thallen said, no different in Alumni, a guild dedicated in sparring and winning many GST's. Should staff stop hosting GST's due to this?

No, because GSTs and events are different. GSTs are competitive, happen only four times a year, and for guilds like Alumni there is a lot at stake. Events were hosted daily, at least 2-3 times a day, and they consistently had the same winners. Compare 2-3 events hosted each day with the same winners to one winner of a GST each season.

Also, like I said, most people who join the GST are only interested in the prize shop. At least they actually got something out of losing, not to mention that you have weeks and weeks to prepare for such an event. In normal events, if you lose you lose, and good luck getting into another event if you're a new player.

In short, the current queue system is the best way to 1. prevent massive server lag and 2. give all players an equal chance at getting in.  

I'm not asking for the return of warpers, I'm simply asking for more events to be hosted more frequently since for some obvious reason it's not occurring as much anymore even with the current queue system.  

I've only seen about 30-50 events hosted tops in the 1yr 4-5 months i've been playing here. The lack of them in general is just sad even if they're not that great overall. Could be improved x10000000  

Make an npc that auto hosts 24/7.

Every time an event is finished, the npc immediately starts another. It rotates through all the events.

You would have to give out ep or some other event currency, instead of hats.

If devs can make that, and a hackshield, then you would not need people to host.