Official NA & EU Events/Tournaments (This means unique rewards)

[Tydeus]

I think you need to make the "special" items unsellable so we don't get any crazy auctions that crash the market.

They will be. The only reason the Flaming Katana was able to be sold, was because it was heirloomed and we didn't know Apsod had even obtained a second. The bug that allowed him to obtain a loomed version (which doesn't have proper restrictions, as you're not able to heirloom special/event items) had been fixed several months ago.

Will titles be given? For example the winner of the tournament could be the Champion of the Donkey /chadzia/whatever for a certain period of time. Didn't think about that, might be worth looking into.
And the items, will they be permanent, or until someone takes their place in a new tournament? Since if you start giving them away and people can keep it, then eventually pretty much everybody will have one of the "exclusive" items, much like it happened with looms. At this point in time, we're thinking along the lines of "temporary". In the case of a league, for example, you'd have the items until the next season concluded, where the new winners would then get their own items. We don't want a flood of these items, but we do want them to last long enough that people still get excited about them.
And will they be tradeable in the marketplace? No.

[Rhuarc91]

Stupid  question. answered edited

[Tydeus]

So will the special items be loomable? Or will they have set stats?

They won't be loomable, but they'll have stats equal to a +3 version, if not very slightly better. Haven't decided the exact stats, but it won't be things like +1 damage or +1 speed. Things like weight, one additional armor point for armors, and 1 accuracy or 1 draw speed can be considered, that's it though. It wouldn't be +1 accuracy and +1 draw speed, or -weight and +armor, it'd only be one or the other. Just enough to say it's better, but in effect, have no visible difference.

Still, that's assuming we even decide to change more than just the item name(as it stands, it will only be the item name, but I think the other stuff would be fine, personally).

[Molly]

Maybe look for a free armor or weapon package - those OSP things - and use that ONLY for those special items to get a visible difference?

[Kafein]

I think unique titles on top of unique equipment would be neat.

[_GTX_]

Well if anything is going to increase the activity of C-rpg, then this is probably it. If this is going to be close to the old Fallen Tournaments, then it is going to be a lot of fun.

I also like the fact that you give the average player a reason to fight in these sort of tournaments, since it was normally only the same people playing in every single tournament, which means the community as a whole did not really gain too much from the tournaments.

The ideas of unique items also REALLY appeal to me, it sounds really cool.

PS: Does it always have to be tournaments with large teams, like it seems to be what you're thinking about? What about just tiny 2v2 and maybe even 1v1 tournaments?

[San]

Can there be tiny incentives for simply participating? I can't think of anything good currently, though, but it would be nice to at least give a small incentive to the average player.

[Falka]

And people complain about Tydeus...

* Falka shakes his head in disbelief...

[Kafein]

I think maybe events should be organized in leagues, so that the average player doesn't get crushed by the leet too much. It goes back to our discussion on e-sports and M:BG.

[_GTX_]

I think maybe events should be organized in leagues, so that the average player doesn't get crushed by the leet too much. It goes back to our discussion on e-sports and M:BG.

That sounds like a good angle on it aswell, but that would require some extra work, and how would you define which league people would belong to? People have different opinions about someone's skill, so people might be too biased, if you wanted a proper evaluation of someone, possibly?

[Tydeus]

PS: Does it always have to be tournaments with large teams, like it seems to be what you're thinking about? What about just tiny 2v2 and maybe even 1v1 tournaments?

Those are definitely going to happen as well. This first one will be a 5v5 tournament, I believe.

Can there be tiny incentives for simply participating? I can't think of anything good currently, though, but it would be nice to at least give a small incentive to the average player.

I think we can give each participant # raffle tickets, then exclude 1st-3rd place from the raffle.

I think maybe events should be organized in leagues, so that the average player doesn't get crushed by the leet too much. It goes back to our discussion on e-sports and M:BG.

Ideally, but that relies upon having a scene large enough to support that. Thats why we're making this first tournament the most accessible, so we can gather information, make the necessary improvements, etc., before doing the more restrictive ones.

[Krex]

Oh wow.Thats so awesome.^^

Might apply for staff later,got some experienced with warband servers(had my own native server for a year or so).

[WITCHCRAFT]

Can there be tiny incentives for simply participating? I can't think of anything good currently, though, but it would be nice to at least give a small incentive to the average player.

This is a good idea. Something like the seasonal joke items (pumpkin head, beer, etc.) that you would get just for participating. Party favors. And anyone who didn't come to a previous tournament because they "aren't good enough to fight" might see these prizes on the regular server and show up next time.

[Thranduil]

Character name: Sentinel_Thranduil
Ban history(within the last year since the birth of the mod): nuh uh
Why you're applying: This sounds really cool and I'd like to be a part of it. Also I'd be representing smaller clans. As a member of a relatively small clan, I know most of the smaller clans have to band together in a larger faction to do anything on strat, and these tournaments would be a great way for smaller clans to get to participate in cool events while representing just their clan and not their faction as a whole.
Your region(NA/EU/etc.): NA

[Adamar]

No word on builds used, weapons and the like?