Event suggestion...War games

[ArchaicSubrosa]

How about one or two days a month all guilds who wish to play declare war on each other for one full day in an ingame capture the flag out of fun not necessarily hostility? The Flag can be an exceptional sash worn on the Guild leaders. Before the games you could have an opening ceremony where those involved would meet and declare which city they would use for a base wearing the sash. All others may move freely throuout the land but the Guildmasters must remain visible and within the confines of the predetermined bases. Some Guilds may even share the same base.
It just popped in my head and I haven't really given it much thought on how it would run/rules/rewards etc Nor could I even sponser an event like this. Just a start of an idea.
Sort of like a largescale Jousting tourney...but on a fantasy level.

[ArchaicSubrosa]

Those characters who want to play but do not want the full guild treatment could be given a temporary title of mercenery and declare allegiance to a Guild for one day. Their services may be bought or they maybe requested of their own free will to participate.

[Pro]

Why not create a player run event of something like this?

[ArchaicSubrosa]

I, myself, don't know anything about hosting such an event. Nor is it my place to do so. Yet I would like to participate in this. Alot of players don't PVP because they are either outskilled or outnumbered, and watching the whole shard go to war would be thrilling...even the theives would leave town to scavange and if they are even temporarily in a guild it won't be a criminal act. I bet you'd see alot more action then there has been. You'd see more interaction then there has been too... both competition and cooperation.
Maybe there could be Holidays that the King declares to the guilds in which to have these "CTF Guild Jousts or City Seige" or whatever you would call them for a show of force before all his citizens? Or maybe they are used to determine the mayors of certain cities...choosing by force rather then democracy?
There could also be monster invasions that happen at the time to disrupt these events...let's say in the base cities with the largest guilds.

[Zigo-U-]

If gms support and help design it, It may happen.

Honestly though, these kind of apple pie in the sky event dreams (as awesome as they may be) never bloom into fruition.

[Derrick]

I love the idea of these events it just comes down to time for us as staff.
The player run events lately have been stunning in both creativity and effort, and have required little staff support. We're always up for doing what we can to help with well regulated player-run events, but "what we can" is often limited.

It's anyones place to host events such as this. This seems like something that could well be done by players, and we'd be happy to support it.

Might want to post this in player-run events for further discussion.

[Pro]

to make it player run you could stick with your original idea of guild leaders wearing a sash and his team in a corresponding robe colour and have each team set out at a designated area and the aim of the game is too collect the other teams sashes and the last team standing wins.



Rules of: can only be at yours or another teams base, no other areas etc etc
no pets


it's your event I'm just throwing a couple of ideas in

[aXe]

CAPTURE THE CAPE!