Hey,

I cant really remember the last state of the Halloween Group Hunting Event, but yesterday evening, I had an idea to make this content for everyone.

Not sure, but from what I remember is, the players needed to make a group, hunt for 12h(?) and submit as many rares as you can to reach a high score and have a chance to get access to the cave. As we discussed in the other thread last year, the idea was great, but how it was handled and executed wasn't. The first 2 or 3 weeks, the content was made basically for jobless or sick people only, who could play the game 24/7, which was unfair for everyone else who wanted to hunt Blace or Guzz. And even then it wasn't easy to find other people who could bring the same effort, while simultaneously excluding players which couldnt. At the end the time was lowered to 12h, I think, but even that is too much time for a single session for working people or parents.

I'm not in the tester team, so I have no clue if you are already testing something for this content or not, nor do I know if this hunting event will ever come again, but if yes, my suggestion would be:

Instead of a group hunting event, what do you think about something like a World Quest, which last from Monday 00:00 - Friday 23:59 where you can submit every rare which has a Halloween Form and if you submit f.e. 5k IVs, you get access to the cave for the weekend. This way everyone has 5 days time to hunt 50 - 60 rares which isn't an excessive amount, but in my opinion, isn't too little either.

What do you think about this? I’d be interested to hear your opinions.

If its too easy too access it will ruin "exclusiveness" point. But also 12 hours hunt is for non human. "Forcing" people to hunt for 12hour is stupid. Should make it 3 hour max, and top party who submit the most ivs can enter. Any party could try more than 1 time.

Crazy who ever have the idea to make it 12 or 24 hour. Encouraging people to sit and spam adadadadadda for 12hour straight should be put in pewter jail.

3 hours ago, Lyn1311 said:

If its too easy too access it will ruin "exclusiveness" point. But also 12 hours hunt is for non human. "Forcing" people to hunt for 12hour is stupid. Should make it 3 hour max, and top party who submit the most ivs can enter. Any party could try more than 1 time.

Crazy who ever have the idea to make it 12 or 24 hour. Encouraging people to sit and spam adadadadadda for 12hour straight should be put in pewter jail.

I agree, it should not be too easy. That why I thought about 5k IVs. Thats 10 - 12 rares per day and if you are very unlucky, you hunt for 1 - 2 hours and dont get any. On the other side, you ofc can encounter b2b rares, it's still RNG.

Your idea with 3h/day and multiple attempts is not bad. like that one aswell

Hello everyone,

my thoughts on this (as a suggestion) is to keep the current difficulty as it is, but also make it accessible for top25 BCC/FCC , so more people will have access to it, but for less time since those competitions start at the weekend, where the other people would already be able to hunt Blacephalon / Guzzlord before the competitions.

Kind Regards,

Lugario

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Lugario

+1
hope this doesnt go down the same road as the last suggestion of this kind and we dont get another "maybe that content isnt made for you".

first of all i really like the idea the creator had and he deserves to be praised for the effort to deliver it 🤴
its just the qualification method that made it very frustrating and needs a tweak imo.
for example: let people hunt for a week and submit their best iv rare that has a hlw form.

+ grinders putting in a lot of hours have a great edge over people putting in less hours.
+ luckers still have a chance to get in with lower timeframe which makes the whole thing inclusive while it remains competitive. Due to the fact that you wouldnt be hunting for the hunting event. you are hunting in general and catching high iv mons is a byproduct that can make you qualify > participation increases by a big margin because of the former > big participation makes the whole thing very competitive.
+ dont need to wear diapers anymore, let the nephew cover 2 hours because of responsibilities or put everything else in life to the side for 12 hours to compress as many encounters as possible into a certain timeframe to then have a chance to still not qualify.

- rng is involved

the number of groups that could get in the hunting area had to be tweaked because of low participation in some weeks last year and i think by tweaking the qualification method as mentioned above you can guarantee high participation and make it a lot easier to determine how many groups get in without the need to have mechanisms for low participation.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Fec