NWPAD - June 18 - July 3, 2012

[Legacy_Zarathustra217]

               Congratulations all!

The NWPAD and New-Character event is now live on our server.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               NWPAD chest and script added and running on ArgentumRegio!  http://playnwn.com

Happy Anniversary NWN!!!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_BelowTheBelt]

               We have 3 new servers to add to the list, which brings us up to a cool dozen participating servers!

Welcome to:
Come to La-La Land
Escape From Undeath
Star Wars: Contrition

In other NWPAD good news goodness, I am in receipt of the official GOG.com download codes for the prizes for the World Walker Challenge!  As a reminder the top 10 world walkers will recieve a free dowload copy of NWN Diamond.  Plus, the ONE world that a winning player chooses to redeem for in-game prizes will ALSO receive a free download copy of NWN Diamond.  Much thanks to GOG.com for supporting us.

But wait!  There's more!  Our good friends at GOG.com are also going to be tweeting about the event/anniversary and posting about it on their Facebook page.  These are the kind of efforts that will serve the community long-term as they will drive new players.  Please reply to these tweets, follow GOG.com, and "like" their posts to reinforce that NWN is still a valuable game that is enjoyed by a strong community.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par BelowTheBelt, 18 juin 2012 - 06:11 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               KUDOS to BTB
KUDOS to gog.com
Hurrah!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par ehye_khandee, 18 juin 2012 - 06:14 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               dalakora has started placing its chests - woohoo!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_BelowTheBelt]

               ...Arenthyor is up and running as well.

Exciting!! Would love to hear anecdotally how things are going as your programs go along.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par BelowTheBelt, 18 juin 2012 - 07:37 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Tassie Wombat]

               Just woke up, checked the logs ... The Burrow has had it's first participant !!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_BelowTheBelt]

               GOG Update:
GOG.com began "Tweeting" about our little shindig yesterday using a "message" I provided to them about NWN's anniversarry and our NWPAD event. Here's the message:

"Neverwinter Nights RPG is turning 10! Join the thousands playing online to help celebrate. http://www.nwpad.weebly.com"

GOG.com has 30,000 followers on Twitter and this went out to every single one of them.  This was then picked-up and "retweeted" by 16 other followers of GOG.com (and counting, plus favorited by 7), so it has begun to spread virally to those other people's networks.  One person even responded to GOG promising to buy the game (if it went on sale, lol).  Anyway, the most important part is that when I checked the visitor stats of nwpad.weebly.com, visitor levels were running ~100/day until yesterday.....when it SPIKED TO OVER 1,000 VISITORS!

Please, follow GOG.com on twitter...find that tweet, retweet it, and favorite it.  Respond to them thanking them for support/you love the game, etc... Believe it or not, this will continue to make sure that people stay aware/interested in NWN and NWPAD.

GOG.com has committed to doing this again at least one more time, so they are showing us that they are good to their word.  Plus, they'll add it to their Facebook page, which has over 37,000 "likes".

Count this as a big win for NWN.
 
               
               

               

                     Modifié par BelowTheBelt, 19 juin 2012 - 04:27 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               

Please, follow GOG.com on twitter...find that tweet, retweet it, and favorite it.  Respond to them thanking them for support/you love the game, etc... Believe it or not, this will continue to make sure that people stay aware/interested in NWN and NWPAD.

Done!  You should really also try submitting the news and a link to NWNPAD to Slashdot, BeefJack, Kotaki, Joystiq, all of those guys.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               This seems to be a hit, and I am happy to see it. TY again BTB for putting this together, and props to GOG.com for supporting it.

Correct me if I am wrong BTB, but from what I gather, although there are 10 world walker winners, there is only 1 global (cross server) prize code winner? I would still like to see there be at least 3. 1st, second, and third place winners.

Av3 already has a reward offered for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place local winners. Plus a contingency plan if this is allowed for the global winners additionally.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Lazarus Magni, 20 juin 2012 - 05:04 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_BelowTheBelt]

               Good question and hopefully this can clear it up.

As far as the World Walker challenge goes, with the codes that GOG.com provided, we were able to expand the number of "winners".  So, for the top 10 cross-server winners (as determined by ranking the total number of server check-ins by login during the NWPAD period (1 check-in/login/server/24 hour period), we'll be able to reward them with a NWN Diamond Download.  Based on the number of participating servers, I think the max score is about 180 so we'll see how close some players get to that.

Then, the idea is that each of the 10 World Walker winners can choose a participating world in which to redeem for an in-game prize.  Each winner can choose only 1 server for this in-game prize (If they redeem for a prize in AV3, they can't redeem for a prize in POTM).  These in-game prizes, as your example illustrates, should scale in value based on the winner's performance (the top winner should be given something of more value than the 10th winner).  This seems to be along the lines of what you outline, but with more levels.  I'd rather be more inclusionary with participants given that we have the opportunity to do so.

That's the official event.

If you want to offer additional prizing to your players based on how often they check-in, feel free to do that and offer in-game prizes from that.   I think it's a great idea.

As an aside, when each player redeems for an in-game prize, that server that the winner redeemed on will also get a code for a copy of NWN diamond, so there's 10 copies of NWN Diamond up for grabs for the servers as well.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               Ok, that's all I needed to know. So there are 1st-10th place global winners. I will scale out local and global awards accordingly. Will likely announce it tomorrow. Thanks for the clarification BTB.

BTW, when I said it seemed to be a hit what I meant was that on day one we had 10 individuals get prize codes. And that's considering for the first 14 hrs of the event or so the chests weren't available due to a mishap (*shakes fist at the sandman. Stupid sleep. Let me sleep when I am dead). That's in addition to the 20 or so other individual logins who did not get prize codes. As I up the ante on the reward for Av3 I anticipate more of our local player base will choose to get involved.

It shoud be quite interesting. Cheers, and GL all.
Laz
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Lazarus Magni, 20 juin 2012 - 04:43 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               Ok in light of this new info this is what Av3 is offering for local and global rewards:

For Aventia 3 Merged (Av3) we are offering 10mil xp and 12 QP for first place local winner, 9 mil xp and 11 QP for the second place winner, 8 mil xp and 10 QP for the third place winner, 7 mil xp and 9 QP for the 4th place winner, 6 mil and 8 QP for the 5th place winner,  5 mil and 7 QP for the 6th place winner, 4 mil xp and 6 QP for the 7th place local winner, 3 mil xp and 5 QP for the 8th place local winner, 2 mil and 4 QP for the 9th place local winner, 1 mil xp and 3 QP for the 10th place local winner. Also since we have multiple chests in different level locations Starting at 12:00 AM CST 6/20/12 I will be accepting 1 prize code for each location per account per 24 hour period.

For global winners, we are offering 20 mil xp (which equates to about a free lvl 200 toon on Av3) and 24 QP if the global winner chooses to redeem on Av3. 18 mil xp and 22 QP for the 2nd place global winner, 16 mil xp and 20 QP for the 3rd place global winner, 14 mil xp and 18 QP for the 4th place global winner, 12 mil xp and 16 QP for the 5th place global winner, 10 mil xp and 14 QP for the 6th place global winner, 8 mil xp and 12 QP for the 7th place global winner, 6 mil XP and 10 QP for the 8th place global winner, 4 mil x pans 8 QP for the 9th place global winner, 3 mil xp and 6 QP for the 10th place global winner. For Global server check-ins, of course still only 1 check-in per account per server per 24 hrs will be accepted as per the rules for the cross server event.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               BTW I have started posting Av3's local tallys. Keep in mind these will differ from what we submit as "global" (cross server) check-ins due to the fact that only one global check-in per account, per server, per day is counted globally, but due to the fact that we have multiple chests in multiple level locations (which are changing daily usually) for Av3's local prize code tally we are accepting mutiple per day (provided they are from different chests.)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               just thought i'd advertise here that dalakora plans to have a special "QOC" NWPAD chest hunt tomorrow night (24 hours from now).

QOCs are Quest Only Characters, and one of our many custom features we offer.  in just a few lines, QOCs can be leveled to whatever you want so they're a quick way to build a high level party for tough adventures.

there is more detail about the system in my server's events thread.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par acomputerdood, 22 juin 2012 - 11:32 .