NWPAD - June 18 - July 3, 2012

[Legacy_Elvamir]

               Here are a few upcoming events over at World of Caenyr (www.worldofcaenyr.com) as we continue participating in NWPAD! As a reminder, our world is completely open (no character bio requirement and no password requirement to play) during NWPAD. All we ask is that you check our forums to review our mythos, prior to playing, out of respect for the roleplay. Thanks, and hope to see you at these events! More still to come! '>

Grand Banquet
Serverwide Quest Event hosted by the DM Team
Date: Saturday, June 23rd (Tonight!)
Time: 4:30PM Eastern (16:30 GMT -5)
Location: Talanon (In-Game. When you log on you can request a DM Port to the area)

1st Annual WoC Spammy Awards
Celebrating the best from the community 2011-2012, hosted by Big Arse DM
Date: Saturday, June 23rd (Tonight!)
Time: 7:30PM Eastern (19:30 GMT -5)
Location: Poet's Lounge in Chail-Anden (In-Game. When you log on you can request a DM Port to the area)
Attire: Dress as your favorite Character! The night will be a blend of you being OOC and IC, but none of it counts so just have fun. '>

The Gathering of (not our own) Hearts
Guild sponsored event - Join the Dissan d'Oloth as the Itheril (Drow similar) rid the surface of its infestation of lesser races. it should be a great night of merriment, if being confident in your own superiority, laughing at stinky Dwarves, ridiculing incompetent elves, tormenting stupid half-orcs, torturing horrible gnomes, and ignoring annoying halflings is your thing.
Date: Monday, July 25th
Time: 10:00PM Central (22:00 GMT -6)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Elvamir]

               We just announced the nominees for tonight's Spammy Awards! Go to worldofcaenyr.com to see who they are and cast your vote for you who think will win in each category!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               Well so here are Av3's internal (local) tallies... Keep in mind I am accepting (locally) more than one "check-in" (aka prize code) per day provided they are from different chests in different locations. Still only 1 "check-in" per account per server per day will be accepted globally (cross server), but I thought some might find this interesting:

verd12w: 3
jman548: 1
Shadowhaunt: 3
Black Crowe: 20
Mharrold: 1
Captian Barqs:1
Zekere: 1
Xander: 6
Lazarus Magni: 1
Masterwalker: 10
Jeremy Chaos:4
WaffleNinja: 1
Zarara: 1

We still have a fairly wide open race for Av3's local winners considering how much time is left. If people are interested I could post our global tallies. I personally would be curious (and perhaps Av3's players would be as well) to see what the global winner tally is looking like...
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Lazarus Magni, 26 juin 2012 - 10:00 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_BelowTheBelt]

               Thanks for the update, guys.  I have made it onto about half of the severs at least once so far and plan on getting on the others this week.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               Well so here are Av3’s Global tally as of 6/25/12:

Lazarus Magni: 1
WaffleNinja: 1
Zarara: 1
mharrold:1
zekere: 1
Captian Barqs: 1
jman548:1
verd12w: 3
Shadowhaunt: 3
Jeremy Chaos: 4
Xander: 5
Masterwalker: 6
Black Crowe: 8

I would love to see some of the other server's tallies. It might heat up the competition. People often get more competative when they can see the racer ahead of them or behind them, and it pushes them more. This is a competition after all, and the server hosts (who have access to the logs) are kinda like the announcers IMO. Are Av3 players going to take every single global prize? Or are they falling far behind? Am I or are others going to win free copies of NWN 1 and global prizes with just 1 or 2 "check-ins"? Nobody knows unless we have updates on the current standings...

P.S. Doing this might spur people to attempt to get the prize codes on more than one world per day to increase their global standings...Come on peoples, only a week left in the event... It took alot of work getting here, don't let it sputter out now...
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Lazarus Magni, 26 juin 2012 - 08:34 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               I'm recording all my logs, but I won't have time to add them up until the end when I combine all the NWPAD check-in data.  I do know I've had mostly regulars check in, with a few newcomers along the way a few times.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               Our server is still running, one big continuous log file - I'll break it up into day by day pieces before I turn it in. ATM I'm not sure how many have used the chest, but I'll do a discovery and post near the end of the contest. ALL OF YOU, GO GO GO LOGIN TO PARTICIPATING SERVERS!!!

And have fun.

Be well. Game on.
GM_ODA
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tassie Wombat]

               The Burrow tally is still quite small ... but aside from my son (who uses my account) all the others are newcomers to the server.

NAME - TOTAL PRIZES - ONCE PER DAY (as of midnight 26th June)
Wibble Woble The Third - 3 - 2
Gelmar - 12 - 6
Deege - 7 - 5
Below The Belt - 1 - 1
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tassie Wombat, 27 juin 2012 - 06:27 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               so far, dalakora has a total of 5 new players that tried to log in.

1 has been on 2 times for a total of 30m before NWPAD and 2m after NWPAD started and found 0 chests
1 has been on 2 times for a total of 4m and found 0 chests
1 has been on 3 times for a total of 20m and found 0 chests
1 has been on 4 times for a total of 11m and found 0 chests
1 has been on 2 times for a total of 2h15m and found 1 chest

so, it looks like there has been 12 attempts by 5 new players to find chests and only 1 success.  this leads me to believe that either:

a - i'm hiding them WAAAAY too well (quite certain i'm not)
b - players aren't reading my daily chest hunting tips on my forum thread
c - my hints aren't good enough to clue in new players

i'm leaning towards "b" myself.  i can't imagine reading a clue and expecting to read a new world's journal, equip yourself, find the low level training zones, and start honestly looking for a chest in 20 minutes or less.

the only successful find has been somebody who actually put a little effort in.  i think the cross-server winner will be a person who only has to put minimal effort into finding chests on servers other than his "home".


also, i hope there's a follow up to the event so we all (or at least i) can get some feedback about how "new player friendly" dalakora is.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par acomputerdood, 27 juin 2012 - 12:59 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Elvamir]

               I don't have Caenyr tally broken out yet either, but we've definitely seen some new faces around! Hoping for more, please come visit and participate in NWPAD! I'll be making my rounds to all of the great participating worlds myself, this week. Can't wait to check you out!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               Well so I have been checking out some of the other servers involved in this, and I have to admit I have been blown away. Most aren't my style, I am heavy into the action servers (obviously), but wow I gotta say what some of you all have done is truly impressive, and the hard work put into the servers is definitely noticable.

Some of the big name servers might not have gotten involved in this, but the ones that have are an exellent representative sampling of NWN 1 PWs from what I have seen. I am proud, and grateful to have been a part of this.

I still think a global standing tally would be nice, and thanks wombat for posting your's, but eh... I guess flying blind is fun too. See you all at the finish line...
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Lazarus Magni, 28 juin 2012 - 06:40 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Lazarus Magni]

               So... I know we got another day left on this event, but who exactly do I send my global tallies to?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               

Lazarus Magni wrote...

So... I know we got another day left on this event, but who exactly do I send my global tallies to?

i would say to send them to BtB and myself.  i had originally signed up to take care of this for everyone, but i've just now realized that i'm leaving for vacation tomorrow - haha.  i will still be happy to work on them, but my tallies won't be finished until probably later in the week.

i don't know how quickly everyone wants the results to be done.  the other day when i was checking my mid-event tallies, i realized it only took 20 minutes or so to go through everything by hand.  a script should make that faster to tally everything, though.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               

acomputerdood wrote...

i would say to send them to BtB and myself.  i had originally signed up to take care of this for everyone, but i've just now realized that i'm leaving for vacation tomorrow - haha.  i will still be happy to work on them, but my tallies won't be finished until probably later in the week.

in my wildest dreams, i would like to have the submissions in the following format:

- 1 folder containing 15 more folders.
- those 15 sub folders will be named 01, 02, 03, ..., 15
- each of those sub folders will correspond to each of the 15 NWPAD days
- the log(s) for each day will be in their correct folders


i suppose BtB should put that on his webpage or some place more "official" so everyone knows about it.  or maybe we can just PM each of the people in charge of the PWs that signed up.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_BelowTheBelt]

               Given the small size of my logs/checkins, I've been making one singular NWPAD file by extracting the prize code info from my daily logs and dropping it into one log that is chronological. Hope that is ok, but can certainly make 15 versions and edit down to a singular day if your coding will

I will post ACD's requests on www.nwpad.weebly.com. [EDIT:  complete]

Also, I was planning on posting the login account of the winners there as well as here (not the CD key, though). I think that the servers should also post the winning logins on whatever signage they used to promote the event. Anyone have any issues with displaying player public login info?  [EDIT:  I added a "winners" page on www.nwpad.weebly.com with placeholder information.  This will be the home for listing the winners and where they redeemed.]

Also, we then have the interesting challenge of validating a player to send out the download codes for the top winners. I'm thinking that one of the admins of a participating server needs to verify the winning login/cd combination of the player and then acquire an e-mail address that I can use to send the code and directions for its use.

If a winning player approaches an admin to "redeem" his winnings on your server, please let me know asap so we avoid any attempts to redeem for winnings on multiple servers by the same player. Also remember that servers who have players redeem on their for their in-game prizes also get a copy of the game to distribute to their playerbase as they see fit.

Coming into the home stretch! Congrats to everyone for their participation and hope that it was a great experience for your players and that you saw some new faces around while celebrating NWN's 10th anniversary!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par BelowTheBelt, 02 juillet 2012 - 07:07 .