Well my own personal experience as a player was fairly limited. Since becoming a mod owner/host my playing time has diminished substantially (but it is still my greatest joy as far as NWN.) But I was able to check out about 5 of the worlds (basically all of them that didn’t require a hak other than CEP.) When I was exclusively a player I was more willing to take the time to get all the files needed to check out a world, but I just don’t have time for that these days. What I found though was that a couple of the worlds didn’t even have the sign located in the loading area, or any information that I could find easily about the event. Granted I only spent about an hour give or take a half hour on each world, and mostly was just checking out some of the amazing building, stories, and features I saw.
As far as my experience as an aDMin, we had a few new accounts created. Mostly on the first day when the chest was in the loading area. After I started moving them around (even though the exact area was listed on the sign in the loading zone), the bulk of the player participation was from existing players. As far as them though, I got some very positive feedback, and requests to run a similar in house event in the future. Many people commented it was nice to have incentive for exploring areas off the beaten path, and it was fun for me too to see some friendly competition amongst some of the players. Some people really got into it.
200+ player participants, and 9 participating worlds, is kinda small considering the nwn 1 community at large, but as perXX82 mentioned, a lot of the community doesn’t check this site frequently, if at all. Given that, I would say it was a strong showing, and I suspect if something like this was done in the future, it would be even stronger. That being said though, it was a fair amount of work for me personally just being a participating aDMin given all of my other interests and responsibilities. It was well worth it though, and Av3 would participate in something like this again, perhaps next year, but I am not likely to go through all the effort on a regular monthly basis I don’t think.
However, there is no reason PW aDMins can’t band together, as a collective, and have certain events like this from time to time. I certainly would be interested in being part of such a group, as long as participation in such events was opt in, and not mandatory.
It’s one of the beautiful things that came out of this, which was the idea of PWs banding together, and doing something collaboratively. And this event proved it can work. I have some further ideas about a NWN 1 universe, PW collective, or what have you, but as mentioned before that should really be the topic of another discussion.
Thanks to gog.com for supporting this, ACD, and especially BtB for all you guy's hard work putting this fantastic event together.
Cheers,
Laz
Modifié par Lazarus Magni, 21 juillet 2012 - 06:13 .
