The Number of GM EventsFollow

Yup they're all volunteers, since last I heard.

Still, players are actually taking the responsibility for creating their own preferred experiences...

For instance:
~ interesting tangential discussion about players' ideas for funny quests: http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=TNZ&message.id=162829&no_redir=true

~ many guilds (ie, mine, 7th Hammer's Disturbed Remains ( http://www.disturbedremains.com/) sponsor their own events (games, quests, parties, races, competitions, etc). More personal than a GM event!! :D

Matrisgingeris ty. so there is a place to start kind of. and all yo out there i cant get on me toon linkdeath till 15th so if ya do email me bout these player-events expect an answere around the time of 15-17th sep. lol i htink DoD will not go live for 13 tho so im not bothered.

I have played EQ since spring '00. In all my time playing, I've only seen 2 GM events (of course, barring Halloween/Christmas and war events).

However, I must say that I did enjoy them thoroughly. One I saw took place in iceclad, where a bunch of dervishes just wanted to get drunk (was hilarious watchin high level peeps getting smeared trying to kill them, and then me and a buddy went up and just gave em alcohol and got a death shroud in the process).

The second I saw was in PoK where a woman wanted poison to kill her husband, and when I gave her a easy made poison I got a stack of fire emeralds in the process, not too shabby. But...2 events in 5 years (with time off...)...I would like to see more events. Especially ones that require some roleplay in there. It's not very fun when trying to figure out what's goin on and a power guild comes to whack em...or tries too.

Ildrezen Draganov, Illusionist of the Seventh Hammer
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment

Issue is actually knowing there happening GM's need to spam the server (yellow text) chnl .
One of the funnier ones i have seen was halfling diving .make a L1 assing and take a running jump off a cliff and try to hit the water !!!

Edited, Fri Sep 9 22:38:22 2005 by jackdbur

So what is the total monthly cost of Legends,$30 or $30 plus the $15 or so the rest of us pay? Seems high either way but does sound fun.

I got caught up in three GM events that all started around me before I could escape the zone or log out.
One was three GM's acting as mushrooms in Overthere beating up on the ppl in the zone. I was just sitting by myself on the north shore waiting for a boat to take me out of kunark, and one of the guyz came up and started whacking me for no reason. I ran away a little bit and got promptly killed by a roaming cactus. (Lost exp, no rez, time wasted running from cabilis). Immediately got jumped by some roaming goblins while naked running through the warslisk woods and killed exp loss again. Finally on third attempt made it back to body and finally caught boat to Norrath hours of wasted time later, and down on exp due to the two deaths. (Thx bunches mr. GM)
Next GM event was me in a Gnoll group in South Karana and the GM's breaking up my group, killing everybody, and causing a long naked CR run from Qeynos. Totally wasted tonz of time on a useless corpse run, (couple ppl from group were killed by the gnolls we had engaged so exp loss to them. GM didnt care and didnt rez nobody. yep appreciate that Mr. GM) Then say goodbye to the exp group we had going. Ppl were on waiting lists for a spire gnoll group back then.
Next GM event was in North Ro. Its ez to tell if its a GM event because the rest of the zone is normal except the 1 to three odd mobs doing zone-wide messaging and lame attempting to role-play something. Was in a bandit camp group and all of a sudden some odd mob shouts challenges to ppl of the zone and declares hes invincible and other BS. The mob proceeds to chase my group at the bandit camp and we are scattered to four winds. Other ppl from Freeport came running to fight him so he lost interest in us but we were all gone and there was no camp to hold at that point, so GM in effect cancelled any exp groups going on in the zone. We all split and I just camped for the night after making it to Freeport.
Geez, I couldnt imagine being on Legends server and seeing them all the time. I sincerely hope I never get caught up by one of them and their scrappy events ever again. In my opinion they are there to handle requests and resolve disputes and do other misc stuff that ppl ask them; Not hastle and kill ppl for the fun of it.
Every other GM event that I hear of that was going on, I was able to avoid or skip completely.

Edited, Mon Sep 12 15:03:06 2005 by kirbyramz

I saw one right after the mergers....

You had to make a level 1 half~thing and it was some stupid pathetic diving competition....I mean come on...

I would much rather have like in the "Good~O'l~Days" when a GM could and most times would give you a special quest.

Speaking as a former Guide there are GM events scheduled for a few times a month, but theres 2 problems. 1. not enough gm/guides sign up to fill all the spots so the event isn't doable, 2. Not many people show up to make it interesting. 3. The prizes are prety crappy and not realy worth it. I was only a guide for a month or two, and I remember seeing quite a few events to sign up for, but I only attended 1 and only 8 players showed up and the prizes sucked.

I have seen the Halloween and Christmas events. I also have won gems from the riddle game. I have seen the newbie gnome event.

My hubby once won plat from an event where he was to try and find a hidden gm in the zone.

Another time he won a weight reduction bag for helping an npc find various items that were planted on the mobs in butcherblock. He had just asked me what this egg that droped from a goblin was for. I looked it up and saw no info on it. The npc began fretting over losing the egg so he found her and gave it to her. She kept asking for other items that he found by killing other mobs in the zone. He had fun doing it.

The most GM Events I have seen had to have been on the Luclin Server about a year before the merger seems they had an event weekly maybe it was just on weekends can't remember which days they had them. One night they invited a bunch of us to the arena and let us pick a race and class and they had to be the last one standing everyone was level 1 no buffs and newbie weapon.

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