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Events: improvements/additions needed. What do you think? (suggestion)

Technica
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Just posting this here because I've been thinking about the events...

I no longer look forward to them. I log in and participate because I have to, to get the event exclusive items.

They are always the same: Go to event person > accept quest > turn in quest > repeat. These quests are also always the same. There is only so many times I can do one repeatable and then eventually get fed up of it and not want to do it again. I really wish there was more variety, or different things to do each time the event rolls around.

Another thing that bothers me is that outside of the little tent with the event NPCs, it's as if nothing is happening.... I wish that towns and cities, maybe even some roads, would have decorations on them, lights, bows, ribbons, balloons, music, firework displays.. anything?! Just so the world isn't devoid of holiday joy outside of that little event tent.
It would be like having Christmas IRL only celebrated in one random field. No lights on houses, no people dressed up singing songs, nothing.
As a little addon to this, it would be nice for NPCs to wear event themed hats/outfits, and have NPCs spawn in towns/cities/roads celebrating (like how you'd walk past those 3 guys in Skyrim celebrating with Honningbrew). Then it would really feel like an event is going on.

It would also be nice to have an in-game calendar that we can open up. There they could put in when the next events will happen. And they could even include lore based holidays on the specific days they would be celebrated (they could add decorations and such to this too, or just encourage the community to celebrate this with each other on the side, without an official event or anything. An example would be if they put Hearts day on the calendar on the 16th of Sun's Dawn.
The holidays based in lore can be found in detail here: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Calendar or here: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Calendar#Holidays
In TESV Skyrim, the Holidays mod is essential for me to have installed. I absolutely love having these holidays in the game, with NPCs celebrating and decorations added. It made me plan around to visit specific places on my travels just so I could participate and see the lovely lights and decorations. I just feel like it would be great to have these holidays and others in the lore represented in ESO. There are race/region/religion specific holidays that could be celebrated in the appropriate area of Tamriel, since we have a lot of the map to visit and explore.
My favourite in the Skyrim mod was always the Festival of Lights in Dawnstar. A very simple thing: candles placed on the shoreline for a night. It was beautiful, and I loved it.
*The in-game calendar I think would make the most sense to follow the IRL passage of time. Even though visually a few days may pass for a 1 day holiday I wouldn't mind (and am sure others wouldn't) so that it ensures we get the opportunity to visit the holiday location that day, and not miss the window during 6hr in game day. The calendar could also display English/French/German/etc dates or maybe a Tamrielic option you can toggle if you want your IRL month names to read as TES versions.

It would also be great to have more engaging events and celebrations for RPers to celebrate with each other :)

*Maybe we could even earn decoration housing items, or have holiday furniture packs available to purchase in the crown store. These could be available when an event is active and be related to that event, and on lore holidays (eg, a Hearts Day/New Life/Festival of Lights/etc furniture pack on the correct day) so we can decorate our houses with flags/banners/lights/balloons/etc for that particular holiday/event. Would be nice to earn some through completing quests related to that event/holiday, or buying them from a merchant in the cities for gold.

I don't know how others feel about this, but events are kind of depressing to me now. Like I said, I participate because I have to... not because I want to... and that's sad.

Just a summary list of how I think the events could be improved:
  • Decorations in towns/cities and along roads (balloons, music, lights, ribbons, fireworks, bows, flags, buffet tables, cake, etc)
  • Event NPCs (dressed up in towns/cities and along roads. Also NPCs that celebrate spawning in towns/cities and along roads that you can walk past or interact with)
  • Event calendar (detailing up coming events and including lore holidays, with encouragement to celebrate these too)
  • More varied quests to do (not just the same 5 repeatables every single time to do over and over and over and over.....)
  • New things to do each time the event rolls round (sort of similar to the above point. Adding different quests alongside the previous ones next time it comes around)
  • Lore holidays represented (similar to point about event calendar. These holidays could be encouraged in the appropriate area of Tamriel)
  • Holiday/event decoration furniture (event/holiday related decorations available for purchase from vendors for gold/earned doing quests/purchased through crown store so we can decorate our houses for the occasions)
Edited by Technica on September 2, 2020 5:20PM
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  • Syldras
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    Technica wrote: »
    I really wish there was more variety, or different things to do each time the event rolls around.

    I can completely understand that. After a few years, it gets dull. How likely is it though, that they replace the old quests? I've seen they at least added new achievements to some of the events, but even if they add new event quests, you'll still also get the old ones as they're given out randomly. So you can't choose just to do the new ones.
    Technica wrote: »
    Another thing that bothers me is that outside of the little tent with the event NPCs, it's as if nothing is happening.... I wish that towns and cities, maybe even some roads, would have decorations on them, lights, bows, ribbons, balloons, music, firework displays.. anything?!

    At some places, celebrating npcs are already added. But only if the place is relevant for an event quest, like some taverns or routes you have to pass. They could make more of it, I agree. Although, personally, I wouldn't want it too fancy either. But town decorations and celebrating people would make sense.
    Technica wrote: »
    It would also be nice to have an in-game calendar that we can open up. There they could put in when the next events will happen. And they could even include lore based holidays on the specific days they would be celebrated

    That calendar should show the real date? Or according to in-game time? The problem is, that in game, a day only has 6 hours. So within one real day, 4 in-game days pass. So there would be a huge difference between rl and in-game month in no time and we'd probably be celebrating New Year in summer.
    Technica wrote: »
    There are race/region/religion specific holidays that could be celebrated in the appropriate area of Tamriel, since we have a lot of the map to visit and explore.

    Would be nice if they made more of that, yes. It didn't even have to be some huge event.
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  • juliandracos
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    As I have only recently joined, the previous event was my first. I found it a bit disappointing. Since I had not explored the area yet, at least there were other things for me to do. However, if I had already done it, I would be annoyed.

    I am surprised that the events are they way they are, but perhaps Matt Firor left Mythic too soon. In DAOC, they had a lot of events. Some were more involved than others. But here were the common things:

    1. Things were decorated
    2. You have special NPC
    3. There were new quests specifically for the event.
    4. There were themed rewards for the event
    5. There were themed items in the world, e.g. spring has Easter eggs you hunt for
    6. Often, especially in later years, there were bonuses to XP, RP, Crafting, Gold, etc in certain areas during the event.

    In addition to seasonal events, in they put on a a few months of years long events. There was a Dragon's Revenge and a Dragon's Curse. It had it own unique storyline. There were multiple quests to do as you went through a new storyline. Specific rewards for completing the quests.

    Needless to say, going to a zone, doing daily rewards to get a single ticket a day was not thrilling. There were some decent drops and double boxes, if you group up to do the other dailies, but it doesn't really feel like an event.

    The Secret World also has a special Halloween event as well.

    I would even be willing to subscribe to ESO plus if they put in the effort on the events.
  • SeaGtGruff
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    I always enjoy the events, because most of them draw me back to zones I haven't visited lately, or daily jobs I haven't done in a while. I'm disappointed that we're getting fewer events this year. :(
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  • Athan1
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    I like the idea about calendar. I want to know about lore-holidays too
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  • Syldras
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    As I have only recently joined, the previous event was my first. I found it a bit disappointing.

    The Summerset Event wasn't a "real" seasonal event. There are bigger events in ESO too, for Halloween, New Year and an April's Fools thing in Spring. They have their own quests and some new npcs added, also you get special rewards, but it's the same recurring quests for years now. That's the problem. The quests in itself were fun the first time you completed them.
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  • SickleCider
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    I love all these suggestions!!!

    Another thought I've had is that some enemy spawns could be altered to suit the occasion. I'm thinking of the Witches Festival in particular. You wouldn't want to mess with quest related spawns obviously, but general overland mobs could be replaced, especially at night.* Regular wolves could become skeletal, enemy NPCs could be skeletons or zombies, etc.

    *I'm thinking of Hyrule Field at night in Ocarina of Time. You'd start seeing stalchildren (skele bois) and stuff.
    Edited by SickleCider on August 28, 2020 7:38PM
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  • Technica
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    Syldras wrote: »
    That calendar should show the real date? Or according to in-game time? The problem is, that in game, a day only has 6 hours. So within one real day, 4 in-game days pass. So there would be a huge difference between rl and in-game month in no time and we'd probably be celebrating New Year in summer.

    Yes I did think about this to be honest.
    Maybe if we had the calendar menu follow the IRL passage of time but have the dates and everything in Tamriel's months and such? Maybe with a setting to change between IRL and Tamriel if you don't want it in in-game dates.
    It may be weird to have a 1 day Lore holiday span over a few in game days as they are shorter, but I'd be fine with it, just so I could experience them along with other players and interact with people.
    The event could last the entirety of the IRL day following the passage of IRL time so people don't miss the 6 hour window. Would be a bit rubbish to be honest if it was such a short thing.

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  • Galwylin
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    Unless they add any new ones, I've done all the events. And if event tickets aren't attached to them, I don't do them. Sometimes with an alt but when Halloween rolls around this year, if there's nothing new to it and no event tickets, I'll pass on it. Zones where they have events with no tickets, I ignore. Double rewards? Is anything dropping I need to get from there? Pass.

    Now I'm used to this being how events run. I've played WOW from over ten years now and I don't think they've updated very many. Some times take part for a couple of hours but I'm done with it. Now I do enjoy the micro-holidays which have no prizes and are just so color to the world like hippogryphs hatching or taking a balloon trip. I find those more fun because they're new and it just asks me to take part not grind something out for some item that is going to take up bank space if I keep it at all. But the micro-holidays let you see a lot of people just enjoy being in the game. I think ESO might find some luck there.

    One thing WOW has started doing off and on over the years is add a little something new to their holidays. Maybe just one new quest as opposed having to pump out a range of new content. I would suggest that. New quest line for the event. One new quest for the cycle. Over time you have a much larger and major feeling event. So just try one new thing each year.
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    Technica wrote: »
    Maybe if we had the calendar menu follow the IRL passage of time but have the dates and everything in Tamriel's months and such? Maybe with a setting to change between IRL and Tamriel if you don't want it in in-game dates.

    I've thought about it. Actually, it's weird already now, as the major events are already celebrated according to rl dates. Also, according to lore, officially only 1 or 2 years have passed since the planemeld. But if you count the game days ongoing since release of ESO, over 25 years would have already passed:
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    Technica wrote: »
    It may be weird to have a 1 day Lore holiday span over a few in game days as they are shorter, but I'd be fine with it, just so I could experience them along with other players and interact with people.
    The event could last the entirety of the IRL day following the passage of IRL time so people don't miss the 6 hour window. Would be a bit rubbish to be honest if it was such a short thing.

    Definitively.

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  • Technica
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    Galwylin wrote: »
    Now I do enjoy the micro-holidays which have no prizes and are just so color to the world like hippogryphs hatching or taking a balloon trip. I find those more fun because they're new and it just asks me to take part not grind something out for some item that is going to take up bank space if I keep it at all. But the micro-holidays let you see a lot of people just enjoy being in the game. I think ESO might find some luck there.

    Yh, this is what I was thinking with having lore holidays implemented.
    So we can see in the calendar menu I also suggested that Scour Day is coming up on 2nd Morning Star, and will be in High Rock. So we can go over there and mingle with other players and celebrate together.
    Not having it as a huge thing like the regular events. Literally just:
    - Holiday celebrated [X] day in [X] area
    - Banners/flags/celebrating NPCs in that area
    - Players not forced to go because you can get X eclusive event reward, but because "hey, there's a party on, how about checking it out and having a good time?"

    I'm sure RPers would love this - I want to get properly into RP but there's not many areas you can just find people and mingle cause most people don't wanna do that.
    I love the idea of being able to port over to High Rock because it's Scour Day, the town square in Wayrest has dancing/drinking NPCs, NPC bards playing/players playing music, flags/banners decorate the city. You can sit at a table by a small stage placed in the square and chat and RP with people. Take the celebration to the taverns and such and spend time at the bar together.
    We could even make our own fireworks, if there aren't any added to these, should we so wish using emotes and momentos.
    I usually use: Hidden Pressure Vent, Psijic Cosmic Starburst, and sometimes Dragon Flight Illusion Gem
    We could also put the anniversary cakes down to share :)

    I would honestly be so happy if this was a thing!
    Edited by Technica on August 28, 2020 8:24PM
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  • Syldras
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    Technica wrote: »
    We could even make our own fireworks, if there aren't any added to these, should we so wish using emotes and momentos.
    I usually use: Hidden Pressure Vent, Psijic Cosmic Starburst, and sometimes Dragon Flight Illusion Gem

    I still have hundreds of these left:
    https://esoitem.uesp.net/itemLink.php?&itemid=120891&quality=4
    (And all other types of fireworks you get them for Jester's Festival)

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  • Technica
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    Syldras wrote: »
    Technica wrote: »
    We could even make our own fireworks, if there aren't any added to these, should we so wish using emotes and momentos.
    I usually use: Hidden Pressure Vent, Psijic Cosmic Starburst, and sometimes Dragon Flight Illusion Gem

    I still have hundreds of these left:
    https://esoitem.uesp.net/itemLink.php?&itemid=120891&quality=4
    (And all other types of fireworks you get them for Jester's Festival)

    I never colelcted a huge amount of these, would be nice if these were momentos themselves as well
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    Technica wrote: »
    I never colelcted a huge amount of these, would be nice if these were momentos themselves as well

    Yes. There are mementos of other festival items as well (mudball, cherry blossoms,...), so it's strange actually that they didn't do the same with the fireworks.

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  • Swordancer
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    Events in ESO are boring. It's usually just some usless rewards for doing the same thing all the time and having lags becouse servers can't handle such amount of players. Some Indrik mounts, motifs you can buy in guild stores or crown store and thats it.

    There is no challenge, surprise, unique and rare sets to drop. They could just drop some hard to kill and powerfiull bosses and mobs on random cities in Tamriel which takes hours to kill, give us some nice drops or unique dungeons available only during event. No, it's just another Indrik, another usless drops.

    Events were made with minimum effort possible just to attract new players, bring back old one without losing developers time to do anyting new and make it possible for marketing department to post in social media something about it. Events were made just to create an illusion that there is somthing going on in the game when it's not at all.

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    I wished that the impressario would offer far more different rewards, often is is extremely limited and I don't really see any reason to partake at all. Which is a bit of sad.

    Why not offer more different idriks and recipes and such instead of just 1 or 2.

    For instance the Ebon Idrik, why is it only available once a year?

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    The events I like the most are ones like Jester's, New Year and Witches festivals....I just wish they'd change them up a bit. I like that it's something different but the quest doing the same ones year after year and each day of the event. Well, I'd like more like these ones I'm not a fan of pvp or zone related events but these ones are something different to stuff you'd normally do but they need to change it up more...cause well yeah otherwise it's just repetition.
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    Swordancer wrote: »
    They could just drop some hard to kill and powerfiull bosses and mobs on random cities in Tamriel which takes hours to kill

    What kind of festival would that be? Joyful Annual Daedra Attack?
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    Syldras wrote: »
    Swordancer wrote: »
    They could just drop some hard to kill and powerfiull bosses and mobs on random cities in Tamriel which takes hours to kill

    What kind of festival would that be? Joyful Annual Daedra Attack?

    More like Festival of not getting bored during festival.
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    I agree. I did them for a while because they would add a few new achievements, but im so tired of it, i dont care anymore. The fact that these holidays are so lacking in the game makes it feel extremely cheesy and uninteresting. These events do feel like someone made quick work of it and called it done.
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  • Technica
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    Yh, all I currently do now is:
    log in > do 1 quest to earn event tickets > buy indrik parts (if I have enough) > log off
    :(

    I've been playing ESO since the beta, so I've seen every event since they began.. Really gets boring after all that time which is a shame :(

    I think the main issue with the repitition is that it's not just 1 of [X] repeatables per day, it's do each of the 7(example) repeatables every day for the 2 weeks the event is active :(
    Even on day 2 I'm just sighing as I gallop across to the objectives for quests I've already done 100 times
    Edited by Technica on August 29, 2020 4:47PM
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  • Syldras
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    Technica wrote: »
    log in > do 1 quest to earn event tickets > buy indrik parts (if I have enough) > log off
    :(

    I also play other content, but, yes, with events it's the same for me: One quest to get the tickets, and that's it. It really is a pity. They could make more of it. Although there are, unfortunately, other maybe more pressing issues, too.
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  • Technica
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    Sorry to pop back up again here.
    I was trying to do the IC event today and I'm so frustrated.

    It says that all the campaigns are full of all 3 alliances, yet when I joined and went there to try and get all the Legion Zero Vigiles stuff either everyone was hanging around in base doing absolutely nothing, or in general nowhere to be found.
    My char is in AD.
    I typed LFG a number of times and got nothing. The one single grp I did eventually find had 5 people in it...

    I don't know how these PVP events can be improved but please can something be considered? I feellike I'm wasting my time down there and I might as well not even bother :( I'm just so completely done and don't want to continue this event, even though I want these outfit styles (for my style collection). They're bind on pickup otherwise I'd just buy them from guild stores, wish I could. Just realised you can buy them, my bad.

    Could we possibly have any way of using a grp finder within IC? For Molag Bal in the center of the sewers, or boss runs, or general grp finder to bring us together and not have to spam LFG for an hour and still find nothing?

    Does anyone have any other suggestions?
    At this point I just don't want to play these PVP events anymore. I'm running White Gold Tower dungeon to get my daily tickets and gold box - I don't really want to run it another 50x that day to get the general strongboxes for a chance at style pages.
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  • Dusk_Coven
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    Really, just remove all events that don't give you something special to do.
    Killing bosses or doing dungeons or going to Cyrodiil to make AP are things you already do. Or worse -- killing regular mobs for event drops. Duh.
    Adding more reward doesn't change the nature of those things, it just make it more tedious if you didn't like to do them to begin with.

    Jester's Festival, for example, is a better event. For a limited time you get to do things you don't always get to do and which are hopefully fun so you look forward to being able to do them again.
    Edited by Dusk_Coven on September 6, 2020 10:10PM
  • Technica
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    Dusk_Coven wrote: »
    Jester's Festival, for example, is a better event. For a limited time you get to do things you don't always get to do and which are hopefully fun so you look forward to being able to do them again.

    Jester's Festival I actually find one of the most tedious, if not the most.
    It was fun the 1st 2 years or so going back and forth then porting to a different alliance but now it's incredibly boring.
    The other events are better with their boredom cause the tasks are usually close to the giver or generally in one lcoation. Jester's has you port from alliance to alliance to continue the quests. My least favourite quest from Jester's is the pig quest cause you just have to sprint in a big circle, once you've done it so many times you know exactly where to ride to stay away from the person trying to catch you.
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  • joerginger
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    Dusk_Coven wrote: »
    Really, just remove all events that don't give you something special to do.
    Killing bosses or doing dungeons or going to Cyrodiil to make AP are things you already do. Or worse -- killing regular mobs for event drops. Duh.
    Adding more reward doesn't change the nature of those things, it just make it more tedious if you didn't like to do them to begin with.

    Jester's Festival, for example, is a better event. For a limited time you get to do things you don't always get to do and which are hopefully fun so you look forward to being able to do them again.

    Agreed. Most events don't deserve the name at all because nothing special is happening in the game. All the DLC / chapter zone events are only (very) thinly veiled marketing schemes. The PvP "events" are only there to nudge non-PvP players towards PvP, but there is also nothing special going on. Almost the same for the Witches and Undaunted celebrations, business as usual simply with more rewards.
    The only two events that offer more than normal zone dailies with special rewards are Jester's Festival and New Life Festival because they offer their own dailies that are only available during the respective event.

    I recently started playing Guild Wars 2 a little bit and noticed that obviously its designers have quite a different idea of what makes an event an event. Perhaps the ZOS people should take a look at that older game that does some things slightly better than ESO.
  • wishlist14
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    I ❤ events. I like some of your ideas a lot.

  • Technica
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    joerginger wrote: »
    Agreed. Most events don't deserve the name at all because nothing special is happening in the game.

    This was why I thought decorations would be a nice addition, as like I said the world feels like just another day is going by, like no holiday/event is going on.
    Would be lovely to have a holiday event active and know about it when walking around.
    Even just visiting Solitude for example for the crafting stations, if there were banners, or flags, NPCs drinking, maybe bards (or leave the music playing to the players)
    It just makes the celebration and event itself become more alive to be enjoyed
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  • Technica
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    Just wanted to update this here since the New Life festival this year has some fresh content 😊
    I really like the Old Life idea and going to the shrines and seeing the characters who didn't make it along the way is really sweet ❤️
    Is nice to have something different to do, alongside the repetitive repeatable we always have.

    I still wish there was decorations in towns and cities and along roads/etc.. Along with the other suggestions that I listed before. Here's hoping that is added for future events...

    Also, I have noticed... When the New Life event began yesterday there was a huge amount of people doing these quests. But today... There's few... I'm at the Fish Boon Feast fishing holes and besides me there are 4 people here... It could be because maybe I'm not playing at peak time, and obviously yesterday was the day it started... But it gives off the impression that most people are just doing them once, to get the tickets maybe? Then just carrying on as normal and ignoring the event

    Maybe even if the anniversary event had an area in each major city that had a firework display we could go to or something? It's worth more than just a cake quest, yes?
    Edited by Technica on December 18, 2020 10:19AM
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  • Braggar
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    Technica wrote: »
    Just posting this here because I've been thinking about the events...

    I no longer look forward to them. I log in and participate because I have to, to get the event exclusive items.

    They are always the same: Go to event person > accept quest > turn in quest > repeat. These quests are also always the same. There is only so many times I can do one repeatable and then eventually get fed up of it and not want to do it again. I really wish there was more variety, or different things to do each time the event rolls around.

    Another thing that bothers me is that outside of the little tent with the event NPCs, it's as if nothing is happening.... I wish that towns and cities, maybe even some roads, would have decorations on them, lights, bows, ribbons, balloons, music, firework displays.. anything?! Just so the world isn't devoid of holiday joy outside of that little event tent.
    It would be like having Christmas IRL only celebrated in one random field. No lights on houses, no people dressed up singing songs, nothing.
    As a little addon to this, it would be nice for NPCs to wear event themed hats/outfits, and have NPCs spawn in towns/cities/roads celebrating (like how you'd walk past those 3 guys in Skyrim celebrating with Honningbrew). Then it would really feel like an event is going on.

    It would also be nice to have an in-game calendar that we can open up. There they could put in when the next events will happen. And they could even include lore based holidays on the specific days they would be celebrated (they could add decorations and such to this too, or just encourage the community to celebrate this with each other on the side, without an official event or anything. An example would be if they put Hearts day on the calendar on the 16th of Sun's Dawn.
    The holidays based in lore can be found in detail here: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Calendar or here: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Calendar#Holidays
    In TESV Skyrim, the Holidays mod is essential for me to have installed. I absolutely love having these holidays in the game, with NPCs celebrating and decorations added. It made me plan around to visit specific places on my travels just so I could participate and see the lovely lights and decorations. I just feel like it would be great to have these holidays and others in the lore represented in ESO. There are race/region/religion specific holidays that could be celebrated in the appropriate area of Tamriel, since we have a lot of the map to visit and explore.
    My favourite in the Skyrim mod was always the Festival of Lights in Dawnstar. A very simple thing: candles placed on the shoreline for a night. It was beautiful, and I loved it.
    *The in-game calendar I think would make the most sense to follow the IRL passage of time. Even though visually a few days may pass for a 1 day holiday I wouldn't mind (and am sure others wouldn't) so that it ensures we get the opportunity to visit the holiday location that day, and not miss the window during 6hr in game day. The calendar could also display English/French/German/etc dates or maybe a Tamrielic option you can toggle if you want your IRL month names to read as TES versions.

    It would also be great to have more engaging events and celebrations for RPers to celebrate with each other :)

    *Maybe we could even earn decoration housing items, or have holiday furniture packs available to purchase in the crown store. These could be available when an event is active and be related to that event, and on lore holidays (eg, a Hearts Day/New Life/Festival of Lights/etc furniture pack on the correct day) so we can decorate our houses with flags/banners/lights/balloons/etc for that particular holiday/event. Would be nice to earn some through completing quests related to that event/holiday, or buying them from a merchant in the cities for gold.

    I don't know how others feel about this, but events are kind of depressing to me now. Like I said, I participate because I have to... not because I want to... and that's sad.

    Just a summary list of how I think the events could be improved:
    • Decorations in towns/cities and along roads (balloons, music, lights, ribbons, fireworks, bows, flags, buffet tables, cake, etc)
    • Event NPCs (dressed up in towns/cities and along roads. Also NPCs that celebrate spawning in towns/cities and along roads that you can walk past or interact with)
    • Event calendar (detailing up coming events and including lore holidays, with encouragement to celebrate these too)
    • More varied quests to do (not just the same 5 repeatables every single time to do over and over and over and over.....)
    • New things to do each time the event rolls round (sort of similar to the above point. Adding different quests alongside the previous ones next time it comes around)
    • Lore holidays represented (similar to point about event calendar. These holidays could be encouraged in the appropriate area of Tamriel)
    • Holiday/event decoration furniture (event/holiday related decorations available for purchase from vendors for gold/earned doing quests/purchased through crown store so we can decorate our houses for the occasions)

    Love the ideas! Especially the part, about decoration during a Event. Could be more, details are fun to look at.
  • XSTRONG
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    I dont play events anymore except for the pvp one and undaunted event.
    Rest are just same quest same rewards except for a new style page.
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