Dev Diary Feedback: Spring Festival

[Kyrra_T]

One suggestion if I may...consider making the festival BOA items(the lawn decorations is mostly what I refer to) bind to the account not to the character. I forsee character roulette in my future when I want to redecorate my lawn.

[zallus]

One suggestion if I may...consider making the festival BOA items(the lawn decorations is mostly what I refer to) bind to the account not to the character. I forsee character roulette in my future when I want to redecorate my lawn.

Do what my Kin has done. I made one character that holds all the BOA house and yard decorations. He's almost full, but it makes it easy for me.

[Kyrra_T]

That only works if the items are Bind on Equip. These items are Bind on Acquire. I do have a vault alt that holds all my decorations. She can't hold ones she didn't acquire herself however if they are BOA. I do the festival on all my alts to get the decorations I want for myself and the kinhouse. .... Nevermind, I'm an idiot. I just realized the BOA stuff I had to move from the kinhouse mailed back to the person who placed them. Mind that meant we lost a few, since those were folks taking an absence from the game, but in my case it all belongs to my alts, it will just mail back to them and I can re-place the stuff.

[Jdkeepsmiling]

/clap
/dance
/guzzle Bullroarer's Brew


Excellent job on the festival Devs. Now if only I could walk straight....

[Macbeth]

The new Hedge Maze is Da Bomb.


That is all...

[thegneech]

Much fun!

My only concern ... did the horse race ever get fixed?

-The Gneech

[Avalon1000]

I has all the horses....


The spring festival Grinch.

[Gwynneth]

Thanks for the awesome maze. I've had a blast doing the quests there.

*cheers*

~~Bethana

[reianime]

When will the horse race be enabled? If it isn't enabled I think we should get a token for the horse.

[wolfaqua]

When will the horse race be enabled? If it isn't enabled I think we should get a token for the horse.

I agree 100%. The only reason I did the maze quests was to get enough leaves for the horse.

[Angeliel]

While I love the new Hedge Maze -- kudos, Devs!

For the next Festival? I would put in a plea to PLEASE add back the fishing quests versus the flower gathering quests.

On the fishing quests, we weren't competing with zillions of players on a timed quest, but were quietly fishing for barter items and it was one of my favorite things to do after a bad day (much more rewarding than 'real' fishing in-game as yet).

Now we have to run around with a bunch of people also competing for flower nodes, and of course have to deal with the usual bad mannered or ninja types who will use extra run speeds, etc., to grab a flower out from under you, etc.

It's not a huge deal, but it is annoying. The flowers don't respawn super fast, and there are currently far more players gathering them than there are flowers, so they are kind of exasperating and not nearly as fun or rewarding to me as the fishing.

And on top of that, there's the matter of the honestly lousy rewards. I have gotten -- thus far -- 14 Blueberry Tart recipes out of 18 gift boxes, plus 4 miscellaneous yet underwhelming little items that I already had.

I like the Spring festival and love the maze, but miss the fishing and hate the 'ninja' aspect to trying to grab the flowers in an hour (and all for some really bummer rewards).

Just my 2 pence.

[Shibi]

Any cook recipes like the ones last Spring?

I would like to get my hands on some tart recipes....

Did you get any tart recipes? If you like, I have a few (thousand) spare I could mail you!

[saintguinness]

Tart recipe? Did someone mention they got a tart recipe?

[CasiusFet]

I'm really hoping that the horse gets fixed soon... it's my favorite Festival Horse I've seen yet, and I really want to get it...

[GalateaOrea]

Talk about success. It looks like Turbine really hit the jackpot with the horse races. Fun event and great reward, something easy to get, but also not so easy since it only comes around a few times a year.

So, not having the horse races this Festival was a real bummer. Everyone was feeling the pain. It looks like the Devs have also been feeling the pain - - of having the horse races. But let me tell you guys, this is one of the best holiday events in any game, so here's hoping you get it fixed or figure out another way for players to get festival horses.

If races just aren't going to work, might I suggest something akin to the Inn League initiation quest?

I'd also like to make a suggestion about the Party Tree. This is the most unfestive part of festival. Other than a dance and launching the inn league quest, nothing goes on here. It's rather forlorn, actually, particularly for a Party Tree. It ought to be the center of fun at festival!

But, there's a really big problem related to the Party Tree: Not much room. Whereas there's room for a maze on the Horsefields, you can't even get a pie-eating contest in at the Party Tree!

So my suggestion is simple, remove the huge ovens you don't need there and give yourselves some more room. No one cooks at those ovens, other than an NPC for a quest, they aren't the lest bit useful and that part of the Shire looks barren. No one would miss them. It seems to me to be one of the hold over places from Beta that could use a re-do.

Then you'd have room to give the Party Tree some real party.

Looking forward to next Festival!