Crystal War Revisited (11/08/2007)

[Eanae]

Went afk by the crystal in Oztroja, mob died while I was in class, but when I came back, I couldn't get fragments from the crystal.

[Khamsin]

Town teleports will be temporary.

How so? They are being permanently added for a specific nation on a specific server after completion of the event (maybe activated when the expansion is?), with nobody else on the same or other servers ever having a hope of the same luxury, I thought.

Where did you read that they'd be temporary, and how long will they be up?

It was temporary last time.

Before, they've just done town-to-town teleporting via event moogles for the duration of the event. It wasn't a reward for being the best at a cross-server event, and they've never advertised it as such before.

Last time they offered teleportation rewards for an event like this while keeping track of progress across all servers, we kept them permanently. Although in that case, the stipulation wasn't that the top server would get it, it was that any and all servers that completed the task would get it.

This time, they are again offering teleportation rewards for the top nation of the top server and are explicitly advertising it as such.

[Tajin]

hope serket ring is for sorc ring macro >.>;

It's actually my idle gear, with Black Cloak and Yigit Seraweels hastily replaced with weskit/Mahatma for aesthetic effect. Didn't occur to me until afterwards that I should probably have put on real rings and neckwear.

Edit: Yeah, they're real gaiters too.

This is the kind of shit that sets BG apart from the rest 8)


P.S. I need to install FFXI here at work for this kind of shit ;;

[Jones]

Don't you think that whichever server wins the winning nation will have like 90% of the people from other nations switch to the winning nation for the free teleports?

I know if my server was top and Sandy or Bastok won, I'd switch in a heartbeat. The OPs I can get back fairly quickly save for the starter zones. And when you can teleport to the starter towns anytime you wish...who needs the OPs outside the towns?

Makes me wonder if infact it *should* be temporary as it would surely upset the balance of nation populations on the winning server. Seems like a silly thing to do right before an expansion where one's nation allegiance is going to matter (read Campaign).

[Viena]

Don't you think that whichever server wins the winning nation will have like 90% of the people from other nations switch to the winning nation for the free teleports?

I know if my server was top and Sandy or Bastok won, I'd switch in a heartbeat. The OPs I can get back fairly quickly save for the starter zones. And when you can teleport to the starter towns anytime you wish...who needs the OPs outside the towns?

Makes me wonder if infact it *should* be temporary as it would surely upset the balance of nation populations on the winning server. Seems like a silly thing to do right before an expansion where one's nation allegiance is going to matter (read Campaign).

I concur, a permanent single nation feature like that would be silly, besides, let's analyze the Moogle's text:

As a reward, I shall teleport you to any nation of your choice!

That probably means that the teleport thing will be over if they take the event Moogle down, and that's likely to happen. If they are planning to move the prize to another NPC after that happens is something we can't know

And now let's see what SE stated about this event:

Event Results

Following completion of the event, the scores will be tallied to determine which of the three nations of San d’Oria, Bastok, or Windurst gathered is the victor. The final results will be posted in this very Topics.
There just may be a special something waiting for the devotees of the victorious nation!

That doesn't imply that the servers will be competing against other servers. Even if they stated that they wanted to do a corss server competition, we don't know if this is the case on this event. To me, it seems like a competition between nations that will bring a temporary feature for the winning nations that will be made permanent for all nations shortly after.

[crazyrabbit]

Dunno where ppl get that "teleportation only winning nation of winning server" from. I was always under the impression that the best server gets this and all ppl will be able to use it no matter which nation, just like they did with adding OPs back then. That winning nation reward would be that 3rd red googles Redeyes and having the option to buy special items from nation vendors (maybe moogle pies? w/e SE thinks is "special").
And 2-3 weeks or a month after event end all other server will get the teleportation point too, just like OPs.

Anyway i would have liked to get some small minirewards for more crystals >.>; at 77 atm but its dyna time. Even if its only some fireworks or some shit, but the way it is now with no reward after 20th crys there is no reason to do this event longer than a few hours. Only small portion of ppl realy want to get their nation/server to the top and go on, the majority will stop whenever they can't get something for them personaly, like always. The whole game is planned so you have to spent a lot time for rewards, but events are made to finish them as fast as posible, weird SE.

[Caestus]

didn't they say this sort for Twinkling Treant, but in the end all servers got the reward? (wasn't it OP warps ?) i can't remember fully

[Khamsin]

didn't they say this sort for Twinkling Treant, but in the end all servers got the reward? (wasn't it OP warps ?) i can't remember fully

Nah, that event's goal was to kill the treant, and any server who did that would get the OPs.

This event, as in that quote earlier in the thread of SE stating explicitly that the top server would get town-to-town teleportation, will only grant that to the top server, not any server who completes the task. So 2nd place gets nothing.

As for the moogle saying "*I* will teleport you", perhaps the top nation on every server will get a temporary teleporation ability, and will go away after the event is over. However, all nations on the top server will get a permanent teleportation NPC, as per their official announcement?

[Caestus]

i am really thinking that it was the first server to have beaten the NM got the OP. but due to every server working so hard together they allowed all to get it. it was a LONG time ago lol but this is just what i remember -.-;

[SephYuyX]

i am really thinking that it was the first server to have beaten the NM got the OP. but due to every server working so hard together they allowed all to get it. it was a LONG time ago lol but this is just what i remember -.-;

You are correct. The top server were the only ones to get OP, but shortly after SE gave them to everyone.

[Olo401]

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Man wtf.. acc-20 at night. Where's the love for Corey Hart.

[Ryko]

Only douchebags and crackheads wear sunglasses in the dark.

[rath]

Got fancy specs, lvl 30 3 acc -30 acc at night. Had 18 shards and turned in 6 and he gave them to me.

[SephYuyX]

Got fancy specs, lvl 30 3 acc -30 acc at night. Had 18 shards and turned in 6 and he gave them to me.

What was the moon phase?

[Jeryhn]

Event seems pretty easy.

I got Dandy Spectacles at exactly 1 crystal.
Got Fancy at exactly 20.
Redeyes looking to be at 100 crystals by my guess.

In Noob Stronghold areas, if you watch the NM die, you get 1+3 crystals.
In Higher Strongholds, you get 2+4.

Right now I'm alternating between Ghelsba and Davoi with a bunch of other players due to the ToDs of each NM.
Getting 10 crystals per hour.

Probably faster if you separate the ToDs of two NMs in the higher level strongholds so you get 2+4 crystals each run.

[rath]

I was pretty sure the OP warps were advertised as any server that killed them by new years. GMs actually helped the lagging servers on the final day to make sure every server got it. They then listed which server and nations treant was killed first (iirc).

Celestial nights event promised the servers (with enough moogles) nation teleports, and they got them. But they dissapeared once the event was completed. This does not seem to kick in until after the event, so it sounds more permanent.

[The Stig]

Got fancy specs, lvl 30 3 acc -30 acc at night. Had 18 shards and turned in 6 and he gave them to me.

What was the moon phase?

Moon phase shouldn't matter. You only need to get to a total of 20 or more to obtain the HQ glasses. :D

[Dakana]

Do I need to rezone after each day and turn them in or can I study and just click the crystal every time the NM pops and is killed?

[Jeryhn]

You need to turn in crystals each time you gather.

So yeah, the quest is nice and tedious.

[Khamsin]

i am really thinking that it was the first server to have beaten the NM got the OP. but due to every server working so hard together they allowed all to get it. it was a LONG time ago lol but this is just what i remember -.-;

You are correct. The top server were the only ones to get OP, but shortly after SE gave them to everyone.

No, the details were specifically that each server had until a certain deadline to kill the treants. All servers who accomplished this would get the OP warps. Fairy and Midgardsormr did not meet the deadline, after which SE extended the deadline another week or so.

There was never any pretense that only one server would get OPs.

Whether or not GMs actually helped out on Fairy and Midgardsormr, I don't know since I'm not on those servers.