CiC

While I'm not an admin I did say that I'd try and come up with some event ideas. We've already had a few in recent times and they went down a storm, so here's a few ideas for some more that I hope would spice things up a little. Some of these are commonly used on servers while others are partly of my own making...


Heli bombing

Players are all given a Pook helicopter (the small MASH style one) and have to bomb a specified target. Helis must release their grenades above 200 meters and at a speed not less than 80 Kms/h to qualify. Three single grenade runs are allowed. Closest to the centre of the target wins as adjudicated by admins.

Base Raid

A base is created (or copied / created and placed in a relatively quiet place or PvP zone). A group of 4-6 players start in a town or safe zone and after organising themselves try to take over the base from 2-4 player or admin defenders (with no powers at all). The attackers have one hour (or an agreed length of time) to get in, get the loot and get out to win. Either day or night would be equally challenging I feel.

Deathmatch

Players are randomly placed within a PvP zone with an axe, machete or Sledgehammer of their choice. The object is to be the last player left alive. Night time with no NV goggles might be more fun due to zombies. If more than one person is alive then no one wins - this will encourage actively hunting others.

A to B Race

A simple A to B race either on foot, motorbikes or tracked vehicles for extra fun and frolics. Day or night this is quick and easy to set up.

The Hunted

A group of 4-6 players (The Hunted) must get from the NE airfield to Bash trade zone for example without the use of vehicles and have one hour to do this in. No NV goggles could add to the fun at night, but if they want they can scavenge for some if they wish if the lighting is bad. Another group of 4-6 players (The Hunters) start at the Bash trade zone with NV goggles if at night and are given two unarmed off road vehicles or 4x4s. The Hunted must all be in the same single skin and the The Hunters likewise but a different skin. The Hunted group gets two briefcases of gold for each member of the team that makes it to Bash within the hour. The Hunters get two briefcases of gold for each member of the other group that don't make it, either by time running out, death or by killing them. Once you die your out and cannot rejoin the event.

Prize, Surprise, Demise

A game first played on Dayz Standalone. It needs a little setting up first but could well be a lot of of fun if there's quite a few people interested and available at the time. See this vid for how it's done : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMXWzMXU1u0

Demolition Derby

An old favourite. Players are all given the same vehicle around the edge of the race track and must try and disable all other player vehicles and be the last one still able to move in their vehicle in some way to win.


Apart from the usual loot and/or a vehicle for the winner(s) of an event and to add a little kudos and activity on here hopefully, winners could have some sort of addition to their profile on the forums here which would be visible for all to see on here. This is obviously dependant of whether people think it's a good idea and whether it's achievable of course.


Feel free to say if any of the above sound good to you or say the sort of thing you'd like to see or add your own event ideas equally. Maybe you played in an event on another server that was a big hit? Hopefully some will be picked out and get done in the near future...

Nice ideas, i was also looking at
Admin duck hunt, where an admin(s) fly around the map in the little bubble drones and have to be shot down with guns, some of admins have prizes on bodies.
Vehicle hunts are good but i think need some added complexity.
Admin hunts are good but need rules to make them more interesting.
Hired gun, an admin gives a random player a target and time and they have to find them and kill them for something - not 100% sure about details
Sniper war, 1v1 or 2v2 etc in a PVP zone or building site and winner is whoever walks out
timed build - admin puts down plot poles and adds everyone as friend then all given admin build crate and a time to make the best thing they can and admins judge which is most novel etc

DEATH MAZE!

One of the most amazing events I've seen. If we could build or "plagiarise" something like this, it would be epic.

Essentially, it's a last man standing arena/maze. Everyone starts with nothing...last one alive wins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh5zbUfkFWw

That death maze looks great

I saw that death maze vid at the time it was posted up - it does indeed look great.

I pretty much agree with Ned too in what he said re the complexity / fleshing out of some of the standard missions, as well as maybe having some sort of hired gun / assassination type mission and possibly a sniper related one too.

Keep em coming folks...

As much as i do like some of these ideas and wouldn't mind building a ''death maze'' or w/e , it seem like its a real struggle to actually get people involved in any kind of events , i don't know if that's because the older events were getting stale or people just happy building their bases and doing the missions but if anyone has some ideas on how to actually get people involved that would be nice.

i think people have got too rich atm so are building to spend some of the cash so i am still inclined to look into a week where the traders are out of stock all the time and maybe weather is worse and more night time so people have to either start eating into their reserves or hunt and gather to survive.
lowering rewards and upping AI can also help get stuff off the server a bit too.
Then we need to look into the more extreme tactical events rather than just hunt something..
we could do with a league for the racetrack or a sniper league where its mainly for bragging rights.
we can work on some simple things now and look at ones which require server changes once we are happy with the new setup.
still have no feedback on how its playing as the change was done very fast once we knew the server had troubles which we couldn't solve with that provider

i agree some people are to rich and just build for the sake of it ,maybe something like increase the maintain costs for bases as people shouldn't be able to afford 3 huge bases and still have safes full of bc's, lowering rewards , lowering sell value on sniper rifles (as most other weapons are pretty low anyway) , upping ai level and upping buying costs for some things would help to fix this but locking off the traders will cause some drama and maybe drive away some fresh players. The race event i held was good fun, seemed to work well and had a decent turn out , also had a destroy the convoy kind of event last night which people seemed to enjoy but it needed some tweaks for next time to make it last abit longer. Was also speaking with kro and he suggested something like scheduled events or advanced announcements on website/dart to give people plenty of time as mine are usually spur of the moment announced 1 hour before the event which is a little bit last minute for some i guess.

Schedule is great as long as we have enough admins etc when they occur and we can sort something out as regards to promotion.
i was looking at putting up the prices on maintenance but only on the upper end of the numbers on a pole so bigger bases get a little more taxed per item, not sure on balance yet as we don't want to stop people building as it is an enjoyable side of Epoch.
I am thinking about duration of an event with darkness, rain, night etc so it may turn up as a random restart, unannounced to take people off guard with admins there to help new people if they join during the session.

Its all about collecting enough ideas so keep going, my next one is evil admin month where all admins shoot any player who comes near, blows up their vehicle and steals their stuff ..... mwahahahaha!

What about a Marksman shoot out, like having a player(dummy) lets say about 1500m away and have each participate take 1 shot and who misses drops out of the event(well this would be base on how many people doing it). "Have 3 rounds" 1st at 800m with zombies, 2nd round at 1140m no zombies and last round at 1500 or less with shit loads of zombies and the target.


I so this on Syfy's Nation Z