I'm not really in it to win an item as such as I have no need for one, but I thought I'd just join in.
Event only maps. Now these maps would only be accessible when the event starts. Perhaps opening up a new section on the B.U Flute titled 'Event warp' that only appears as a warp option on the flute when the event starts. This location could interchange to facilitate different types of events, adding a neat feature in the process. Anyway, the general idea is to have a few different maps with different levels of difficulty. The default warp point to this event will automatically be the weaker npcs as stronger players can progress further to gain access to the mobs with better items on offer.
The idea is there are different npcs on these maps which drop every single item in the game which aren't discontinued, unreleased and are dispersed evenly according to mob difficulty. For example the first map has weak mobs for lower level players which drops stuff like Legendaries, Obliterators, Soul Reapers, Redemptions but also junk like mexican hat, chomps hat, dark blade, ice blade and so forth. Second map mobs drops God Feathers, Titanium forces, Elite Samurai's as rare items and the npcs increase with difficulty the rarer items you want to go for. All of the npcs will drop junk like chomps hat so even if you're going for the best stuff, there's a high chance you'll only get junk, but it's a shot at getting very good stuff.
Also the drops from previous npc levels carry over to the next map, so the rare items from the first map, drop in the second map, the rare items from the first and second maps carry over to the third, making the last map with the harder npcs, more difficult to obtain good items from as there's more variety in the drop (basically everything in game apart from like I said earlier, discontinued or unreleased items).
The event could last for perhaps say 30 mintues-1hour. I'm not suggesting making the npcs too strong, not like the bosses, but making it so a player with 0rb can challenge the first map, 2rb the second, 4rb for the third or something. The npcs also definitely shouldn't give good EXP after all this is all about item rewards as the npcs aren't too much of a challenge.
Another option taking into account what I just mentioned about not giving good EXP as it's all about drops, is to have another kind of npc which give great EXP and Gold but don't drop anything and each weekend this could rotate; week 1) items npc's, week 2) EXP and gold npc's, week 3) items npc's, week 4) EXP and gold npcs. Of course the same system would apply from the items, so mobs in the first map could drop 1k, 5k and 10k, mobs in the second would carry these drops but also add 15k, 20k and 30k, and so forth so mobs in the last map drop anything up to say 3mill. This would certainly be a hit with the players as they get the best of both and would also stop too many good items potentially released into the game and I would personally prefer to have the rotation each week if I were a player. After the event's over, remove all npc spawns from the map as to stop people logging off there to get good items and adding them back in before the event starts so the map has no use other than to serve it's purpose for the event. It's basically an event with npc's like Blood Leader, but much better items on offer and a lot of junk on offer too with limited time to gather them in or limited time to get the EXP and Gold in. This could take place every Saturday or Sunday.
If there are people without flutes which would cause people problems getting there, adding a quest that offers a broken flute as a starter quest reward and a blacksmith which can fix it for a small matter of bones could be a quick and efficient way to solve that problem.
This shouldn't be too difficult to add into the game as it doesn't require anything too potentially difficult code wise.
Hope you like the idea, Josh.
If you think things can't get worse, it's probably because you lack sufficient imagination.
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hope this or deal or no deal wins xD