Bitttymacod
The answer to that is:
I don't use apps. I have never until now heard of that app. I have never received any such notifications. I play nearly every day when I am not on vacation. If I have never heard of such things, I see no reason to expect every member of the event team to have heard of them.
Well then there's no sense sending bus routes and timetables to someone who elects not to use public transportation. If I have an interest in taking a bus, I take it upon myself to **look** for the available information or ask someone. There's no "Bus Guy" who goes house to house knocking on my door every week asking me if I want the information.
But not using available IG apps is a choice you made. I check the list every couple of weeks looking for things that might be useful. Some people choose not to use BM preferring, due to their RP stance, to find stuff on their own. One can find the Ryzom Bosses web page the same way they find BM. Google "Ryzom Bosses". This is the 3rd hit
http://www.ryzom-bosses.com/?lang=en
Yes, it is possible to ignore the appzone, web resources and announcements made in Uni. Usual attendance is 25 - 40. I can't imagine that you never saw the subject mentioned in Uni in the last 5 years.
I used to see you all the time but of late it's a very rare occurrence. I make just about every NPC hunt and don't see ya lite on Fiends List during those hours. Of course, that's when most of the Uni discussion about NPC Hunts will take place ... in the hour before and after the hunt. So if you're not on at that time, you won't see most of it. Then again, if you are not on during those hours, there's no reason to care whether any events are taking place.
A player arrives on Atys and they know mostly nothing about available resources. What exists about wiki, BM / Silenda sites, IG Apps, KipeeCraft, Zyroom, RyzomTracker, etc ? Players learn about them from other players, their guilds, forums, mentions in unichat the same way they learn about the hunts. We have new players joining all the time ... they seem to be getting the word. What resources do they have available to them that you don't ?
Bitttymacod
There is just one thing missing: Letting the player base (i.e. me) know this exists and reminding them on a periodic basis. If I haven't heard of them, I cannot do anything but believe that there are many many others in my position
Do folks need a reminder that BM site or Ryzom Wiki exists ? Have you expressed an interest in attending the Hunts, or knowing when they were, to any players or in any chats ? If you have no interest in these player events, aren't showing up and never asking about them, then you won't know the schedule. But you do know that they occur, and if you wanted to know, all you had to do was look or ask what info was available ... the same way we all found out about the various in and out of game resources.
I'd love it if player events could be listed on the calendar and have made such a request to the Event Team. To date, response from the event team on other subjects have been short and non-committal with no follow up so far
Why isn't a post made every 5 days in forums ? ... for the same reason the boss doesn't send his employees a memo every week reminding them to show up for work on Monday and the same reason I don't get an email every week telling me what the bus schedule is ... the info is readily available to anyone who asks for it. If you are not interested in attending, then you don't need scheduling information.
Going back to that event planners guide, I have served on and chaired committees responsible for scheduling and running regional conventions for my professional association. How smart would it be to schedule our regional meeting (13 states) on the same weekend as one or more of those member states ?
Other organizations with similar focus do not send me their meeting notices unless I am a member or request same. But, as an event planner, it is OUR committee's responsibility to check their web sites and make sure our event does not conflict with theirs. Not to do so would be a dereliction of responsibility and cost the organization 10s of thousands of dollars due to reduced attendance.
For anyone to have been here since merge and never getting wind that NPC Boss Hunts occur from any of those sources seems unfathomable. As I said, announcements are made in Uni every time. There have been announcements in Uni that you can even get reminders to your cell phone numerous times. You don't have a "Welcome New Members" section in guild forum that lists resources, events, tech tips, player events, season changes ?
In our Guild Forums, we have links for:
Schedule
Guild Attendance Tracking
How Points System Works
Strategies
What Mats Needed for Crafting NPC Armor
If you would like me to send you some files so you could duplicate these in your Guild Forum I would be happy to do so.
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