Tinkerfest Guide Quests

[ianilu]

<p>I was just wondering why the guide quests cant just be a NPC, like on EQ2X or the Test servers?</p><p>I play on Everfrost and Butcherblock. On Butcherblock, I seen that a guide posted that they will be there on 8-4, but nothing for Everfrost. i realize they dont have to post when they are showing up. but it would be nice to not miss out on the quests.</p>

[Teddy]

<p>I am also on Everfrost and agree with OP; why can't the catalog quest for the Tinkerfest statue, and the gather items quest for the Tome of Tinkering be on an NPC quest giver available 24/7?  Thank-you.</p>

[Katz]

<p>Yeah.  NPC quest givers would be nice for the special events ones.  It's fun when you can catch a guide on, but they don't seem to be as active these days.  For the regular guide quests that can come up anytime, you can eventually catch them but for the special events, thats difficult to do unless you have lots of guides throughout the days/nights of the event.</p>

[Wilahelm]

<p><cite>Ranad@Butcherblock wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I was just wondering why the guide quests cant just be a NPC, like on EQ2X or the Test servers?</p><p>I play on Everfrost and Butcherblock. On Butcherblock, I seen that a guide posted that they will be there on 8-4, but nothing for Everfrost. i realize they dont have to post when they are showing up. but it would be nice to not miss out on the quests.</p></blockquote><p><cite>Teddy wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I am also on Everfrost and agree with OP; why can't the catalog quest for the Tinkerfest statue, and the gather items quest for the Tome of Tinkering be on an NPC quest giver available 24/7? Thank-you.</p></blockquote><p><cite>Katz wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Yeah. NPC quest givers would be nice for the special events ones. It's fun when you can catch a guide on, but they don't seem to be as active these days. For the regular guide quests that can come up anytime, you can eventually catch them but for the special events, thats difficult to do unless you have lots of guides throughout the days/nights of the event.</p></blockquote><p>I have got to agree with all of the above.</p><p>I work second shift (local time 14:00-23:59), and all the time I was on during Tinkerfest (off-on during the weekend, 08:00-11:00 weekdays), and I seen no Guide posts.I cycled through all nine (9) of my alts on Permafrost to do all of the Tinkerfest quests, and my Antonia_Bayle Alt.</p><p>It has been a rare thing to see Guides during those times on Premafrost anyways... though that rant is for another thread.</p><hr />

[Arkenor]

<p>But then they wouldn't be special guide quests any more. They'ed just be quests.</p><p>If you don't think there's enough guides, or that they're not active enough, why not volunteer!</p>

[Xianthia]

<p>Having both during the dates that the holiday runs would be great.  That way Guides can still rp with players/and vice versa, and peeps that can't be on at the times the Guides show up, can still grab up those quests during the holiday. </p><p>(Of course, having the quest npc be up all year round would be even better.... but at least having an npc during the holiday run time would guarantee you can always get that quest.)</p>

[Wilahelm]

<p><cite>Maltheas@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>But then they wouldn't be special guide quests any more. They'ed just be quests.</p><p>If you don't think there's enough guides, or that they're not active enough, why not volunteer!</p></blockquote><p>On the first part you are mostly right, there would be the risk of it just being a 'Normal' quest.</p><p>I have talked to someone that has contact to the Guide program, and I hope I have all my facts strait.There are usually, at least, over 2000 applications for guides that have to be reviewed on any given time.There are alittle shy of 500 'active' guides in the program currently, and as you said they are volunteers.They have to each do one full quest, or a three hour interaction setting, a week to stay 'active'.</p><p>I have thought of submitting an application for (and have mostly completeted), because I see a need for them, though am partly disappointed that I can not Guide on a server that I play on.I believe I understand why on the latter most part, though it is partly why I have not.</p><hr /><p><cite>Xianthia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Having both during the dates that the holiday runs would be great. That way Guides can still rp with players/and vice versa, and peeps that can't be on at the times the Guides show up, can still grab up those quests during the holiday.</p><p>(Of course, having the quest npc be up all year round would be even better.... but at least having an npc during the holiday run time would guarantee you can always get that quest.)</p></blockquote><p>It would be great, yes, though they would have to have a way for any guide to safely toggle 'on/off' of the Guide Quest NPC if they did that.</p><p>Doing so, to allow the Guides that 'power', would possible be a(t least) two way coding headache;</p><ul><li>To allow a Guide account the ablility to toggole a 'special' NPC on/off would take time to be able to do correctly, and not cause a zone/system sever crash.Would you like it if you are doing a 'holiday' crafting, and midway through your combine you are kicked off due to a crash?</li><li>To allow all Guide accounts that ability would have SOE needing to give them to a minor amount of Administration control of the system servers.Sadly, as much as I would trust most in the Guide program, after the 'Hack-attack' Sony had earlier this year, I do not foresee in the imediate future this happening.</li></ul><p>Do not get me wrong, I think the idea is great, though to execute it maybe more than SOE is wanting to put into a volunteer program.</p><hr />