Bristlebane Day 2012 Feedback and Bugs

[Kaitheel]

<p>Bristlebane Day 2012 has been activated on Test and Test Copy!Jesters, thieves, bards and fans of mischief are invited to enjoy the adventuring and new crafting festivities that surround Bristlebane Day! You never know what riddles, laughs and pranks are to be found during this enjoyable time of year. Celebrators are present in every home city, and the oddest of objects have been spotted in Antonica, The Commonlands, Darklight Wood, Timorous Deep, Greater Faydark and Frostfang Sea! Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for special events, especially in Enchanted Lands, occurring only on the highest of silly days, 4/1/2012!New features for '12!</p><ul><li>New contest – “Bristlebane Day Snack Snatcher: Enchanted Lands”</li><li>New Tradeskill recipe book, “Perfectly Serious Items to Craft III". The recipes require holiday harvestables gathered from "Jester's gardens" and other low level harvestables as components.</li><li>"A Bristlebane Day merchant" found in city tradeskill houses have some new items for players to buy!<ul><li>Perfectly Serious Items to Craft III</li><li>Fool’s Gold Treasure Chest</li></ul></li></ul><p>Returning features:</p><ul><li>In-game mail to announce the event and summarize location of quest givers.</li><li>Jester's garden spawn in Commonlands, Antonica, Greater Faydark, Darklight Wood, Frostfang Sea, and Timorous Deep.</li><li>Previous craftable recipe books sold by “a Bristlebane Day merchant” (bristlebaneday_merchant) in city tradeskill houses.<ul><li>Perfectly Serious Items to Craft</li><li>Perfectly Serious Items to Craft II </li></ul></li><li>“Gnary a Joke to Tell” and silly Bristlebane Day themed dungeon - Repeatable every year.</li><li>“Gigglegibber Scavenger Hunt” - Repeatable every year.</li><li>"Ratical”offers new reward choice - Repeatable every year.</li><li>The Bristlebane Quest Outline started by Blat Berisen - Cannot be repeated.</li><li>The “Impossibly Rare Objects” -Collection cannot be repeated.</li></ul><p>This event content is currently set to run 3/27/12 through 4/9/12 on the live servers.Currently, the 4/1 specific content is not activated on Test or Test Copy.  I’ll activate it later for testing.</p><p><strong>**UPDATE</strong></p><p>The 4/1 specific content is now active on Test and Test Copy!  It will be on the servers for a very limited time (deactivated on 3/23).</p><p>Features for 4/1/2012:</p><ul><li>All chests = gigglegibber comfort cubes.</li><li>The harvestables from previous holidays can be harvested from Jester’s superior garden (Frostfell, Erollisi Day,</li><li>Nights of the Dead, Tinkerfest, Brewday Festival, Bristlebane Day) in Enchanted Lands.</li><li>Frostfell tradeskill stations & fuel merchants set up in Enchanted Lands and Sinking Sands. They are visually marked by candy canes!</li><li>"Riddled Throughout the Land" – Can be repeated for a new reward choice.</li><li>"Riddled Again" – Can be repeated for a new reward choice.</li></ul><p><strong>**UPDATE 2</strong></p><p>The 4/1 specific content has been deactivated on the Test servers.  Thank you for the feedback and testing!</p><p>Please assemble any feedback and bugs that you may find in this thread.  Thank you, everyone!~Kaitheel</p>

[Whilhelmina]

<p>Gah, more testing!</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>“Bristlebane Day Snack Snatcher: Enchanted Lands” :</strong></span> text is fine and not the one from another event. I sure hope translators will give the right text to storms but I derail (the brew day race on Storms is using frostfell translation and "thirsty goblins" are called "snowball" *sight*).Some tasty stuff are floating (no problem there) but some are spawning below ground and we only see the particles floating above the earth and not the actual item. Locs with broken stuff are:</span></p><ul><li>16.18, 0.62, -31.42</li><li>-58.55, -3.30, -9.88</li><li>-17.11, -0.07, -55.46</li><li>0.73, -2.35, -44.99</li><li>-31.46, 2.4, -29.07</li><li>Spawn point in the water: around -47.93, -4.80, 3.91</li></ul><p>Could we get a list of the tresholds pretty please?</p><p>It seems the cabbages are spawning before the other type of stuffs when the race starts.</p><p>When in auto-consume, the Merriment Julep is consumed twice when equiped (if slot was empty).</p><p>Why is the flagon of chuckles no-trade?</p><p>For those interested, title is: Snack Snatcher! *snatches Kaitheel's snack*</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>House items : </strong></span></p><p>Crafting part seems to work fine.</p><p>The fireworks from the race is pure genius. I love it <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Garland is frostfellish but it's not surprising.</p><p>The ladder is nice but... Could it be possible to add the climb option to it? Pretty please?</p><p>Everything else seems fine to me. I haven't tried the quest from Blat in new freeport yet (all chars have done the quests already, I'll have to check if some lowbie on hubby account has not done it yet).</p><p>All house items can be seen in my Opera house, medium houses (and probably back in Hall of Fame in a couple of days), named "Bristlebane Day 2012" under Leucosia (South Qeynos)</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p>Hello!</p><p>I wanted to alert everyone of two changes headed your way:</p><ul><li>Bristlebane Snack Snatcher - All of the snacks are now above ground.</li><li>Brilliant Bristlebane Day Cloak is now dyed the correct colors for the celebration.</li></ul><p>As usual, I am not sure when these changes will make it to the Test servers, but they should be called out in the update notes at that time.</p><p>~Kaitheel</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bristlebane Snack Snatcher</span></p><p>enormous reward bag- 85 or more points huge reward bag - 84 or fewer points big reward bag - 64 or fewer points small reward bag – 44 or fewer points</p><p><cite>Whilhelmina@Storms wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Why is the flagon of chuckles no-trade?</p></blockquote><p>I can understand why it would be appropriate to make the Flagon of Chuckles tradeable if it were a house item, but since it is a character expendable, I didn't see the desire.  Though, I see that the snowballs from Frostfell are tradeable. (I wonder why?)  I can easily be convinced to make the Flagon of Chuckles tradeable, as I don't have a strong personal feeling on it, one way or another.  But why would you want it tradeable?  Does it make it more desirable? Will it mean more participation in the Bristlebane contest or less?</p><p>~Kaitheel</p>

[Absyntheea]

<p>It would really be nice if the ladder was climbable... and I must be missing something on the fireweorks from the race.. they didn't do anything for me at all.</p>

[Dyaon]

<p>When I was running the race, I could not see any of the things you had to run through. :/</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p>I've got another change headed your direction:    Tin Metal Protection - Frethe Zizlop in freeport now advances the quest correctly.I don't know when this change will be on the Test servers, but it should be called out in the update notes at that time.Thank you for feedback both in game and here!~Kaitheel</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p><cite>Dyaon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>When I was running the race, I could not see any of the things you had to run through. :/</p></blockquote><p>I've not seen any other complaints of this, nor experienced it for myself.</p><p>Has anyone else?</p><p>~Kaitheel</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p><cite>Absyntheea@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>It would really be nice if the ladder was climbable... and I must be missing something on the fireweorks from the race.. they didn't do anything for me at all.</p></blockquote><p>Unfortunately, we have no code support that would enable a movable house object to be climbable.</p><p>The fireworks are a house object that you can activate after you have placed it in your house.</p><p>~Kaitheel</p>

[Cloudrat]

<p>The treasure chest doesn't scale very large. I am a really small toon and I thought it was too small at the foot of my bed hehe I can't imagine what a large toon in a big prestige house will think.</p>

[Brienae]

<p>Something that I did /bug the other day, but I thought I'd go ahead and mention it:</p><p>I ran the race in Enchanted Lands on my level 25 Assassin.  I had her merc active when I stepped on the pad.  While I was running the race nothing was aggro to be but my merc started attacking something. The mount for the race vanished and I was running at normal unmounted speed until the merc died to the very red mob. I finished the race after the mount returned and I did not re-summon my Merc until I had run the race a few times again. Whatever he was fighting did not attack me.   I'm just thinking that he's not supposed to do that.  In case it matters it was the inq.</p>

[Cyliena]

<p><cite>Brienae@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Something that I did /bug the other day, but I thought I'd go ahead and mention it:</p><p>I ran the race in Enchanted Lands on my level 25 Assassin.  I had her merc active when I stepped on the pad.  While I was running the race nothing was aggro to be but my merc started attacking something. The mount for the race vanished and I was running at normal unmounted speed until the merc died to the very red mob. I finished the race after the mount returned and I did not re-summon my Merc until I had run the race a few times again. Whatever he was fighting did not attack me.   I'm just thinking that he's not supposed to do that.  In case it matters it was the inq.</p></blockquote><p>That happened to my Beastlord running Hearts a'Flutter in Antonica. The Qeynos gate guards showed as non-aggro to me but my merc got attacked and then that contest came to abrupt splattering end. Maybe these contests should auto-suspend mercenaries if aggro can't be avoided on them.</p>

[Brienae]

<p><cite>Cyliena wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Brienae@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Something that I did /bug the other day, but I thought I'd go ahead and mention it:</p><p>I ran the race in Enchanted Lands on my level 25 Assassin.  I had her merc active when I stepped on the pad.  While I was running the race nothing was aggro to be but my merc started attacking something. The mount for the race vanished and I was running at normal unmounted speed until the merc died to the very red mob. I finished the race after the mount returned and I did not re-summon my Merc until I had run the race a few times again. Whatever he was fighting did not attack me.   I'm just thinking that he's not supposed to do that.  In case it matters it was the inq.</p></blockquote><p>That happened to my Beastlord running Hearts a'Flutter in Antonica. The Qeynos gate guards showed as non-aggro to me but my merc got attacked and then that contest came to abrupt splattering end. Maybe these contests should auto-suspend mercenaries if aggro can't be avoided on them.</p></blockquote><p>Thanks Cyliena for showing I'm not the only one.  I decided to test again this time I purposely summoned my merc and then ran the race.  I wanted to test whether this was a fluke or not.  With about 30 seconds left my mount vanishes.  I target my merc to see that he is again fighting something.  I agree with Cyliena either auto suspending them or maybe not allow you to step on the portal unless they are suspended?  I know it asks you to dismount.  Would asking to please suspend your merc be out of the question?</p>

[NiamiDenMother]

<p>Minor typo in recipe name from Perfectly Serious Items to Craft III</p><p>Patterened Blue Pillow  (extra E in there) ... item made, and the other pillow and recipe are fine, it is just the recipe name for the blue one.</p>

[Calthine]

<p>Merriment Julep has no stats, nothing at all.  It should at least mention it's alcoholic!!</p>

[Whilhelmina]

<p><cite>Kaitheel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I can understand why it would be appropriate to make the Flagon of Chuckles tradeable if it were a house item, but since it is a character expendable, I didn't see the desire.  Though, I see that the snowballs from Frostfell are tradeable. (I wonder why?)  I can easily be convinced to make the Flagon of Chuckles tradeable, as I don't have a strong personal feeling on it, one way or another.  But why would you want it tradeable?  Does it make it more desirable? Will it mean more participation in the Bristlebane contest or less?</p><p>~Kaitheel</p></blockquote><p>I was just merrely curious, I don't have strong feelings about it either. Coud it be made heirloom perhaps, so people can stock them on a single alt if they so wish?</p><p>On the topic of the ladder. It cannot be climbed, ok. Could it be possible to tip it to a 71° angle instead? From what I gathered, it's the maximum angle at which somebody can walk up an item.  That way we could use the ladder as a ramp up.</p><p>Other question: what is the cloak supposed to look like? On a mannequin it's white on white, when I wear it it's gold on green, it seems brewdayish to me.</p>

[Pixiewrath]

<p><cite>Kaitheel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bristlebane Snack Snatcher</span></p><p>enormous reward bag- 85 or more pointshuge reward bag - 84 or fewer pointsbig reward bag - 64 or fewer pointssmall reward bag – 44 or fewer points</p></blockquote><p>Why are the requirement never mentioned at the NPCs?You never know how many you need to get the enormous reward. Would be neat if you could ask the NPC about the different rewards and how many points were needed, or read it on the leaderboard somewhere.Not only for this event, but for all festivity-collection-events...</p>

[NiamiDenMother]

<p>I ran the race 5 times yesterday on an alt with no issues. </p><p>Today, when I fired up Niami so she could earn the title, on the first race there was nothing visible at the start of the timer. At about 2 seconds in, the cabbages appeared, followed a second or two later by the apples and everything else.</p><p>The same thing happened on the second race, but, if anything, it took even longer for something to appear.  I'm wondering if you may need to preload the visibility before the timer starts, like is done in the other races.</p><p>(I can't blame it on zone load, as there was only 1 other person in the entire zone at the time and he/she was intent on killing an npc at the docks over and over and over and over again.)</p>

[Pixiewrath]

<p><cite>NiamiDenMother wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I ran the race 5 times yesterday on an alt with no issues. </p><p>Today, when I fired up Niami so she could earn the title, on the first race there was nothing visible at the start of the timer. At about 2 seconds in, the cabbages appeared, followed a second or two later by the apples and everything else.</p><p>The same thing happened on the second race, but, if anything, it took even longer for something to appear.  I'm wondering if you may need to preload the visibility before the timer starts, like is done in the other races.</p><p>(I can't blame it on zone load, as there was only 1 other person in the entire zone at the time and he/she was intent on killing an npc at the docks over and over and over and over again.)</p></blockquote><p>Maybe it hadn't respawned yet from your last run?I have noticed that when a new Aether Race or collecting race starts, the clouds, candy, etc doesn't  respawn as your race starts. If people grabbed it before, it may be gone when you start...</p>

[NiamiDenMother]

<p><cite>Pixiewrath@The Bazaar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>NiamiDenMother wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I ran the race 5 times yesterday on an alt with no issues. </p><p>Today, when I fired up Niami so she could earn the title, on the first race there was nothing visible at the start of the timer. At about 2 seconds in, the cabbages appeared, followed a second or two later by the apples and everything else.</p><p>The same thing happened on the second race, but, if anything, it took even longer for something to appear.  I'm wondering if you may need to preload the visibility before the timer starts, like is done in the other races.</p><p>(I can't blame it on zone load, as there was only 1 other person in the entire zone at the time and he/she was intent on killing an npc at the docks over and over and over and over again.)</p></blockquote><p>Maybe it hadn't respawned yet from your last run?I have noticed that when a new Aether Race or collecting race starts, the clouds, candy, etc doesn't  respawn as your race starts. If people grabbed it before, it may be gone when you start...</p></blockquote><p>Nope - was my first run of the day, and the other person in-zone wasn't running it at all.  For the second run, I'd left a bunch right near the start intentionally, to see if that would make a difference.  She still started out with nothing as far as the eye could see when the timer started, then the cabbages slowly became visible, then the rest.  It was that way for all 5 runs, too.  The only thing I got in the first few seconds of each race was gassy cabbage.  {burps then blushes}</p>

[tkia]

I've been seeing that too, Niami. Every run I've done so far the items haven't appeared until the race timer starts. The 10 second or so advance pop on the brewday one is much better as you can work out which way to go when the whistle blows.

[Soresha]

<p>1. I broke the race rather easily. I was running around on my horse and rather instinctively thought (because I'm on the ground) I'd go faster with a speed buff.</p><p>I hit my key for the fury Pact of the Cheetah. This dropped the mount, and all the race objects disappeared from sight. The race timer was still going though. I removed the speed buff, but nothing came back. In fact it happens if you cast any kind of ability this happens, like casting a healing spell.</p><p>There are even a couple of fury ones (Serenity/Natural Cleanse) that can be used whilst stunned/etc and these can be cast during the countdown, breaking the race before it even starts. In this case because it never actually starts, the quest doesn't complete and you get re-started when the race resets.</p><p>Maybe it is only possible to break it this way now because they're ground races? When flying you wouldn't be able to cast anything.</p><p>2. Getting teleported at the start of the race makes you think "huh?" because you move less than a metre. Also it turns you around so you're facing the shore, not inland towards all the race stuff, which is a little confusing the first time. I realise it's a standard mechanic for races to teleport and get mounted, but could you have it place you further forward and facing the righ way? Or maybe move the pad somewhere else. Just so it feels like the teleport is meaningful.</p><p>3. FIREWORKS! Yay, thank you! I love them! <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Absyntheea]

<p><cite>Kaitheel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Absyntheea@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>It would really be nice if the ladder was climbable... and I must be missing something on the fireweorks from the race.. they didn't do anything for me at all.</p></blockquote><p>Unfortunately, we have no code support that would enable a movable house object to be climbable.</p><p>The fireworks are a house object that you can activate after you have placed it in your house.</p><p>~Kaitheel</p></blockquote><p>Well, yes, I have fireworks from other events, but I put this one in my house on test copy, clicked it... examined it, picked it up and put it back down, clicked it again.. nothing.</p><p>...and.. like someone else suggested, you can change the angle on the ladder, and , as long as you can walk on it, it will function like a ramp. It would be nice if it worked for those people who can't use the layout editor.</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p><span >I've got a few more changes headed to the Test servers:<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bristlebane Day</span></span></p><ul><li>Bristlebane Day Snack Snatcher - Snacks can be seen sooner.</li><li>Bristlebane Day Snack Snatcher - Player can no longer trigger contest while mercenary is active.</li><li>Fool's Gold Treasure Chest can be scaled much larger, now.</li><li>Patterned Blue Pillow recipe is now spelled correctly.</li><li>Merriment Julep is now marked as Alcoholic.</li></ul><p><span >I don't know when these change will be on the Test servers, but it should be called out in the update notes at that time.Thank you.~Kaitheel</span></p>

[Kaitheel]

<p>The 4/1 specific content is now active on Test and Test Copy!  It will be on the servers for a very limited time (deactivated on 3/23).</p><p>Features for 4/1/2012:</p> <ul><li>All chests = gigglegibber comfort cubes.</li><li>The harvestables from previous holidays can be harvested from Jester's superior garden (Frostfell, Erollisi Day,</li><li>Nights of the Dead, Tinkerfest, Brewday Festival, Bristlebane Day) in Enchanted Lands.</li><li>Frostfell tradeskill stations & fuel merchants set up in Enchanted Lands and Sinking Sands. They are visually marked by candy canes!</li><li>"Riddled Throughout the Land" – Can be repeated for a new reward choice.</li><li>"Riddled Again" – Can be repeated for a new reward choice.</li></ul><p>Please assemble any feedback and bugs that you may find in this thread.  Thank you, everyone!~Kaitheel</p>

[Whilhelmina]

<p>The 2 riddle quests are working fine. Errrr... *jumps in place* Those dices are not rolling everywhere in the house??? They're plushies ??? *has a heart attack*</p><p>Race seems perfect now.</p><p>Frostfell stations are in place and vendors too. Everything seems to work fine <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Cyliena]

<p><cite>Whilhelmina@Storms wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p> Errrr... *jumps in place* Those dices are not rolling everywhere in the house??? They're plushies ??? *has a heart attack*</p></blockquote><p>Are they???? I was going to not bother with those quests this year because my house vault is so full of pets.. but if they're plushies.... *twitch*!</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p><cite>Whilhelmina@Storms wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The 2 riddle quests are working fine. Errrr... *jumps in place* Those dices are not rolling everywhere in the house??? They're plushies ??? *has a heart attack*</p></blockquote><p>Nope.  They're pets.  I had one move on me while I was trying to take screen shots of it.</p><p>~Kaitheel</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p>The 4/1 specific Bristlebane Day content has been deactivated on the Test servers. The rest of the holiday content is still active.</p><p>Thank you for the feedback and testing!</p><p>~Kaitheel</p>

[tkia]

The April 1st content is still turned off on Test - could we have it back please?

[Soresha]

<p><cite>tkia wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>The April 1st content is still turned off on Test - could we have it back please?</blockquote><p>Please PLEEEASEE??!!!!!</p><p>I'm more gutted than you could believe right now, I need my d12's and d20's!</p><p>I didn't run it the day it was switched on early for testing. This is what I get for living in the Withered Lands and Skyshrine and ignoring all other game content,  on Test or Live, for the last two weeks. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>/cries</p>

[Tallahasee]

<p>My understanding was that this event was turned on early for a few days for testing purposes, but would be returning on April 1 just like the Live Servers. </p><p>Cheers.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #00ffff;">Merimas Cotton</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #00ffff;">91 Mystic of Test</span></p><p>PS.  The Qeynos City Festival is not turned on for the Test Server either.</p>

[Kaitheel]

<p>April 1 events are active on both Test and Test copy, now.</p><p>~Kaitheel</p>