At the moment, it seems like the Ice Queen is up for 1 hour after the first person defeats her. This seems so much shorter than the time it takes for others to contribute hundreds of reindeer (600-800 during peak times where 60~ players are in the zone, and about 300 during low times where about 30 people are in the zone and seemingly few are active).


I wanted to ask if it's possible to adjust the availability of the Ice Queen, either by:
- increasing her availability window from 1hrs to 2hrs when she spawns, or
- decreasing the reindeers required (the more popular suggestion)


However, I haven't been online during peak times to know how often she spawns when everyone's contributing to the event, so I don't know if her availability is meant to be balanced this way.

Not to mention, the new Snow Wars feature and the new avatar item bosses haven't been implemented yet. So maybe those new things may help fill up the zone, though I'd like more opportunities while I'm online to fight the Queen.


Just wanted to give this a shot, thank you for your time!

I agree. I've felt the disparity ever since the update on the amount of reindeers (or equivalent collection item) we have to hand in increased. It feels that every time I look at the zone, it's stuck on phase 1: collecting. :(

Support

Takes so long in the slack hours to collect 600 reindeer. :(

The reindeer collecting does seem to take a while, though that's in part due to people like me. (I've been hoarding over 300 all fest so far.) If anything were adjusted, to me it would make the most sense to decrease the reindeer count. The second phase never lasts long since people are battling regardless, and the Ice Queen phase seems long enough to me, at least.

That's my two cents, anyways.

Support, it is especially slow in the late hours of the night, where people who aren't in America plays this game~

I believe that, like the events that run in the older parts of the map (Invasion of Esiore's Haven and such), the reindeer should be stacked for how many people are online.

So if there are 100 people on, you should have to do 600 reindeer, but if there are only 20 people on it should go down to no more then 250.

The check would be easiest to do right at the reset, and while it may lead to some discrepancies (such as a reset right before everyone getting off leading to a large amount of deer needed with no one on, or no one being on at a reset leading to a small amount when people come on) it would still level things out a bit better.

Edit: Its already like the above, I just realized.

Alternatively, maybe do a check every hour? If the quest is less then 50% done and its been an hour, reduce the number of needed deer by a set amount?

Cause I think we can kinda agree that its the number of deer that make it not happen as often.

Alternatively, if the queen is only suppose to spawn every 4 hours (like the other bosses) make the event less 'dynamic' so everyone knows when she is suppose to be here?

In the past festivals, I think I remember zone event bosses lasting 2-4hrs, 4hrs being the longest window of availability ever. o: Which, while I thought was okay, only meant that the event boss would be up only a certain number of times per day maximum, depending on how often people contributed.

I'd also think it'd make sense more to decrease reindeer count. Expecting every person to find and turn in 10 reindeer seems to take longer than expected, with some people either being inactive or hoarding reindeer (which I'm also guilty of, but I only want to turn them in when I'm online long enough for me to be present for the queen).

Lowering the reindeer count might help. 1 hour for the ice queen isn't bad. If it's longer then it means we have to wait longer for the next run through.

Pinging you Krin to see this. ;w; /didn't think to ping you before

Is it possible to lower the reindeer collection times?

I increased the timer from 60 to 90. However, I'm going to keep the reindeer and kill counts where they're at for now.

I've found that a lot of players hoard their reindeer and it really skews how the events run, especially when the Festival first began.

It's a balance for me to keep the amount of events per day at a strict amount because of the drops. It's basically the amount of items we want issued = player participation x amount of events per day. And of that equation, we can only control the amount of events per day.

I don't particularly like a long uptime for the Queen because that's too big of a lull between events and it allows for a lot of "free kills" against her from players who didn't participate in the actual event - both of which I want to avoid.


TLDR: Increased to 90 minutes. Will keep an eye on things.