i dont think ill be doing any type of events for people. i can see why staff does less and less of them. you cant seem to make people happy. i offered to do something and people just say no because of one aspect. i only said a fee for the spectators. which is more than fair. ive never been to a fight irl i didnt pay to see unless it was 2 drunk men going to town. im not trying to profit i just want to keep it going as long as possible. my money wont run as thin as quickly if i supplement it with spectator fees. but its fine. i dont plan to do any type of event anytime soon.
the events i will do in the future will prob be more along the lines of the ones i did before. i think listening to the little people bitch has just turned me away from caring. kinda sad to think i try to help and all anyone does is complain.
oh how i do not envy you STAFF.
Your events were great. At the end of the day, if you can make a person smile even for a short while, you're probably doing something really cool out there. I know you made at least a few people really happy to have attended your events.
I don't see anything wrong with fees, buy-ins, or really anything the imagination can come up with. Everything is fair game as long as things are on the up and up. Hard to find people that everyone really trusts though.
A lot of my take on things as far as whether people are good or bad comes down to whether they play and act in a manner that increases or decreases the shard's population in the long-term. You can do all sorts of things out there, even dastardly ones, but still keep people coming back for more, or you can push them away from the game permanently.
Kind of wish the GMs had a bit more leeway to do events that were interesting for all player types, or get Ryan and Mark involved at least a couple times a week. Would really help things out a lot to get some more involvement. I think people like having them around even when they are telling people to go screw.