11th Anniversary Event Thread

[Ender]

I know this is a suggestion, and I'm asking that @Harborer of Hope give me the foxhole treatment if I'm overstepping my bounds, but is there any way we can get something set up to where we can choose what bank the badges are auto-deposited into?

A few days ago, I implemented a command to toggle which bank is preferred for the badge drops and rewards. It should be up in the next update, sometime in the next 2-3 days.

 

[Raine]

The community seems on pace to get the reward tiers knocked out pretty quickly this time around

 

[en4cer]

The community seems on pace to get the reward tiers knocked out pretty quickly this time around

Can someone link me to the reward tier tracker? I cant find it

NVM, found it. I'm a bit dumb.

 

[en4cer]

IF it turns out to be 'too much' script work...mew suggests to simply HAVE ROOM (4 empty slots at all times) in your Character bank. Mew being a HOARDER makes this rough, but Doable~! <3

The problem is that I want them to go to the Shared bank.

 

[Harborer of Hope]

The problem is that I want them to go to the Shared bank.

Can SEE how that would be purrfered~! Practical.

 

[Miku]

Is the same thing done with badges going to happen to the other event items, like eggs, as well?

 

[Chris_Chocobo]

At this point, im starting to think that Platinum Badges are the friends we've made along the way. Lol

 

[Ender]

At this point, im starting to think that Platinum Badges are the friends we've made along the way. Lol

The drop rate of each badge type has been the same since 2017. Platinum Badge is indeed 1/lol. It was originally targeted for less than 5 of them to drop in a single Anniversary event. Of course, the number of players has gone up significantly since then, so we've had 30-60 of them drop each of the past few years.

Anyway, it hasn't even been 10 days and there have already been 21 drops (as of ~5 hours ago when I pulled server logs to check something).

 

[Miku]

I could be wrong, but from my math I had previously estimated a platinum badge was about 1 in 1,000,000. Now keep in mind people could've just been lucky or unlucky during that time so it could be flawed, but wow, I think people have been very lucky to get so many as I doubt we've killed 21,000,000 just since the event started.

 

[ProjectK777]

I've been lucky to get Silver Badges this year!

 

[Sundark]

I have to say there's something very special about the shared badge drops and their implementation this year. Killing enemies and knowing the whole party has heard the same rare drop sound and gotten the notification of the same item being deposited into their banks really enhances the sense of camaraderie this game is already pretty great at fostering.

Given that eggs and presents have different/unique models, I'm not sure never seeing them on the floor as regular drops again is necessarily the play, but I wonder if the idea behind this functionality could be implemented for like, Photon Drops, maybe? Those are higher value than bronze and silver badges though so I'm not sure if that would be great either. Just something I thought about.

Quick edit followup, I also think that "deposit x item directly into player bank" is an idea that shouldn't be overused, as it steps a lot on the toes of things like inventory management, what items you break "formation" (such as it is, this is mostly a very-organized-parties thing) to pick up, how you recover from that, etc., but it is very nice to not have to worry about having three separate stacks of event-exclusive items for anniversary specific.