A bunch of Plaza Event & Minigame related Issues and Nitpicks

Hi, I’ve been grinding a lot of the minigames and doing plaza activities lately, and I needed to bring up a bunch of issues, feedback, and of course, some nitpicks that could easily be fixed.
And I apologize in advance as some of the items here are bugs that should be fixed.

Summer Character Visit

  • These have a very underwhelming item pool (I believe it’s just 6 items), a refresh would be nice, for example, a very rare chance to get the Orbiting Sun pet, maybe a handful of items of the Tiki furniture set or any other summer related props.
  • Also, a bit of Plaza EXP every time you go to claim an item would be a good incentive to actually do the event, doesn’t have to be much, maybe just 500~1000 EXP would do. Saying this because in Halloween you get 5000 Halloween EXP when you talk to the character, and the item pool is 10 times better.

Minigames

  • I don’t know why or how to reproduce, but sometimes minigames don’t fire up despite being announced in plaza and AGC being functional.
  • Honestly, Minigames that require other players to be playable (Plane Wars, Chainsaw Deathmatch and Snowball Battle) shouldn’t happen as often if there are no players in the lobby, it’s a wasted event if no one is around. At least prevent them to happen twice in a row.
  • Please, add a Combo Timer indicator, it is very unclear when you drop combo in each one of the minigames, something like a depleting circle around your crosshair would be good enough, and help tremendously for people that actively grind score and personal bests.
  • Speaking of personal bests, a leaderboard for Best Scores (not total) would be nice to compare with other players.
  • During Events like Halloween, Anniversary or Christmas, they should give Event coins depending how well you perform against other players. Like 3/2/1 coins for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd and below respectively for when 4+ players participate and the minigame is done.

Balloon Burst / Ghost Hunt

  • There are some issues regarding visibility on certain settings. At day time, the green balloons are sometimes really hard to see when they’re far away. At night time, the crosshair of the crossbow when zooming is pretty much invisible.
  • Adding to the above, there’s no indication of when they’re about to despawn, they just pop out of existence, maybe doing a fade to white 1 second before completely despawning would be a better indicator.
  • This is more of a suggestion, but the Golden balloons (or Hell Spawns in Ghost Hunt) are almost never worth going for, as their max value with x6 multiplier is always 180 points regardless of height, regular balloons can be worth up to 300 points with the same multiplier. Could you make them be worth base 60 or base 30 + height so they’re worth shooting at regardless of height?

Booze Bash

  • A table with painkillers on it nearby to remove the drunk effect would be nice, right now you have to use a transform item or just press K to remove it.
  • Make the drunk effect build up a bit more slowly? At high level play eventually it gets really hard to see what’s happening.
  • This minigame doesn’t announce top scores in chat.

Plane Wars

  • This minigame needs another arena, it’s been using the Snowball Battle arena since forever.
  • There’s an annoying bug where the whole arena unloads if you go high enough.
  • It doesn’t have a Top Total Score leaderboard at all.

Easter Egg Scramble

  • This minigame plainly and sincerily sucks. You can’t do anything to speed up your movement, it’s very unclear where you’re supposed to stand to pick up the eggs, the eggs spawn really low and you barely have time to pick them up. If this played like Fruit Frenzy but the gimmick being that the stuff drops down instead of staying floating, it would be at least okay.

I definitely agree the mini games and events need a bit of sprucing up, and some things to do that are more fun on low lobby counts.
Also yeah the character visits are so drab and unrewarding that I kinda walk right past them …

I really like these suggestions. I’ll start working on them.

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I disagree on the character visits. Yes, they are a little bit underwhelming, but they are still fun to do, at least in my opinion, but I do respect that you may feel differently 'bout them.

Also, to add something from myself though, while I do agree with a lot of these suggestions, I also really disagree with some of the others, as well as with some of the complaints - For example, crosshair being “pretty much invisible at night when zoomed in” regarding the crossbow.. I mean.. Just look at the screenshot you just provided? It’s very well visible. I don’t really have a problem noticing it. The green balloons though, for example, that I can actually sort of see being an issue. And that’s just some of the examples to be honest. Like I said, really, most of the stuff suggested here is solid, just not all of it. Sorry for lengthy post, wanted to write out a few of my own thoughts to add to what everyone else has been saying.

Well, crosshair wise, If you think about it harder, not everyone can see it if say playing on a screen that SUCKS at contrast/gamma.

There’s never a good all-in-one fix for that. Heck that white dot default we have for walking around is barely seen ya know?

Sorry it’s off topic. Crosshairs in games always bothers me when there isn’t options for it. (Had to use Water gun and Bert Gun in the plaza for their crosshair! lol)

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This is fair, yeah. I forgot that some people might be using glasses or just have other such problems related to vision. I think what I was trying to say is that for a person who doesn’t have any significant impairments, disabilities or problems, it looks fine, but if you do have something with your eyes or anything else, yeah, I could see how that’s an issue. It definitely also depends on other things like your screen and all that too though. Thanks for reminding me of all that :slight_smile:

In my monitor at least it’s pretty hard to see (and I have it calibrated for color accuracy so I don’t wanna move settings around), here in my phone I see it well, so my apologies for assuming lol but it could happen to anyone!
Still, black crosshair on dark blue background isn’t really exactly free to see either, I’ve seen a high contrast crosshair suggestion, so there is demand for something like it.

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Eh, it’s fair, no worries, I do understand :slight_smile: