It would be nice if it did add a smidge to the winners capabilities in the end.  ONLY the winner!

I must concur with enkindle. Things like these events are about the fun aspect away from the actual politics of the everyday game, its best to keep character boosts out of such events.

I would just like to add something that came to me awhile ago aswell.

This is going off topic from the actual event I had here but I was thinking if you randomly turned 1/3 of the users green; 1/3 of the users blue and the other 1/3 yellow into three teams and let them all battle it out. I thought that would make for good fun as we haven't had many events that we actually have to "team up" (I don't think so anyway) to win.

I was somewhat confused there. I've never noticed this reverting to show no sponsors after it had previously achieved all 5 sponsors.

I like the sound of the Army aspect, Enkindle!

Ah, ignore me.. brain fart. I forogt enkindle took it out of PC and back to suggestions forum to have it fleshed out a bit.

I love the sound of that enkindle, 'building your own army'.

Would it be possible to take on the "Age of Empires" concept. Like you have to gather resources to build a better army.. for instance...

ebucks red: Doings petty/felony/OC/wacking
ebucks blue: Jailbreaks/wacking
ebucks green: Drugs/wacking
(wacking randomly giving you a couple of ebucks. different colours)



So ebucks red would be the resource that lets you gather more NPCS; ebucks blue lets your build npcs guns; ebucks green lets you build your npcs defence.

Something along those lines.

Yeah I had considered that but I think with things like that users need to be able to learn how to build from the bottom up rather than just starting to build and then skip a few processes to the finish mark.

Although it would only be a one day thing so the best method would be simplicity.

I love both the last man standing aspect and the army building. Playing something you're used to, but with a twist and at no risk of losing your main character.

Both of those would be fun!

Anything that brings a new dimension and a bit of fun to our world is a plus, in my view.

Well, let's see what you all can come up with as a suggestion for an event. Another last man standing event could be a lot of fun, but we do have v-day coming up soon, so we might want to put it on hold for some time after that.

Good point Spike. I have a fear I may miss V-day for the first time. My sister got engaged and is having a party the weekend after Valentines, so if V-day is held then i'm screwed.

A possible theme for this could be: The Public has gotten fed up with the crime rate lately. They are accusing government officals of being greedy, corrupt, self serving bastards! In response to this, the government creates a "crackdown intiative" This means that coutrywide, criminals are locked up. So us mobsters, being the helpful type, would have to break out those that were unfortunate enough to get caught in the sweep. However there's a catch. You break someone out, you and that person get a warrant out for your death. The FBN will hunt you down and kill you and that person. Incentives are: if you're still alive(and are among lets say the top 100 for breaking ppl out in that round) at the end you make it to the next round, and your jb stats improve. Each round whittles down the number of players until you reach the final 3 and those three win some prize. You can avoid being killed by committing flying around and stuff. The timer should be shortened like you can fly every hour. I know there's a few flaws but the basis of the idea is kind of cool.

Sounds like it could be fun.
It might be nice to have something break the year up a little although as you say not too much.
Would we generally aim for something like v-day (last man standing), or as we have a v-day aim for last team or city standing? Or even a players vs computer type event?

I am not overly filled with ideas, only thing that comes to mind would be a halloween event.
Perhaps have v-day and after that store a collection of players that are killed in a database (IA too to build up numbers) and have a few familiar names return as zombies at halloween maybe looking for revenge against the plyers that killed them (as well as everyone else).

Could be good to see the good old names return to life, be chased down by your past characters and such but perhaps that is because I have a small mind.

As a contestholic I love this idea, either in a team (like Squishy said sharing names by choice) or just really as a pure individual assignment. More a theme of "how strong are you on your own" kinda deal.

As a theme we could do easter. Easter Bubba rampage! YOU TOOK HIS EGGS AND HE WANTS THEM BACK. Every petty earns you an easter egg, every jailbust earns you 1 and if you manage to bust out XXXXeaster special you get 5 eggs! If Easter Bubba comes down to chasing you, you either give him an X amount of eggs to please him or well runnn and hope he doesnt continue chasing you!! Person with most eggs wins?

And I happily use 10 CDs to buy in.