[Official Event] Weekend Getaway

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On the subject of RP rewards, I personally don't think that mandatory RP for hitting the passenger cabin milestones is a good idea, I'd prefer to see RP rewards separated from participation rewards, it's great that RP rewards exist but I already did my RP through my participation and shouldn't be forced to go to the forums to put together a mediocre post that nobody will actually read or care about from a character that has no history and will never be seen again, just to claim event rewards. It completely misses the point of RP in the first place imo, in that it's supposed to have meaning.

I want to clarify the point of these requirements. The idea is not to just have people make low-effort posts, though many of them will be that. The idea is to have people use this requirement as an opportunity to develop existing RP, or create new RP arcs. The way I see it, if I see 1 solid long-term RP post and 9 "lower-effort" message dump posts, I achieved what I was going for. Remember, before this, there would be no RP AT ALL, with some rare exceptions. It's like the event happened, no one wrote anything about it, and people only have very vague memories about any in-game RP they did. That's cool at the moment, but doesn't exactly invite any longer-term activity afterwards.

The whole point of this incentive is to basically force people to dip their toes in RP. Thus far, I have received pretty infrequent negative feedback about this, even from people who do not enjoy RP at all. Your feedback seems to be saying that you forced yourself to make a one-off character to only claim event rewards. But how is this different from all prior events, where exactly these things occurred en masse, that we wanted to avoid with this incentive? In this case, instead of making a random forum report, consider writing in the event threads, which do not necessarily need to be tied into a specific char. I have also accepted news reports, and watering hole posts, so your options are basically unlimited.

You're very optimistic, not a single person cares about these throwaway RP posts people made just to claim some lackluster rewards. I've been eligble on majority of the recent events to claim rewards, but I'd rather pluck my eyes out than write some meaningless forum post that serves no purpose apart from just clogging the forums. "Rp" requirement for rewards is a very bad idea of forcing people to do what they don't want to do in events. Which you know are mostly gameplay related where people log to have their fun, be it trading to make big bucks, be it pirating, be it pvping. Forcing people to "dip their toes" in RP will and kind of is having the opposite effect, people don't like being "forced" anything.

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