But you had to throw a certain number of snowballs to even get your teams basic prize. And you had to throw 2+ to get the prizes at all. I think further working on that kind of formula will work better, because team based events like this (someone vs someone) tends to make the stakes feel higher. If everyone was just worrying about their own score then there wouldn't have been the team threads popping up (which were the most fun part of this, I think) or any sort of identification that you cared about what team you chose.

We have it set to where the melody prize pull is a melody item (r115) over a certain amount of sP (like over 50k or something, I can't quite check atm). We decided to add in this year items because some people were upset with how many dual items we have (foods/wearables etc), so this is that chance to get a few more out for people who collect both plus getting a bunch of older year melody items out.

I really liked some people who were screencapping their responses to hitting people like Death, Smaug, etc. I think in the future (not saying there will be another snowball fight) doing some random responses other than "Oh you hit x hard" would be cool. Or the chance to give your teammates hot cocoa to "help reengergize them" or something.

I like that idea ! I hadn't thought to have diminishing returns for prizes the further the event goes in. I'd want to put in a way to overcome it though if you exceed expectations (for people who legitimately didn't turn up the first few days but end up being high / highest scorers)

I'm going to update the post with a lot of the things I've gained from this feedback thread that we're absolutely moving forward with in mind :)

Also we make choices based on what we see. We were phasing out medals because we had an achievement system that did exactly the same thing. Users complained, and we decided to make them for special situations only.

As for the customCSS, this was in a discussion about the new layout which hasn't launched :) I still plan to remove it as a feature when the new layout launches because of the headache it causes support (and maybe have a forum tutorial on how to install stylish and that it is the users responsibility / peril if they add CSS on top of subeta) and because it's really hard to design something, launch it, and twenty users who copied CSS from four years ago submitting tickets because it doesn't work for them.

Ohhh I really like the second idea. I think because this one went on for WAY longer than we originally planned for, more ways (like that!) to earn points would have been really helpful. Especially something that is easy to do (just logging on / clicking a button) so the teams don't get thrown off too much.

I'd have to figure out how to weigh that in the case of a team like Dolly that had significantly more people (so, more points for checking in total) but that wouldn't be too hard.