Meh I'm not keen on a Frag-a-Thon - I don't tend to frag things, and I've got no real interest in that if I'm honest.

I do prefer the "do x task" suggestions, as that would also get us using Kumos, rather than only coming over here after we've used the old site! Some of the tasks could be fragging something, but it could also encourage those of us who are resistant to change (like me, I admit it :P ) to try out some of the things on Kumos that we might not have noticed before.

I know I personally can't guarantee to be as active daily on here as I was before (I missed Keelhauliday completely), so having a more laid-back feel would be helpful (as in not having to be online for hours daily just to participate), while still having that kind of competitiveness / community co-operation feel of previous events.... if that makes any sense whatsoever?!

havent done a restock war, for me the excitement of restocking is grabbing rare items for resale. rewards for daily activity is always nice, like maybe have challenges to do certain activities per day and get rewarded for doing that - like certain holidays do! e.g. checklist for today is: frag 100 items, recycle this amount, complete daily quests, restock from a certain shop ten times, play games - then after you complete your task list you get some rare or scarce items. i dont know if the types of tasks could be synced with holidays w.g. dance with 10x users, tot x10 times, get a neat reward.

also some feedback on kumos shops - they arent feeling great atm, they did feel in a good spot when you could click through them quickly without being banned when hitting an item limit, but enjoyment has been dropping since. right now am not sure where they are going :/ and i did love those shops. if grabbing heaps of items from shops is an issue maybe have no limits but timed lockouts? unsure what a good solution is here but they arent fun for me at the moment

I wasn't a fan of restock wars 20 years ago (holy cow) so I wouldn't participate now, and I only hoard very specific items and sell the rest, so I definitely wouldn't win a frag-a-thon.

Saying that, I always loved community events on Subeta. How about a frag-a-thon with community goals? We had something similar with quests a while back (and I would love for that to return, that was my favorite Subeta memory). Like, every participant could get a set prize when we reach set goals. And if wanted, the ones with the highest fragging count could get something, too. Best of both worlds? I also very very much love the idea of a book/clothes/toy/etc. drive mentioned earlier!

Without thinking too much about it: You could also weave a little plot into the drives or whatever-thons, like "oh, you all reached the toy drive goal, here's a loredrop from the NPC holding the drive". (But since you're running Subeta with such a small team maybe that's not possible, and that's okay too~)

Something that helps out new players and keeps them coming back but rewards players loyal for … they said 20 years so, I get that vibe too.

Maybe also include rewards for say, (don’t announce them ahead) funniest forum post, most helpful to newbies, something that gets people back into being social and rewards kindness and communication.(edit) obviously it would have to be funniest in the correct forms or whatever I just think that the thing that the site is most that can’t be fixed by just new shiny toys is better forms and community as opposed to items.

I don’t know maybe that’s just me and maybe you know like yeah I just think it’d be nice if we were able to kind of like get things back up to a good level and it can be communicating and interacting with each other Heck, make it having to interact with other people make that part of it. I’m just telling you what I want to be honest, I mean, I don’t need anything. I got subeta coinage coming out of my ears for the most part and I don’t really need much besides like six more pets slots.

I've been here for pretty much all events (19 years), and what works for me is mostly community goals, or a combo personal and community goal.

Not like a top 10 that gets the best prize, and the whole rest of the site being frustrated of not getting top prize while having worked hard for it, for not having endless time because of studies and work (said work pays for my subscription)
(= not having to restock a million items to get the best prize, and that only fast connections and being online 24-7 gets you there)

But a personal goal in stages, like do 10 of this and get level 1 prize, do 20 of that and get level 2 prize, etc. In combo with a community goal, also in stages? (= restock 10 times in shop A, 20 times in shop A+B, etc. Once someone has reached goal 1, they move on to something else, leaving shop A open to others to get the goal as well).

Also doesn't need to be exclusively buying from Restocking shops, but also buy something from a Special shop (but an obtainable one, like Fine Fabrics or Medicontra or GoOutside, to give those some attention as well), maybe also a holiday or currency shop (but obtainable as well, like buy 1-5-10 items from any of the holiday / currency shops, to give new players not having currency items stocked up a chance), offer on a trade or auction (might be difficult to only give a reward if you actually manage to buy, dunno?), buy something from any user shop (to get that traffic going as well) etc. I think it should be possible to put enough variety and competition in a restock war that focuses on restocking (so not restocking and fragging and recycling, and composting and games), without requiring hours of clicking and frustration of shops selling out? You could make another event focussing on the other things, but not all at once, that might be overload?

What I'm getting from this is that a war against hoarding and earning crystals would be okay for some, not for others. An UNrestock war, yeah! If the goal is to lighten the site I would hope to see something that would encourage people to really purge. The group goals idea could be a nice angle to build on. Say, Centropolis has a donation site at the green project garden link that would earn crystals. Clean the waters in the aquarium at Delphi for the RB, etc. Allow users to choose which group that they want to join to purge items toward the group goal and earn the tokens, etc that they would like to have. Maybe it should coincide with Earth day, if you could get it coded in time to do so.