Two things:
1) Could we please randomize the wildnodes times like village revolts, and
2) Could there be some sort of tangible post or announcement that lets the rest of the playerbase know that wildnodes has happened and what the score was?

I think I've only seen one wildnodes in my Lusternian life (I stayed up to the wee hours of the morning), months and months ago... and I almost forgot we still had them. There's no actual evidence that it is still happening or who is winning or anything. Especially for non-US players, it's very disconcerting.

Even if it is supposed to be a minigame for the US only, could we at least add a politics or events post on the conclusion of each game, that lists the scores?

*sagenod* So everyone can see even more that Celest is owning *jk

That would be nice, it does show up as a blip in the powerlogs every weave, but I've honestly got no clue as to what everyone else normally gets for scores.

What's the whole point of Wildnodes, anyways?

Power.

I think that the wildnodes time is fine, really. It's always on sunday, and the time is somewhat random, but between a set few hours-which gives everyone time to prepare, or if you really want to participate in it badly enough, clear a spot in you schedule.

I realize that some people's location might prevent them from being able to play in the wildnodes, but it wouldn't make sense to move it to a time where half or less players are on. Shrug, I don't see a need to move it

It makes sense to move it to a time where less players are on so other people can participate. It should be random.

Forget random, just get rid of it.

Does nexus power matter at all now other than just ep***s?

Possibly. The bards guilds cost 100k power, maybe there will be other improvements that can be bought in the future.

and vernal gods come from nexuses

Yup.

Right now though?

What's wildnodes?

No nexus has a respectable amount of power. You'll all be sorry when vernal gods come out and you don't have enough power to raise one!

/angry old person rant

My schedule at 4am on Monday morning is usually taken up. With sleeping.

I wouldn't mind a weighted randomization, that happens 4 out of 5 times in US peak, but that 1 time in 5 outside it would give the rest of us a chance to participate (or at least see the process of how the game works).

Even if that doesn't happen, at the very least there should be some sort of record of it happening. With the current setup, if I had joined in the past 5 months, I wouldn't even know Wildnodes exists.

I honestly think it should be random so that everyone eventually gets to participate if they want to. So its not dead set for basically the US or the UK. Makes it a bit more fair I guess.

The wildnodes event is a chance for the pk-orientated to go and kill each other somewhere other than than usual limited number of spots. The fact that there is a power-bonus for the 'winners' helps give it good rp-justification for those who participate. So no, don't ditch it, at least until there are more opportunites around for this subgroup of players to indulge their passions in. And no, I'm not one of them.

I'd love if Demigods got some death-cost reduction during that time, just like everyone else gets conglutination. But since Demigods are a total minority and most went inactive already I don't see that happening.

/Semi-Hijack

And yes I think it should be random for the simple reason of allowing different people to participate and also so that it -can't- always be prepared. Right now yes Celest owns because they have the most fighters, and they probably still would if the times were more random however it would give other organizations a chance to ran in and grab a node or two and gain at least some points before it gets taken from them again.

It's semi random already. What I'd like is for it either to be completely random, or completly laid on stone.

Currently, I know it's on a sunday afternoon/evening... but I don't know when. In my timezone, it has started at various times between 17.00 and 23.00. That's a period of six hours.... but we start preparing over an hour before.

As a result, I -totally- wasted my sunday this week
I slept in, in the morning... had a wee bit of lunch, started preparing for wildnodes.. it finished at 23.00, and I went to bed.

Now. What I'd like is for it -either- to be fixed at blah time every week... so I can choose to log in for it at a sensible time and actually have a life... or for it to be completely random*, so if I'm there great!, but I'm not hanging around then.. so be it.

Also, I'd like to suggest that its shortened by perhaps 20-30 minutes, and the point/time weightings are increased correspondingly. It goes on a little too long for my taste, and in the last 20 minutes you end up so neurotic that fighting just becomes a general nightmare... never mind that you then have to wait 2 hours to get your sanity back.

*By completely random, I mean not like the village revolts.. which seem completely random to everyone except Shorlen, giving Seren a nice little advantage.