what does "rewarding players" mean? Arguably, the only times I am seen - I am goofing around, but in no way would I classify my actions as "rewarding players"
Good question! I'm thinking about the infamous dragon poop for example. Flying around and dumping stuff on players "because". Of course that intent was probably different but it does boil down to: because you can. Senior staff can make promos if they want to (and actually know how it works). Why does it all have to be scripted?
It would be interesting to know what the broader community thinks of that. The reason that doesn't happen is that in the past fits were thrown on it being unfair due to the obsession with special items. The situation seems lose-lose to me.
Why assume that there have to be rewards involved for the community? It's not about the rewards but the spontaneous act of it all which I am addressing here. Seriously: think outside the box for a moment here!
So the other day I was on SMP1 for reasons I forgot (had to be involved with Tom or Jelle, awesome guys!). Then out of no where Aikar and Krysyy showed up on spawn. Aikar even blew up the spawn (Krysyy did not like that ;)). THAT sort of whackyness. Unplanned, "because we can", people love you!
I also recall .. what's his name... Rainbowchin! Appearing as a dragon on top of a building. He basiclally afk'd yet most players went crazy. THAT was some seriously cool stuff! (on that subject: us players never got much follow up on that either :()
"Why assume there has to be rewards..." You suggested it... I assumed nothing. I just requested further information - didn't mean to make anything more of it.
Good point, and my bad indeed. I take "rewarding" very broadly. However, your comment doesn't quite hold up I think. What about the Minecon items which were only available for 24 hours? That triggered plenty disappointed reactions too... Not fully comparable but still...
Just want to note... SS still very much do this stuff, although you may have missed it ingame. It's quite common. To give you a recent concrete example, just this week I was messing around with players on SMP9, with the end result of this thread https://empireminecraft.com/threads/smp9.79854/. Most of the time I'm ingame I prefer to just chat, but we still do enjoy the occasional bit of wackiness.
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