11 Peg's Xmas In July Event - A little Recap

As you may or may not have known, Pegasiswolf's annual Xmas in July 2013 event had just concluded yesterday.

What is it exactly?

It's basically a 24h non-stop pillage with lots of trivia and prizes for the bat-barnacle insane to win a parrot at the end.

Annually you say?

Yea, Peg is a lil cray cray (we all are) to do this every year. 

This year's 24h event was (in my opinion) a lot less hectic than last year's 72h pillage. Maybe that was because this year I only had to do some navving (Thanks Peg!) and didn't have to deal with people. 

Mg and I had a lot of fun (read: zomfg jobbers wai u so demanding!!) last year getting special santa hats and taking charge for three 4-hour sessions. (So that Peg could go get some sleep.) 

I do seem to recall that Peg always came back ahead of schedule anyway. :P 

Peg's first annual event was in 2011. 

Dem screenshots

The event ship's name this year was Prize Elf, and it was, very decked out.
I did a composite screenshot of the ship's top deck.

Now you can be jealous of my 1080P screen :P

I had to save it as a crappy jpeg file and lose some of the quality because of how large this file was. Sorry!

There were 150+ presents in total. Having run many box auctions and other events that have boxes, I totes understand what a pain it is to wrap them all and the costs involved.

Here are the other scenes below deck. Pretty rad!

Not very obvious with the color turned on, but if you look closely, there're Christmas garlands on the side of the wall next to the xmas tree.

Woah. I didn't even know you could buy those!

One of the secret trigger questions for a present was "Why is there a basket of apples right beyond the cannon?"

Btw, I pretty much just hit Print Screen on my keyboard to get this screencap :P

So, if you're wondering why I designed the blog the way it is (before I understood the importance of the responsive thing), it's because of my laptop's screen resolution.

Even the captain's quarters have their own Xmas elements!

Those cannons and drums are everywhereee.


At the very end, the ship reverted to its barebones state as I imagined Peg did a "reclaim all furniture" on it to give the remainder of the presents to a helper to give out.

How long was I there for? Oh.. about the first 10 hours... And then the last hour.

Did I actually do anything? Err no :P I didn't even station. Not even in battle :P

New BK Bug 

So because we actually got a BK expo, but it turned out to be a cutter!! Spawned for a fully-manned WF, we didn't get to do the BKs.



The same thing happened when we attempted to spawn BKs with compasses. I was a little disappointed as I did not get to nav WF BKs (which is really why I came in the first place heh.)

But yea, I then tried to spawn them on another WB and WF respectively, and the spawn seemed to work fine.

Sooo. I decided to run a test to determine whether it was the problem with the number of people on the ship or why it was only happening on the Prize Elf.

With the help of awesome crewbies (and their alts!), as well as other helpful piruts on Emerald...

It seems as if the problem seems to be that the BKs fail to spawn correctly after 60 pirates. Oh well.

I was secretly naving the Prize Elf while trying to job people on the test WF at the same time ahaha. Multitasking. That's what ypp is all about. Ha.

Perhaps it was all for the best as honestly, I wasn't sure the team could handle 75 v 159 BK battles.. even at max - 0

TL;DR

It actually doesn't really matter because... honestly, no one does large ship BKs. Which is sad. They'd be a lot of fun :) 

Some afterthoughts

• The people who stayed the entire 24 hours only got about 80k ish from the entire thing. 
• And this is WITH the double pay that came into effect halfway. Say what? Again proving that pillaging is in a sad state of affairs. 

• Because of the scoring system

Points will be given as follows:
2 pts. for each Incredible
1 pt. for each Excellent



Top combined OVERALL score (regardless of station(s)) will Win a:


Green /Tan PARROT FAMILIAR!!

• Someone who was only aboard for ~10 hours, but getting multiple excellents by station-hopping for the relevant DRs, actually scored more points than Emp who was able to keep incredible duty reports for the whole 24-hours. 



• Flaw in the system? Eh. Every event has its caveats. Like the Brigand Bash event last year, which I am pretty sure was intended to increase co-operative pillaging, but instead turned into a solo grindfest. 
• Having said that, I also personally try to think of every single possible caveat before I run the event. That way I have a Plan B for every situation. Perhaps if the increds had counted for 3 points instead, it would have been harder to rig the system. 
• It really was a lot for Peg to do all on her own. And although she had some helpers, it sure felt like she could have used some extra help in many instances, such as present giving, and dealing with "job me" tells. General ship management, especially as the hours wore on. 

Final Note

At the end of the day, thank you Pegasiswolf for running this behemoth of an event, dealing with a bajillion "Can we have another trivia??" questions, asking me to nav a fair few battles, and generally bravo for pulling it off. 

Were you on the ship?

What did you think of this event? Leave a comment :)