“Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!”

Posted February 22, 2009 3:46 pm. Filed under . 2 comments.

Is the game currently too overwhelming? I’ve heard it sorta half and half so I’m not really sure what to do. Is there anything I should look into excluding from Hogwarts or maybe simplifying? I certainly want to keep Hogwarts unique but it defeats the purpose when there is no participation in certain things. Possible fixes could be to rotate the activities and only make them available during certain times. Chances are events will no longer have event points (or at least there will only be one that you can collect).

Please let me know what you think!

Games
The Great Hall group has been updated.

Love Potion Number Nine And Three-Quarters will remain up for one more week. Don’t forget you can trade in old event points at the Recycling Bin.

Contests
The results are in! Congratulations to our winners and thank you to everyone who participated. Don’t forget the deadline for new contests is February 28. Also, The Golden Snitch Standings have been updated!

Heather has been super busy so we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the contest badges.

Activities, Planned, Etc
I don’t know how much these will add to the game or if they will make things more complicated than need be but I figured I would put them out there anyway.

I’ve been thinking about the activities lately and what else to include or change. Unfortunately there’s so much more work to be done at the moment since pixels and potion types still need to be made. However, just so I don’t forget my ideas and also so I can get some feedback on them, I figured I would create a list of things that need to be completed/are ideas to be included:

• Gringotts Wizarding Bank—You can be a bronze, silver or gold member depending on how much stuff (not just currency) you are holding there. Then, based on bronze, silver, gold you will earn interest. Plus this allows you to not carry so much currency around.

• Games based on your level—I was thinking of including sets of games that you can only play if you are at a certain level. This would tie into the Marauder’s Map where if you have it you gain access to otherwise “hidden” places.

• Would everyone prefer just to collect the various items available or would you prefer they have some meaning in the game? Like earn Magical EXP or you can trade them in for other things.

• Potions/Spells—I’ve decided that potion-making and spell-casting will tie into your Magical EXP the most and only special potions and spells will help you earn things in the game (like help you will something such as double the freebies).

• Clubs/Organizations—It really depends on the club/organization. The only one I’m not certain about is the Dueling Club and how participation would be for it since it will in a way have members go head to head.

If you have any ideas/suggestions please let me know! I would really love for Hogwarts to reflect Harry Potter as much as possible.