This was the first wilderness drop party of it's kind, all level 3's! Considering this is the first time it was done in this manner, I think it went considerably well.
Typically, it's an all-out war with various levels and skill-sets. One of the most fun and fair wilderness drop parties, everyone is level 3 and were limited to the type of items and combat that is available, making it fair but also tactically challenging.
As far as the volume of players in that area, I believe it had to do with the cash-load of items donated for the party and the fact that it was a uniquely new type of wilderness drop party. Hopefully, this will become a more frequent event.
Responding to your suggestions, I would like to say that the area is the typical spot for this type of event and many others such as level 3 death-match last-man-standing.
It was crowded, but just note that a lot of people found this new event idea very intriguing and almost all of us participated.
Strategy is KEY in any type of all-out war situation. I applaud the people clever enough to camp the banks. This was the wilderness, in any other situation the same tactics are used. In the wilderness people WILL take advantage of strategic attacks. Cutting you off, chasing you and even teaming-up.
If you were to die before banking, there is just a good of chance the attacker would have a disadvantage in the same respect. They can also be killed before looting your items, giving an opportunity to who-ever was clever enough to attack them following your death. We should be so lucky to even have a bank for such an epic drop event such as this one.
Many advantages you could of taken as well, if you were to make it into a bank. Such as restocking of food and supplies.
Again, any other time you are in the wilderness the rules are the same. You are more likely to attack, or be attacked before you can grab the loot. This has always been an aspect of RSC and doubt these rules-of-engagement will change for a 1st time, new event.
For example, a player or monster that is the same-level as you will be the first option on the list.
Aggressive monsters and higher-level players will have YOU as their priority, giving them an obvious advantage to attack you. Even though you can select the item first, they have the opportunity to attack you before looting or just scroll down to the items. Essentially, a level 3 would be able to pick the item up faster than a level 100. For the event and being all level 3, attack was the first on the list. These game-mechanics have always been apart of RSC.
If you're unfamiliar with using the android client, take a moment to check your settings. You can go to the 'wrench' tab which shows the game options and click on 'settings interface' to view the available options for android usage.
Also, with two button selected as your usage you can hold down and select the item over a player. No need to click the same spot if you know that the player will come first. Again, these are the typical rules-of-engagement for the wilderness and RSC since the dawn of time.
There are options in the 'settings interface' to choose a delay for right clicking or even to disable that delay that is typically enabled. (Hold and choose) which shown below that option has different delay timers for how long the list is shown when selecting items or players on the screen.
Personally, I like to have it disabled completely and the list will stay there until i click something on the list or simply another part of the screen.
You can view this link that displays information on how to use the android client, also there is an instructive video that you may watch.
http://www.rscrevolution.com/download.p … oid_Client
The last suggestion you had I really liked, having the same level-3 event in a larger area with items spawns is a great idea!
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Bonus idea: A level 3 event in which players fight in a large portion of the wilderness, starting with no items. Items are dropped randomly throughout the arena. The last person alive gets a prize, and once only a few people are left they are tped to the same arena we used for the dp to fight.
Everyone starting as a level 3 and have to run around with no items, looking for randomly spawned low-level items to battle each other with. The last-man-standing would win the event. I would definitely support your idea for some-type of event like that if you were to post a NEW thread in the suggestions and feedback, explaining what the event would be like and how it would be played. I have an idea of what you were suggesting and I would love to see something like that in the future.