149315-request-built-in-calendar

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This one is pretty self-explanatory: I'd like to see a calendar appear in Wildstar. However, I know you folks are super busy and this is not likely to top your priority list, so I only ask for this if you can manage to produce the feature without using a lot of hours.
 
My arguments in favour of this addition:
 
1. Promotes activity. People are able to plan attendance and have an easier time checking in t see what's on the up and up.
 
2. Promotes the ~idea~ of activity. Even if folks don't attend an event, knowing that one is going on is still good for gamer psychology.
 
3. You can use it to advertise Carbine event timelines. Right now you've got the pop-up next to the daily log-in rewards, which is cool as a regular reminder, but with a calendar we can quickly get a visual of X event lasting from Monday until Friday (for example). You might even add times, so that folks can clearly see Y event is ending at 10am (wink wink). Player-made timers would also be a huge bonus on this topic, so we can have a dinger go off the night before an event is to expire, reminding us to spend time-based currency.
 
4. You might also use it to promote PTR up-time, so folks know what build is on the servers and when. More testing can't be a bad thing!
 
5. It could act as a good facilitator between distinct collectives. I don't mean this as a negative or criticism, but due to the diversity of things to do (not volume but type), a lot of the people I know in-game are from different guilds, circles, and channels, but do have shared interests— which sometimes means the game feels fragmented and not as cohesive as it could be.
 
6. The calendar could possibly also be used as an advertisement tool for new shop offerings. Yesterday you added the Triton set, so what if the calendar received an Ikthian skin for the next few days? This same concept could be applied to events and even to drop themes. You've got the launcher cycling thematic content changes, why not reuse some of those assets in-game?
 
7. Stepping outside of the realm of the likely for a minute, this could also be used as a device to bring the good side of social media into the game world by letting people tweet updates into their calendars. This is assuming calendars could be set-up for different functions, so I could swap between the Carbine calendar (events, shop skins, drops, bonus weekends, etc.), my guild calendar, or create a new personal calendar for an event I'm hosting which is invite-only (I add someone to the calendar profile and now they can see what's up). etc. etc.
 
 
All told, it's a simple, community-enhancing tool that helps people organize and connect. I can't imagine many better things in the world of the MMORPG. :P 
 
 	
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There aren't enough LIKES for this, that's been asked for since original beta.
 
"Just get the add-on" isn't an answer for a large, ever-evolving guild.	
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Definitely +1! It made setting up for raids (and RP events) a breeze in WoW.
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			Definitely +1! It made setting up for raids (and RP events) a breeze in WoW.	
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I can promise, if WildStar had had that feature since the dawn of the game, we'd have a lot more players.
 
I helped run a guild in WoW for a couple of years - and we FILLED the in-game calendar with guild events every week. Like two or three things always planned. Made the sense of community just fantastic - and people stuck around for YEARS just to see what we planned next.
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While I kinda agree that having the calendar in game would be nice for game events and setting up server wide stuff It would not help the population one bit. We have had the same content for a long time now and we would still be in this state that we are in now with or without and in game calendar. Having them focus on something so small at this time is a very bad idea, they're already short staffed so even an hour or so a day on this would mean an hour or so away from what people really want, more content.
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			I support this idea 200%	
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While I kinda agree that having the calendar in game would be nice for game events and setting up server wide stuff It would not help the population one bit. We have had the same content for a long time now and we would still be in this state that we are in now with or without and in game calendar. Having them focus on something so small at this time is a very bad idea, they're already short staffed so even an hour or so a day on this would mean an hour or so away from what people really want, more content.
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			Oh man, if the devs would allow the Foundry principle this game would blow up the ratings.	
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While I understand what you are saying - and agree to an extent, ESPy has the right of it.
 
The kind of guilds I join/run/create aren't built on content-devouring. They are built on community. Lack of new content can be over-come for a good while through community-building and interaction on a personal (or persona-) level.
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I like the way STO has it, where in the Foundry players can create players "created" content/missions for other players to play. Could that be done here, or is already been done?
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			We have legit talked about implementing something like this; showing players the ability to see upcoming events and giving players the ability to mark dates/reminders in-game.	
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We have legit talked about implementing something like this; showing players the ability to see upcoming events and giving players the ability to mark dates/reminders in-game.
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			I think this is a great idea, not only will it help people plan guild events better but it will also help carbine with the events they run.  As there would be no confusion when an event is starting or ending as they could have it marked in the calendar.	
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			Would LOVE a calendar.	
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			All great ideas, I think that having a NPC in each big town who is in charge of calendar/events would be awesome too. Rewards could be awarded by him/her etc	
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We have legit talked about implementing something like this; showing players the ability to see upcoming events and giving players the ability to mark dates/reminders in-game.
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			Probably not a reasonable request, but if add ons had the ability to easily store a limited amount of data that other users could access, a lot of these things could be developed easily by the community (I know stock would be better- but there are a lot of great add ons we could create beyond just a calendar).	
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Probably not a reasonable request, but if add ons had the ability to easily store a limited amount of data that other users could access, a lot of these things could be developed easily by the community (I know stock would be better- but there are a lot of great add ons we could create beyond just a calendar).
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