Editing Release 113 (section)

===Preparation and Announcement of Dev Events===
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This last Release cycle we hosted our annual Egg Hunt event. Special thanks goes out to Laney, Veepers, Devilcult, and Allium for taking the time to setup and run this year’s hunt! Many of our Developer-run events require time to plan and decorate the scene where the event is to be held. The Egg Hunt is one of the most laborious efforts; this year extra work was done to set up the entire scene with buildings, deco, and (of course) the eggs and other prizes.

A number of players have asked why we did not advertise or otherwise announce the event prior to it occurring. This year, the event was moved from Hometown to Mount Midir because the popularity of the event had drawn excited players to come ‘watch’ the Dev Team prepare which, in the case of an Egg Hunt, rather defeats the purpose. Some of our events are scheduled and advertised and others are what are known as ‘pop-up’ events. By advertising the event, we would have had even more player detectives on our trail while we hopped around the scene setting things up.

We are working on tech that will allow us to close a scene for ‘maintenance’ without a client patch. This will allow us to better prepare our events and surprises while keeping the players informed that something is coming, which in turn will allow us to plan and devise more somewhat-on-the-fly special events. More on that in the coming months!

– Ravalox