Fortunately I save the text from my posts, and I can post them here where Warda cannot delete them.

We were told in the IRC channel by more than one VGM that we could ignore the Hoes, and you've changed your mind?

On top of that if you had bothered to consult with anyone at all when you put this list together you would know that Bronze Arm Bands are a fairly rare drop that most don't bother with, because you can also start to collect Fiber Ropes at the same levels. The ropes are far more valuable pass materials, so your solution was to have us collect both?

Now to add insult to injury we could have ignored your second list and gotten a better event out of the deal.

Please Warda, go back to doing what ever else you were doing before you thought up this idea. We don't want your help here.

Would anyone from Acclaim care to explain why Warda can't handle the honest truth about the organization of this event? Why was this post deleted? It was opinionated, but accurate and polite.

This event was a cock-up from the beginning. The GM's and volunteers had absolutely no warning or briefing on this event, it was simply announced. Once those people knew what the event was about she pretty much refused to listen to anybody. We players even told her in the IRC channel that this would fail. Too many items on that second list are rare items with a low drop rate, or they are really valuable.

Warda's response to all of these comments was, "It's not supposed to be easy".

My answer to her was simple, "We don't want easy, we want it doable".

Clearly this event was not doable because not even one server was able to complete that second list. The part that really, really bugs me is that we got penalized for trying.

Of course we had the usual Keystone Kops routine in getting the event started tonight. Warda and Acid said one thing in the forums, which we reported here, and then volunteers were roaring something entirely different in-game on the Bardo Server. The event started according to Warda/Acid (a bad sign if you ask me...), only to have the experience rate incorrectly set. That took us more jabs in the IRC channel to get that corrected. The Liaodong map failed yet again too, and finally, we didn't get the event buff we were promised by Raven.

All in all this event has been Acclaimed Up from the start.

- SpearDriver