Talk:Wintersday

Dynastic Reckoning

 * "Wintersday falls on the 1st day of the Season of the Zephyr on the Mouvelian Calendar. The first day of the new year by the Dynastic Reckoning calendar falls on a different date. See Canthan New Year for details."

What? The Canthan New Year article says that the Canthan calendar starts on a different date, it doesn't say anything about Dynastic Reckoning. -- Gordon Ecker 21:44, 28 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Someone Got there facts wrong Randomtime | Talk 13:16, 22 June 2007 (CDT)
 * One way or another it looks like A-Net is running out of ideas to keep us busy this year, Wintersday in July?. -- 87.208.78.61

or they have wintersday instead of the beta testing of guild wars 2

Frost tonic
I saw a guy who looked like a snowman, said he got a drop called frost tonic outside SS great hall, can this be confirmed? or is it a tonic from Z chest ive just not heard of?--Cloud dyl 15:15, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It is indeed confirmed; see Frosty Tonic. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 18:26, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * These don't drop very often. I've been raptor farming on and off all weekend and have only gotten one.24.16.115.224 19:38, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
-- The Falling One 12:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Wintersday 08
Too early to start article? Lindsey posted some info in her journal, Gwens Garden sounds interesting w/e it is 76.188.100.220 18:04, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Given all the information at : http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/wintersday2008/ I don't see why it would be too early for such an article.Zebulin 19:18, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Tie between Dwayna and Grenth?
I doubt this has ever happened, but I wonder, what would happen if we got a situation that they had a tie? Would the dialog be different? Would the game do something weird and act like they both won, give double presents, or would it act like they both lost, giving no presents? Thoughts, idea on how to do this, and general, relitive, kind comments welcome. Draven Deadlesser 08:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Wintersday in July trivia note
While I suspect that it may have been the marketing campaign referenced that prompted the event, the concept of Christmas in July actually originates from the southern hemisphere. The idea behind it is that most traditional Christmas fare is more suited to winter than to summer (for obvious reasons), so many families in Australia compensate by having Christmas dinner be something lighter and more suited for summer while saving the traditional Christmas feast for wintertime. Draxynnic 02:12, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Winters Day 2010
Is the Wiki planning any events for this year? I remember the secret Dwayna from a few years ago and though I'm not so good at planning such a thing, I would like to help if someone is planning one. Nylana Greymoon 14:49, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The Secret Dwayna and Wintersday Raffle from 2008 were pretty much unmitigated disasters due to poor organization and people never showing up in-game. I would be hesitant to try such events again, but that doesn't mean we couldn't do something else to celebrate Wintersday as well as our arrival at Curse.com. Any ideas? [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png|link=User:Felix Omni]] 14:52, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Wow, I didn't realize they didn't work out so well, I enjoyed them myself. As for events, I noticed at the GuildWars Guru they have a number of things going on, too. So maybe something different? Post a picture on the new Wiki, get a Winters Day gift?  Fix a typo, get 2?  Post a new page, get 10? Or maybe something like a Wiki Scavenger Hunt. Have some of us put little easter eggs in discussion pages for topics and first 10 people to find all of them and give them in order get a stack of gifts or stack of candy cane shards or some such?  Just thinking it would be nice to connect it to the Wiki so it would bring people in for more familiarity with the new site. Nylana Greymoon 15:33, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I vote for the Post things, get things. But that could get out of control, like really really fast. Arnout aka The Emperors Angel 16:02, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * (edit conflict) First suggestion: no. We don't want anything that is going to encourage random, meaningless edits (that's why we never enabled Wikia's badge system).
 * Scavenger Hunt: good idea, but as written, there's no way to prevent people from simply checking RC to see what pages have been edited recently. Instead, you could have people hunt for things that already exist on the wiki (e.g. A monster that drops Plant Fibers and uses Illusion Magic.)  Still kinda easy for people familiar with the wiki, but it would at least require a bit of work.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 16:04, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Mirage Iboga and Reed Stalker? Took me about 30 seconds to find both, and a quick skim of the the other plant-like-foes hasn't turned up others, but it's possible I missed one.  While I'm all for an in-wiki game, using an 'info hunt' in a database designed to make finding things easy...  *shrug*.  Newer users may find it useful.  It'll leave us old hands looking for something else to do.  Yamagawa 16:17, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * That was all I could come up with in 10 seconds. :P &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 16:28, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Nothing wrong with the 10 second effort... Heck.  I'm up for staring at the mini-polar bear drops again this year.  I've updated my tools a bit so I should be able to give the thing a better effort this time around.  If there's a new drop or quest, I can turn my tools there, but for the moment what I've got is 'work on drop rates for a years-old item'.  Yamagawa 16:50, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I was just tossing out some ideas off the top of my head without a guarantee they were good. At least we got discussion started. Perhaps an in game scavenger hunt sort of like Nicholas? Maybe have a Wiki Member with a bunch of gifts at an obscure location, leave a "clue" on the Wiki that people would have to figure out where to find them, bring three or four commonly dropped items for a batch of gifts, candy canes, etc?  What is a stack of Wintersday Gifts worth?  Maybe the first 10 people who give a stack of gifts gets something bigger than that. Then turn around and offer gifts for other things by someone at another location. Nylana Greymoon 19:32, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think having in-game events would be more in-line with the wintersday spirit than purely wiki-tied ones. Here's some ideas:
 * Game: Trophy hunt. Could be tied into the event Ishmael was outlining ("solve this riddle to identify a critter and bring me 5 drops from it") - I'd be willing to help write some of the hints if we went this way.
 * Game: "Musical chairs". With the ground rings of Dwayna and Grenth appearing in LA/Kamadan, there could be a game hosted involving running into the rings on cue and /sitting or doing another emote (preferably one that produces a chat notice, to make it easier for refs). Each round, one ring gets "removed" by being filled with a sitting referee. First person to emote in a circle claims it in the case of two people entering the same one, and the slower player either runs to the next circle or gets disqualified if none remain.
 * Either way, this would allow prizes to be given directly in-person. No needing to worry about a lack of meeting a winner. In the case of the ring game, it also means we could schedule a party and get all of the prize giving done in the same login session without missing anyone. — ızǝℲ 01:38, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have about 360 extra skill points. I could create a variety of consumables to add to the presents. Any suggestions or requests?Nylana Greymoon 18:28, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The trophy hunt is a great idea, but if we want this to work, we're going to need to work fairly quickly. I suggest letting Fezi handle the logistics because he's a bully. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png|link=User:Felix Omni]] 02:21, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Letting me handle logistics is like letting a janitor handle your treasury. Besides, if it were me, I'd be going for the musical chairs idea. Well. That or some sort of trivia game. And those are done to death. (I can sense your hatred over the psychwaves!) — ı  z  ǝ  Ⅎ  05:23, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Double-post for update: Based on feedback in IRC, looks like Trophy Hunt is probably the way things are going to go, at this rate. Curses. — ı  z  ǝ  Ⅎ  09:06, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * So we have an idea of what to do. Do we have a plan? Nylana Greymoon 21:18, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Fezi is writing up a series of riddle-haikus that players will have to solve. We need to figure out prizes though. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png|link=User:Felix Omni]] 21:18, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, if someone can help with the raw materials, like I said I have a lot of skill points and could make some consumables. Nylana Greymoon 16:57, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The likelyhood of any wiki->in-game event succeeding is marginal to slim at best, most of us don't even play anymore. &mdash; Scythe   17:07, 10 Dec 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you have any suggestions for how to make it better and succeed? Nylana Greymoon 19:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Well first there would have to be something **super amazing and ZOMG original** to draw people back online. Other than that I doubt it will happen :\ &mdash;  Scythe   23:31, 13 Dec 2010 (UTC)

I haven't heard anything since the 13th. Did this just fall by the wayside? Nylana Greymoon 05:08, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed it did. Apologies. Between my memory and a project timecrunch, I couldn't run any farther with the idea, and nobody else took it up either. — ızǝℲ 12:31, 6 January 2011 (UTC)