Yeah, definetely I should agree, this is definetely the best Anniversary Event we ever had in the past years, the rates for STA are fair (although I didn't found any yet ), and it is really noticeable the ammount that dropped this year increased; much more organized (now we actually have a end date for event). So I have to congrats the staff for this event.
Psycho Bridge?
Well I don't think that just making PGF all year round would solve the problem. It is like all the garbage in economy comes from only 3 weapons, which isn't true. I would be happy if PGF is year round but if it drops in a single or two spread events with a better rate that would work too. I think last year only few PGFs dropped, I mean, STA is just an armor, an extra thing, not an armor that you MUST have to play, there are other options too that also do a good job, but dark weapons on this game are unrivalized, isn't the main goal of everyone to get a dark weapon? Isn't this the only server where PGF is restricted to just one event?
Years ago I traded a Centurion/Battle and 1 Photon Sphere for a Dark Meteor 50 stats, the price of PGF were around 60 DTs and everybody seemed to agree with that. I really don't understand how DWs suddenly became 10x the price it was 2 years ago. But that was already discussed here so I won't comment about that again.
About taking down DTs from economy, would it really be a good idea? The way it works right now DTs are much easier to use than PDs. Well, with DTs you can exchange attributes in weapons to the ones you desire, can split %s through the areas you want, can add hit (although we have hit event), so how removing DTs would be a solution? How high end players would make a set of the weapons they like? Not saying that having such overpowered weapons are REALLY needed, but this server is buffed, most of the non event weapons unfortunately are like garbage here if they don't have crazy high hit and %s.
Get a S-rank for example, the way s-ranks weapons works now, they barely can hit anything, they aren't buffed on this server, although they are rare and difficult to get. You will only want them for debuff specials, the other specials are totally worthless since you can have Type-Weapons that CAN have hit. You will never find Type-Weapons with %s, so you have to use DTs to get Hit on it or you wait a year for a Hit Event.
Still, I think S-ranks should have been more valuable here. A Berserk Needle doesn't hit enemies in a satisfactory way or do really low damage, if it wasn't because the SNS glitch, J-Cutters would also be a totally worthless weapon. I don't have to say anything about Hell/Demon Needle, we have TypeSh/Shot that can have both specials AND hit. S-Rank Mechgun is easily replaceable by TypeME/Mechgun. Somehow we totally "destroyed" the vanilla weapons (s-ranks) to favor weapons that you must spend money to make it usable (Type Weapons).
I just think we could have some improved vanilla weapons, so people wouldn't complain as much as they do now about not having such money to afford expensive things. We should give S-Ranks a chance too! Aren't us too dependant from dark weapons?
We'll see, in my opinion although we had crazyness hapenning on Trades, the Events so far were really good, I don't have anything to complain, they were really good so far. I wish we could have some more mini-events, adding hit to some specific weapon, some guessing password event, where you earn some sphere in your weapons, get PDs, etc. Really, when there is no HH, it is noticeable the ammount of players that log off the game.
The server should be more inviting than just having Happy Hours to compensate. I would agree of taking down Happy Hours and having easier rates, this way people could play at the time they really could play, they would not lose nights of sleep, there would be no more rush through items. The idea of Happy Hours would work if there were GMs spliting them for each timezone, which doesn't really work. At least where I live Happy Hours always happens 00:00 AM, 04:00 AM (when I should have been sleeping), and sometimes 16:00 PM (when I should go to school). So do you guys think the way Happy Hours works right now really benefit all players, or just some of them that live in the same timezone of the GM that activates it?
Don't get me wrong, I really love this server, but there are many things that we can improve to make the server more inviting to new players and to treat well the veterans.