[Illusion]

1) Not enough people will enter and they we're always the most iffy in terms of participates in the past. I say save yourself the trouble and go with something else. (Still if there are more than 4 people up for it then go for it. :D)

2) Everyone enters these and always they're a ton of fun.

3) + 4) So uh. RIGS orrr an Event shop is the question here. What's the point of an event shop if there are RIGS and vice versa? Just throw a bunch of single posed items in a RIG, make the RIG somewhat cheap in terms of event currency (10-15 event currency = 10-15 posts), and that makes it more fun as people will be pulling for the item they want. Throw in other things like 5 runes, recolors of some past items (just 1 pose though) and things like that.
AND! If you decide to go the RIG route, make the event prizes runes AND Rig boxes. I'm sure everyone would hunt for a rare Pumpkin Orange version of the original Yearly items. (1 pose though.)

Fill the RIG's with hundreds of prizes and actually make some rarer then others.

The reason why I say RIG's rather than the traditional shop of items is just for experiment purposes. See how it works out. If someone didn't get the item they want their post more to get it. (I know I would.) You need to be increasing forum activity in this event, so you need to be using everything at your disposal and use every weapon you have.

And maybe have even more expensive currency RIG boxes that take out the common items. (But still the odds are against you.) Just make sure the items in this RIG aren't exclusive to this event and will be back every year.

5) Yes and the way you have this set up works perfectly. You can have a set story. Great idea entirely, especially with an exclusive reward. (I like that you guys are trying to make rare items, it's something people need, we need items people are willing to work for or desire. The marketplace died because the lack of rarity. Well that along with other reasons...)

Some other ideas:

6) Give people rewards for huge threads in the event forum, currency, boxes. And let it be concurrent with the event as well. So someone made 300 non-spam posts in a thread for the event, give them RIG box or currency equivalent to a RIG box. let people who are creating activity be rewarded.

7) Try another refer contest again and have members join, and maybe cheat a little and make it a contest to bring old members back as well with the older member confirming they came back because of ___ member. Make an exclusive prize for this that is desirable, but allow the prize to be brought back each refer contest. (A trophy, or better yet a piece of paper with IOU on it.)

8) Get a notification if you we're poked and how many times by a person. Maybe call it "You've been spooked 24 times." Just go to that person's profile and press a spook button. (Make it so it rewards 1 event currency per day or something.) Nothing too special about it, but it helps get peoples attention and start a conversation out of nowhere.


... I can keep on talking with more ideas in my head. But long story short make this event about recharging Trisphee again and bringing new ideas to the table. We know the old system from the past 3 years hasn't worked out, so change it up a bit, experiment with ideas that has a certain end goal or effect, keep it fun and creative. And let the events feed your excitement on making the next event and so on.