Hello guys, I'm sitting around thinking about what things would be fun, and beneficial to the server, beneficial meaning keeping players on. When i came across an idea that i got from a differnt online game. I don't know if it can be done for WoW though.
The game was LineageII played private servers for 6 years with it. A really neat thing i saw some admins do was to make automatic pvp events. They had a npc spawn in every 20 min or, you could leave him there whatever, and world announcments that the event registration would take place. You had to talk to the npc to register you and port you to the place of battle after the time limit was up. That was always the same. The next part had differnt variations according to what type of event you want to have.
There was a team event, every time someone registerd it put them on a differnt team, no limit to players, and red and blue things that glowed under the PC to identify what team you were on. It could be 1 kill and your out, or the most ammount of kills as a team in a time frame. Then you get some reward directly into your inventory, or it could be mailed.
The 2nd type was and this is more elaborate, the admins had setup a specific area, a maze of sorts, an area that is not used alot, and again your on teams, 1 team starts at one end the other team starts at another, there are waypoints and outposts or bases to take over, and the goal could be anything to win. it reminds me of battle grounds but on a larger scale.
There could be alot of other things, but the main point is AUTOMATED
automated events are for the win.