Several interesting ideas that I want to share !

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Greetings ,
I'm a long member of Smolderforge , about 4-5 years already , and I've seen this server progress a lot. I mean I did noticed a lot of things that look pretty hard to do and I've never seen them in any other server out there - changing the spawn location , invisible walls etc. and constant improvements in any bugs that I noticed and not shared ^^. Well I will share some of my ideas that may be really good for the server's future development regarding new content from all spheres - events , zones , etc.


Hyjail /Azhare Crater
I will start with the most solid one - It is regarding the Hyjail/Azhare Crater PvP zones. I've seen some people go there in the past , but overall they are empty. The idea is great in both of them but somehow people don't like to go there.
From my point of view here how it goes - Let say you just finished doing something be it a dungeon or a BG and decided to go there - well the zone is empty. Maybe you can do some quests if your character is new but it will be just that. On the other hand if there are already people there , they mostly will be stronger that you and grouped up , which will get you being farmed. But if by some chance the zone is full with both alliance & horde players , well there is the experience you will want to get - full on mass PvP. The point is that these zones don't offer a possibility a small group of people PvP'ing to grow up into the mass world PvP. Well I have a solution to that -> What about something like Dota?
I know that Azhare Crater was going to be a Dota like battleground but it never got finished by Blizzard , so I will guess that the zone is well balanced regarding terrain , and if there are , base placement. I know there is an untextured castle somewhere and the invisible walls are maybe for holding us from seeing it or possibly other unfinished objects.
But anyway this idea will be great for this type of world PvP zone because you can go there if there are no people at all and you will be protected from other players in the beginning, and if people see that there are some people then more will join the battle. This idea will be also good for the server population , I personally don't like games like Dota ,LoL , but Dota itself was born in WC3 , and it is really symbolic and nostalgic part of the game. Nevertheless people like the idea of PvPvE - the first structure of Alterac Valley(AV) was mainly that. You could go and farm some items to upgrade your guards , spawn a raid party that will help you invade etc. mixed with mass PvP. Furthermore there is no other server with that type of content , and Dota in WoW will be something new and most likely different experience from both of the games.
Regarding where this idea may be possible if it is not in Azhare Crater - well this will be a big project but something like world Dota might be really fun. Let say from Darnassus all the way to Ogrimmar might be really interesting .

Jailbreak (Event)
There is unused raid from vanilla in Stormwind , it is very similar to the The Stockade instance but larger ( corridors with small rooms everywhere ). So the idea is that - the GM's can add a door in each room ( and the door must require some kind of key ) , each player is putted in separate room with no means of exits. Now the main idea is that in the corridors there will be guards that will walk by the doors and rogues must sap them and then pickpocket them in order to get a key. After that they must open the doors of their comrades avoiding any combat with the guards ( there can be other means of escape the room , like a warlock with soulstone tapping to death and the gliching out the door , or there can be other NPS prisoners , some of which will hold a key).
The point of the Event is that the players must escape in a given time ( 20-30 min. ) in order to win. But it wont be easy . There might be a boss they have to kill or something else that requires a huge amount of teamwork and knowledge of the spells over all.
It might be very fun event , or maybe it can become something like a raid or a dungeon , there are many options that can be done with that idea.

Gurubashi Arena (PvE type of Event)
Before an year I was a GM in a very low vanilla populated server. So in order to keep the few players we have we had to come up with fun things for them to do. What we did was similar to the Duel-Events overall, but in the PvE aspect.
So the Events start in Gurubashi Arena where teams ( by 3 people mostly ) will fight strong mobs in order to progress. And of course if a team doеsn't succeed in killing the mob they would be disqualified. After each round the mob changes to a stronger one and so on.. Also we had a time limit since you can resurrect in the arena itself , but you could die pretty easily so things like slow and stun were very essential to winning. When a winner team is pronounced we had also a bonus mob/boss in which all people & teams took part in it and there were also awards if they succeed . This was done to give the early disqualified teams a chance and to keep theм as audience

Buy a House / Guild Quarters
This idea came to me when I was bored and I walked with my priest in Outland . I found a bug where if you Mind Control a minion it won't attack you or move after the mind control is finished. So what I did is I mind controlled a whole mob base and I even made another character and moved an innkeeper and a blacksmith from the near village. And it was really fun. I've seen this idea take place in no longer existing custom server called AwesomeWow , where you could gather a lot of resources like wood and stone (or donate for them of course) and create your own house. The house models were house looking objects , some of which we have in the mall.
Now normally I would be more happy if one can get , let say a town or a house in a capital under his rule ( let say to add a innkeeper and some more NPS in that house ) , but I understand this idea will be really time consuming and in the end pointless. So yea , I am not really sure in what form but this idea can be really cool too. People will have a special place the own in Smolderforge ^^

* I will improve this post a little more in the future with several more ideas and few screenshots for better understanding overall.

Tell me if you liked some of the ideas , or if you can improve them :)