I liked the Vontell thread. It was cute.

The lore being separate is good. Allows people to ignore it if they're not interested.

Any way you want to serve up lore is good. Randomly appearing seems like a bad idea unless we get notified of it somehow.
I can foresee a situation in which some people completely don't notice, and miss out on lore.

During the beach event, I had good incentive to participate.
This anniversary event though, I only feel incentivized to enough submit entries into design and drawing threads because it was simple for me.
Posting doesn't feel like it has a purpose for me, this event.
I'm more of a lurker at heart, so I can't bring myself to try posting (and numbering) for *chances* at getting items.
I'd prefer posting to get currency and turning it in, or participating in some kind of actual game or activity.

The Frizz thread is more fun, but it's annoying that it's only on certain pages. People would want to join in on those pages so they get a chance, but then they'd have to keep track of the pages.
Or some people would want to participate for prize chances but might be unlucky enough to never be online when it's on the prize pages.

I will be back after the event ends xD
But for now, i would suggest to avoid using image for instructions ( text )
Because the text are so small on mobile D:

I love reading about the lore, and I love that every event has lore aaaaaaaaaaa feed me all the lore please, I live on plot~~~~ aaaaaa *takes screenshots of item grant stories*

The only thing I'm a little iffy about this event is the text presented to us in images. I get that's it's aesthetic and pretty, but for some reason whenever there's a chunk of text presented to me in an image, my brain goes: "THAT'S AN IMAGE, NOT A WALL OF TEXT! You can't read an image, just look at how pretty it is instead~" because my brain is an idiot, apparently. But they're pretty anyway >w< It's just me lmao

Participation grants are great! Gives people some incentive to join in on the fun, I think ^w^

Hmm, games.. I can't quite recall right now, but I had a lot of fun in the Wonderland Event and the games there, and interacting more with the NPCs was absolutely delightful

I might be back later once I think more XD

Well personally, i would prefer item design contest, avatar contest, drawing contest, etc to be an annual thing.. Instead of on events xD

I would prefer the events to include more games, the more variety the better... Some of what we did before are actually quite fun.
Also be mindful of people living in different timezones.. Because like at the beach event, the games are only on like an hour or so.. So it would be a huge disadvantage for some people xD
So for some people, it would be the same as no event at all

The participation rewards are nice, but be careful in giving to much volts, i would prefer giving choice of commons, common orbs, or the current event items instead of awarding volts
We have to many volts in the system already imo

@Hazer: oh right..I forget about that cuz there is usually nothing in there.

i also like event items
i just like to hoard
i like most event items. the wonderland and halloween sets are my fave

@Unicorn: Yeah, Vontell's thread was nice, but it's a lot of work for them to keep track of all the messages. That's why they limited it to just the one day.

Though, having some word ahead of time would have been nice.
That goes for anything on the site.
Things that happen for just a short time definitely *must* be properly communicated beforehand.

@Dowan: I love the fact that we got to spend volts for event items, as much as I love it when we have event currency for event items.

but the bundle, and bucket should of been for volts, and the items of the event be event currency.

now I know that it may, or may not work that way or ever again for that mater. but if there is away around it to happen again I say have it that way. Just an idea.