🎁 Mysterious Melody Returns!
This year, Melody has revamped her holiday gift exchange to bring even more festive cheer and fairness to the season! We heard your feedback about previous years' one-to-one matching and are excited to introduce group exchanges with a sprinkle of Melody magic. Here’s how it works:
What’s New This Year?
- Group Matching: Instead of being paired with one person, you’ll join a group with four other real users and Melody herself! This helps ensure the gift exchange stays lively and fun, even if some participants are less active.
- Melody’s Magic: Our beloved Luminaire NPC, Melody, will actively add items to the gift pool throughout the day by purchasing from user shops. This ensures there’s always a little something extra for everyone, and you might see her in your shop logs!
- Daily Resets: The exchange resets at midnight Subeta time every night. You can join one group per day, and you’ll be matched as soon as four other participants are ready.
How It Works
- Contribute Gifts: You can add up to five items to your group’s gift pool each day.
- Quality Counts: While price matters, Melody also values how useful and unique your items are, as well as how often they’re used in the community.
- Gift Distribution: At midnight, Melody will distribute all the items in the pool randomly, ensuring fairness by making sure you don’t receive any of your own gifts.
A Few Notes for the Best Experience
- Think Fairly: To keep things fun and avoid disappointment, consider balancing your contributions. Adding extremely high-value items every day may not result in equally valuable gifts, simply because of the nature of the exchange.
- Everyone’s Different: Remember, users have varying access to items and points. This is about embracing the joy of giving, not just the value of receiving.
Looking to the Future
While we’re not using it yet, Melody is keeping track of the quality of gifts you contribute. This score might influence future groupings, so your generosity (or lack) could help you match with equally enthusiastic participants in the future.
We hope this new format makes the exchange more inclusive, festive, and fun for everyone. Let’s embrace the Luminaire spirit together! 🎄✨
Happy gifting! Click here to navigate to Mysterious Melody!
Posted by Keith
Dice
This is exciting! I always found the old MM mildly stressful or an outright disappointment, but this seems much more relaxed. Keeping limit on how much you can give each day is one less thing to worry about. It'll be interesting so see how things progress over the next few days. I'm already planning out what to give tomorrow! :)
I hope my contributions aren't too cheap... I always have a hard time with events like these!! Still, this is very fun, thank you for adding it :o)
Choosing my presents I was very sorry to again realize, that all my precious stacks of (retired) items have become completely worthless - just as with Melody's books right now etc. :-( Not only can we no longer profit (as planned to make sP somehow) from them to get new/wl stuff, but they have lost their option as valued and sought after gifts :-(
I like, how clearly MM is set up. Choosing from invy is fast and practical, being able to remove/exchange items is a bonus, esp. if you happen to misclick or find smthg better throughout the day...
I like, how clearly MM is set up. Choosing from invy is fast and practical, being able to remove/exchange items is a bonus, esp. if you happen to misclick or find smthg better throughout the day...
This sounds like fun, but I don't really like using the new site because it's still buggy, and unfinished....I wish we could have gotten this same concept, but on the OG site....That's just my preference because it's easier to navigate this site for me
Well, I did receive one of my own items back, but it was a nice item, so that's alright, lol. I had a nice time! Everyone's additions were very sweet.
@Rienquish ah, that must have been the problem. I keep forgetting that midnight Subeta time is 9:00pm my time. Tried again and got the notification this time. Thanks for clarifying that for me!
@ChatLunatique you should be getting a notification that says "You have been added to a group for Mysterious Melody!" with a link to the group. Did you join close to Subeta midnight? As that's when the items get distributed, maybe that made it bug out and not send the notification?
I think I’ll stick to the forums as this doesn’t seem quite fair - this round I put pricy items in, didn’t receive any WL items like others posting below, and got mostly cheap items (4 items were under 11k).
OK, I'm confused. I followed the link in the news post, clicked on the join group button, was told I'd be notified when the group was formed, then got a alert that the group was finished. What did I miss? How do I submit my gifts to the group?
After the first round I'm super happy with this! Got a nice variety of items back and 3 of them wl items! Not expecting to get this lucky every time but will definietly try to participate on each round. So far this seems more fun and fairer than the old system :)
from my first group i did receive one of my own gifts, but i also receive a wl item.. so it was okay.
Having just received my gifts from my first group, I'm very pleased with how this works; I got two WL items!
@Lighthouse If I'm understanding correctly, this just means that people in various price brackets will be placed together once there's enough data. There's no right or wrong price range. So just do what you feel most comfortable/happy with. We're all here to have fun :)
I kind of liked the old MM, but am willing to give this a try. However, this one makes me feel like I'm gonna have to be rich to participate, being judged on value of items.
Sometimes I can't afford expensive items and I try to theme them.
Sometimes I can't afford expensive items and I try to theme them.
Really like this new system! Looking forward to how it will work out for everyone. The (more or less) random distribution within a group with a maximum number of items makes it way less stressful imo. Much less "omg will the other person send me something way more expensive? Or nothing at all? Will my gifts be nice enough?" And hopefully that way everyone gets a little something that makes them smile.
@Beldam There won't be a way to please everyone equally I guess. I'll try to put in a mix of some things that if you don't use them at least sell easily (like wizard tokens, stat boosters, etc) and some cute items I hoarded over the years preferably useful and or pricey, like books, food, old event items, wearables. Maybe throw in something lumi/winter themed even if it's something cheaper. Like imagine you get a random anon giftbox and it's four slots sporks and a moldy bread, that's kinda sad, but if it's a cookie, a scarf and some tokens? Nice, even if it's cheap items!
@Beldam There won't be a way to please everyone equally I guess. I'll try to put in a mix of some things that if you don't use them at least sell easily (like wizard tokens, stat boosters, etc) and some cute items I hoarded over the years preferably useful and or pricey, like books, food, old event items, wearables. Maybe throw in something lumi/winter themed even if it's something cheaper. Like imagine you get a random anon giftbox and it's four slots sporks and a moldy bread, that's kinda sad, but if it's a cookie, a scarf and some tokens? Nice, even if it's cheap items!
Hmm, I'll try this out. Could be a good way to get out those items I've hoarded but never got around to gifting to others.
Keith
STAFF
here is a thread for feedback that I'll be keeping track of, and posting fun stats in :D
Oh wow so you can remove an item and add a different one. I like that if you accidently click the wrong item or something.
Oh I got in quick. I love how you can see how many presents everyone contributed, that's neat. I can't wait to see how this first wave goes. I hope everyone is grateful for whatever they receive. It's the season of giving, MM should never be about profit. I'm definitely going to experiment more with this system (different gifts of assorted price points) to see how much it varies with Melody and what not. Mine says melody 8 items, so I wonder if that's 2 a person.
So do you opt in on a daily basis, meaning you don't have to participate in MM every day? Like, a new MM matching every day rather than a single dedication for a whole month?
Group gifting seems better, but I think people will still be able to game the system by only putting in cheap items knowing they won't get those back.
I'm starting with some nice old items that are pricey. I don't care that I won't probably get equivalent stuff. They've been hanging out in my vault since forever anyway, hopefully they'll make my group happy! And if not, they can sell them for SP to buy the things they'd like instead, lol! Zero guilt!
Any suggestions on what items we should add. Everyone likes different things. What if I give items no one values or likes ?
I've never participated in the past bc it felt so intimidating, but this version sounds more fun! I think I'll give it a go
SHE'S BAAAAAAACK!!! I love the sound of this new system already and definitely love Melody putting some sp into the economy, too. All great things!! I'm so excited to participate (:
Finally - all the waiting to see this function returns is such wonderful News. I really enjoyed this function since I joined and can't wait to join and give out all the wonderful things I saved for this.
Thank you very, very much for this chance, Subeta Team.
Thank you very, very much for this chance, Subeta Team.