First of all, thank you Technoelite for organising the event. Great Initiative!
Being a newcomer to PR I greatly enjoyed the vision of what you worked
to accomplish with this event. I am definitely looking foward to the next
event.
As you already mentioned making this a more "private" event makes a lot of
sense. Pre-registering for the event and having a limited amount of reserved
slots would allow for a more stable load up experience where the server
wouldn't get flooded due to the big amount of players trying to get in.
Scenario organisations could be enhanced upon aswell as you mentioned.
Perhaps you can get your own forum section here or some other place where
you could organise the event beforehand. The scenario mission briefing, rules
etc could all be discusse there.
The participants would sign into the event there and say where/how they want
to participate. That way it makes organising the first 10-15minutes on the server
a lot easier since everyone is already organised and should know what to do.
The advantage of this is obviously that all the organisations, questions and
overall "ingame server time wasting" is reduced to as little as possible. When
everyone loads up on the server everyone knows what to do.
The event then can start on time and everyone should have a much smoother
experience.
As for my experience when the event actually got started was great. The Brittish
was super nervous and "on edge" at start when I drived my taxi around and
it ended up becoming one of the best online gaming experience for me
in a very long time.
Keep up the great work
T.Fransson