There are a lot of events among Japanese users, and a lot of events are held on VRChat every day, there is a limit to how much human processing can be done, so we would like to see the system expand the functionality for events to be able to handle them. Currently, there are 2 mainstream participation formats. ■First-come-first-served The instance will be set up in the Friend+ format prior to the opening time of the event, and all owners and staff will gather with the status of Ask Me in advance. Then, at the opening time, the instance owner will change the status to Online or Join Me, and those who wish to participate will join the instance owner. 👎️Problems with this format ・The instance fills up in just a few seconds at times, but.., some users (e.g., users with many friends?) are sometimes slow to reflect or do not reflect well the status changes of other users, making it difficult for such users to participate in this form of event. ・Also, if someone is in Online or Join Me status when the staff gathers in advance, non-staff users can enter the instance. ■Pseudo lottery style The instance will be set up in the Invite format prior to the opening time of the event, and owners and staff will gather in advance. Then, at the opening time, those who wish to participate send a Request Invite to the instance owner, the instance owner selects participants at random and sends an Invite. 👎️Problems with this format ・Dozens or hundreds of Request Invites may be sent to the instance owner all at once, but all Request Invites sent in large numbers are not retained, and the oldest ones seem to disappear after a few dozen, and users whose Request Invites disappear are lose their right to participate in the lottery. ・Also, the instance owner manually handles the countless number of Request Invites that are sent, this is a heavy burden for the instance owner, who has to manually handle the countless Request Invites sent to him or her and be careful not to send more Invites than the number of people who are eligible to participate. ★Functions we would like to propose (example) ■Implement Instance Open functionality for Instance Close. ・I want you to be able to re-open an instance that has been closed once. ・Even in the Closed state, we would like you to implement a state that accepts Invite and participation from URLs. ・In the case of Group instances, if they are in Closed state, they can be lined up in Join Queue even if the instance is not full. ・If possible, I would like you to implement a function to automatically open and close at preset times. 👍️Benefits of these implementations ・When a Friend+ instance is built with the status of Closed in advance and the staff gathers together, when a Friend+ instance is built in advance and the staff gathers, even if someone is in Online or Join Me status, users other than the staff will not be able to enter the instance. ・If the instance status is set to “Closed” after all participants have entered, the original participants can return to the instance without new participants entering the vacant slots in the event that a staff member or participant has an equipment failure or other problem. ・In a Group instance, even if all users in the instance have “Ask Me” status, if they have joined the Group, they will be displayed in the Group Activity and any user in the Group can join the instance, However, by creating an instance with the status of Closed in advance, only the staff can gather at the instance first, making it possible to utilize the Group instance more effectively. ・Also, since instance owners do not need to change their status, it may be easier for users whose status changes are not reflected well or are reflected slowly by other users to participate in first-come, first-served format events. ■Implemented a feature in Join Queue that allows users to be randomly selected from the Queue to join an instance, rather than on a first-come, first-served basis. ・(In conjunction with the above “In Group instances, the ability to line up in Join Queue even if the instance is not full if it is in the Closed state”) Please implement a function that allows users to enter the “lottery participation” queue of a closed Group instance, and when the instance is subsequently opened, users in the lottery participation queue are randomly selected from among those in the lottery participation queue, rather than on a first-come, first-served basis. ・Also, it would be very nice to have the ability to set up a winning quota for a pre-determined number of people at a pre-determined time! 👍️Benefits of these implementations ・The need for instance leaders to manually process Request Invites is eliminated, significantly lowering the cost of event management. ・This will ensure that all participants are equally entered into the drawing, since there will be no more users who lose their right to participate in the drawing due to the disappearance of a Request Invite they sent.
