In Runescape, there was a minigame like that called "bounty hunter", and adaptations of it have been put into wow servers. It also is a staple of the Assassin's creed series: Hunt faster than you're hunted.
(non pvp realms) - Ganking Contest (track killing blows of raid via script, and force them all to stay in a dud queue to prevent bgs). Give them 20 minutes starting from their home city to find and gank as many people as possible.
Rifle War - Low (or high) levels (perma-silenced) enter a battle where they can only use the pee-shooting rifles. From there, it's just last man standing. unlimited ammo.
Evolved - Essentially like the game. One player in the raid gets a Massive Health and damage bonus, and is turned into an enemy (preferabbly forced to take the form of a famous wow character of that class), and the killing blow gets a point, as well as the new "evolved" status. after a certain amount of time, the game is called, and the person with the most kills wins.
Currency Gambling. (honor/justice/conquest/valor/faction currency) based on 50/50 chance. It will generate a random # between 0 and double the player's bet. I thought of the idea a while ago, and scripted it into my private (100% offline, unavailable, don't even ask) RS private server.
Considering there's a lot of good ideas, we'll implement some of them right away tomorrow when we'll be creating the schedule for this week. Depending on how much time we have, stairs/race might be on live realms this week as well.
Thanks to everyone for ideas so far, feel free to add in and give more ideas. After all, we'll doing all of this for you guys.
Take players to visit unreleased/unfinished/dev play areas. P:
Still one of my favorite experiences as a staff member. Me and Blue joined the staff roughly at the same time, circa a few days difference and one of the first things we've done is go and explore all the random areas in the world of Azeroth, speaking English to each other, not knowing that we are able to speak the same language.
A lot of those same areas are used for events today :D
Event Name: OLD Raids
So I think it would be cool to enable any old raid In example Cataclysm and Pandaria or any expansion so it is fully working for 2 days in one month so people can get mounts and achievements so you do not need to put much effort in rewards and supervision of it but just open the raid and let people have some fun in old raids but ofc to scale it on the level... also it would be nice to fix existing raids in Cataclysm so they work properly since most achievements are not working and most of the mounts are not obtainable in game... so I'm sure people would like to get some old mounts and achievements
Event Name: OLD Raids
So I think it would be cool to enable any old raid In example Cataclysm and Pandaria or any expansion so it is fully working for 2 days in one month so people can get mounts and achievements so you do not need to put much effort in rewards and supervision of it but just open the raid and let people have some fun in old raids but ofc to scale it on the level... also it would be nice to fix existing raids in Cataclysm so they work properly since most achievements are not working and most of the mounts are not obtainable in game... so I'm sure people would like to get some old mounts and achievements
The old raids are unopened because they lack serious scripting or could cause performance issues. They have nothing to do with the actual events and this is a development task which our developers are aware of and already doing something about.
Make events that encourages server-wide participation & cooperation!
-Faction War-
*First faction to kill the opposing faction's four racial leaders win
*Tie (meaning at least one leader from each faction survived) means no reward for either faction
*The reward for the winning faction is based on the number of surviving leaders (this promotes city defense as well as attack)
*Rewards can be gold for each character in the winning faction
-The Hobbit-
*9 Dwarf characters that are level 20 or lower must escort a Level 1 Gnome (no rogue) to Blackrock Mountain.
*40 Level 1 Orc characters must defend the mountain and kill the Dwarves/Gnome
*No respawning, dead is dead
*No Heirlooms
*Rewards = Title/Mounts
-Race War-
*15v15 Battlegrounds that are based on race
*Examples include the Orc Team vs. the Tauren Team, or the Human Team vs. the Worgen Team, or the Night Elf Team vs. the Blood Elf Team.
*It will be tournament style, with rewards for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placing races.
*Rewards can be gear, gold or mounts.
Event Name: OLD Raids
So I think it would be cool to enable any old raid In example Cataclysm and Pandaria or any expansion so it is fully working for 2 days in one month so people can get mounts and achievements so you do not need to put much effort in rewards and supervision of it but just open the raid and let people have some fun in old raids but ofc to scale it on the level... also it would be nice to fix existing raids in Cataclysm so they work properly since most achievements are not working and most of the mounts are not obtainable in game... so I'm sure people would like to get some old mounts and achievements
"Fix bugz" is not a proper event suggestion, I would also ask all others not to suggest such things.
Well every time someone mentions any raid on warmane ex molten, the answer was always our developers are working on it it is hard to script ... well yea i understand it is... before the server wipe the excuse was cataclysm was not scripted well and because of that we can not put up old dungeons and raid in it we would have to wipe the whole server and put it up back again... server got wipe .... cataclysm remains the same... on every expansion there is up to 4 max raids working and not all of them are without bugs on bosses so sry for asking sth that actually might be use-full... some people played WOTLK and then transferred to cataclysm with achievements and mounts, a lot of people quited after the wipe and went retail... so yeah sry for suggesting sth stupid like make an event in which an old raid or any raid is fully working... :S wow too much to ask or?
p.s. if you really think idea of putting one old raid working for few days in a month stupid, just ask people what they really want make a research, because racing events and stuff like that is not something new^^
Edited: September 2, 2015
Reason: adding something
-> Name of the event: The battle of Blackrock Mountain.
-> Brief description of it: Its a world PvP event in the Blackrock mountain, where alliance will start in the Burning Steppes and Horde in the Searing Gorge. Alliance will not be able to move to Burning Steppes before the beginning of the event and Horde will not be able to move to Blackrock Mountain ( maybe remove flying masters / dont allow people to use their flying mount / Send them back to their zone automattically ) .
So, the goal is simple, Alliance or Horde must crontrol the Blackrock Spire, how to ? We will put flags in the mountain just like in Arathi Basin for example. Lets say 1 flag in front of Molten Core entrance, 1 flag in front of Blackwing's lair entrance, and 1 flag in the Horde zone, and 1 flag in the ally zone. Well the flags will reward points if you control them, lets say you get 3k ressources ( make this event take 1 hour ) to win OR ! If you get the 4 bases you win automatically .
Well on Cataclysm realm flying mounts must be disabled for this. This is verry important because we can fly in Blackrock mountain on 4.3.4 ...
-> Reward suggestions: Reward could be a mount for the winning team, like an alliance PvP mount for Horde players and a Horde PvP mount for alliance players to show people that the took it from the dead bodies of their enemies at the great battle !
Any comments you might have: No flying mount, and separate both camps before the event starts, otherwise people will try to dodge the fight and ninja flag ... This is not what we want here. Here we want MASSIVE world pvp !
-Name of the event: "Gilneas assault !" ( Neltharion only )
-Brief description of it: The Horde is now ready to invade Gilneas ! So alliance will defend Gilneas, and Horde will try to capture it. Horde will start at the north of Gilneas Wall and on the shore, in the south of Gilneas. Alliance will start in the town. The Horde players will have to follow a road to assault the city, they will have to capture graveyard on their way, 2 graveyards in the south ( on the beach and south of the city ) and 2 in the north ( at the wall and in the north of the city ) , Horde players will have to capture 1 flag in the center of the town, and alliance will have to defend the flag . Alliance will have NPCs to help them to defend Gilneas.
-Reward suggestions: Rated BGs tittles: Scout for Horde players and Private for alliance players and 500gold per character.
-Any comments you might have: Here is a map to show you how it will work
Stair event
Brief description: A huge stair way in the air with a couple or zig zags here and there and at the end is a platform with .. lets say 5 different hall ways leading to an portal taking the player to different places and get reward. The staff member/s can rearrange the sequence of the halls to make it less easy.
*1st reward : mount, 1500 gold
*2nd reward: non-combat pet, 2000 gold
*3rd reward: scenarist title
*4th reward: 10 points,1000 gold
*5th reward: 5 points, 2000 gold