Hey Fractilla
Yes I was a game admin on SAMP
You're absolutely right that we should have contacted factions, and we will absolutely do this next time. I apologise sincerely that this event didn't go well, and impacted some people's roleplay negatively
I hope you can understand our perspective on why we chose to do this event; We want to begin doing regular events on LSRP, and so we chose to do something that we have done before to get us warmed up. Wonderland festival goes all the way back to 2015, and it has always been located in the same place, we have never had this amount of negative feedback from wonderland before
I think a large part that went wrong (besides the extremely rushed deadline) was the teasers and marketing - We wanted to make it mysterious, but that led to people thinking that an actual alien event was coming, not something alien themed. We failed to understand that people would actually think we would go to the level of aliens invading for an event, this is of course something we would never do
SAN news and rumours made it even worse, with public broadcasts being made that aliens were invading. This is not a staff run faction, but we should have stepped in and stopped it sooner, and we should have been clearer with the marketing
Fortunately there is a positive side to mistakes, and that is that they are great learning opportunities. We want to bring realistic and enjoyable events to the community, and we will use wonderland as an opportunity to make future events better
We're currently thinking of the next event, this time we will be asking the community what they want, select the most popular ideas, and then speak with illegal and legal faction managements regarding the idea to cater it to everyone. Community involvement will be key in planning the next event
We appreciate your concerns and we know they come from a good place. Thank you for being passionate, your concerns, and everyone else's, has been taken on board - you will see clear changes in the event planning process going forward