Events available every week

[MsSmart]

There are granted some events that may not make sense to be available any time of the year such as the Christmas and Halloween events, so they would not be on the rotation.

 

But why not rotate Nemesis, Zombie, Rikti Invasion, Server Disconnect events with each lasting a week?

 

I think this would spice up without the need to do a TF to force spawn them, yet still be able to force spawn them if a team desires.

[Rudra]

Can we please not go back to City of Invasions? I hated that just before the game shut down. It was near constant invasions. Made street sweeping missions from contacts near impossible.

[Greycat]

I get sick of those events *really* fast.

 

Continual events? No F'ing Thanks. Even the people that love them would probably be sick of them before six months were out.  Besides, it'd pretty much just be a sign of "we have no ideas for anything new." 

[lemming]

4 hours ago, MsSmart said:

But why not rotate Nemesis, Zombie, Rikti Invasion, Server Disconnect events with each lasting a week?

Other than Server Disconnect, they are already available all the time.

Nemesis happens everytime someone finishes a the Hegenburger (sp) arc.

Rikti happens at the end of a Lady Grey

Zombie at the end of Katie & Tarkikos (sp)

 

And that is fine with me.    It would be cool if we could trigger a Rularoo invasion, maybe the finale of Who Will Die?

[Rudra]

4 minutes ago, lemming said:

It would be cool if we could trigger a Rularoo invasion,

Is the Rularuu invasion still available to the HC devs? I thought it only existed until the Shadow Shard was available or for a short duration after the Shadow Shard was added? (Not that I liked the Rularuu invasion when it happened. Nothing better than finding floating eyeballs everywhere and blasting you out of stealth so the other mobs you're trying to avoid for being much higher level than you realize you are there to murder....)

[lemming]

5 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Is the Rularuu invasion still available to the HC devs?

That I do not know.   And if triggered by an end of TF, it would be only in one zone.   In any case, probably would need to be reworked a bit anyway if it exists at all.

[lemming]

Got curious and it does exist with SCORE, but it is a very simple invasion compared to the others.  Though looks like it should spawn in some locations instead of on players like the current ones do.

 

Source/MapServer/src/script/ZoneEvents/ShadowShardInvasion.c

// The Shadow Shard Invasion will be the first shard event
// it is pretty simple, and just tries to maintain a constant number of
// rularuu invaders in each city zone.  It maintains 4 vines in the
// city, and 100 invaders that have spawned out of vines.

//Portal spawns every 5 minutes (changed from 10)
//Still only 4 Portals
//1 group spawns every 30 seconds (changed from 1 minutes)
//Max. 100 entities

Edited yesterday at 03:32 AM by lemming

[Skyhawke]

[Ukase]

This very post just makes it clear how different things are for players, depending on where you're sitting. 

So many new and returning players in the past month. No idea if it's Halloween or something else bringing them in. Of the few I've chatted with, most of them have time limited to the weekends. And, as you might imagine, they don't get to just sit down and play for 14 hours. It's maybe 2. 

So for those players, maybe they catch a one event or another. But likely not. After all it's just 2 hours a week. Now, the way things are, they can certainly trigger a nem invasion, but anecdotally, I see 4 zones where nem invasions gain traction. 
PI, Kings Row, Founders, Talos. Maybe Skyway. 

I'm not saying they don't happen in other zones, but having 4-5 teams, where team leads telling players not to use fire ball against Nemesis, because killing the lieuts gives him vengeance, making him even harder to whittle down seems like a good problem to have (when you think about the times you couldn't 5 people to join you) . A nem event on red side rarely gains traction. And I think that's a relevant detail. People just don't want to go to various zones for these events for their own reasons. A player with limited time, triggers the event, and very few come to help. 

Now, I get that we can't change the game to revolve around people with limited play time. I don't know the solution, but I do see the varied differences between what the game is now, and what some folks would like it to be, and what other folks want it to be. Three really different game states, just by changing a few things. It's kind of scary, really. Small wonder most of my suggestions get shot down. 
 

[lemming]

5 hours ago, Ukase said:

This very post just makes it clear how different things are for players, depending on where you're sitting. 

Oh definitely.   There's a lot of different ways to play and thinking there's one solution is just going to be a painful realization.   HC is doing a decent job of threading the divide between what is annoying for some people is fun for others.

Invasions are harder to avoid especially when they're multi-zone or focus on a popular zone, hence the rise of complaints during Halloween.

[Triumphant]

20 hours ago, lemming said:

Other than Server Disconnect, they are already available all the time.

Nemesis happens everytime someone finishes a the Hegenburger (sp) arc.

Rikti happens at the end of a Lady Grey

Zombie at the end of Katie & Tarkikos (sp)

 

And that is fine with me.    It would be cool if we could trigger a Rularoo invasion, maybe the finale of Who Will Die?

 

Six years of regularly playing this game, and I had no idea that this was the case.  Always learning new things!