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Discussion: Rikti Encore

Aliana Blue

By Aliana Blue,
Posted on: 2007-08-13 15:15 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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That's good news.

The invasions are fun.

 

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Lighthouse,

your rapid intelligence will be of great use.

They could not defeat us when they had us off-guard. Now that we have had time to prepare, we will be glad to prove to the Rikti that no mere 24-hour skirmish will bring this city to its knees.

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Part of a Peace accord Transcript, source Vanguard:
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[*]Rikti Emissary: Very Well, we agree to stop the attack, but we can not stop the Reconstructionsits. They are war like and can not be stopped fully. How is Tuesday, August 14th. They would like to attack then.
[*]Lady Grey: Tuesday is fine, here is a plan drawn up for your approval. It lists several other days that we can sanction an attack.
[*]Rikti Emissary:This is very good, we will send word back. I believe we have an agreement.


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[color=orange]That was of course a work of fiction, but damn. Think about the "In Game Story" this could be. It'd be just like saying:

[color=white]"The attacks are over, Good job heroes. For those of you who have been away though, we have agreed to allow more Rikti invade to "test" our resolve.[color=orange]

I just think it's funny is all heheh.

 

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w00t! I feel another level or two commin on!!!!

 

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/e sigh

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oh yeah...lowbie pl..though i am glad it is back for badges...though i suppose no notice would make it more invasion-like the notice is very handy

 

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Its Issue 10: Invasion
As long as were waiting there should be at least:
one weekday Fullscale Invasion Monday,Tuesday, Wensday, Thursday
and one weekend Fullscale Invasion Friday,Saturday,Sunday
When its Issue 11 and you got somenew event let it
die down to one weekday invasion one week and one weekend day invasion

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It's a dark and story night. That means something bad is happening out there

 

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24 hours...jesus. I hope something big happens to mix it up. I'd like my chance to put my commentary in another paragon times issue about the whole rikti thing too.

 

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YES!

 

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Funnily enough, I never noticed the invasions were turned off.

On Freedom, the last 3 I saw:

08-13-2007 21:26:40 [Admin]WARNING: Rikti ships have been detected heading for Skyway City.

08-14-2007 00:44:22 [Admin]WARNING: Rikti ships have been detected heading for Peregrine Island.

08-14-2007 01:51:00 [Admin]WARNING: Rikti ships have been detected heading for Sharkhead Isle.

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Any hope of this event being made interesting instead of the pitifully dull, repetitive, unoriginal, unimaginative thing it is currently?

 

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Any hope of this event being made interesting instead of the pitifully dull, repetitive, unoriginal, unimaginative thing it is currently?

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Any hope of you taking your criticism of an event a lot of people like and taking it elsewhere?

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From him? LOL, GL with that

Just don't start talking about MUDs, you'll never hear the end of it, trust me.

As for me, time to whack more Rikti (see my sig)!

 

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Any hope of this event being made interesting instead of the pitifully dull, repetitive, unoriginal, unimaginative thing it is currently?

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Just as soon as your own posts are.

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W-w-w-what?

I thought vanguard said they had this under control!

I am a villian! I rescued bloody longbow for that Lady Gray and then she comes out and tries to pull something like this?

To hell with her! Let her fight her own invasion!

 

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Any hope of this event being made interesting instead of the pitifully dull, repetitive, unoriginal, unimaginative thing it is currently?

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Just as soon as your own posts are.

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Scortch!

Seriously though, the 'invasion' is pretty cool. Drop ships, bombs and what not. Personaly I think it'd be really neat (all be it relitivly hard to do) to see full scale damage. If a bomb goes off near a building or on a bridge, a hole shows up. Then once the Attack is over a repair crew of 2 or 3 people "TP" into fix the holes.

Like I said, I think this would be hard to do with out a high dose of Lag. But I think "distructable" environments during an attack or in all missions would be really neat. Think about it, throw a mob (with TK, Propell, Knockback etc..) and they make a hole you can go through to continue fighting them. Things like that would make for some pretty neat fights. I'm a realist though, there are a lot more things to get done before that level of interactivity can be done. I think it'd be really cool is all.

 

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Wouldn't it be better to have the start and stop times for an Invasion Day coincide with the regular daily maintenance times?

 

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Personally, I think the proposed schedule of one weekday and one weekend day per week to be a good permanent schedule for the invasion

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second that

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Wouldn't it be better to have the start and stop times for an Invasion Day coincide with the regular daily maintenance times?

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they already do

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W-w-w-what?

I thought vanguard said they had this under control!

I am a villian! I rescued bloody longbow for that Lady Gray and then she comes out and tries to pull something like this?

To hell with her! Let her fight her own invasion!

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the invasion is under control because of your efforts and yopur efforts are stll needed occasionally to keep it under control

 

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You can plan on the event starting at approximately 10 AM Central (11 AM Eastern) on each day and then
turning off at approximately the same time the following day.

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Wouldn't it be better to have the start and stop times for an Invasion Day coincide with the regular daily maintenance times?

[/ QUOTE ]they already do

[/ QUOTE ]Daily maintenance starts at 8AM Central and usually lasts less than the two hours generally allocated to it. If the start and end times for the Event days were set to 8:30AM Central instead of the 10AM Central time listed, it would better coincide with maintenance times and you wouldn't have about an hour after maintenance of the scraggly end of the previous day's Event.

 

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Funnily enough, I never noticed the invasions were turned off.

On Freedom, the last 3 I saw:

08-13-2007 21:26:40 [Admin]WARNING: Rikti ships have been detected heading for Skyway City.

08-14-2007 00:44:22 [Admin]WARNING: Rikti ships have been detected heading for Peregrine Island.

08-14-2007 01:51:00 [Admin]WARNING: Rikti ships have been detected heading for Sharkhead Isle.

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3 teams completed the LGTF?

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Over on Virtue, I haven't seen an announcement all night, so yeah it looks like three TFs went through.

 

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Any hope of this event being made interesting instead of the pitifully dull, repetitive, unoriginal, unimaginative thing it is currently?

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Any hope of you taking your criticism of an event a lot of people like and taking it elsewhere?

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I for one am against them doing this again. The lag in the zones is bad enough. If they could at least fix the performance issues on this I could see an encore happening. But as it is now, there is no way we are ready for this. All this does for me is one thing, once I see the red words for a zone I am in it means leave within 30s or be prepared to dc.

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/cheer!

=)

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This is gonna sound like a stupid question, but is it a 24 hour CONSTANT invasion of all areas? or just the same Rolling invasions that got us before (Please say Constant! PLEASE that would rock so hardcore! Maybe with some intermediary events, like having the emergency transporter shuting down, so healers would have to go around the city rezing people, at the risk of their own lives PLEASE!!)

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It's the same event that was running before at the launch of Issue 10: Invasion.

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If it's technically feasible to do, I think that, on a longer-term basis, it might prove to be entertaining for the players if there was a really low percentage chance (so it doesn't happen often enough that people will get tired of it) that, upon completion of the Lady Grey Task Force, instead of a single zone raid, the Rikti stage a 24-hour invasion. I don't think anything more than about a 1% chance occurrence would be desirable, depending on how often the LGTF got run.

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