Discussion: Halloween Event On Now!

I have been having a blast.

Couple of issues...one more problematic than the other.

I have been getting few ghosts as others have said...but everything seems hunky dory on the hero side of Liberty.

However, on the villain side of liberty, I have ToT'd for hours and only come up with Statesman Masks...3 of them...

On the Hero side, I can take my main out and have 3 full sets in like...an hour.

It MAY not be the game though...I am a case study for Murphy's Law...

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For any given character, the timers are, IIRC, 10 seconds between door clicks and 5 minutes between clicking the same door. There does not appear to be any sort of timer preventing multiple characters from clicking on the same door in rapid succession; I was on a team yesterday where we were stacking 2-3 trickspawns to get good AoE payoff. Also note that each door is a separate entity -- if you go to the front of a skyscraper where there is a panel of four doors, you can click on each one at the 10-second interval, then all four are 'used' and you have to go elsewhere.

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Apparently they are also level-keyed, I presume to prevent griefing. A level 41 in Martial, I find, will not be able to ToT at any door- (s)he'll have to go to Grand. I haven't tested this across the full level range, but it holds true for my 40+ and 50 chars redside.

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The doors have been level-keyed from the first Halloween event, although it appears that the devs have made one change that makes it better for ToTers -- I remember from the first Halloween event that if you were ToTing in a 10-19 zone and knocked on a door, that was what you would get -- mobs that could be anywhere from level 10 to 19. Now you're getting spawns appropriate for your level/team composition.

However, it would be even better if the devs could make the trick spawns use the invasion-spawn code, which would let them remove the level blocking, so any players could team together regardless of level or zone, and it would also reduce some of the griefing capability, since people would no longer be able to drag level 39 mobs over to level 31 players at a nearby door.

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"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers

I am finding the zombie raids to be very blueside favored. Come on, give us villains more zombie love. It really needs to be equalled out more. I played on Guardian red side off and on all day yesterday and everytime I was logged in the heros would get several zones of raids and redside was lucky to get one zone and never did even see an EB even though we had a large enough group.

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2 things ...

1- Increase the chance Jack in Irons will spawn from 10% to say 20%, OR put in a streakbreaker.
2- Increase the chance that spirits for Buster badge will spawn from ToTing.

Thankyou.

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CHAMPION!

Yeah, the griefing get's pretty bad. Had it done a few times last night by someone (name removed to protect the stupid) and finally after the last kill I recieved I called him out on it on Broadcast. His response was, "Well they keep doing it to me". My response was, "... so do unto others? Very Heroic." After that I just put him on ignore and moved on.

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If its broke, don't fix it... I like the chaos!

Having a good time this year. The lack of spirits is troublesome, but I'm actually more concerned about the dearth of costume salvage.

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OUTstanding
Details listed under current news could be better though.

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"what do you mean do I know what the sun looks like?"

The event has been almost awesome, one thing I have to say though.

The Buster badge, Spirits just aren't spawning, two full days of farming I got all the badges for this event in the first couple of hours, 2 full days later and I still have no buster badge. Threads about this are all over this forum, I think it's the only issue with the event as a whole.

On a ligheter note, Zombie invasions are full of win!!

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Shhh. My common sense is tingling. ~ Deadpool

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Yeah, the griefing get's pretty bad. Had it done a few times last night by someone (name removed to protect the stupid) and finally after the last kill I recieved I called him out on it on Broadcast. His response was, "Well they keep doing it to me". My response was, "... so do unto others? Very Heroic." After that I just put him on ignore and moved on.

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They should just use the "level-less" system for zone invasions w/ the ToT spawns - that way they'd never be purple to anybody...

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And since this can't be pleaded enough: Bring back the Tier 3 Inspirations, please!

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It is possible that this had something to do with the change to the door timers.
With the increased ToT rate, we would end up being swamped by Tier 3 insps.
(as a side-effect it'd probably also lead to more people leaving ToT spawns behind as they rush from door to door to optimize their drop rate)

Given the choice between Tier 3 insps and the much more enjoyable (to me personally at least) ToT rate this year, I'd go with the increased ToT rate.

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You can click doors 3 times faster this year, but, they could have compensated by making Tier 3 appear 33% of the time.

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That would seem reasonable.

It is of course possible that they felt that the previous drop rate was too high too, but if that's the case there's always the option of reducing the drop chance further, to 1/4, 1/5, or even less.

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This event kinda gets old in a hurry

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Out of curiosity, does anyone else think that the Zombie Apocalypse would be fun on any Friday the 13ths that come up during the year?

I think it'd be a reasonable way to bring the event back, but it wouldn't happen so often that it'd feel less special when it comes for longer on Halloween.

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Out of curiosity, does anyone else think that the Zombie Apocalypse would be fun on any Friday the 13ths that come up during the year?

I think it'd be a reasonable way to bring the event back, but it wouldn't happen so often that it'd feel less special when it comes for longer on Halloween.

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This is full of win.

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Out of curiosity, does anyone else think that the Zombie Apocalypse would be fun on any Friday the 13ths that come up during the year?

I think it'd be a reasonable way to bring the event back, but it wouldn't happen so often that it'd feel less special when it comes for longer on Halloween.

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I'd be for this!

Speaking of which, they definitely need to give one of the larger zombies either a hockey mask or a machete...

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Out of curiosity, does anyone else think that the Zombie Apocalypse would be fun on any Friday the 13ths that come up during the year?

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Win. Best idea ever.

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

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Wee Little Tank Girl, Wee Little Widow, Wee Little Clockwork

Have not been able to get on tonight, so hoping for an update.

Has the spawn rate upped for the invasions yet or is it still 3+ hours in between? I'd love the badges, but I can't hang around for hours waiting for an invasion - just a very bad time of year workwise.

Unthrilled with invasions so far. They'd be great if we didn't end up just sitting around for hours waiting for one to happen and being unable to commit to anything extensive because of it. In three days, I've seen one; husband at four days on blueside Liberty, is still at *zero*, and he plays during normal playing hours in the evening. This is just strange.

~Elizabeth

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Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so! -Elastigirl

The SOLUS Foundation - http://www.solusfoundation.com
A Liberty-based bastion, seven years strong.

they seem to happen in spurts

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I was unimpressed with the Zombie attacks. I think it'd work better if it was more like the Supa Trolls. Those guys end up running around in the sort of hordes that a zombie attack should have. If they all crawled up from certain spots and went shuffling off in a similar fashion to the Supa Trolls, that'd look more like a proper zombie attack.

And though it's undoubtedly not possible with the engine, it'd be really cool if citizens that got within range of the zombies got turned into zombies themselves. Also, if a player killed by a zombie rose as a zombie NPC and couldn't Hosport until killed again or the event ended, that would be awesome.

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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound

i hate ToT ganking......in St. Martial some level 31 people were ToT at some doors and a couple 39s run up (speed boosted or with superspeed) click a couple doors spawning the high level mobs then take off full speed. this flattened the team of 31s giving them all debt.

they should make it similar to rikti in that you dont get debt from event mobs.

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Out of curiosity, does anyone else think that the Zombie Apocalypse would be fun on any Friday the 13ths that come up during the year?

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Win. Best idea ever.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

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/signed.

/signed/signed/signed/signed/signed/signed/signed/signed!

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Arc #6015 - Coming Unglued

"A good n00b-sauce is based on a good n00b-roux." - The Masque

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Out of curiosity, does anyone else think that the Zombie Apocalypse would be fun on any Friday the 13ths that come up during the year?

I think it'd be a reasonable way to bring the event back, but it wouldn't happen so often that it'd feel less special when it comes for longer on Halloween.

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I like this idea. I finally caught a Zombiepocalypse yesterday. Or, got caught in one, rather. The sudden music and the sky turning red was a great "holy crap!!" moment. Very fun, but I kind of wish they lasted a bit longer.

I've encountered far fewer griefers yesterday and today. Either they're bored or they're banned, I'm okay with either. The last one I had did the usual stunt, ran right up to the door where I was fighting, clicked, fled. The funny bit was, he was only one level higher than me, and unteamed, so I didn't have any trouble with his critters.

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BackAlleyBrawler: I can't facepalm this post hard enough.
ShoNuff: If sophisticated = bro-mantically emo-tastic, then I'm going to keep to my Shonen loving simplicity dammit.

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The funny bit was, he was only one level higher than me, and unteamed, so I didn't have any trouble with his critters.

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Heh...incompetent griefer is incompetent.

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Muhahaha.

I got all four of the zombie invasion badges for my level 50 Ice/Ice blaster, without being on a team. For the second time, I encountered a big zombie fight shortly after logging in. Between the two fights, I helped destroy a lot of zombies.

Granted Blizzard helps a lot with that kind of thing.


Edit: Whoa, and I did it again, this time with a level 39 Energy/Energy blaster. But this time I only needed one big fight. I got all four badges, and only used Nova once.

With a total of 14 zombie badges so far, I can say that my previous dim expectations of getting the badges solo have been wiped out. Obviously it's still much faster to get them on teams, especially if you need to do it with a lot of alts, but those big fights can draw a lot of zombie targets for solo players too.

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The griefers are all right.

My mains on Liberty are doing alright.

Virtue is especially awful this year. In the last several of playing my lowbie alts on Virtue I have gained exactly one event salvage.

One.

In knocking down all of the monsters that appear, I have gained one badge. Again -- one. Dead Head.

One.

The only reason to take down the monsters is to perform an XP grind. That's just about the only benefit to Halloween on Virtue.

Also, from the last 60 minutes combined, my events tab says only:
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The Ghost Ship has disappeared from Independence Port
Fire Alarm sounded in Steel Canyon
Warning: Superadine raid in progress in Skyway City
Fire alarm cleared in Steel Canyon.

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This is my third Halloween, and the only time I can recall having this difficult of an experience.

I'm at least going to try another server. I was really hoping to get the events salvages for these alts as well.

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I vote that next year, the Halloween event looks more like ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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