Halloween Issues & Zombie Apocalypse Frequency

Just a couple points from my twisted mind.

1. No Tier 3 Inspers. seems THAT would have been a real treat. make the drop rate less and that works fine.
2. Buster badge busted. this one is really a pain for me. I only have 2 toons i get badges with and I am not even close on the one I have been trying with. I played for 3 or 4 hours with MAYBE 3 spirits total. and I have lots of time to play. most people don't have that kind of time per week much less a day.
3. Jack spawns pretty much non-existant. I have seen him twice and I have very few friends that have seen him that much. I spent 3 hours killing Eochai and no Jack. that is just wrong.
4. Zombie Invasion is pretty fun as long as your computer cant handle it. friend of mine was getting .87 FPS last night. but i do enjoy getting puked on and the sound effecxts are pretty gross and thats cool.

just my 2 cents. take it or leave it. its all good no matter what

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I have only one complaint - and it's not necessarily directly related to the zombie apocalypse (but I first noticed it during one)

Zone event messages sould state which instance of the zone it's occuring in (If not occur in them all at the same time).

There were 4 instances of PI, while I was looking for a raid, and I had to search each of them in turn. Yes, there's obvious visual cues, but I still had to load the zone 4 times (I have horrible luck - it's ALWAYS in the last one I check)

Also - not sure if i'm complaining here - but in a raid of any great size (say - by the portal corp buildings) - I joined a team and got all four badges almost instantaniously... Compared to, say, a rikti raid where even in a fairly large raid I'm almost always missing at least one (non-bomb related) badge by the end of it. And there was a medium sized raid in kings row that I joined; People had more than enough time to switch to 5 alts and get all the badges on all of them within one go at it.

Again, not sure if i'm complaining - I like my shineys (and it's probably too late to increase the requirements now even if the devs agree)... it just seems a little too easy. Almost no reason to stick around for more than a few seconds... never mind participate in more than one.

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Hyperstrike, in regards to your below post.

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So no buster badge this year?

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That's not what he said. You can still get the Buster badge. It's simply not as quick and easy to attain as you'd like.

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Well I want compensation!

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* Costume drops
* Inspie drops
* Costume slot salvage
* XP
* Inf
* Prestige
* Recipie drops
* Salvage drops

What? You want a pony too?

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for the time I payed for and wasted trying to get something that was advertised as working, and is obviously broken.

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It IS working. Simply not QUITE as intended, meaning you have to actually put effort into it.

As such, aren't you glad they started it a few days early?

Again, you CAN get the badges. They simply take LONGER.

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The times are wrong, the badge is bugged, that isn't a delay my very outspoken friend, it's a bug! doesn't need more effort to attain, it needs a fix, did you not understand that part?.

They released something that wasn't working as intended, climb out of the devs [censored] for 5 mins and maybe you will see the light.

As for your rewards.

* Costume drops - These are temp, and most of them bugged, same as last time, remember last years event? or was this your first?
* Inspire drops - tier 1? lmao, I can buy these any time
* Costume slot salvage - I can buy these all year round, or simply log one of my other toons that has them stock piled from the last few years events
* XP - I can get this anywhere, all year
* Inf - See above, I can get more of this elsewhere anytime, all year
* Prestige - See above
* Recipie drops - TFs grant better rewards, not events
* Salvage drops - I can get this all year

The rewards you should have mentioned are the event specific ones, costume piece (has a color bug according to some), 4 new badges (easier to attain with working invasion times), ToT badges (again, one is broken, not delayed, it's bugged) GM monster badges (again, spawn times broken on jack)

So all you did with your post was jump in open your mouth and not actually know what you where talking about, good job!

Not working "quite" as intended? If you bought a CD from a store and you got it home and several tracks wouldn't play, would you take it back to the store and ask for compensation/refund? or would you praise the production company and simply settle for your borked product?

Try seeing it from someone elses point of veiw before you attempt to attack others posts, Next time atleast bring some valid points to the argument, just because you open your mouth, doesn't mean anything interesting will come out.

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There's something else that needs to be addressed...

Spawn rates/types/numbers of the zombies for the apocalypse.

I've been in ZAs that have around 15 people there with no Boss/EB or extremely limited number (like less than 6 over the course of the entire invasion) of Boss/EBs spawning.

Then I've been in groups that about 8 or so cause about half a dozen EBs to spawn at once and cause multiple team wipes.

I know it's a random draw on what gets spawned, but that spawn pattern just isn't right.

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The times are wrong, the badge is bugged,

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EMPATH is a bugged badge. Buster is a badge that has a low-spawn-rate enemy. (Even if it shouldn't be low spawn rate).

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that isn't a delay my very outspoken friend, it's a bug! doesn't need more effort to attain, it needs a fix, did you not understand that part?.

[/ QUOTE ]Did you not understand the part where the training room is currently occupied with a closed beta and they cannot test patches without pulling that down, so they won't except for actual important badges?

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They released something that wasn't working as intended, climb out of the devs [censored] for 5 mins and maybe you will see the light.

[/ QUOTE ]Real classy.

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* Costume drops - These are temp, and most of them bugged, same as last time, remember last years event? or was this your first?

[/ QUOTE ]Most? TWO out of THIRTY-THREE have clipping issues, and if you're thinking of the fact that you can't use them with stealth powers like shadowfall, if it's in the info, it's clearly NOT a bug. WAI (Except the Malta costume clipping issues on male models, but that just looks cooler sometimes).
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* Inspire drops - tier 1? lmao, I can buy these any time

[/ QUOTE ]You can, but it's a waste of inf. I've only ever purchased them for a TF.
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* Costume slot salvage - I can buy these all year round, or simply log one of my other toons that has them stock piled from the last few years events

[/ QUOTE ]You can also sell them in the off-season for major inf.
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* XP - I can get this anywhere, all year

[/ QUOTE ]You can hit 13k XP/min anywhere, all year, on a 4-man team?
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* Inf - See above, I can get more of this elsewhere anytime, all year

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* Prestige - See above

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* Recipie drops - TFs grant better rewards, not events

[/ QUOTE ]Steadfast: KB. Karma: KB.
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* Salvage drops - I can get this all year

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The rewards you should have mentioned are the event specific ones, costume piece (has a color bug according to some)

[/ QUOTE ]Haven't heard of that.
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4 new badges (easier to attain with working invasion times)

[/ QUOTE ]If you get in one invasion with a good population, you have all 4.
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ToT badges (again, one is broken, not delayed, it's bugged)

[/ QUOTE ]1 out of 9 badges. The other 8 work fine.
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GM monster badges (again, spawn times broken on jack)

[/ QUOTE ]Nope, they're working fine. 10% is not a very common occurrence. Random number generators mean just that. Random. Just because there are 38 numbers on a roulette table, doesn't mean that it'll be exactly 38 spins before 00 comes up (as an analogy). There's just not a streakbreaker, like every other thing in the game that's not a ToHit roll.

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Try seeing it from someone elses point of veiw before you attempt to attack others posts, Next time atleast bring some valid points to the argument, just because you open your mouth, doesn't mean anything interesting will come out.

[/ QUOTE ]Funny, I would say the same to you.

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you know, i like this event. I had a blast last night running around healing folks fighting zombie raids.

I DID manage to get 4 spirits in a row last night...IN A ROW! lol, I felt like a god for all of 2 minutes till the werewolf charged out behind the last one and ripped me apart. :P

But, what I am getting at is this, many of us like this event. Its a low spawn rate for ghosts. Why not extend it another few to several days.

Give some of the badgeheads a chance to grab the badge...or at least a somewhat larger chance.

Oh, and standing on a tall building...during a zombie attack...right near the edge...

Its so funny to see the zombies spawn and fall many..many..many stories.

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I'm really suprised and disappointed that priority wasn't given to the Buster badge bug.

Whenever there has been a bug with previous events they were given priority precisely because they only happen once a year and need to be right.

A year is way too long to have to wait for a badge bug fix.

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But I think this is the first year that the next issue was on the training room during an event (and definitely the first year that the next issue was on a training room during an event after such a paucity of issues and another issue waiting as soon as this one goes live).

Maybe, if things get done on time, we could get a spring trick or treating event for a week. (Theme: No one expects the Zombie Inquisition). But to get this fixed for now, you're looking at delays for I13 and I14.

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Halloween Questions
<ul type="square">[*] Lack of Tier 3 Inspirations as Treats: We've also seen feedback that some players miss receiving Tier 3 inspirations as Treats. This change is intentional. In making changes to Trick or Treating from last year, it's possible to open doors and receive Treats at a faster rate. In order to keep Tier 3 inspirations something of value, we removed them from rewards to Treats.[/list]
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Been seeing only Tier 1 inspirations for Treats.

Tricks have sometimes given two Tier 1 inspirations, just like the Treat rewards (which is a bug in itself, considering Tricks aren't supposed to give Inspirations.).

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LMAO, I do not know how many times that has thrown me off- "Ohhhh I got Insps- coool!! Only to be surprised when when a werewolf comes out of the door and whacks me while "Trick" pops up over head.......

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No.

EMPATH is a bugged badge. Buster is a badge that has a low-spawn-rate enemy. (Even if it shouldn't be low spawn rate).

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To quote Lighthouse, I think your mistaken on the times and the badge.

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Since the Halloween event started on Saturday, we've identified an ongoing issue with the Zombie Apocalypse that leads to it not triggering as often as it should.

<ul type="square">[*] Low Spirit Spawn: In reading through feedback and playing the event we've seen comments about the relatively low spawn rate of Spirit NPCs during Trick or Treating. In investigating this, it looks to be a bug[/list]
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Did you not understand the part where the training room is currently occupied with a closed beta and they cannot test patches without pulling that down, so they won't except for actual important badges?

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Did you not understand the part where I said they released something that was obviuosly bugged?

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Real classy.

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I thought so, thought it up all by myself.

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]Most? TWO out of THIRTY-THREE have clipping issues, and if you're thinking of the fact that you can't use them with stealth powers like shadowfall, if it's in the info, it's clearly NOT a bug. WAI (Except the Malta costume clipping issues on male models, but that just looks cooler sometimes).

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Adding up the years these bugs haven't been fixed, I couldn't care less whether it's two or 102, it should have been adressed last year and not released borked again this year, wtf does that have to do with you? it's my personal oppinion.

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You can, but it's a waste of inf. I've only ever purchased them for a TF.

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It was a matter of pointing out that these "rewards" are not event specific, if you could not undertand the simplicity of that then you will never understand anything.

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You can also sell them in the off-season for major inf.

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No [censored] sherlock, why else would I stockpile them in the first place?

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You can hit 13k XP/min anywhere, all year, on a 4-man team?

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I usually play on a team of 8.

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Steadfast: KB. Karma: KB.

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And where do you get these? the candy store? what did I just say? what was the point of you even typing that? are you retarded?
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Not at this rate.

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Now this made me lol

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1 out of 9 badges. The other 8 work fine.

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So whats your point?

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Nope, they're working fine. 10% is not a very common occurrence. Random number generators mean just that. Random. Just because there are 38 numbers on a roulette table, doesn't mean that it'll be exactly 38 spins before 00 comes up (as an analogy). There's just not a streakbreaker, like every other thing in the game that's not a ToHit roll.

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I have seen tons of threads about people complaining about jack spawn times this year, I didn't make it up, do a search, ask around, people have spent double the time this year compared to last, jack has always been a pain to get but this year it's been a joke for some.

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Funny, I would say the same to you.

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You just did, and for the record, again, don't attack my posts blindly, I have oppinions and issues with this event that some others share, if you don't like that, tough $hit. Don't come in here and try to take my posts apart, I'll speak what I want, I'll complain when I want and I really don't see the point of anything you just said, It's all been said before and I feel I'm just repeating myself here to random a-holes who wouldn't understand where I was coming from if I jumped up and kicked them in the head.

Please, just [censored], voice your complaints, voice your oppinions, but don't attack mine, I wouldn't attack yours for no reason either and your the second numb nut to do this to me in two days. I couldn't give a flying **** what you think of my posts, all you have done is irritate me even more, knowing that I have to explain myself to random fools like you . . . . every time I have an issue.

You have no answers that I wish to hear, this was a discussion thread posted by LH, I voiced my complaints and issues to be heard by people of power in this game, not by you, or anyone else who has a problem with my posts.

I now understand that I can come here everyday and repeat myself and get no where except more angry and more enemies, I'm pissing in the wind here.

/Done

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Lighthouse, in all honesty, a Tier 1 Inspiration is not really a worthwhile reward.

The Tier 3 thing might have been an issue if the Trick/Treat ratio wasn't seriously screwed. When one can go double digits on Tricks before receiving a Treat, and then being awarded a Tier 1 insp...well...it's not really a "prize".

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Stop being ungrateful. It could have been another trick or a rock.

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Oh, you mean like the 20 prior Tricks for that one Treat.

It's amazing how many people trot out the "stop being ungrateful" line when someone voices a valid complaint. A Tier 1 inspiration that can be bought in any store for pennies is not a valid reward for ToT'ing.

Rocks I don't mind, other than them being called a Treat. They are good for throwing at Hami and for lolz factor in PvP.

Edit - Never said I didn't like the event. Really like the zombie apocs. It's just that the ToT'ing part is kinda broken.

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You are whining that you can't get your Tier 3 inspirations. I call that being ungrateful since you still receive adequate rewards.

If you were complaining about the Spirits or bugged invasions then I wouldn't have responded.

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The Zombie invasion has 4. That's not working right.
Ghosts and Jack. That's 2 more not working right
That gives me a total of 6.

Add that up over multiple characters, and we are talking about a lot of badges.

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Huh. I've gotten all the zombie badges on all the characters I want them on, Hero or Villain, within 15 minutes of logging that character on. Are you playing a different game?

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It was fun.

Seriously, dude: The badge is not bugged. By that, he means THE BADGE IS STILL ATTAINABLE and still fits its normal standards for attainment. The enemy that GIVES the badge isn't spawning as much. It is, however, still realistically attainable... as many people in this thread have already pointed out.

Understand the difference now?

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It was fun.

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The times are wrong,

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Again, this merely means it takes longer. I currently have four toons that have gotten the Buster badge.

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the badge is bugged

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There's nothing wrong with the badge. It's not like you kill 20 ghosts and don't get the badge. The spawn times are bugged, so it's not easy for someone running solo and/or playing for short (an hour or less) blocks of time to rack up the required number of kills.

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that isn't a delay my very outspoken friend, it's a bug! doesn't need more effort to attain, it needs a fix, did you not understand that part?.

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My understanding is just fine. I understand that altaholics who don't play 24/7 won't be able to get the Buster badge on every one of their 80+ alts during this event.

Boo-fricking-hoo.

The Badge is still awarded when you attain the number of kills. It's simply harder to attain those kills than initially intended. And, since the fix would involve tearing out Test and reverting to Halloween code (and take more than a week of testing), it's somewhat pointless to rant about it.

Yeah, you can gripe that it wasn't made "easy enough" for you.

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* Costume drops - These are temp, and most of them bugged, same as last time, remember last years event? or was this your first?

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Okay, I have all the costumes at this point. Not seeing bugs.

But yes, this is my first event. So what?

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Inspire drops - tier 1? lmao, I can buy these any time

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What do you want for simply clicking on a door? A full set of Armageddon? Especially with the other drops available. I pulled a Numina's Heal last night. Boom. 13 mil. Just like that.

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Costume slot salvage - I can buy these all year round, or simply log one of my other toons that has them stock piled from the last few years events

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Yeah, you could BUY it, rather than simply being given it as AN AWARD. Are you actually reading what you're typing?

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XP/Inf/Prestige/Salvage (can make that any time)

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The point is, with a decent team, you can make it faster right now than just about any other time. If that's not your bag of tea, that's a personal issue and not a bug.

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Recipie drops - TFs grant better rewards, not events

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Not right now they don't.

Seriously, do you want to sign onto this event and simply have them allow you to build a L50, fully purpled out from scratch or something?

If you want good stuff, you STILL gotta work for it. Don't expect it to be handed to you.

If the drops that this event are providing you aren't enough and you gotta gripe about something as silly as tier 1 inspies vs tier 3? IMNSHO I call that simple greed.

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again, one is broken, not delayed, it's bugged

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*Sigh*

Again, if people are still getting it, the badge itself isn't bugged.

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So all you did with your post was jump in open your mouth and not actually know what you where talking about, good job!

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Well, if this is so, it's nice to see that I have you keeping me company in this endeavor.

And seeing it from another POV simply highlights what I've said. Greed.

And your CD/Software analogy doesn't work either.

1: The badges and costumes (as well as the costume piece) are still all attainable. So it's nothing like a CD where you can't listen to some tracks.

If you are unwilling, or unable, to put in the time required but the current situation, that's just too bad. I DO feel bad for the people who can't get all of the badges this year due to constraints on their time, or simple bad luck with spawns. But that's the nice thing about annual events. They come back NEXT YEAR.

Thanks for posting your opinions. Please work on the people skills a bit.

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The thing is, with a reasonably vigorous team, and a little (not a lot, a little) extra time spent playing in a ToT setup, and everybody should be able to get the badge on at least a few of their alts.

NO, they won't be able to get the badge on every single one of their alts by the mere act of logging on and beating mob for 15 minutes.

It's one of the reasons I'm a little (not tremendously) disappointed by the Apocalypse. One raid, ONE, and I racked all four badges ZA badges, even on my lowbie alts. With the Rikti Invasions, I had to go thru SEVERAL before I was able to rack up the appropriate number of kills.

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You are whining that you can't get your Tier 3 inspirations. I call that being ungrateful since you still receive adequate rewards.


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How can you possibly call a Tier 1 inspiration an "adequate reward"?

Srsly. It's a boobie prize. As in, no real value since it's sold in every store. I COULD run back and sell some of them at my base, but the influence is not worth it for the time involved.

What are the "adequate rewards" you are talking about?

Badges? Got those on my characters last year.
XP? Can get that anywhere.
Inf? See XP.
Costumes? They disappear in 13 days real time.

In essence, to those who have gotten the badges the last couple times around, the Tier 3's were the only "adequate" reward for the time spent, especially given that the Trick/Treat ratio is skewed towards Tricks. Otherwise, there isn't really an incentive for those people to participate.

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I find a very adequate reward Trick or Treating. It's a little thing called "fun".

And the weird thing is...that's what I play this game for! Man, that works out well!

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No.

EMPATH is a bugged badge. Buster is a badge that has a low-spawn-rate enemy. (Even if it shouldn't be low spawn rate).

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To quote Lighthouse, I think your mistaken on the times and the badge.

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Since the Halloween event started on Saturday, we've identified an ongoing issue with the Zombie Apocalypse that leads to it not triggering as often as it should.

<ul type="square">[*] Low Spirit Spawn: In reading through feedback and playing the event we've seen comments about the relatively low spawn rate of Spirit NPCs during Trick or Treating. In investigating this, it looks to be a bug[/list]
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To quote myself:
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Buster is a badge that has a low-spawn-rate enemy. (Even if it shouldn't be low spawn rate).

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Do you even read posts before responding?

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Did you not understand the part where the training room is currently occupied with a closed beta and they cannot test patches without pulling that down, so they won't except for actual important badges?

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Did you not understand the part where I said they released something that was obviuosly bugged?

[/ QUOTE ]They tested it for two hours with no advance notice. Not a lot of bugs got caught.

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Most? TWO out of THIRTY-THREE have clipping issues, and if you're thinking of the fact that you can't use them with stealth powers like shadowfall, if it's in the info, it's clearly NOT a bug. WAI (Except the Malta costume clipping issues on male models, but that just looks cooler sometimes).

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Adding up the years these bugs haven't been fixed, I couldn't care less whether it's two or 102, it should have been adressed last year and not released borked again this year, wtf does that have to do with you? it's my personal oppinion.

[/ QUOTE ]Most. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

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You can, but it's a waste of inf. I've only ever purchased them for a TF.

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It was a matter of pointing out that these "rewards" are not event specific, if you could not undertand the simplicity of that then you will never understand anything.

[/ QUOTE ]If you can't understand the fact that the speed at which they drop during the event far surpasses normal gameplay, I pity you.

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You can also sell them in the off-season for major inf.

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No [censored] sherlock, why else would I stockpile them in the first place?

[/ QUOTE ]Then why say they aren't a big deal?

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You can hit 13k XP/min anywhere, all year, on a 4-man team?

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I usually play on a team of 8.

[/ QUOTE ]And this has to do with my post how? Bigger team for ToT = even better XP/min. It's no Winter Lord, but it's faster levelling than running missions. Ergo a better reward for the event.

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Steadfast: KB. Karma: KB.

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And where do you get these? the candy store? what did I just say? what was the point of you even typing that? are you retarded?

[/ QUOTE ]These are in the "defeat an enemy" pool. Which you get faster with this event than you do through any other gameplay.

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1 out of 9 badges. The other 8 work fine.

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So whats your point?

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1) In the greatest quantity, amount, degree, or measure.

Your repeated hyperbole does not help your case

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Nope, they're working fine. 10% is not a very common occurrence. Random number generators mean just that. Random. Just because there are 38 numbers on a roulette table, doesn't mean that it'll be exactly 38 spins before 00 comes up (as an analogy). There's just not a streakbreaker, like every other thing in the game that's not a ToHit roll.

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I have seen tons of threads about people complaining about jack spawn times this year, I didn't make it up, do a search, ask around, people have spent double the time this year compared to last, jack has always been a pain to get but this year it's been a joke for some.

[/ QUOTE ]And I've seen an equal number of people in game saying it was just fine. It's a simple case of self-selection bias. If something seems to be working fine, you aren't going to make a post on the forums about it, but if something seems broken, you do. Simple statistics.

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Funny, I would say the same to you.

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You just did, and for the record, again, don't attack my posts blindly

[/ QUOTE ]Like you do to others? Do unto others, glass houses throwing stones, if you dish it out, you should take it, too? Any of those sayings ring a bell?

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I have opinions and issues with this event that some others share, if you don't like that, tough $hit.

[/ QUOTE ]You're entitled to your opinions and ideas, but not to your own facts.

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Don't come in here and try to take my posts apart, I'll speak what I want, I'll complain when I want and I really don't see the point of anything you just said, It's all been said before and I feel I'm just repeating myself here to random a-holes who wouldn't understand where I was coming from if I jumped up and kicked them in the head.

[/ QUOTE ]We're pointing out where you have the facts mistaken, not attacking. Also, way to threaten people with violence over a [censored] game.

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Please, just [censored], voice your complaints, voice your opinions, but don't attack mine

[/ QUOTE ]I'm not ATTACKING OPINIONS, I AM POINTING OUT MISTAKEN FACTS.

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I wouldn't attack yours for no reason either and your the second numb nut to do this to me in two days. I couldn't give a flying **** what you think of my posts, all you have done is irritate me even more, knowing that I have to explain myself to random fools like you . . . . every time I have an issue.

[/ QUOTE ]Anger management issues? Seriously, if you can't take people pointing out where you have the FACTS wrong, and not attacking your opinions, which I never did, you should take a break, stand up, go for a walk, and calm down.

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You have no answers that I wish to hear, this was a discussion thread posted by LH, I voiced my complaints and issues to be heard by people of power in this game, not by you, or anyone else who has a problem with my posts.

[/ QUOTE ]You voiced them in a discussion thread. If you don't want people to comment on stuff you say in a public forum, don't say it. Simple as that.

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I now understand that I can come here everyday and repeat myself and get no where except more angry and more enemies, I'm pissing in the wind here.

/Done

[/ QUOTE ]I'm not being your enemy, or angry with you. I'm simply pointing out a few things you may have missed.

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I find a very adequate reward Trick or Treating. It's a little thing called "fun".

And the weird thing is...that's what I play this game for! Man, that works out well!

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Heresy.

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It was fun.

yet another voice against the "click and run" tactics - especially the aggro code. I've given up ToT'ing on my level 42 blaster because of the 50's doing the superspeeder door-to-door dash.

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"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."

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I think your mistaken on the times and the badge.

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Not sure why you're going all out to be argumentative, but I'll clarify for you ONE MORE TIME.

The badge, itself, is NOT BUGGED.

The SPAWN RATES for the Spirits required to GET the badge IS.

Bugged spawn rate != Bugged badge

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Did you not understand the part where I said they released something that was obviuosly bugged?

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Do you actually have a point?

CoP has been bugged (and thus inactivated) for how long now?
There's clipping with numerous costumes in the costume creator.
The GvsE jump pack spawns inside huge models.
The base editor has numerous bugs.

Would you rather they simply not had a Halloween event this year? Then you could gripe about completely missing all the Halloween badges! Wouldn't that be FUN?

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Adding up the years these bugs haven't been fixed, I couldn't care less whether it's two or 102, it should have been adressed last year and not released borked again this year, wtf does that have to do with you? it's my personal oppinion.

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Translation:

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I am griping to hear myself gripe and thus validate my existence

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It was a matter of pointing out that these "rewards" are not event specific, if you could not undertand the simplicity of that then you will never understand anything.

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The fact of the matter is, they're STILL *REWARDS*. You get them, not for spending inf. But for simply CLICKING ON A DOOR. So exactly what IS the status on your gift horse's dental work?

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No [censored] sherlock, why else would I stockpile them in the first place?

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Apparently to gripe about how the event sucks because YOU don't need costume salvage.

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You can hit 13k XP/min anywhere, all year, on a 4-man team?[ QUOTE ]


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I usually play on a team of 8.


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Way to avoid answering the question!

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I have seen tons of threads about people complaining about jack spawn times this year, I didn't make it up, do a search, ask around, people have spent double the time this year compared to last, jack has always been a pain to get but this year it's been a joke for some.

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MUST someone explain to you, again that WAI isn't an acronym for "Work As YOU Would Like It To Work"?

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You just did, and for the record, again, don't attack my posts blindly, I have oppinions and issues with this event that some others share, if you don't like that, tough $hit.

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First, assumption that this is an "attack".
Second, assumption that the response is "blind".
Third, assumption that simply because you're expressing an "opinion" that frees you from the burden of having anyone disagree with you, and more, common civility.

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voice your oppinions, but don't attack mine

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Why? Because you're infallible? Please!

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I wouldn't attack yours for no reason either and your the second numb nut to do this to me in two days.

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No. I responded to *A* post. I voiced my opinions that I felt that the griping about the problems with this year's event were a bit out of hand. YOU decided to turn this into a flame-fest.

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You have no answers that I wish to hear

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This is precisely the problem. You're not being constructive. You're merely making noise.

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How can you possibly call a Tier 1 inspiration an "adequate reward"?

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For the simple act of clicking on a door?

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In essence, to those who have gotten the badges the last couple times around, the Tier 3's were the only "adequate" reward for the time spent, especially given that the Trick/Treat ratio is skewed towards Tricks. Otherwise, there isn't really an incentive for those people to participate.

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I dunno. I think the crazy pace of Inf/XP accumulation, the fun of working within a decent team, as well as the resulting salvage, enhancement and recipie drops would be an incentive too.

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I wouldn't say "give up". But try not to go solo, and find a nice spot with a set of doors NOT on a street somewhere.

PI has a pair of office buildings with a courtyard. 8 doors. You can keep an entire team or two busy there ALL NIGHT LONG.

Or the motels.

I can see how solo ToT would suck though, yeah.

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For the simple act of clicking on a door?


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I can get a Tier 2 for the simple act of clicking on a Kora fruit.

And guess what...that's available year round. And I have a mission with a variety of fruit.

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I dunno. I think the crazy pace of Inf/XP accumulation, the fun of working within a decent team, as well as the resulting salvage, enhancement and recipie drops would be an incentive too.


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All of which are available through ordinary means of running missions.

As to the costume salvage, I already have 25 full sets from last year. On both my solo SG and solo VG. And that's after selling off about 20 full sets each side.

Edit - To put it into perspective, for defeating 1 lvl50 Possessed Scientist lieutenent, I can get 6,669 influence. That equates to 133 non-Awaken tier 1 inspirations. If we add in the influence from rescuing a cowering NPC from that lt, the number of purchasable, non-Awaken tier 1's jumps to 306.

A tier 1 is hardly a worthwhile reward.

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I can get a Tier 2 for the simple act of clicking on a Kora fruit.

And guess what...that's available year round. And I have a mission with a variety of fruit.

As to the costume salvage, I already have 25 full sets from last year. On both my solo SG and solo VG. And that's after selling off about 20 full sets each side.

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All of this makes it pretty hard to believe that OCCASIONALLY getting a 3rd tier insp is actually valuable to you. You've already got it made in the shade, so what do you care?

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It was fun.