Rikti Invasion Incoming! ~Discussion~

Ah hell, I wanna kill civilians period! Especially in Mayhem.

...Can we ban together to remove this miserabe event?

I mean for the love of god it was cute a few issues ago now it just annoys me...

11_Toons!

I so agree with you...I want to kill the damn civilians on mayhem maps.

Can we also get a few more targetable things?!

--Trees ( Fire only )
--Bushes (Fire only )
--ATMs
--Monuments
--Select buildings

I want to be able to walk into a crowd of civilians and use a PBAoE attack and have all those bodies surround me

Better than Zombies I say....

Zombies are ok...I can live with that but I EFFING hate the Rikti invasions.... they are the most redundant things ever...

I meanreally...can they just give it a rest?

I will see you all there!!! I'll be the one riding into battle on a dogsled pulled by rikti monkeys!! WOOOO!!!

LVL 50 BRUTE LFT!!!

I love the darkening sky events... but I sincerely hope someone other than my lone character shows up to the fight, which has been pretty much the case since the AE went in.

Maybe if there were a second series of accolade badges created... or badges for dropships added?

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Ah hell, I wanna kill civilians period! Especially in Mayhem.

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I want to steal cars, have shootouts with cops, have gang members hold grudges and try to assasinate me, run down gang members with stolen cars, rob banks and make at least 2 mill from it <how much to bank robbers actually get away with?>


ya know- -VILLIANS-

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I love the darkening sky events... but I sincerely hope someone other than my lone character shows up to the fight, which has been pretty much the case since the AE went in.

Maybe if there were a second series of accolade badges created... or badges for dropships added?

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A dropship badge would be awesome. Call it "No Such Word as Impossible". Or "The Bigger They Are..."

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Ah hell, I wanna kill civilians period! Especially in Mayhem.

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I want to steal cars, have shootouts with cops, have gang members hold grudges and try to assasinate me, run down gang members with stolen cars, rob banks and make at least 2 mill from it <how much to bank robbers actually get away with?>


ya know- -VILLIANS-

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You sir, need a good dose of GTA

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No worse than starting Numina TF is any other time. Zombie events happen at least every few hours on Virtue most days. Don't know about the rest of the servers, but I know about half of the Numina TFs I've been on since the zombies started last year have hit at least one zombie-induced speed bump.

Rikti invasions don't happen nearly as frequently. The actual fighting also isn't as long because the bombing phase takes up a big chunk of the event instead of being the whole event. And the Rikti events actually offer a useful Accolade.

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2 things:

- On an invasion weekend, they are nearly constant. You do realize this thread is about an Invasion weekend not random Rikti raids, right?

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Yes, I'm completely aware of the topic. Thanks for checking though. I'm all for seeing more Rikti invasions. As for being near constant, it's not really that bad. Sometimes an hour or so between invasions, sometimes more, but it's not like all we have in every zone is invasions for 24 hours a day.

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- It's not fighting the raids that will take away from a Numina. It's the series of hunt missions that will be affected when ALL enemies in a zone despawn for the duration of the raid in the zone.

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Again, this is no different than half of the Numina TFs I've been involved in since the zombie invasions started last year. Usually at least one zone, sometimes more, is disrupted by zombies, like the Numina TF I led last week.

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I like Rikti raids and zone events in general, but raid weekends tend to be a little obnoxious.

We need a 5th raid that spawns randomly when the new TF/SF is completed. That would be exciting.

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Having more random events would lead to people complaining more about those as well, I think. Personally I'd still like to see it.

Look for a Dropship raid server challange comming soon

Valor

Not this again! These are nothing more than lagfests. I am still waiting for an option to toggle these off so that those that want to participate can and those who don't aren't forced to endure the lag and constant interruptions. It doesn't even make any thematic sense the rikiti are like well the first thousand times we attacked this way we got our butts whooped but you know what we are going to do it the same way again anyway!

I am happy for those who like this event, and commiserate with those like myself who are beyond done with it. These are nothing special. They happen all the time on Freedom and Virtue. And it makes leveling up my lowbies a real pain.

And if you think this will stop AE PLing, you're wrong.

WARNING: I bold names.

This is a good way to level up lowbies.


Except for stalkers.

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I love the darkening sky events... but I sincerely hope someone other than my lone character shows up to the fight, which has been pretty much the case since the AE went in.

Maybe if there were a second series of accolade badges created... or badges for dropships added?

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A dropship badge would be awesome. Call it "No Such Word as Impossible". Or "The Bigger They Are..."

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Or "Another One Bites the *This video has been removed.*"

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This is a good way to level up lowbies.


Except for stalkers.

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Actually my lowbies climbed further in regular team missions than in any Rikti or zombie incursion.

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Everyone will be called to action, will you answer the call?

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Maybe if you locked all the AE buildings during this event, you would actually get players involved in fighting the rikti.
I can't see it happening otherwise (unless you somehow make the invasion also spawn inside the AE building and inside the AE missions). I quite like that idea

About a month ago I was in PI when the zone got invaded. There was 3 of us total in portal corp fighting zombies, and we were noting how sad that was.

nah, I can fly Simply believe if I can target it, I should be able to kill it.

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This is a good way to level up lowbies.


Except for stalkers.

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MA is also another good way to level up lowbies, or anyone for that matter.

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Wow. Some of you people sound like you're jaded beyond enjoying the game anymore. Myself, I've only been playing since January, and I can't wait to see this. I get all excited when the sky turns red or green...

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Me too! Sky turning eerie and then crowds of players pumping up to take them down the min they arrive... I love it.

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My 5 year anniversary day will be in 7 days. I feel like this invasion is a party for me! I am not jaded, I love fighting Rikti.

The sky turns green.
Type /cc 4 and now I'm in my Rikti fighting armor.
It's time to defend Earth in good old Space Invaders style!

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And have people running and screaming! I don't get why the zone has to be FULLY empty when an invasion happens (which is why I dislike them. It ruins the day for someone who was hoping to kill a few such and such NPCs for his mission).

I wanna see NPCs fighting Rikti, Civilizans running around scared, cars crashing, Vanguard forces coming down to help the heroes.

Yah, it would make it more laggy, but at least it'd be fun.

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The Key is.. we have ample warning, so that is why civilians clear the streets. I think they need to start "beaming" people into prison ships and we need to fight our way out as a team to rescue hostages... that would be some cool stuff. I think of the old TV series "V" where the show pretty much centered around resistance missions against the aliens. (MY favorite was the followup where humans poison the atmosphere to get rid of the aliens) "A year after Liberation Day, courtesy of the red-dust bacteria, the humanoid, lizard-like aliens develop a resistance to the micro-organism and try to regain control of the Earth"

Ahhh V ... good stuff. That and the A-team of course.

As someone who's new to COH (4 months so far and no I'm not a "AE baby" prefering to play the norm missions) I'm really looking forward to the invasion-lag and all. So bring 'em on.

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Just imagine Atlas Park, already loaded with AE children, during an invasion. And the panic when some of them come out of AE into Atlas Park 2 and cant see thier buddies.

Woo Hoo! for chaos.

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Can you imagine the server lock if all the characters came out of the MA into all the Atlas instances at once for a raid on Freedom! Ha!

I only hope that they the drones go of line and the Rikti can raid the AE buildings!

***WARNING! Your AE mission has been terminated. Power is being diverted to the City shields. All heroes are urgently needed in the streets! You will be disconnected in 5 ... 4...3...2... 1.... ***