Zombie waiting times may be known problem
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Blue Rabbit,
Posted on: 2008-10-19 23:25 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Where exactly were they happening on a 5-6 hour break? You must mean US side because here, Sunday was very active Union side (6+ Apocalipses) and not quite as such on Defiant (played from 14:30 to 21:30 and no Apocalipses). I don't know how it went on Vigilance and Zukunft, but I think they had some there.
Yes, the timers need a fix but having them spawn in all zones instead of having to rush from one area to another is a welcome change, I say.
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hmm...
The problem is I'm trying to establish if something triggers them or it's random because during the quiet hours of the morning and from 20:00 to roughly 07:00 (as I said, not being able to sleep is a pain) without any sign of an invasion on Union, though I have logged off at points I have come back on able to ask people that have been around for my time I've been logged off to see if there was any sign of an invasion, each time it was a no.
It seems that from late evening (20:00) until probably around 10:00am-ish the Invasions simply don't spawn, yeah I know most sensible people are in bed but one at 10pm or 11pm wouldn't hurt.
Or for the fact that they spawned at 4am when initially turned on and some of us were waiting around until 9am and still saw nothing, that's a five hour gap.
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Where exactly were they happening on a 5-6 hour break? You must mean US side because here, Sunday was very active Union side (6+ Apocalipses) and not quite as such on Defiant (played from 14:30 to 21:30 and no Apocalipses). I don't know how it went on Vigilance and Zukunft, but I think they had some there.
Yes, the timers need a fix but having them spawn in all zones instead of having to rush from one area to another is a welcome change, I say.
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Sunday was very active Union side (6+ Apocalipses) and not quite as such on Defiant (played from 14:30 to 21:30 and no Apocalipses).
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It sounds to me like they are using the old GM timer, which would be 1d10 hourly intervals, which could well produce a wide discrepancy between servers.
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weird thing is they seem to attack every zone. I saw an announcment they were attacking firebase zulu lol
A) Not being able to sleep when you really want to is nasty...
b) I was deeply peeved that the Zombie Apocalypse timers seemed to be waaay off..a full zone invasion seemingly every 5-6 hours just took the mickey (and his brother Jeff) and I originally assumed this was intented...
However...
Apparently this isn't meant to happen, the timers appear to be borked with regards to when the Zombie apocalpyse is suppose to spawn according to several posters on the US side.
They ARE suppose to work like the Rikti invasions, three random zones each side, every 2 hours or so, not a mass invasion all at once but with a huge waiting period inbetween.
Hopefully something gets sorted out because waiting four to five hours and not seeing anything really is stupid.
Though no doubt that it'll actually be sorted come Monday morning when the poor SOB that had to come in on their weekend off at 4am on a Sunday to flick the switch on sees what's happening and changes it.
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