So, um... no sun yet then?
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Arctic Man,
Posted on: 2008-11-03 24:27 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
There was talk of it being extended here a few days since the Invasions were breaking down.
No official word on when its due to finish if that is the case though
Getting boring. Actually, got boring about a week ago, but I dare say there are still people desperately hunting badges...
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It's a Mr.Burns plot
maybe they're trying to figure out open beta date before they turn it off
they should add the zombie invasion as part of a TF of sorts
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I was given to believe the zombies stopped yesterday sometime, and they seem to be still going.
By now, more or less every non-tree plant in Paragon is dead. The Devouring Earth have probably lost a third of their number.
When's it due to stop?
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Hmm... I discovered an interesting thing the other day that MIGHT be responsible... Maybe.
Remember Saturday evening when there was a raid in Galaxy that finished, but the sky didn't change back for ages? You commented on it at the time that it'd be a good time to faceplant without debt.
That was me and Shadowe. 
We were floating above a pretty large spawn of zombies, out of attack range, but within sight of them (They kept spawning in the air and falling down, was funny!). Anyway, because we could see them, the game engine wouldn't let them despawn, and was locking the event open. We finally noticed (thanks to your comment) and moved out of sight of them, and second later they despawned and the sky returned to normal.
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That was me and Shadowe.
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Figures, but no. Logging in and finding it dark was not a clue - maybe it was night? However, seeing the "zombies have left" message come up in alerts, that was definately a sign that the invasion was generally still on, and not due to you two keeping a group locked in perpetual spawnage.
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Hi all,
Been very busy today and not at my desk very much today (hope Palladium's healthy and back at work tomorrow!).
Anyway: we've extended the event by 2 days here to cover for the shakey start to the event. It will be finalising on Wednesday morning, so there's a couple more days of trick or treating and Apocalypse's to come yet.
NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo...........! [/Darth]
Those poor Plant Doms and 'trollers.
Okay, I'm not likely to be too bothered, really. Just a couple more days. I can last just a couple more days.
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; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise 
; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.* This means that i will continue ToT-ing with my alts. Curses! How can I commit nefarious deeds when my alts keep demanding to beg for treats????
So, they start the thing a day early but have a 'shakey start' so we have to put up with it for two days longer at the end?
I think this is a 'too much of a good thing' situation. Sorry. 
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Just a couple more days. I can last just a couple more days.
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I think Annette will hijack Libby and go over to London to hook up with Dinah and stay there 'til then.
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I was given to believe the zombies stopped yesterday sometime, and they seem to be still going.
By now, more or less every non-tree plant in Paragon is dead. The Devouring Earth have probably lost a third of their number.
When's it due to stop?
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Ok they're extended it a couple of days, but iirc when an event is announced to finish on Sunday/Monday it's still turned off on Tuesday morning maintenance as often as not.
So I was never expecting it to have finished by tonight...
[/i]I wonder if the devs thought it'd be funny to have the light re-emerging on the morning that dubya's successor is known...[/i]
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well, IMO it's a bit annoying, just standing somewhere to chat a bit and BANG, everything is ruined.
if the zombies didn't spawn like crazy i wouldn't mind, but having zombies every 3-5 seconds is a bit to much.
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well, IMO it's a bit annoying, just standing somewhere to chat a bit and BANG, everything is ruined.
if the zombies didn't spawn like crazy i wouldn't mind, but having zombies every 3-5 seconds is a bit to much.
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Errr..
The (hopefully nearly) overwhelming hordes of zombies is pretty much in keeping with zombies in movies. So not really 'a bit to much' [sic].
If you want to stand and chat do so under cover - then neither zombies nor rikti invasions will bother you.
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To be honest, if we hang around at GG for three hours, we'll probably see one or two invasions. And, of course, we have ready made teams. 
I'm just bored with it now.
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Yay! ToTing gives great xp and goodies! *joygasm*
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And I get just as good or better XP running Borea's mission in the RWZ, so meh.
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To be honest, if we hang around at GG for three hours, we'll probably see one or two invasions. And, of course, we have ready made teams. I'm just bored with it now.
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Being bored of it is slightly different to those stating that it's annoying that invasions happen or that the zombie spawn rate is too high when one hits.
I can understand people who play a fair bit getting bored of it, but the flipside is if it's only done for a week then it's maybe too easy for people to miss if other commitments pop up. As CoX is so casual friendly it'd be a little annoying if many people missed an event as it was kept short for fear of boring the more frequent players!
I've nearly missed the odd event before because circumstances have kept me away for 10 days or so...
I caught one invasion at GG and that seemed to be taken in the RP'ers stride... though having said that it was in the first few days of invasions, so maybe there was still enthusiasm for treating it in character.
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well, IMO it's a bit annoying, just standing somewhere to chat a bit and BANG, everything is ruined.
if the zombies didn't spawn like crazy i wouldn't mind, but having zombies every 3-5 seconds is a bit to much.
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I think that's the idea - it's supposed to be an attack, not just a mild problem
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To be honest, if we hang around at GG for three hours, we'll probably see one or two invasions. And, of course, we have ready made teams. I'm just bored with it now.
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Though I'ma bit bored now too tbh 
Being bored of it is slightly different to those stating that it's annoying that invasions happen or that the zombie spawn rate is too high when one hits.
I can understand people who play a fair bit getting bored of it, but the flipside is if it's only done for a week then it's maybe too easy for people to miss if other commitments pop up. As CoX is so casual friendly it'd be a little annoying if many people missed an event as it was kept short for fear of boring the more frequent players!
I've nearly missed the odd event before because circumstances have kept me away for 10 days or so...
I caught one invasion at GG and that seemed to be taken in the RP'ers stride... though having said that it was in the first few days of invasions, so maybe there was still enthusiasm for treating it in character.
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To be honest, if we hang around at GG for three hours, we'll probably see one or two invasions. And, of course, we have ready made teams. I'm just bored with it now.
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To be perfectly honest I should have thought that a load of zombies repeatedly rising from the ground would be a RP dream - something to interact with where you are doing your part to save the city or alternatively run screaming in panic. I mean just because you are bored why would they stop - that idea really seems to break the idea of RP to me.
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To be perfectly honest I should have thought that a load of zombies repeatedly rising from the ground would be a RP dream - something to interact with where you are doing your part to save the city or alternatively run screaming in panic. I mean just because you are bored why would they stop - that idea really seems to break the idea of RP to me.
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At first it's fine... But after two weeks, you DO really want to be getting along with your own stuff without being bothered by zombies all the time...
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After finally getting all the badges on my scrapper, spent an hour force spawning jack on my corr and got the safety in numbers badge on my ill troller i was pretty tired of it.
Yeah but RWZ is even more repetitive....
Rescue a), defeat b) *yawn*
The zombies are boring now, but I love ToTing
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I caught one invasion at GG and that seemed to be taken in the RP'ers stride... though having said that it was in the first few days of invasions, so maybe there was still enthusiasm for treating it in character.
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It's still taken IC, just like the Rikti ones are, but there's generally more IC cries of "oh no, not again" or the like now than there was. I've also noticed that we haven't been getting nightmares at all this week, so the numbers must be going down. We'd have 5 of them spawn most fights in the first week.
And two weeks, I think is fair, but adding extra days because there were some problems in the first two days of 14... not needed.
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True.
Still, at least we'll see sunshine this week
I was given to believe the zombies stopped yesterday sometime, and they seem to be still going.
By now, more or less every non-tree plant in Paragon is dead. The Devouring Earth have probably lost a third of their number.
When's it due to stop?
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