Zombie Invasion - triggered all year..but by what?
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Arctic Man,
Posted on: 2008-11-04 20:33 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Something in Croatoa, possibly?
That's the most Halloween zone - although I'd also say Dark Astoria, except that nothing ever happens in there 
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Any one care to explain me what's the point of Dark Astoria? Apart from it creeping me out? I think that should be the next zone to be revamped imho!
The new zombie Co-Op zone! 
There's Moth cemetary in Dark Astoria and there's a cemetary in one of the villain zones too (Sharkshead?) so maybe it's "defeat x no. of bad guys within the cemetary perimeter and the zombies spawn"
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Defeat adimastor/adimaster (sp?) possibly?
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My money's on Defeat Adamastor.
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Any one care to explain me what's the point of Dark Astoria? Apart from it creeping me out? I think that should be the next zone to be revamped imho!
The new zombie Co-Op zone!
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Yes - change the buildings to those gothic Bloody Bay style ones, with the narrow, winding streets, and knock a hole in one of the war walls so the sea can enter to turn a section of it into a swamp for the Pantheon to hang out 
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Any one care to explain me what's the point of Dark Astoria? Apart from it creeping me out? I think that should be the next zone to be revamped imho!
The new zombie Co-Op zone!
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Used to be farming zone when Magic Salvage was worth anything, so far it's mainly for GM badge or mask hunting for badge if you don't have the Unai Kemen mish.-
i lvoe DA wish there was more zones like tht
Some of the americans have worked out that they think the trigger is converting salvage into a costume slot.
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I think that might be a little too easy
EDIT: I still think it's linked in some way to Croatoa - possibly the GMs there.
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Croatoa... Dark Astoria... Adamastor
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[Edit] Though, if they've somehow made the triggers faction-specific, I do hope the Villain trigger is defeating Caleb. I must've been after that HellBane badge for 6 months now. Nobody ever wants to kill the thing, or even if they do, either the spawning tactic doesn't work for some bizarre reason, or he spawns and nobody knows where the heck he's even supposed to be. [/bitter]
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Some of the americans have worked out that they think the trigger is converting salvage into a costume slot.
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Logged back on just now and went to see Granny Beldam in Nerva to unlock a costume slot on one of my Brutes, but no Zombie Apocalypse happened when doing so. Of course, somebody else might have done the same thing shortly before I did, so it could have been on a timer or something.
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Some of the americans have worked out that they think the trigger is converting salvage into a costume slot.
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Logged back on just now and went to see Granny Beldam in Nerva to unlock a costume slot on one of my Brutes, but no Zombie Apocalypse happened when doing so. Of course, somebody else might have done the same thing shortly before I did, so it could have been on a timer or something.
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Don't think thats the trigger, Halloween costume salvage isn't limitless. I reckon its story arc related or banished pantheon related.
I just traded in some Halloween salvage on heroes and straight away zombie attacks sprung up in Faultline and Mercy.
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A zombie attack started just now in Eden too (Defiant). I have no idea who or what triggered it though.
Hmmm, trading in the 5th cossie slot would be a nice trigger for once, but I agree, sounds too easy but might be every 10th unlocked extra cossie slot or something.
Probably harder on villains, as usual! 
Or not working at all due to bugs, at least on Defiant!
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Any one care to explain me what's the point of Dark Astoria? Apart from it creeping me out? I think that should be the next zone to be revamped imho!
The new zombie Co-Op zone!
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Used to be farming zone when Magic Salvage was worth anything, so far it's mainly for GM badge or mask hunting for badge if you don't have the Unai Kemen mish.-
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No... the point is the fog. Makes you run/jump into buildings. Smack - ouch. Smack - aiii! And so on. No other point besides locating missions on the far end of the map, which in turn only increase the number of smacks.
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I do hope the Villain trigger is defeating Caleb.
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I'm game if you want to test this.
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Is anyone other than me thinking it's when you hand over your Salvage to get a costume slot?
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I just traded in some Halloween salvage on heroes and straight away zombie attacks sprung up in Faultline and Mercy.
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And i traded the stuff on CoV Defiant. Guess what. NO invasion. Considering the fact that there are less villains and def has a lower pop. The chance for accidental trigging is less likely so I think we can safely say that this is not the trigger.
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Yes - change the buildings to those gothic Bloody Bay style ones, with the narrow, winding streets, and knock a hole in one of the war walls so the sea can enter to turn a section of it into a swamp for the Pantheon to hang out
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Is anyone other than me thinking it's when you hand over your Salvage to get a costume slot?
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No! How could we have been so blind! Who could possibly have imagined that was the way. Isn't it fantastic that no one has posted that MANY HOURS BEFORE YOU DID?
Wow. Just wow.
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I just traded in some Halloween salvage on heroes and straight away zombie attacks sprung up in Faultline and Mercy.
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And i traded the stuff on CoV Defiant. Guess what. NO invasion. Considering the fact that there are less villains and def has a lower pop. The chance for accidental trigging is less likely so I think we can safely say that this is not the trigger.
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I don't think you can discount trading in costume salvage as a trigger, especially as so many people on the US servers have had success doing just that. There must be some other factors involved too, such as no ongoing zombie invasion (which there was on defiant at about the time you made this post as I saw the ending message when I logged in), a timer or something similar.
Octavian Vanguard
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I do hope the Villain trigger is defeating Caleb.
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I'm game if you want to test this.
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Me too
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So GR mentioned there was a 2nd trigger, now Posi has confirmed this can happen outside of the Event.
I'm sure we'll find out what it is once the event has ended tomorrow when a Zombie Invasion occurs randomly, but any guesses as to what that trigger could be?