The Neverending Apocalypse

I don't know what the numbers are, but I play on every server and Virtue definitely sees a lot more events than any other server I've been on lately. I don't think I've been on Freedom in the past few weeks, though.

Why couldn't it just be someone setting it off with a big stockpile of salvage? They don't happen randomly outside the formal halloween event. They're triggered by someone turning costume salvage, which you can do whether it will open a slot for you or not.

It may be my playtimes but I haven't seen anybody bothering with the Supernatural Event--and considering it takes at least 1 team, more likely 2 to actually succeed at it, it seems sort of pointless to leave it running. Did they have a miscommunication and leave the supernatural apocalypse running when they meant to turn it off and leave the zombeh apocalypse running like normal (can't think of if i've seen zombie invasion lately)?

It really should only maybe happen one day a week, or maybe happening a weekend a month. That way the people who want to participate aren't diluted by every hour or two Supernatural Event happening in ...

I've been on Virtue most of the time lately too, so yeah. Lots of freakin' supernatural apocs on that server. Maybe the LGTF is spawning them instead of Rikti invasions, haven't been seeing many of those and I had been trying to keep a bit of an eye out to get the rikti's big honkin' metal sword for my katana user (again, maybe my playtime just has nobody doing lady gray runs in that timeframe. On freedom they happen very regularly because there's plenty of speed LGTF/ITF groups who run those daily, like clockwork)

Let me concur with those who point out that it takes at bare minimum a couple of teams to successfully complete the Deadly Apocalypse. (Perhaps a single team of 8 Uber Ubers could do it, but generally speaking, you need two or No Soup For You.)

Couple that with the timer on the event and you have a pretty big problem. Even during the Halloween Event, it was generally impossible to get enough interest going in the last couple of days to get enough folks to pull off the DA, and that was in smaller, more populated areas. In the really big areas, like Ind Port, the travel time between banners doomed the exercise to be futile.

So while I understand the notion that by having the DA run randomly, as with Zombie and Rikti invasions, those that missed the badges before can still pick them up during the rest of the year. Unfortunately, the very mechanics of the DA make it virtually impossible to complete the necessary organization, etc., before the timer runs out.

A+ for the kind thought for the players, but a D- on the execution. The hopefuls without the badges are doomed to still never get them unless it is double xp weekend and the zones are full of badgers without the shinies who will help out. Which is too bad, but there it is.

I think activating either Apocalypse via costume salvage turn-in should be disabled. The Zombocalypse was awesome when it was introduced last year, but between then and now it lost a lot of its luster.