Are "every day events" on hold for the holidays?
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Amperrie,
Posted on: 2009-12-31 08:04 in Player Questions
I have seen a number of Rikti and Zombie Invations, Ghost Ships, and Suoernatural Activities. But I have not seen Troll Rave or Fires since the Winter Event started.
There have definitely been fires. I created an ice/cold controller specifically for the winter event, and I remember fighting fires with him. Can't say I've seen any troll raves, but haven't been looking for them either. I suspect the OP is just having a string of bad luck. Do you have hero zone event messages turned on in one of your chat windows?
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Do you have hero zone event messages turned on in one of your chat windows?
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I'm positive that I've seen the Troll Rave...sounds like bad luck to me.
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Yes, all regular zone events still are in effect. I've seen every one come up in my hero and villain zone messages at one point or another over the past few days.
It's just random -- usually it seems like Scrapyard tends to spawn every 10 minutes, but as soon as you want to get that badge, you never seem to see the announcement. I chalk it up to random numbers being random, and possibly getting distracted and missing some in the normal course of activity (even though I map them to multiple tabs). 
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Yeah, they're still going - I saw fires reported last night.
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Just yesterday I saw (in my Events messages tab)|
Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
Yes, all regular zone events still are in effect. I've seen every one come up in my hero and villain zone messages at one point or another over the past few days.
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The Ghost ship appear in Independence Port.
The Ghost ship appear in Independence Port.
The Ghost ship disappear from Independence Port.
The Ghost Ship disappear from Independence Port.
I think that maybe, there might possibly be more than one Ship ghosting around Paragon. Or else it was beside itself with joy because it got its Holiday wish...
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Just yesterday I saw (in my Events messages tab)
The Ghost ship appear in Independence Port. The Ghost ship appear in Independence Port. The Ghost ship disappear from Independence Port. The Ghost Ship disappear from Independence Port. I think that maybe, there might possibly be more than one Ship ghosting around Paragon. Or else it was beside itself with joy because it got its Holiday wish... |
It could be worse....
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There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
I'm guessing it may just be a problem on some servers. I just checked my logs, and on Protector, there hasn't been a fire or Superadine raid reported on the hero alert channel since December 14th.
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To the OP -
You might want to check if a Winter Lord was left active in the zone.
I've noticed if a Winter Lord is up, but just left alone, no other zone events happen in that zone. (Unless said zone event started before the Winter Lord was activated.)
Over the last week, on Victory, a Winter Lord was activated in Sharkshead and left for two days before a team got together to knock him off. During that entire time, the Ghost of Scrapyard was conspicuous by his absence.
Similarly, the only time I've seen Deathsurge and a Winter Lord up at the same time, was when the Winter Lord was activated after Deathsurge appeared. (I know this because I was on the team forming to take out 'surge, and someone decided to open the present that generated the WL.)
It's worth looking into, at any rate.
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Maybe I have just been very unlucky, but I've been hanging out in Skyway City off-and-on for long periods of time waiting for a Troll Rave so I can finally knock out those badges on my blueside badger. I haven't seen a single one in the last two weeks. Today it occured to me that I haven't seen any announcements of a fire in Steel Canyon either. So it got me wondering, has the game put these every day events on hold during the Winter Event to avoid server issues or something, or have I just been really unlucky with my timing?
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