Give season events a permanent zone

Hi:

It occurred to me that at one time the only way to get the EOCHAI and Jack in Irons badge was to pursue them during the Halloween events, but thankfully the Croatoa zone has these characters and all the necessary mobs to earn all the related badges that goes with the halloween setting.

So why not have the other events be available year around, but instead of being across all zones, they have their own host zone such as it was done for the Halloween event. This way folks can get the badges year around.

For instance, lets raise the RWZ a notch up, and turn it into a really hazardous zone. Lets have Rikti cruisers blasting and dropping bombs, having Rikti transported to clusters of players, just like a normal Rikti invasion, but in the case of the RWZ its on all the time. The only time the invasion forces would be halted at the RWZ is when say 3 of the beacons are down, indicative that a mothership raid is undergoing, and thus the invasion is halted to allow for the raid.

I can see, DA having areas over-run with Zombies, the reason I say areas, is so that we can still have the normal Pantheon spawns and Adamastor, we may even split the city in half, were the cementery half is Pantheon control, and the other half is over run by Zombies.

I am not sure were do we place the Winter Lord and his realm, when we had him this last Winter, the maps appeared to be Crotoa terrains, but we allready have the Halloween stuff there, so I don't really feel that adding more to it would be good. But placing these events in Hazard zones makes sense, perhaps the WL realm could be placed in a corner at the Hollows or even Boomtown.

What do you all think?

Stormy

no. then the winter event would have no meaning and we already have the chance of either the zombie apoc or banner thingy when halloween salvage is turned in. and the badges in croatoa have nothing to do with halloween.

The way I look at it, when the real winter event happens, all zones are impacted by the event, while my suggestion simply affects a single zone year around, hopefully a hazard zone which at this time are hardly used.

But I am also looking at the Rikti invasion events and its badge sets, would be nice as we make new alts to be able to go to the RWZ and earn those badges, just like we can go to Crotoa right now and earn the Halloween badges with out having to wait for Halloween.

Hugs

Stormy

Ps: Granted, by having the event content available year round, it may take away from the event, on the other hand, it may force the devs to come up with new treats for us during those events, and that is always a good thing.

The Croatoa badges are not the Halloween badges. If you defeat regular Jack-in-Irons in Croatoa, you do not get the Iron Warrior (Halloween) badge, you get the Giant Killer badge. Same goes for the Eochai badge. There's regular Eochai (Pumpkin King/Queen badge) and Halloween Eochai (Hallow Spirit badge).

Thus endeth the lesson.

No. There's a reason why they only happen once a year' so people still have an incentive to go for the badges and participate during the event.