just thought you should know - no one is participating in the banner events anymore

the last five times I was involved in Supernatural Activity event, they failed. People can't be bothered for the most part, and when they do, it takes too long for people to get organized and spread out to all the banners, or it takes too long to take more than one of them down. Talos in Virtue on a Saturday night aught to be a good time and place, so all I can conclude is that it's apathy. It's a shame, because I'd been hoping for more zone events and interesting things to happen.

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This is somewhat amusing, to me at least, because I said this was going to happen as soon as the first test run of the event finished up. Any recurring zone event that requires large numbers of coordinated people in a game that 1) is heavily instance-based, and 2) has a relatively small and spread-out population is only going to be popular for a short while before people forget about it - for example, I did a few during the Halloween event just to get the badges on my mains, and then spent the rest of the event ToT'ing. At least zombie and Rikti invasions don't require large amounts of people to work.

I had six months off with a broken computer and totally missed this when it came out last Halloween. I hope someday to try it, but I play on off hours and, as was mentioned, you have to get a lot of people together for it. Someday, maybe.

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First off, if the OP was intending this as feedback to the Devs then it's in the wrong section. This is Player Questions - anything intended for the Devs should be PM'd to the Devs. This is the forum for players to ask questions of other players.

Secondly, macskull pretty much hit it on the head - the banner events require a relatively large number of players compared to other zone events and, what is more, the time limit means that speed of response and coordination of action are also significant factors. What all of this means is, of course, just what macskull said - after the initial rush, the coordinated badge-crazy folks move on and it's difficult for people doing them on the fly to succeed.

Ultimately, people who want the badges and didn't get them last year for whatever reason should probably plan on getting them this Halloween and not before. The alternative would be to try to schedule a banner event and get a bunch of people to committ to it beforehand - there are of course a couple of problems with this, the foremost being the need for a moderate to large supply of Halloween salvage and of characters to use it since any given turn-in may trigger zombies or banners.

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The banner event in itself ONLY for a minimum, needs a team of 8 people to do (High lvls, mind, not low lvls).
This I and 7 others on Union experienced as we joined up on when a banner event hit Grandville.
There are 4 banners. Let there be two team mates to each banner. Stay in the banner, kill as many things as you can (and watch over each other) until the banners are vulnerable. During this killing decide on which banner is your 1, 2, 3 and 4'th target to kill. (Team teleport to the one far far away is good or tp the players from afar to the one where everyone is nearest.)

When all banners are defeated, the big boss with its remaining horde members appear somewhere (follow the fleeing npc's). As far as I remember the big boss have no timer.

Hope this post helps the people out there that have missed out on the badges (and event).

I've done the banner event on Virtue twice in May. Once in Steel and once in Faultline. And neither of those times was I particularly looking for the event. I just saw the notice pop up and headed to the zone to see if anybody was trying. So yes people do still do the event and yes they still succeed.

The biggest problem I've seen is that those who attempt it don't know that you have to attack all four banners until they become vulnerable. A couple teams will focus on one banner and be convinced that because it never became vulnerable that they didn't have enough participants. That's incorrect. You can have a group of 50 people pounding on one banner and it will never become vulnerable. Once they are vulnerable then they can be attacked one at a time.

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Hmmm, I just noticed that the page I linked to changed the number at some point. It now says 11 meters/sec.

Wait, the banner event still occurs?

I wasn't active, (still subbed, just not playing) during october-november last year so I completely missed the halloween event. My badger villainess is very sad that she doesn't have those badges!

And I didn't even know it could still be triggered outside the event. I have never seen it happen once in all these months (I work a lot in the weekends and on evenings though).
How does that work? candy canes you say? I got some of those.
Is it much harder than the Winterlord Realms event? My bros and me did that with just the 3 of us, so maybe we can do the banner too.

I'd paragonwiki the info myself, but the work filter blocks it (but not this forum for some reason, yey!).