Discussion: Prepare for the Praetorian Invasion on the live servers!
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Posted on: 2011-04-28 11:49 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Agreed. These invasion events sound good until you enter the area and it leads to insane lag. I hope the devs have developed a way to compensate for it. Otherwise, I'm turning the graphics down and hoping for the best.
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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Invasions would be great, if the servers and game client could actually handle the number of players enemies they throw about. Instead it becomes a frustrating lag fest with powers pretending to be recharged, 10 second delays on everything and enemies popping in and out of existance thanks to the 100 entity rule.
If the game is fixed between now and then so it can actually handle this sort of event I'll be there. Otherwise I'll be doing something actually worthwhile which isn't a frustrating lag-fest. |
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Or the lady possibly most connected to Praetorians trying to cross over into primal Earth... Maria Jenkins.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Possibilities:
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A number of NPC's found in the game have been characters Positron (the developer) played at some point in his gaming history. I believe Colleague is another.
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Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Is the villainous doc in the story an in-game character? I don't recognize the name right offhand.
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Heh, heh. Gross.
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This is great! I'm looking forward to the megalag!
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Originally Posted by Dave_67
I hope that May 27th is the end date. That's the start of my anime convention, and I won't be home until late on the 29th.
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Back on topic, I think Anti-Matter sent his message to (that makes the most sense to) either Lady Grey, Maria Jenkins, or Tina McIntyre.
Antimatter wanted to be a spoiler, not help Primal Earth.
Heroes are already alerted. Villains are already alerted.
Who else might want to know? The Rikti.
So who might the "she" be on Primal Earth? Kelly Uqua.
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oh? i thought that was lady jane! i am looking forward to the event. just hope rikti invasion has some new stuff to it.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It's Fusionette - she spoils everything
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Hmmm.... Will Anti-Matter betray Praetoria perhaps.
And also...
THANK YOU FOR MAKING A PRAETORIAN INVASION EVENT!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO BEAT UP THOSE DOPPLEGANGERS!
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I can just see them breaking through a portal into the Abandoned Sewer Network|
Originally Posted by flipside
And that drawn line, for whatever reason, seems to always lead them into our sewers.
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Well Shondowakai on Freedom will be ready for the invasion. Hopefully he gets a crack at the 'All Mighty Emperor'. My Mace is gonna go "SMASH!"
Awww I thought it was gonna be like the rikti invasions just spawning every few hours now I got to wait until may 11th at 7pm (I'm EST) Also I thought the invasion was gonna start on may 9th.
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Originally Posted by Hube02
This is great! I'm looking forward to the megalag!
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I have great concerns about this. Where do we meet? Is this going to be like the other zone events where everyone is ouroing every 2-5 minutes? The devs can't even make a 16 or 24 trial work right. Also, who's invading? Is it PPD, warworks, clockworks or the Praetorian Signature AVs? I might participate in this on Union(this is why I created an EU account) but on Freedom I'll probably log in get the badge and leave. I will try it with my high end laptop(HP 8740W, quadextreme with 32GB RAM) though but I doubt it will be useful...
Any way you can move the Union one to a Friday night?
Also, is this badge only for Freedom users or will each server event get a special badge? Is there an RSVP list?
Please note that as a gesture of appreciation and recognition, a special account wide badge will be given out to everybody taking part in the Freedom Protection effort on Friday, May 27th! So enroll early, whether you're a super-hero or a super-villain, in order to get your just reward!
I wonder if they will be awarding (to those who can use or need it) incarnate XP for these praetorian invasions or threads and merits. Some of us aren't able to get into Lambda's and BAF's due to either server load (lack of) or schedule. By granting incarnate xp this way would very considerate of the Devs.
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well if it only freedom,then how much will people be ticked if the server is full,or crashes, or the players who only play on weekends, or at a time other than the event window.,this has the potential of really blowing up in their faces,and giving the game a bad name,
or players who do NOT have char on freedom will have to create and PL to 50 to unlock incarnate, to get any kind of special incarnate rewards.
this is really a mind field for them.
I was here for the 1st Halloween event,and a lot of players were upset that it was only during the week, wed-fri if i remember correctly, the weekend players were upset.so the next time it was a week long event
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It's a group event and nothing else....you don't have to be incarnate to participate. Just show up on the date and find out what it's about and post the results. I'll be watching this post,ok? I'm on Freedom and Union so I'll see if first and last.
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Originally Posted by MadHobbit
well if it only freedom,then how much will people be ticked if the server is full,or crashes, or the players who only play on weekends, or at a time other than the event window.,this has the potential of really blowing up in their faces,and giving the game a bad name,
or players who do NOT have char on freedom will have to create and PL to 50 to unlock incarnate, to get any kind of special incarnate rewards. this is really a mind field for them. I was here for the 1st Halloween event,and a lot of players were upset that it was only during the week, wed-fri if i remember correctly, the weekend players were upset.so the next time it was a week long event |
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That's a very good point. If the badge is only attached to the May 27th invasion there will likely be some very angry badgers on the 28th.
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Originally Posted by MadHobbit
well if it only freedom,then how much will people be ticked if the server is full,or crashes, or the players who only play on weekends, or at a time other than the event window.,this has the potential of really blowing up in their faces,and giving the game a bad name,
or players who do NOT have char on freedom will have to create and PL to 50 to unlock incarnate, to get any kind of special incarnate rewards. |
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Originally Posted by Bossa_Nova
That's a very good point. If the badge is only attached to the May 27th invasion there will likely be some very angry badgers on the 28th.
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"If you can't make it on the 27th or over the Memorial weekend, we will absolutely give you another opportunity to get the badge in a few months. If you DO get the badge this weekend, youll have some measure of exclusivity for a few months, maybe enough exclusivity to get you to log in real quick before you hit the hay or hit the clubs. And we want to ensure that this badge is prestigious, so the next opportunity will be a limited-time window as well, though longer than three hours to be sure."
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I just don't want to be in a realm populates only be rikti monkeys...death by poo gas is not on my to do list
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Originally Posted by Serpine
I'd imagine that would be especially prevalent in the ones populated by super-monkey equivalents of all the heroes...
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All I know is that im pretty unhappy about not getting to use my main for the actual event because its on Freedumb.
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