Discussion: Prepare for the Praetorian Invasion on the live servers!

If it is confined to Freedumb and not having any toons on freedumb or the financial where with all to transfer to freedumb and then back, this will suck. I will just use this oppertunity to push other toons to the 50

Eh, I'm skipping out till they make it the regular zone event in the new zone (speculation on my part).

I did make "Imhereforthebadge" 1-4 on my wife and I's accounts this morning on Freedom, so we should be covered.

The devs have hinted it involves a new Giant Monster

Unless it's a new giant Warwalker, I doubt it'll be a new GM-only event.

The only other thing it could be is the Hamidon, and to blow their load on that, when there's assumed to be a better reveal elsewhere to be seen would be stupid.

Shiva or GTFO.

4-7pm Pacific is a bummer - I work until 630pm -not gonna get to experience much, if any.

I made a poster for this today, to show off Tyrant's hardware

Needs more Praetorian, less WarWok (even though that's mainly all they throw at us).

Well, the community team will be using blue, red and yellow signature charcters too

I'm not liking the setup for this.

For those of us in the states, we need a 9-5 job, or no job, and no family to deal with in order to get a good chance of participating. And we only get 1 day per server for 3 whole hours.

AWESOME!

The only way I can participate on Virtue is by not sleeping today!!!

I can only participate AND sleep by playing on servers I have no characters on!!!

But more importantly, I've gotten a bit more lore out of y'all.

It's 6:10pm BST. Even Dictators can't get their invasions to run on time.

Is this meant to be the new server?

Cause if it is Freedom's test has not got a chance in hell. 100 people in AP on Union and it's pretty much fallen over.

ETA: Okay distinct improvement after more zones were created. AP2 is, at least, going reasonably well now.

Just logged out of the Virtue invasion in disgust. Here's the event: GMs and mods bounce around invisibly, spawn a handful of baddies... and either they get shredded before you get there by the three hundred people who swarm in there, or you get killed because the lag is so horrific your powers arn't firing and you cannot actually see the enemies. This is assuming you can get into the zone, since the trains are barely running.

This is SERIOUSLY UNFUN. This isn't an event, we have no opportunity to do anything or feel epic. This is follow the bouncing rednames and get lagstomped.

Why couldn't we do something like the Rikti invasions or Zombie attacks? Those are fun. Those feel frantic and epic. This... this is just the mods running around spawning guys and stuff. Please, please, PLEASE never run an event like this ever again. Run events that are fun. I was all psyched up for this... but this is it? This sucks.

welli got on for 25 mins . It was a super lagfest,70+sec for power activation,we were all standing still. rubber banding totally crazy, I will be ordering my COLE for King tee-shirt as we could not do anything to fight.

it really was bad, all kidding aside, if the rest of the events go this way, i will just login on 27 to get badge,then get the heck off the server.my time will be better served on my PS3.

If Virtue is any example, the new server code isn't ready for prime time. Talos didn't seem as crowded as you would see during a rikti invasion, but the lag was worse than I've ever experienced. Several minute delay to try to get on a train to switch zones, then another several minute delay when you switch zones before you can actually move. A minute or two to activate a power. Major rubberbanding while trying to move around the zone. I don't know how many people were in the zone or the server, but it definitely wasn't playable.

As described by the rest, horrible lag, powers not firing for minutes after que.
I honestly hope these invasions DO cause a meltdown of the servers, because that would force you to upgrade the hardware for the larger population servers like virtue.

Significantly worse than Union from the getgo. No letup in lag at all. The events don't appear to being spread out anything like as much as they were, there don't seem to be more zone instances.

And Leagues are... or perhaps to be fair the people in them... are USELESS. Not being able to change people around when everyone runs off to different zones ugh ugh ugh.

ETA: Unplayable. Left just after 1. Last one I'll be trying out.

Here's my review of the event thus far

Logged into virtue (character was logged out in city hall)
Walked over to the door and clicked it, nothing happened for over a minute
flash....
I'm standing back where I started
walked over to the door and clicked it, the door opened, I stood there for over a minute, screen goes back
crash....
restart and log in, find myself outside city hall
broadcast that I'm lft
get invite
click accept
crash.....
log back in, and try again, this time I actually find myself on a league, took 2 steps and turned to my right
freeze.......... crash...........
log back in, get on another league, manage to get close to an walker and get off one attack
try to get off a second, freeze, I'm cemented in place for what feels like 5 minutes, walker is down before second attack fires
someone says "over here" I turn to locate them
freeze...... crash........
restart and log in to find no one around, frankly I've had enough, I turn to head back to city hall....... jump...... freeze...... crash.......
all I want to do is get back into city hall to log out
restart, log in, haven't moved, this time I make it to the doors of city hall, click.... freeze..... crash.......
restart..... click door..... freeze..... black screen.... crash.....
restart, log in, I'm inside, THANK GOD..... log off.....

Maybe there's a good movie on....

Great event. Looking forward to the next one.

So, you DO plan on actually TESTING future events of this magnitude, right? Rikti invasions, Zombie invasions, Banner events...laggy, but nothing terrible like this. Whatever you did differently...don't do it again.