Praetorian Surge - An Appeal to the Devs
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AkuTenshiiZero,
Posted on: 2011-05-06 01:40 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Dress it up how you like, defend the devs all you want. You cannot deny that the build up they gave it, and the dates they initially announced, made EVERYONE think it was a near month long event.
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
Where did you get the insight this was related to 7 years of Super?
I got the 7 year badge already, that was last week. This event this month is a "Surge" not an Invasion. To put things in perspective, men have "surges" and then they go away. Are we on the same page now about this "Month Long Event?" |
@FloatingFatMan
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Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
I was disappointed when I read that it would be only happening for 3 hours on my server. What gives? Are these being manually run by developers and GMs?
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Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Chances are, YES.
The invasions are for a limited time because likely a community rep is going to be manually sitting there, logged in to the server, spawning in waves like how they spawn in giant monsters to the Pocket D during Dev get-togethers. They're not a programmed event as such like the Rikti invasions or the Banner events or Zombies. They did the same thing last year with Longbow and Arachnos "invasions" to zones at a specific time. Expect them to throw some AVs in for the heck of it. |
But it is a dev-run event. Not a programmed zone invasion like Rikti or Zombies.
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But it'll be fun - last time they had red names involved, Avatea and the Ocho spawned Master At Arms and chased us around which ever zone the Rikti were in at the time |
Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
That would be my preference.
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I can totally see them doing the same this time, only using Goliath War Walkers - or maybe even some fo the Praeotrian Guard - ganking Marauder in Atlas Park would be cool
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Freedom server is the one they're stress testing - but the other 14 servers are still getting the invasion event.
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
If all they wanted to do was test the servers under load, then they should have just said that.
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@Golden Girl
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Dress it up how you like, defend the devs all you want. You cannot deny that the build up they gave it, and the dates they initially announced, made EVERYONE think it was a near month long event.
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I'm not defending the devs, FFMan. Manipulation is older than all of us. That area falls to Marketing/PR.
All of us have been lead around from time to time. Ease off the gas/petrol. You'll get your event eventually, it just won't be in May.
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That doesn't sound like fun to me.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
But it'll be fun - last time they had red names involved, Avatea and the Ocho spawned Master At Arms and chased us around which ever zone the Rikti were in at the time
I can totally see them doing the same this time, only using Goliath War Walkers - or maybe even some fo the Praeotrian Guard - ganking Marauder in Atlas Park would be cool |
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But then the entire zone could stand around Marauder's body and say "on the gorund again?" |
Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
That doesn't sound like fun to me.
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@Golden Girl
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Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
That doesn't sound like fun to me.
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Eiko, your a riot. It's fun if your name is Golden Girl.
I'll just link my own thread here:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...75#post3626775
Long story short: I only get work maybe 1-2 days a month, and this event for my home server, the only server I have characters on, Virtue, falls on the exact day and hour I am working. My luck is apparently just THAT BAD.
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Makes me wonder if soon enough we'll have a Praetorian Invasion zone event like the Rikti and Zombie one. That would be the "coded" version of it, and I see no reason why that couldn't award the badge in the future for the people who don't make it to this.
IMO tho a small event is better than no event. Frankly the people running these things deserve a standing ovation. Having done it before myself as a sort-of dev on another game I can tell you it is enormously exhausting. Anyone with the stamina to run it on multiple servers deserves some kind of medal.
I am sure this is one thread the devs will ignore and go ahead despite a good portion of the community has voiced it's disappointed in the choice of hours for such an event and will be missing out. I too work hours of 12-9 pm pacific times, so I am going to miss the event entirely. I was really looking forward to this after they decided to not do an April event and instead make it for May, now I am denied again.
I am a upset because I have never missed an anniversary event in the years I have been playing and this one I was really psyching myself up for is closed off from me.
Oh well.
In my opinion 3 Hours does seem a little silly.
Why would you not want all of your subscribers to have the opportunity to attend and experience this?.
/signed.
If there are going to be some form of rd names invovled, then they mightn't have more than 3 hours free on their work schedule to take part
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And they can't do it on the weekend? I know if I worked for the company and my boss asked me to come in and unleash giant robotic killing machines on the hero and villain populations I would happily do it for free.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
If there are going to be some form of rd names invovled, then they mightn't have more than 3 hours free on their work schedule to take part
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So don't involve them? They've already confirmed they're using invasion engine code to do the IDF, so they'll scale to your level... So why not used the invasion spawn code too|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
If there are going to be some form of rd names invovled, then they mightn't have more than 3 hours free on their work schedule to take part
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Again, I'd rather have an automated event than an event I'm actually going to miss.
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Let's be honest here, we just got a major release last month with lots of contents and some problems. We're getting the Global Server Merge this week. (If they pull this off with no problems it will be truly amazing!)
The GSM in my opinion is so important to this game. New people to play with on more servers. I'm looking forward to getting my diskspace back on my computer since I'll only need 1 client. They can only juggle so many things and they've keep our accounts secure all of this time.
We're going to get that big showdown soon I know we will.
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
So don't involve them? They've already confirmed they're using invasion engine code to do the IDF, so they'll scale to your level... So why not used the invasion spawn code too
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IF they're saying "just log anyone in on any of the events," roll up a throwaway character on one of the days you're not working, if you're looking for the badge. Roll one up early and level them a bit if you want to actually participate, I suppose.
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Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero
I'll just link my own thread here:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...75#post3626775 Long story short: I only get work maybe 1-2 days a month, and this event for my home server, the only server I have characters on, Virtue, falls on the exact day and hour I am working. My luck is apparently just THAT BAD. imadbro |
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As somebody who works probably 3 weekends a month in a row I may add, I don't suppose coming in to work on a weekend is a big deal in my respects so I'd be inclined to agree. But, if you are in a job where you don't have to work weekends not even one a month, and give up your down time... Then frankly, I can't blame the developers there. Screw working on a weekend. |
Originally Posted by Mandu
And they can't do it on the weekend? I know if I worked for the company and my boss asked me to come in and unleash giant robotic killing machines on the hero and villain populations I would happily do it for free.
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But the 3 hour window sucks, I don't RP in my characters much, one or two get some RPing out of me, but most no. However, I was thinking that this would be a cool event to run. I sort of expected it'd work like the halloween stuff, but, I guess not. Ah well, maybe next time. Bit gutting to the peeps who were REALLY anticipating.
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Yeah ... those are actually the exact hours that i'll NEVER get to log on. Work, then picking up/feeding/bathing my little girl? I'm never done before 9. Maybe one day I'm get to do one of these. Maybe.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Yeah, I've got to agree.
It's 4-7 PM on a weeknight. (7-10 for me actually.) And I work (essentially) second shift. So... yeah. Blah. |
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
I would rather a week long event with no rednames, than a 3 hour event WITH rednames that I can't even attend.
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Particularily an automated event so other time zones get some chance too.
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Maybe the developers will create an automated Praetorian invasion event in the future. Then people can complain that it happens too often/too rarely, impairs their enjoyment of empty zones and creates too much lag.
Sooooo, are these Praetorian mobs going to drop threads?
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Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Sooooo, are these Praetorian mobs going to drop threads?
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I don't think celebrating 7 years of success by running an event so small that many of your most loyal players *may* have a chance of missing is just plain baffling. Never mind all those who might want to play a few alts during it.
Very Disappointed,
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Where did you get the insight this was related to 7 years of Super?
I got the 7 year badge already, that was last week. This event this month is a "Surge" not an Invasion.
To put things in perspective, men have "surges" and then they go away. Are we on the same page now about this "Month Long Event?"