Discussion: Withstand the Praetorian Surge!
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Posted on: 2011-05-06 16:47 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
I really wish I could participate in any of this, but it seems strategically placed within my work schedule. I dont really care about the badge, I've been hoping for events like this for a long time!
Just wish it had been done on a Saturday... :P
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With the explanation of your goals, the account-wide feature, and the caveats about later opportunities to obtain, this seems much better to me.
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So, does the mystery badge for the 27th have a name yet? Also are there other badges for fighting the event critters as well?
I like collecting badges but why would you continue to make badges that are only available during special times and limited times? (looks at passport and anniversary badges)
Why not simply make this into an event that randomly triggers while doing incarnate trials and such?
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Very well said. Communication and information are always important. However, this still shows a real lack of understanding and appreciation for the wonderful population of this game.
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Originally Posted by TrueMetal
What I appreciate about all this is the detailed explanation from Second Measure about what the point of all this is. Information helps understanding which helps to keep kneejerk reactions in check.
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Who cares?
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Originally Posted by Lucky666
oh and this thread is proof that Freedom is #1 for population still and always no matter what virtue people like you to believe.
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Now if only event critters gave decent XP instead of the crap XP they currently give.
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Huh? What part of his post argued not to tie badges to events?|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Badges are all about 'trying it all', even things you don't like to do, whether it be PvP or teaming. So, it is unlikely that the argument to not tie badges to events will get no traction.
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| No thanks - I have no interest in creating a new character to get a badge a few months early. For what it is worth, please do not tie badges to servers ever again. Find a better carrot.... |
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apparently you enough to comment.
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Originally Posted by Inazuma
Who cares?
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How about a special account-wide badge for people who have to work whenever you schedule events? |
Originally Posted by Avatea
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!
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Does this badge come with an extra perk aside from exclusivity? I don't want to bust my hump for a badge unless it gives me an awesome artifact...think of something for stopping Tyrant in the BIGGEST invasion ever...aside from the Rikti War
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I'm not sure that would be a good thing to do at this time. Can you imagine double the number of people crammed into the RWZ base. It would be better if they wait until that new zone there working on gets launched. Since it almost has to be cooperative.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Will the raised sever cap also affect the individual zone caps? Like will it now take more players to spawn a new instance of a zone?
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OK, let me be sure I understand this...
You planned a big invasion to celebrate 7 years of this game. You make the event last for 3 HOURS on a weeknight for most servers (including mine), with NO REPEAT of the event for those who have to work or otherwise can't make it.
Then you make a special badge available but ONLY to those who will not otherwise be occupied on Memorial Day Weekend (like, just for example, helping a spouse celebrate their parents' 50th wedding anniversary).
Guys... April First was at the beginning of LAST month...
(P.S. Yes, I know you said you'd repeat the badge opportunity in a few months, but nonetheless...)
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You could always cheat. Launch COH early in the morning and leave it running. All you need to do is set your computer to not auto shutdown and enter a mission to keep from being auto logged off.
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Originally Posted by Zubenelgenubi
OK, let me be sure I understand this...
You planned a big invasion to celebrate 7 years of this game. You make the event last for 3 HOURS on a weeknight for most servers (including mine), with NO REPEAT of the event for those who have to work or otherwise can't make it. Then you make a special badge available but ONLY to those who will not otherwise be occupied on Memorial Day Weekend (like, just for example, helping a spouse celebrate their parents' 50th wedding anniversary). Guys... April First was at the beginning of LAST month... (P.S. Yes, I know you said you'd repeat the badge opportunity in a few months, but nonetheless...) |
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That's actually a very helpful suggestion. Guess I'll have to try that.|
Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero
You could always cheat. Launch COH early in the morning and leave it running. All you need to do is set your computer to not auto shutdown and enter a mission to keep from being auto logged off.
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But since it still doesn't help me to participate in the invasion event on
a Monday night, it's still not an acceptable event. They've obviously worked
really hard on all of this. So why so limiting?
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Separate thought came up with this. (Not a tech person, so this is probably way off.)|
Originally Posted by Second Measure
Second, before the rumor mill starts churning, this isn't about a server merge or going server-less, either -- the server communities are genuinely important to you and to us. We have good, old-fashioned business reasons to be more efficient with the servers. If you could make your car get a couple miles more to the gallon every day, you'd probably do it, too. Now imagine you can make your car *twice* as efficient. This is kinda like that.
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Those good old fashioned business reasons for making the servers more efficient...(since you seem to not expect to greatly increase server pop through merging)...is it to streamline costs by downgrading hardware if you can make the code more efficient enough that it can handle the current load with less hardware?
Not that important, but just had to ask in case you answer hehe.
And what about those of us who really don't care much about the badge and really don't care what happens on Freedom? I don't want to experience the invasion on a character that I rolled up just for the invasion. I want to experience it on my home server, on one of my characters that I have played for years now. But you offer a 3 hour window on a week night for me to be able to do that? Not all of us have 9-5 jobs, some of us have commitments that will prevent us from being able to make it to an event run in the evening. It sounds like it's going to be an awesome event and I want to participate but it looks like I'm going to miss out on it.
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No, not really. Just curious as to why it matters to you so much to post about it like you won something.
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Originally Posted by Lucky666
apparently you enough to comment.
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There's no possible way the devs can reasonably make the event so every single person out there can attend. Some people are going to miss out. I may end up being one of them, at least for Virtue. But if you really want to attend, surely you can manage to do so on one of the 11 days it's running on. Roll an alt. No, it's not the same as on your home server...but you'll still get to participate. And alts really aren't that scary...they don't bite.|
Originally Posted by Johnstone
And what about those of us who really don't care much about the badge and really don't care what happens on Freedom? I don't want to experience the invasion on a character that I rolled up just for the invasion. I want to experience it on my home server, on one of my characters that I have played for years now. But you offer a 3 hour window on a week night for me to be able to do that? Not all of us have 9-5 jobs, some of us have commitments that will prevent us from being able to make it to an event run in the evening. It sounds like it's going to be an awesome event and I want to participate but it looks like I'm going to miss out on it.
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And if that's not good enough for you? Well, I'm afraid you'll just have to get over it. Sorry, but the devs are only human. When you're talking about a live event, they can't possibly cater to every single last person.
As a suggestion, why not give us free server transfers for a few days before and after?
I'd be a whole lot more excited about having to log in to Freedom if I had a character who could actually participate instead of a level 1 who can stand there and watch the lag fest.
Of course, the way I feel about this whole thing, I really could have said "I'd be more excited about the fact you're about to 'take advantage of me' if you'd buy me dinner and get me drunk first"
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Sadly, mt level 2 character will be unable to get a nuke to let off.|
Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
alright...2500 players, 2500 Warburg nukes going off
lets do it! |
I suspect many will be in the same boat.
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Straw Man much?|
Originally Posted by Tricia
There's no possible way the devs can reasonably make the event so every single person out there can attend.
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NOBODY is saying "make it so that every single person can attend." But some of us *are* saying that a single 3-hour window in the early afternoon on a weeknight isn't sufficient.
And as far as alts being "scary"... maybe some of us like playing our mains. Maybe playing a level 1 isn't all that enjoyable for many of us. Maybe we really don't want to spend the next couple of weeks leveling an alt up on another server just so we can participate in this event, only to have the character stranded on that server that we never play on. Maybe we enjoy teaming with our friends on our home servers.
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^Pretty much yes to what was said above. Given my 4-nights-on, 4-off shift rotation, I'm gonna miss all of this. Yes, I could use the cheat where I leave my computer on running CoH with a character left in-mission, but that's no fun!
I was hoping this would be like the rikti invasion events- with those, you don't have to be online on only one day, at pretty much any time during the event, you can log in, and if you're patient, a zone invasion will pop up somewhere. Instead, it's just a one-time-only thing
Yeah, I guess you can color me disappointed in this one
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What I appreciate about all this is the detailed explanation from Second Measure about what the point of all this is. Information helps understanding which helps to keep kneejerk reactions in check.
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