So...it's 6pm BST on Union...where's our invasion?
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Amy_Amp,
Posted on: 2011-05-11 10:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
This! There's a huge team of roleplayers on now waiting for something to happen...
Has the EU simply been forgotten or deprioritised *again*, or what? I mean come on, you did say it would be at 6, you could at least make an announcement or something if there's anything up?
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A laggy mess that I've logged out of. Just not fun, waiting up many magnitudes of time than usual for my powers to come back up. And this was in Peregrine Island, rather than the chock-a-block full Atlas Park.
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This doesn't bode well for the grand finale on Freedom on the 27th.
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Originally Posted by Zortel
A laggy mess that I've logged out of. Just not fun, waiting up many magnitudes of time than usual for my powers to come back up. And this was in Peregrine Island, rather than the chock-a-block full Atlas Park.
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Actually, it still does. They wanted us to try to break the server. Breaking it at 1000 players is just as useful to know as it would breaking it at their goal of 2500, or even higher.|
Originally Posted by mousedroid
This doesn't bode well for the grand finale on Freedom on the 27th.
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All you have to do is log in to get the badge on the 27th, the actual Invasion part is just giving all those people something to do so the server actually gets its stress test.
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Think how it bodes for tonight's Virtue Invasion. Virtue is the highest population server.
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
This doesn't bode well for the grand finale on Freedom on the 27th.
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It was horribly, horribly laggy at the start, I moved from Atlas to PI in the hope it improved and it didn't however, after crashing in PI I moved back to Atlas and as the event progressed it improved greatly.
Unsure if this was due to people spreading out across the zones or something being done to improve the situation but it was much better after the first half an hour.
What they seem to have started doing is hitting two different zones at the same times, whereas at the start they were hitting one zone really heavily.
Thus spreading people out
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Yeah, but the badge is only to be given out if 2500 accounts log on simultaneously. If 1000 accounts log on at 7 PM and the server crashes, those 1000 people might get the badge a couple of days later, but all the people who weren't home from work yet would be out of luck and would probably have to wait months to get the badge.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Actually, it still does. They wanted us to try to break the server. Breaking it at 1000 players is just as useful to know as it would breaking it at their goal of 2500, or even higher.
All you have to do is log in to get the badge on the 27th, the actual Invasion part is just giving all those people something to do so the server actually gets its stress test. |
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They already confirmed if the server dies that the badge will be awarded to all servers anyway for that weekend since the goal of stress testing the server had been accomplished....a little too well obviously.
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The invasion itself was ok, i gave up after about an hour though since with no badge and no real reward it was just basically bashing. Im all for mayhem and carnage but a bit of a reward would have been nice, even it was just a shard/thread for every kill.
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I have similar feelings on the whole thing. I actually lasted a good two and a half hours, but what killed my participation was my fourth crash (in combination with a bad mood anyway). Overall, I loved that the event happened over several zones, especially when it picked up and got fast. With suprisingly little lag, at that.|
Originally Posted by EU_Damz
The invasion itself was ok, i gave up after about an hour though since with no badge and no real reward it was just basically bashing. Im all for mayhem and carnage but a bit of a reward would have been nice, even it was just a shard/thread for every kill.
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A reward would have been nice, but not bad for what it was.
There was an invasion on Union about...three hours ago.
I was on the tail end of some teaming in Kings Row with a nice group when the warnings came, an Atlas Park 2 instance was created and we all gathered there. War Walkers, robots and even saw a "Damz" floating around.
There will likely be more of them over the next while.
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Did get 3-4 Piggs error that sent me crashing, while I was in Peregrine.
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Originally Posted by Lady Arete
Did get 3-4 Piggs error that sent me crashing.
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I was in PI-Instance 2 which subsequently dominated the Invasion and we helped Instance 1 who were getting overwrought with a lot of mobs. I really enjoyed it, I guess I can see the no reward thing being a big put off - especially simple Event ones but you never know it might happen again.
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Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
Think how it bodes for tonight's Virtue Invasion. Virtue is the highest population server.
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Given, but it's Wednesday.
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I was in a small league in PI 1 with Tsumiju Zero, Lady Arete and others who battled it out for the entire thing. I personally got a couple of crashes but found it a great event that was really fun - especially because I tend to miss these things! Below is a screenshot we took in PI at the end of the event...
where do I find the info on what the SURGE actually is. What zone, whats the deal. I cant find any info.
Here's some background:
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Thanks. Logged in for the first 20 mins, then decided it was decidedly NOT worth it.
Defending Primal Earth from a crazed god emperor and his invasion armies of fascist thugs and giant war robots isn't worth more than 20 minutes of your time?
I don't think you've quite got the hang of this whole hero thing yet
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+1. I don't see the need to test Freedom. That was unplayable on a basic level. Attacks could be timed in minutes and not seconds. Attack chains? You mean for the whole 3 hours? Rubberbanding was rather epic since I would rubberband 5 times on the same street and it was annoying even when you decided it wasn't worth and tried to leave. That was, in a word, brutal.
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Originally Posted by CaptSammy
Thanks. Logged in for the first 20 mins, then decided it was decidedly NOT worth it.
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Everything alright?
Just checking to make sure there isn't any last minute problems you guys have hit with this.
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