"Defender of Primal Earth" all weekend.

I was in Mercy during the surge, at Fort Darwin. Maybe that zone wasn't as full as the others, but I had no lag (Netgraph was a beautiful green lawn that did not need mowing) and my framerates were pretty good for all the action on my screen (20 - 30 fps).
So I had fun.

Is this one of those, we have to login all toons during the time period to get the badge, or is it flagged for all future characters?

So.. everyone who logs in this weekend is a D.O.P.E.

Did anyone at Paragon Studios think before naming the badge or is this a not so subtle hint about the developer's feelings towards the people who play this game?

Lag was rough but I chalk most of that up to my very slow connection. Got the badge pretty soon into the event though and snagged a steampunk code right after it was over!

Thanks for that Zwill. d(^.^d)

I have to say that even after 4 I didn't experience lag until the actual invasion and combat started. Even then the lag only happened in the area with everyone fighting. And it really wasn't that bad. I've seen worse lag in the past, much worse.

For this invasion it was only about a 10 second lag from activating a power to it firing off. This though was in Kings Row 2.

My Praetorian surge story started on Monday; I rolled a toon called "Flambeaux?" (Rogues Gallery), with the intention of getting her to 50 before Friday and taking part in the event. After two sessions of at least 36 hours of continuous play, I hit 50, slotted up, then finally got some well-needed sleep.

Unfortunately, the stress caught up with me and I got a virus, leading to me vomiting the whole of Friday away. I finally managed to crawl out of bed for an hour at midnight, where I joined the 20+ Unionites (BAF sometime, anyone?) on the steps of Atlas Park 1. I had intended to stay for the entire event, but the slideslow lag unfortunately didn't help the nausea, and I ended up dropping after about an hour; I'd just like to say congrats to the rest of my team, who were the last 7 people remaining in the league after I left.

I'd also like to thank everyone who pointed out that nobody loves Flambeaux; it may be harsh, but it's definitely true.

I think there were two or three leagues worth of us in St. Martial last night. The lag was incredible, I couldn't move for up to a minute at a time, and at one point things were going so slow, I just put Ball Lightning on autofire and left the PC for about fifteen minutes to come back to only having one or two War Walker GM's having fallen.

Though it was rather interesting, especially when a beach in the space-time continuum allowed for two spawns of AV-GM's in Fortune's Wheel.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

Yeah, brutal lag. Still, I did my share. Logged in both of my accounts to boost the numbers. I figured that was more important than how much I could contribute to the fighting. (Not much.)

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Originally Posted by Lady Arete I had created my little namesake on Freedom and only had 2 levels. So yes I was standing in Atlas park and waiting for trouble to arrive.

I saw you there.
I would have created a guy with Ironblade in the name, except I already had toons on Freedom so I brought my highest one (level 21), Doc Volcanic.

The lag I saw on Cap in Freedom was actually (previous post aside) only about as bad as your run-of-the-mill invasion. Maybe a little less, I was pretty much able to fire off powers when the button recharged. Definitely slide-show-city though.

I decided to do the thing using my Bots/Dark MM which no doubt helped - set bots on aggressive, latch Darkest Night onto a purple-con something-er-other, and then click my Heal when the chance arises and it's all good. Might have bitten more for a melee character.

Freedom was lagtacular. 15 Pocket Ds that I saw. Some guy got a Steampunk booster and was trying to speak all steampunky. I pwned him. No one can out-jibber-jabber me if'n I set my mind to it.

How does someone speak "steampunky" - do they just hiss and clank?

The whole thing made me quit before I even saw any actual 'action'. First an hour before the event started, they said spread out!! So for some reason I went to Croatoa (actually someone was advertising in Freedom TF) and joined the league. So the first wave started. In Atlas, PI, Kings and somewhere else, pretty much where they told us not to go. The league all separated then I read the second wave was heading to FF. So I go there and join up again and the invasion decides to go to FF2. So I quit and logged off. Got the badge though.

I was quite pleased with the lack of lag I endured. As long as I wasn't trying to fight anything I could fly around unhindered. Engaging in combat though proved useless for my new level 6, as my powers refused to activate for minutes on end.

Something very odd happened around an hour in though. I was hovering over a group of walkers in Steel and slowly plinking away with blasts. The screen flashed white for a split second and then all my powers were gone!
Both my trays were empty and pulling up my powers showed them all grey, as if I'd taken none at all...
I bind my travel power to the mouse though and it was still working so I spent the rest of the time just flying around trying to hunt down a Dev controlled icon with no luck.

I was stationed in Atlas 1 an hour before the event started but for some reason like a moron I listened to the admin message about spreading out and decided to check Talo's and Steel. When I heard about all the AV's in Atlas I was a little miffed that I missed it, as I was unable to locate anything other than standard spawns of walkers.

Otherwise it was a blast! I really liked the banter between the two sides.

4000 concurrent users, that's a lot. I hope they got good data. I wonder how many accounts will end up snagging the badge over the holiday weekend? The account-wide thing is nifty. I like that I don't have to log in every single character to get it, and even better, that new characters I create will have it. I wonder if they'll still make it available later for new people who join after this weekend?