Turn on non-stop Rikti Invasions Until Freedom Headstart
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Black Zot,
Posted on: 2011-09-01 17:07 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
This is a stupid idea considering the servers are already crashing every other day.
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Stupid... or just stupid enough to be genius?|
Originally Posted by _Velociteh_
This is a stupid idea considering the servers are already crashing every other day.
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You decide.
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Just stupid.
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Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
Stupid... or just stupid enough to be genius?
You decide. |
@TheKatalyst
My **** is bleeding.
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... Like a Fox!|
Originally Posted by _Velociteh_
Just stupid.
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The servers are going to go down Rikti Invasion or not, so let's party like it's July 24, 2007 when they are up until the Freedom hits.
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Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
... Like a Fox!
The servers are going to go down Rikti Invasion or not, so let's party like it's July 24, 2007 when they are up until the Freedom hits. |
Not a fan of the idea but I love your attitude!
Yeah, I'm sure Rikti popping up all over and slaughtering lowbies is a great way to celebrate. /sarcasm
The servers are borked enough as-is without spamming zone events. Don't pile more blocks on a Jenga tower that's already on the verge of collapse.
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Okay, I'll meet you halfway: Rularuu Invasion?
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Originally Posted by Black Zot
Yeah, I'm sure Rikti popping up all over and slaughtering lowbies is a great way to celebrate. /sarcasm
The servers are borked enough as-is without spamming zone events. Don't pile more blocks on a Jenga tower that's already on the verge of collapse. |
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I believe that was supposed to be a joke, can't tell though, as jokes are usually funny.
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Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
Okay, I'll meet you halfway: Rularuu Invasion?
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@TheKatalyst
My **** is bleeding.
No
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That might actually work. It would let people that can't get to the Shadow Shard unlock the Rularuu weapons.|
Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
Okay, I'll meet you halfway: Rularuu Invasion?
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Since the Invasion Code presents the invaders as even con to your level, it wouldn't be as annoying as the original Rularuu event with the eyeballs one-shotting lowbies that hadn't even gotten into draw distance to be able to see them.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
How about invasions of every type! Rikti, Zombies, Rularuu, 5th column, Council, ALL AT ONCE! 
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Eh, 5th Column and Council would just run around beating each other up and ignore the rest of us.
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Originally Posted by Freem
How about invasions of every type! Rikti, Zombies, Rularuu, 5th column, Council, ALL AT ONCE!
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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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You joke, but I think, at least on Beta, they need to do this at least once for a few hours. There are bound to be instances where a Lady Grey TF spawns Rikti during a Halloween event or a banner event or the Winter event and we don't know how things like the new Atlas and Mercy will be affected by that.|
Originally Posted by Freem
How about invasions of every type! Rikti, Zombies, Rularuu, 5th column, Council, ALL AT ONCE!
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And yes, I half made this thread as a joke/half as a request for the devs to do something to shake things up in the final stretch before CLASSIC ROCK CHANGES FOREVER AS WE KNOW IT. I know a lot of my friends (myself included) haven't been in the game essentially since open beta started since it's kind of hard to go back to issue 20.
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No.
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I'm not joking.|
Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
You joke, but I think, at least on Beta, they need to do this at least once for a few hours.
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1) Updated hardware? Do a stress test. A big one.
2) It's a big change to the game. Shivans are invading, Praetorians are invading. At least fill the zones with Warworks with and Shivans. The other enemy factions should take advantage, right? See how Lord Recluse was klomping around Paragon.
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I remember that. It made navigating Galaxy City and Atlas Park...interesting, back in the day.|
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
That might actually work. It would let people that can't get to the Shadow Shard unlock the Rularuu weapons.
Since the Invasion Code presents the invaders as even con to your level, it wouldn't be as annoying as the original Rularuu event with the eyeballs one-shotting lowbies that hadn't even gotten into draw distance to be able to see them. |
Then there were the occasional lost ambushes of level 35+ Rikti in Kings Row, milling around behind a fence, just waiting for a lowbie to make that leap of fatality.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I Dunnneeed any more crashes at it is with rikti invasions let alone rikti war zone it self crashes every time I go in it. As I've said many times before they need to revamp it to where it's a straight shot from the vill/ hero side portals to the enterance/exit potal to the base to the out side area....
But that's besides the point. It's bad enough with like several dozen A.P. Sitters under atlas and other zones where there's a lot of action. But with constant invasions it's like being in the middle of a ship raid at times.
Edit: ralaruu invasions could be interesting though as I read earlier :P
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Agreed, Absolutely hate the idea but at least you are being positive |
Originally Posted by danomal
Not a fan of the idea but I love your attitude!
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Freem and the OP have the right idea. Stop being complete dry shites, people! Liven up! |
Originally Posted by Freem
I'm not joking.
1) Updated hardware? Do a stress test. A big one. 2) It's a big change to the game. Shivans are invading, Praetorians are invading. At least fill the zones with Warworks with and Shivans. The other enemy factions should take advantage, right? See how Lord Recluse was klomping around Paragon. |
Presumably, they pushed back the Freedom headstart/release because of these server hardware issues. Therefore, the server/hardware issues will be fixed by the time Freedom goes live. So we wouldn't be borking anything and, in fact, it'd be a pretty good final stress test to double-check that the servers are working fine before all the freebies join in.
I'd sure love to see "old CoH" go out with a bang. I don't think the next month until Freedom hits needs to be all invasions all the time, but I'd love some kind of send-off event the night before Freedom starts.
Only if there are zombies, lots and lots of zombies. It's not a party until Zack shows up.
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I'm neither here nor there on the idea, but I'm weirded out that people are concerned that invasions would crash the shards.
Make them laggy? Maybe. Some of the improvements in crowded instances have already made it live - I don't experience server-side lag in the BAF prisoner phase even on a full league, now, and the ITF's "valley of lag" is much improved. But I don't know if those improvements were specific to those missions, and therefore whether they would make zone events less laggy.
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If we're worried about having too high-level stuff milling around... why not go the opposite direction?
Imagine an invasion of Skulls and Hellions everywhere...
GANG WAR: "We've had the recruiting drives from Hell, and now we're ready to take on this town! BRING IT!"
Or how about Zig Prisoners everywhere... that's a solid midlevel group...
PRISON BREAK: "I'm free, I'm free, and I'M NOT SO STUPID AS TO STAND JUST OUTSIDE THE PRISON SHOUTING ABOUT IT!"
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I would love to see a Hellions biker Rally!
A Skulls/Hellions gang war like the Council/5th thing oh yeah!
As the title says, I think it'd be the best way to see the old City of Heroes off and usher in the new City of Heroes Freedom era. Plus, it could be an easy bonus for some of the more prolonged recent downtime.
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