Nericus

What's taken the wind from my sails for this event is all the gorram'd lag that can occur during Zombie/Banner attacks.

Sounds like you have Only thing I want to do now is wrap up the Ghost badge for ToT on alts that didn't get it last year, then have certain villains of mine see about fighting the banners. Other then that, it's kick back and have fun.

Wentworth and Blackmarket need to taken over by a third party and set it up as an independent company that equally supplies to both sides and answers to neither.

OR at least set price caps. It's ridiculous to see recipies selling for some of the exhorbitant prices that appear on the market.

Ok, not liking this much myself, but on the other hand, lets say characters could access either market......so I take a villain and have it "repent" and become a Rogue and then it goes to the nearest Wentworths where there prices are cheaper.......and then after shopping and installing its upgrades, the rogue reveals itself to still be a villain and laughs "SUCKERS! Now I am PURPLE POWERED!" and heads back to the Rogue Isles.

Managed to spin all my blue alts through the event. Some are missing the ToT Costume badges but those aren't a priority compared to things like hunting down Jack/Eochai/Unseelie or gathering a group when the zone alert states that its Banner time.

Next up, recycle some redside alts into the event so they can finish the ToT badge for ghosts since last year the spawn rate on Spirits was a bit.....off.

Yes the team I joined last night for a banner event was holding their own until the arrival of my Sp3 came in and started mezzing and confusing and basically mind-ripping the enemy spawn. Didn't even notice a stamina problem at all despite any more endurance the powers use now. Came away with a clean sweep of all the Banner badges in one run of the event.

Permadom is very much worth it, especially when your toon can double and triple stack it.

CORRECTION: They became emoticons when things were migrated to this board as they did work on the previous board.

Doms can now be played more effectively thanks to dom changes, however permadom is still the way to go. Hm, that reminds me, need to bring out the Super Permadom 3 later tonight for Halloween.

Get a Malta mission, find a room with a sapper. Kill all Malta but the sapper. Stand directly in front of the sapper and he will tazer-jab you with his gun. No need to be in rest mode, just stand in front of him. Watch the fun of your toon being tazer tortured for a bit, then go to bed.

Gratz on the frequent Jacks.

As to Jack spawning: the lowest level blueside zone he will spawn is Talos, for redside it's Sharkhead.

My own thoughts:

1. I love the new Banner event
2. The spawn rate of the new event seems a bit low at times.
3. Talos last night got so lagged that basically the entire zone imploded upon itself causing everyone to mapserver and the zone to rollback a bit once people were able to log back in. We were GM hunting then the Zombie attack occurs which lasted a long time and lag began to grow exponentially, then after the Zombies were crushed a minute later comes the alert "Supernatural Activity detected in Talos" and then things got so bad that the implosion occurred.

Now granted the event only recently started and all the badgers are out in full force, but when a zone implodes causing everyone to mapserve and get rolled back after log in delays and thus lose any badges they may have gained before the zone failure then something needs to be done.

Here's an idea, and its going to be received with mixed reaction I'm certain, but if it keeps the above described implosion from occurring then that's fine.

All entrances to the zone, including warping in from an SG base, and in some zone cases the Ouroborus portals as well as Pocket D all shut down 5 minutes after the alert is announced. Think of it as Statesman or Recluse if you are on redside deciding that the risk of the mystic forces behind the event spreading to other zones is so great that they order the shutdown of all entrances to the zone that the event is occuring. Also the power of the forces behind the attack are so great that zones that Ouroborus are connected to can't be reached by traveling from Ouroborus, and even DJ Zero gets nervous and orders the doors from Pocket D to the zone under attack to be closed until the attack is over. Naturally shutting them down should take some time, thus players have 5 minutes to get to the zone or in some cases to evacuate the zone if they don't wish to be in the event. Now granted this may mean that some people will not be able to participate because they can't get to the zone, and it may mean that some zones that are under populated with players won't have much firepower to bring against the enemy, but which is the greater evil:

1. Some players not being able to make it to the event before all methods of getting into the zone are closed?

2. Some zones not having enough players to successfully fight the event?

3. The zone overloading and imploding thus causing everyone to Mapserver/disconnect and face a rollback to a previous state thus losing any badges they may have gained before the zone implosion?

For me it's number 3.

5 minutes should be enough time as the Banner event timer starts at 20 minutes, attacks begin at 16:00 on the timer, thus players can still get in up to 1 minute after the attacks start.

5 minutes should also be enough for things like Zombie attacks and Rikti Invasions.

Make one of each, I did. They are both 50 and fully armed and operational. Hard to say which I like best as they both rip through enemies pretty nicely, but I will say that /storm is fantastic especially when you have the powers including the storm cloud permacharged. Truly my bot-storm is a god of thunder!

Was just is in GV and was at a Eochai spawn point, next to it was the Arachnos Flyer on one of its patrol stops, and a Banner event was at 17:00 and counting.

When Eochai falls the respawn checks for its 10% chance to manifest Jack, but for Eochai or Jack to count as a complete kill to trigger the respawn, all the Unseelies must be destroyed. Been that way every year.

I've gone through Shark, Nerva, St Mart, GV, Talos and Pi. Spawn points are same as before.

Yes I'm trying to avoid Pi as much as possible for all Halloween activities.

I also am not a Day Job fan. Some of the powers they confer have some uses, but the time it take to build up a full charge seems prohibitive, also the time to obtain one dayjob badge is still a bit lengthy, IMO. Used to be 30 days then changed to 21. Should be 14, imo. Currently it takes over a year of offline time to obtain all current Dayjobs.

And yes, IoP were removed on the last sweep.

Yes the lag has been a bit bad. Also the apparent infrequency of the event spawning. Six of my alts including my 2 main badgers have them all now, but it wasn't easy.

Jack spawns at the same spots as Eochai. Suggest checking Paragonwiki for halloween event maps that show spawn points.

IT's either Eochai or Jack, the only time you will see them at the same time is during their normal Croatoa spawns. Also duplicate spawns of them in a zone during the event do not occur....unless there is a doozy of a bug

Still, Jack's spawn rate during Halloween does need some improvement.

Sweet! Now about the Giant Monsters.........

Let us not forget the hope of customizable Granite armor.....