Never really like the basic premise behind these "drop valuable mobs around randomly, so only the really lucky/fast can benefit" events.

Yeah they're great if you can get them, if not...

Yeah, like the gnomes.

You had the set of people with hasting effects and auto walkers/movement enhancers getting everything to the point that it wasn't worth the frustration to try. Since they were giving out dingbats, and dingbats are psuedo-credits for obnoxiously useful "fun" artifacts the whole system is just a pile of failure.

Yeah I think if they do gnomes again this year, they should just make it like a month long iron beard but with a slightly higher frequency (but keep the cool prizes, of course). There's a lot of people who didn't really get a chance at gnomes, or anything good from them because everyone was just hoarding.

I'd like to see more stuff like Ironbeard, or the Wayfaire. /nod

While I had fun in the skirmish, I now know why I'm so tightly wound. Eesh.

Yes!

We did just have the Valentine's miniquest!

And that was much fun! Very nice since we just had the manse gems come out.

It is hard to tell whether the Project Paradox/Hallifax shield stuff is bugged since I'm not entirely sure what it supposed to be happening.

Also, anyone from Gaudi, what keeps shattering whenever we restore Spheres? I thrive on descriptions!

At least a couple things are bugged. I filed a bug rep about the three things I know of either not properly working or seeming to not work properly, so we'll see.

It probably should be draining the generator, and when the generator falls start draining the matrix. Like every other org smob conversion.

It kinda looks like that's what it is doing... and then it kinda does. That's the problem. I think we've bugged just about everything that looks weird by now. Sorry admins/coders!

Unless Halli and Gaudi function differently than the other orgs, doesn't Gaudi have to do their quest to destroy the generators before their converted spheres start draining power from the Matrix? I mean, if I remember correctly anyway, how the orgs go is like:

1) OrgA kills OrgB smob to convert them.
2) Converted smobs hit Org B protection until it hits 0.
3) Org A initiates quest to destroy Org B protection.
4) With Org B protection down, converted smobs drain Org B nexus.

The basically just reversing that for the Org B counterquest? Like, resurrecting the smobs then doing the quest to re-raise the protection? I might be forgetting something though or be totally off since Halli and Gaudi are just weird.

I thought protection is automatically taken down when it hits 0. Like is there even a quest for Celest to kill the Necromentate or for Mag to bring down the Star?

Once the Star/Necro falls, the converted spirits attack the nexus directly and sap power which is absorbed into the opposing nexus.

It looks like that's what is supposed to happen, yes. But it's not.

EDIT: At least, it's not entirely.

Our shield went down, and power is draining from the Matrix, but we can't seem to put the shield back up. Even the normal quest to add motes to the generator isn't available.

You have to do one round of the epic to restore the shield, ie. empower all 6 secondary generators once.



I don't have the exact line, but it's something like "Disappointed booing fills the city as a crystal sphere shatters and disappears from above the city."