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When I played EQ, company reps would occasionally come into the game as NPCs and interact with players.  Sometimes they'd assume control of regularly occurring monsters and surprise the players by fighting more intelligently than the regular AI, sometimes they'd come in as huge monsters specifically designed for invasions, and other times they'd be prominent figures in the game world, and would interact organically with whoever happened across them (which usually resulted in a crowd wandering the zone in the wake of the character).
 
Now that we're down to four servers worldwide, is there any chance of that sort of thing happening in Wildstar?	
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			I really really hope so :D	
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Tony had a hard enough time playing to level 2 yesterday, do you really want him in a giant monster?
 
Kidding aside, I really did enjoy that in EQ1 as well.	
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Kriggles I nearly spit my drink all over my monitor when I read that! lol
 
On topic, I think this would be so awesome to see some day.	
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			Michael Jordan please! I know I can take that guy on 1v1 and he can't double jump!!! hahahahaha	
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			This would be awsome!	
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Here's a thought: Monsters have their AI and are stuck in different areas for game balance, pathing issues and all that. Lots of reasons. But what if said monster was controlled by a real person? Wouldn't that mean it could wander off on its own and do whatever it pleases? And thus, I give up... the (insert enemy name) invasion in Thayd. We could have an event where a bunch of enemies decide that enough is enough, and charges towards Thayd. The NPC guards will try to stop them, but they will fail. Guaranteed. So no matter how you put it, the monsters *will* invade Thayd.
 
Once they get there, they will start butchering everything in sight, including NPCs (the shopkeepers, crafters, stylist, you name it.) If no players help out, Thayd will be a ghost-town after a while. Literally, there will be nothing left. To counter this, every player in Thayd will be scaled up to max level, so we stand a chance of defeating the invasion. Players who die in the invasion will respawn in the outskirts of the city, so they won't be stuck dying over and over again in the center of the city, but all monsters we defeat stay dead. This way we can defeat the entire invasion if we are persistant enough, though the more, the merrier, of course. Once the invasion has ended, we all get a reward based on how much we contributed. I don't want a ranking list (it makes it too competitive), so everyone can in theory get first place.
 
The whole thing shouldn't last more than 30 minutes, and even if the invaders win and the whole city is wiped out, everything should be reset back to normal in 10 - 15 minutes. So in worst case, we're talking Thayd being unavaliable about 45 minutes. In worst case. This means Thayd will be unavaliable for a while if you don't want to fight the invasion, but you don't really loose much anyway. There are other stores, stylists and all that in other places, and you can set up a crafting station in your own house (or use someone else's.) It just means we could get an event we can remember. :)
 
I know it's impossible to find a time everyone can agree on with something like this, so it could be a recurring event over a weekend, perhaps. Maybe once every three hours, or every five hours. What do you guys think?
 
(btw the Dominion can of course have their own invasion. I'm just too lazy to look up the name of the Dominion city and type both names instead of just Thayd.) :p	
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This is actually something we are discussing at the moment. Sadly it's not just a simple case of "popping in when we feel like and controlling NPCs for an few hours". Lots of approvals, planning and stuff like that needs to happen first.
 
It's something we'd love to do though!
 
 
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Tony had a hard enough time playing to level 2 yesterday, do you really want him in a giant monster?
 
Kidding aside, I really did enjoy that in EQ1 as well.
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This is actually something we are discussing at the moment. Sadly it's not just a simple case of "popping in when we feel like and controlling NPCs for an few hours". Lots of approvals, planning and stuff like that needs to happen first.
 
It's something we'd love to do though!
 
 
 
Don't worry, EU Team can bring the skills to make up for it. ;)
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Neat that this idea is getting tossed around. God knows we need more PR from the team. (No offense in most cases)
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You know what this would be perfect for?
 
Lopp invasion event, since I imagine all of Carbine is an office filled with Lopp wearing Carbine studios t-shirts anyway it works out.
 
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Don't worry, EU Team can bring the skills to make up for it.  ;)
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Don't worry, EU Team can bring the skills to make up for it. ;)
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This is actually something we are discussing at the moment. Sadly it's not just a simple case of "popping in when we feel like and controlling NPCs for an few hours". Lots of approvals, planning and stuff like that needs to happen first.
 
It's something we'd love to do though!
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This is actually something we are discussing at the moment. Sadly it's not just a simple case of "popping in when we feel like and controlling NPCs for an few hours". Lots of approvals, planning and stuff like that needs to happen first.
 
It's something we'd love to do though!
 
 
 
Don't worry, EU Team can bring the skills to make up for it. ;)
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This is actually something we are discussing at the moment. Sadly it's not just a simple case of "popping in when we feel like and controlling NPCs for an few hours". Lots of approvals, planning and stuff like that needs to happen first.
 
It's something we'd love to do though!
 
 
 
Don't worry, EU Team can bring the skills to make up for it. ;)
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Here's a thought: Monsters have their AI and are stuck in different areas for game balance, pathing issues and all that. Lots of reasons. But what if said monster was controlled by a real person? Wouldn't that mean it could wander off on its own and do whatever it pleases? And thus, I give up... the (insert enemy name) invasion in Thayd. We could have an event where a bunch of enemies decide that enough is enough, and charges towards Thayd. The NPC guards will try to stop them, but they will fail. Guaranteed. So no matter how you put it, the monsters *will* invade Thayd.
 
Once they get there, they will start butchering everything in sight, including NPCs (the shopkeepers, crafters, stylist, you name it.) If no players help out, Thayd will be a ghost-town after a while. Literally, there will be nothing left. To counter this, every player in Thayd will be scaled up to max level, so we stand a chance of defeating the invasion. Players who die in the invasion will respawn in the outskirts of the city, so they won't be stuck dying over and over again in the center of the city, but all monsters we defeat stay dead. This way we can defeat the entire invasion if we are persistant enough, though the more, the merrier, of course. Once the invasion has ended, we all get a reward based on how much we contributed. I don't want a ranking list (it makes it too competitive), so everyone can in theory get first place.
 
The whole thing shouldn't last more than 30 minutes, and even if the invaders win and the whole city is wiped out, everything should be reset back to normal in 10 - 15 minutes. So in worst case, we're talking Thayd being unavaliable about 45 minutes. In worst case. This means Thayd will be unavaliable for a while if you don't want to fight the invasion, but you don't really loose much anyway. There are other stores, stylists and all that in other places, and you can set up a crafting station in your own house (or use someone else's.) It just means we could get an event we can remember. :)
 
I know it's impossible to find a time everyone can agree on with something like this, so it could be a recurring event over a weekend, perhaps. Maybe once every three hours, or every five hours. What do you guys think?
 
(btw the Dominion can of course have their own invasion. I'm just too lazy to look up the name of the Dominion city and type both names instead of just Thayd.) :P
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			They just laid off 60 people so, no, probably not enough people left to pull this off.	
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When I played EQ, company reps would occasionally come into the game as NPCs and interact with players.  Sometimes they'd assume control of regularly occurring monsters and surprise the players by fighting more intelligently than the regular AI, sometimes they'd come in as huge monsters specifically designed for invasions, and other times they'd be prominent figures in the game world, and would interact organically with whoever happened across them (which usually resulted in a crowd wandering the zone in the wake of the character).
 
Now that we're down to four servers worldwide, is there any chance of that sort of thing happening in Wildstar?
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Here's a thought: Monsters have their AI and are stuck in different areas for game balance, pathing issues and all that. Lots of reasons. But what if said monster was controlled by a real person? Wouldn't that mean it could wander off on its own and do whatever it pleases? And thus, I give up... the (insert enemy name) invasion in Thayd. We could have an event where a bunch of enemies decide that enough is enough, and charges towards Thayd. The NPC guards will try to stop them, but they will fail. Guaranteed. So no matter how you put it, the monsters *will* invade Thayd.
 
Once they get there, they will start butchering everything in sight, including NPCs (the shopkeepers, crafters, stylist, you name it.) If no players help out, Thayd will be a ghost-town after a while. Literally, there will be nothing left. To counter this, every player in Thayd will be scaled up to max level, so we stand a chance of defeating the invasion. Players who die in the invasion will respawn in the outskirts of the city, so they won't be stuck dying over and over again in the center of the city, but all monsters we defeat stay dead. This way we can defeat the entire invasion if we are persistant enough, though the more, the merrier, of course. Once the invasion has ended, we all get a reward based on how much we contributed. I don't want a ranking list (it makes it too competitive), so everyone can in theory get first place.
 
The whole thing shouldn't last more than 30 minutes, and even if the invaders win and the whole city is wiped out, everything should be reset back to normal in 10 - 15 minutes. So in worst case, we're talking Thayd being unavaliable about 45 minutes. In worst case. This means Thayd will be unavaliable for a while if you don't want to fight the invasion, but you don't really loose much anyway. There are other stores, stylists and all that in other places, and you can set up a crafting station in your own house (or use someone else's.) It just means we could get an event we can remember. :)
 
I know it's impossible to find a time everyone can agree on with something like this, so it could be a recurring event over a weekend, perhaps. Maybe once every three hours, or every five hours. What do you guys think?
 
(btw the Dominion can of course have their own invasion. I'm just too lazy to look up the name of the Dominion city and type both names instead of just Thayd.) :P
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You know what this would be perfect for?
 
Lopp invasion event, since I imagine all of Carbine is an office filled with Lopp wearing Carbine studios t-shirts anyway it works out.
 
 
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In Vanilla WoW I was playing Alliance at the time and was hanging out talking to friends in IF outside of the bank (it was past peak play time but still very busy) when out of nowhere a dwarf gm riding a griffin was hovering over us.
 
Flying mounts were not introduced yet at that time, so needless to say it got everybody's attention.  The dwarf flying on the griffin announced he was forming a raid group, & everyone tried joining. When we hit cap he said " Now go do something!" left the raid and logged out.  If avatars could look dumbfounded... 
 
Another great one that I never saw personally, but checked out on youtube after some players told me about it, was Dhuum bans from GW1...so cool to suspend and ban that way.
 
Those kind of interactions really sink in.  
 
I'm all for getting squashed by some three story GM controlled Lopp monster god. 	
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No everyone knows Cubigs are the master race... they are the most intelligent and plentiful race on Nexus... they are just bidding their time.
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