RIFT looks at Scarwood Reach

@karmamule

Can you describe the server-wide events? Was there involvement from their GM community, meaning are they going to be running events with live NPC's, or do you mean more along the lines of huge RIFT invasions?

@AlienFanatic

They were definitely GM-triggered events because the GMs sent out server-wide messages before they started, and the events themselves then affected the entire Defiant area that I was in at the time. The sky turned very dark (neat effect), dozens of rifts opened all over the place, and everyone playing received a specific quest for the event.

The quest also had specific goals for everyone to complete in a certain amount of time in order to thwart the invasion and return things to normal. I'm not sure if there were any GM controlled NPCs, but it was certainly much more than "open a bunch of rifts". I'd say it was more akin to a gigantic Warhammer-like public quest that involved the entire continent and everyone playing in that wide area at the time.

While I was playing they had two separate events that had some similarities but were different enough that it looks like they could have nice variety. The two main factions of Guardians and Defiant each got their own events, and the GMs were taunting us that the Guardians had completed their's successfully earlier in the day, and would we be able to do the same.

It was wild and chaotic and lots and lots of fun!

@karmamule
No they are scripted randomly triggered by the server events based on zone population.
At this stage only a few are triggered by the gms so they can test the content of the zone invasions. The mobs and bosses are not controlled by gms. The messages are scripted, except for the ones that mock how badly we are getting stomped by the invasion, (as happened on my server once, we failed miserably) that's clearly the gms lol.
A lot of people made the same mistake in thinking this, Scott Hartsman had to point out that they are server driven on the podcast after the NDA lift.:)

@AlienFanatic Yeah they were GM involved... It was pretty funny because the GMs started Sunday morning with a message, "Shall we start slowly today"

When I replied that "Someone needed their coffee"

The GM sent another server message stating that they would no longer be starting slowly. I got a grin out of that.