Not sure how the portal attacks are working?
How it does work: an invasion is announced, server-wide. The invasion begin, and every overflow created in the next 10 minutes will have it, too. If you try and join the area after those 10 minutes, and the main server and all overflow created in the 10 minutes are full, you’ll end up in an overflow on which the invasion isn’t occurring. You’ll then get the message about the invasion happening somewhere else.
That’s the theory anyway, we can’t exclude the possibility of bugs stopping the invasion from happening on some server/overflow.
Every hour on the hour give or take a minute, a new zone will be attacked, it is shown on “the note on the side of your screen” which zone it is. The zone will fill up fast, but they have set it so the invasion event will run in all overflows that were created within 10 minutes of the invasion starting. So as long as you go there within 10 minutes you will get into a zone with the event running.
If it’s past 10 minutes, it’s likely you’ll get into an overflow where the event isn’t running, because events run concurrent on all servers, and there are lots of people who are also showing up late, and continually creating new overflows that are past the 10 minute mark. At that point, you’ll need to find someone who’s in a zone with the event running and join them in their instance of the zone.
Ah, right thanks to you both for the answers.
Seems an odd way of structuring it, but I hear people are enjoying the events. Sadly, it seems like I’d be spending a lot of time not doing much and waiting to get in on an event, so I guess I’ll sit this update out (only have about 3 evenings over next two weeks free for a couple of hours).
I get the impression that if you’re stuck in some of the overflows, they don’t appear. So you have to get there quick. Either be on the main instance of the explorable, or one of the early overflows. But not all overflows will have invasions going on. Of course, I may be wrong. But that’s what seemed to be going on.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On3Ya0_4Y)