Guild Wars 2

Just received some kind of in game notification that scarlet invasion is taking place in harathi hinterlands, so i’m wondering is it completely random or is there some sort of timer?

I would like to know this as well. I know Anet said they would happen occasionally, but I haven’t seen one in a few days. How random are they?

Edit:
Went back to check on some stuff. On the original patch notes from august 20:
After the Clockwork Chaos release, the invasions will continue at a less frequent pace.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-August-20-2013

On a different thread about another topic(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Why-80-players/page/2#post2755425), Colin Johansson states:

Will the system which allows the Scarlet Invasions to ‘echo’ in to overflow servers be applied to this and other current large-scale events?

During the release Tequatl will work this way yes, all overflows created within 10 mintues or so of Tequatl arriving will also inherent the event. We’re doing this manually right now while our engineering team works on the ability to have this handled automagically by the system, once that is completed we’d roll that concept out to other major encounters as the default behavior…forever. No ETA on this, but we’re working on it right now.
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Not exactly the same scenario, but it makes me wonder if the Scarlett invasions are being triggered manually in order to control the generation of overflow servers.

yes it does have a timer with event window 1-2 hour after daily reset with a cd of 12 hours

Empressium.5482:

yes it does have a timer with event window 1-2 hour after daily reset with a cd of 12 hours

Source please.

Astral Projections.7320:

Empressium.5482:

yes it does have a timer with event window 1-2 hour after daily reset with a cd of 12 hours

Source please.

pretty much showed u almost never do invasions and look at the clock these 2 months?

According to http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scarlet%27s_Minions_Invade!/history#16_September_2013 the cooldown has to be less then 12 hours.

I would say a window of 2 hours with a cooldown of 6 hours (from start) would be pretty accurate.

mercury ranique.2170:

According to http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scarlet%27s_Minions_Invade!/history#16_September_2013 the cooldown has to be less then 12 hours.

I would say a window of 2 hours with a cooldown of 6 hours (from start) would be pretty accurate.

This sounds likely. I wasn’t considering a window. I had noticed this event going off 6 to 8 hours after the last time I saw one.