This event has been failing frequently recently due to the players on the East burning down the Octovine extremely fast compared to the other gates, especially West and North which seem to be getting less and less players who actually know what to do, so that the entire event times out and fails.
As the East gate is the easiest to do, its where most players go, so the other gates dont get enuf, or if they do, the players dont know what to do.
Obvious examples are players attacking the octovine when its got slime protection on.
The obvious solution is to get players from East to come and help at the other gates, but they either dont understand the problem or dont want to help.
I dont know what the fix is to this , but some kind of balancing of the gate difficulty might help if it gets a more equal number of players on each gate.
The “fix” is people to be knowledgeable of what they need to do for the event to succeed.
Lately there are players, including Commanders, in AB who don’t know what exactly to do. At North gate, for example, you need to kill the breacher once inside, to prevent further spawning of mobs, and shoot herbicides at the octovine to get rid of its layers protection, before using your own weapons to bring its health bar down.
The last two times I was there, just random squads, not ML ones, and while we are waiting outside the gate for the event to start, the Commanders didn’t ask “Does everyone know what to do?” or, “Any new player with questions about what to do?”
Once inside they didn’t give an order for the breacher to be killed. When I asked for help to kill it, only a single player responded to my call.
When people used their own weapons to bring the layers down no Commander told them they do it wrong. I shouted normal weapons are ineffective, and that they should use the bramble begone, but no one listened to me.
Four (4) players in armours were pushing the triggerblossoms to our direction: right in front of the octivine, resulting in players being downed and/or being killed. The Commander didn’t issue any orders, even when a couple of us started complaining about it.
I stayed till the end only to see the event failing miserable. The second time was just a deja vu: people were repeating the same mistakes. I left.
My advice to new players and aspired Commanders is this: Perhaps having a Commander tag is all nice and dandy, but unless you know what to do, and how to guide people to a successful outcome, please don’t put it up. Also, people should listen to their fellow players when they tell them what to do in a nice and civilised manner.
