One-time events that change the game… Me gusta.
I’ve heard this a lot in other games… and the devs pretty much always forced the event in one direction.
Well, it makes sense. If Anet is going to create a massive one-time event that will change the environment, having more than one possible outcome means spending time on content that might not actually end up in game.
That being said, it would be interesting for a one-time event to have say, 5 different bosses enter Tyria at different locations. Each boss would be giant meta-events, like The Shatterer. Whichever one is killed first, the environment in that area changes, and the rest of the bosses flee (a cutscene would be shown to everyone online at the time showing what has happened) . This would allow actual differences in the world between Servers. Players from “Anvil Rock” may have killed boss 2 first, while players from “Maguuma” may have killed boss 5 first. And with guesting, anyone can visit another Server and experience the changed landscape.
I think this would be a great way to actually “forge” each server into something over their own. Over time, each server’s landscape could look drastically different.
Of course, making 5 different outcomes would require a lot of work, but even 2 outcomes would suffice. If there were 2 outcomes for every one-time event, after 5 of these events, there would be 32(?) different possible landscapes for each server.
