On the matter of de-spawning the map for a zone event.

The previous Living Story event in GW2 had a zone event. I enjoyed it over all, but I can not begin to tell you how many times I wished the zone would have de-spawned and my friends were pretty much in agreement with me. The event mobs were over all harder than the average mob for any given zone, and having to deal with adds of the normal mobs served to only ramp up the frustration. Perhaps there can be a happy medium, say the event forms a bubble(s) that de-spawns the area within leaving the rest of the map intact.

I get the impression that the devs are leaning away from "kill X mobs in Y area" missions in general so that would certainly lower that issue.

As for the events themselves, I would guess they would either make the mobs scale to our level (like the invasion Rikti and such did), or we would auto scale to the zone's level range (whether or not there was an event going on). Participating in the event should give a reward, most likely XP, currency, and a nice chance at rare salvage/crafting materials. That way it is worth your time to run even if you have earned the associated badge(s) from the event. The reward could be tiered depending on how much you did in the event.

Since We don't currently plan to have War Walls, something resembling the described happy medium is likely, I would guess. Not my call but seems logical.

This is very slightly off topic, but still relavent i feel:

Something i loved about DCUO was the replay badges, not only was it a very compelling way to get gear faster through supporting the game (A.k.a. paying) but it allowed you to run an instance both because it was fun, or to gain rewards. Replay badges only affected the drops, not the accessibility. There are many missions in CoH i wish i could have rerun, and i kind of could with ouroboros. The issue with ouroboros was every mission was set up like a task force instead of just one mission.

Repeatable missions through idk... maybe a simulation, i feel would be quite fun.

Kaxiya wrote:

I love the idea of doing repeatable missions. Perhaps available in a "holodeck" or "danger room" once the mission has been run through the first time.
"Hey Cptn Ace, want to tackle Meganaut again? The last time we encountered him, he nearly cleaned my clock i tell you!"
This way if you dont want to have alot of mission specific items floating around, the same mission can be rerun without changing game balance.

Ouroboros was my personal favorite spot for missions - better than the architect IMHO. I loved the idea of time lords allowing you to "go back" and do a better job at the mission.
Challenges for speed or number of civvies saved, not using med packs... Etc. getting nice rewards or extra rep/inf

This effectively allows the devs to double the content by making these scalable instances and allowing players to complete story-lines they missed during level up.

I would like to see different levels of events. For example, in the one game they have full blown invasions (equate that to a zone-wide event), incursions (affect only part of the map), and the odd, random smaller attack (drop pods that spawn a smallish group of enemies). The former two can also spawn the occasional tougher squad that goes out to cause mayhem. Perhaps have such events be more frequent in less secure areas.

I'm certain that TPP will have enough organizations on both sides to add some variety, so it won't be, "Oh, look, another Arachnos/Longbow attack."

Somewhat tangentially related, certain groups/factions (i.e. reputations) could come with a dedicated enemy group that marks characters for an attack, every so often. The opponent could be a simple one on one fight or the character could end up facing a group of enemies against which they may prefer to have help. Once the character is alerted that they've been marked for an attack they also have the option to keep moving and thus avoiding shake off (or hide from, however one prefers to view it) their pursuers.