I was thinking back last week, cause it's that time of year, and I reflected on some of the great pug's I'd been part of that were safeguard missions. Specifically one team doing the King's Row mission. If you remember, big teams had the possibility to draw in some villains (or heroes doing the mayhem side) for a real brawl. The King's Row mini-map was the bank next to 'Paladin' Park on the actual King's Row map. We had a full team, we stopped the robbery, half the team hit all the hot spots while the other half found the side missions. All that great work caused a Paladin to spawn and the last chunk of the mission was bashing that sucker down. And that was hard work cause we did not have a lot of time left on the clock, so when a hot spot was announced, half of us went into defense mode against the Paladin while the rest raced to get us more time. It was a great run and one of my fondest memories of the game.
But it was the only wild ride safeguard mission I ever did. So I went out to Paragon Wiki to look up what the other possibilities would have been. And guess what? Not there. The page reads like a technical manual on how to game the missions and where to do your radio mission to guarantee which Safeguard you get. Half the article is devoted to that, when my answer is: just join a team where the leader has the mission you are looking for. Clearly written by a solo player who was quite possibly a farmer given that whole discussion. Hot spots are mentioned only in passing; not even called hot spots, just "Vandals causing mayhem". I get how a solo player would overlook this, cause a solo player would eat up the 90 second gain just trying complete it. A team was able to divert 2 to 4 members to work them constantly, giving the main squad ALL that bonus time to use. I'm left with an impression that the author became an expert on only half of the subject and probably never experienced the part that made Safeguards awesome.
Can anyone remember the other big team big victory enemies that could be activated? Mayhem missions too please!