Aliana Blue
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Way to go, very impressive! I couldn't get Rommy at the end of the ITF with Actin without using the Wedding Band and orange inspirations (according to my calculations, Echo Wedding Band + BioNuke + Oranges should work too, making it "repeatable").
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Arc Name: The Invasion of the Bikini-Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space!
Arc Number: 61013
Levels: 5-25
Of the three I have, this is probably the better one for this (the other one is a 1-9 beginner arc, so it doesn't have much "meat", and the third 5-mission epic is not really doing so well so it may end up being replaced). -
Quote:It's called a degaussing wand, and it does make magical things happen when applied directly to computersOriginally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
I want a magic Programming wand
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Quote:Chimera, Marauder, Bobcat, Battle Maiden, Agent Crimson, Requiem, Romulus. Those were the seven I whacked. In retrospective, the last two may not have been the smartest choices, but I just like punching their ugly faces, specially Requiem (he's somewhat the reason Actin got her powers, and man was she ever pissed off at that).Originally Posted by Nihilii
There's not enough S/L AVs without defense debuffs. I think Aliana went ahead and fought some AVs with defense debuffs anyway, but lacking Siphon Life my mitigation wasn't high enough without the softcap so I went for exotic types too.
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Heh, great job Nihilii! I bet Actin will feel all inadequate now - being originally a spoiled valley girl, I bet she'll ask me for all the cool expensive toys I didn't give her when I redid her build, thanks for that!
Though for the looks of it, I'm thinking we'll see your "10 AVs at once" post soon enough, won't we?
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Hm, I obviously don't play villains often enough. I can only think of two.
Ix Tab: Or Ixtab, was the name of the Mayan goddess of suicide, and she's kind of a cultist fanatic follower, who manages to rationalize not killing herself because she wants to bring the message of the goddess to others first. I wish I still had the original bio which was deleted by the GMs in-game. Apparently my in-character writing of her appealing to others to commit suicide was too strong.
Marionette: She's a robot gone haywire. Thing is, she only goes nuts for some specific things. It's disturbing in the killer-porcelain-doll kind of disturbing. When you talk to her she looks at you with unemotional expressionless eyes, you can almost kinda see the "Waiting for input..." message there, and when you're done saying something, you don't know if it's going to go well or suddenly throw her in a fit of murderous rampage. Creepy unemotinal killer kinda thing. -
Quote:Mids''s not counting the Ranged Defense on Self from Phalanx Fighting. You can edit the database to fix it, but can't remember offhand where exactly. Basically, add 3.75%Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
Ah, I remember someone saying there's a bug in mids?
I'll post my build later when I'm home. -
Quote:I think you missed the point of the example. In the example your hero is not told that he's off to kidnap someone, it's the jerkass contact who sets it up, and it is the last thing that is tried, mere minutes before the deadline. Who the soon-to-be-executed people are is not very relevant (pick whoever you want), the point is that it's possible to frame the story so that your hero has to choose between two evils because there are no more options, if you don't want to "force" certain style of roleplaying on other people's characters. That's what the contact is for.Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
In your specific case I don't know who these prisoners are or who is threatening to execute them. If they are soldiers captured during a mission, the threat of dying is part of their job and they have accepted that when they signed up. Kidnapping and threatening children to protect their lives is not even on a long list of things I'd try first.
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Quote:I gave this example in a different thread, but here you go.Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
Like I said, I could probably fake it and use D&D morality or something but it seems too easy.
Also that's an example I wouldn't use in this challenge.
"Oh the baby would grow up to be worse than Hitler, really, I swear! Sister Psyche told me so!"
We're supposed to just take that for granted? How will we ever know that this was ever true, and how can we be sure there wasn't another solution?
"Oh well that's good then, have your baby-killing badge hero! Look, it says 'For killing future Hitler' on it so it's alright."
I don't think so. Time-travel and precognition are cheating. In this kind of scenario, even more so.
Oh yeah, that's another problem: "The crux here is that hero is forced to do an action that is bad." There is almost always another solution, the very least being not to take any action at all.
Your character has been trying to track down information about a group of prisoners that are going to be executed at midnight. After a few tries with little info, finally the contact has managed to find a way to stop the execution. With only 15 minutes to go, you zone into the mission, rendezvous with another agent helping you, and then you find out that the plan is to kidnap the 6-year-old son of the higher-up military big honcho that's going to execute the prisoners, to then force their release by threatening said kid (really threatening him, you know).
You find this halfway through the mission. 15 minutes timed mission, remember. No time left to try some other plan, you either kidnap the kid or let the prisoners die.
Your character doesn't need to carry the idiot ball for this to happen, just your contact be a bit of a jackass (or, rather, more of a jackass than you thought he'd be). Feel free to write the return-dialog for either choice as the player character being pissed off, because regardless of the outcome, bad things happen. -
Ever since I finished building my Elec/Shield AND set the difficulty to +3/x8, the world has become one gigantic farm
Tele-AoEs are ADDICTIVE! -
Can you /em Egyptian while walking?
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Quote:Le sigh. Indeed. And to think I already have an arc that'd fit the criteria (in a Shoot The Dog kind of way) but I'd taken down due to the Ninjitsu bug at release.Originally Posted by Leandro
Bleh. I could understand this is there were actual physical prizes, but for a yellow title?
At least this time around they included Europe. -
Free hugs.
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Wait, what? I won?
I won! I won!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
*Bounces around the room*
I want to thank the members of the academy, Eva and Lazarus for nominating me (*nom nom*), my pet rock for keeping me company while I made the arc, everyone who's played it and liked it, everyone who's played it and didn't like it, Hero 1 for pushing to create the system, everyone else who worked on the system, and Dr. Aeon, just because he's doing AE stuff here, the panel of judges who selected my arc to pass the first cut, and Bubba for organizing the contest in such splendid manner!
*Pant* *Wheeze*
Quote:Ancillary arcs?Originally Posted by Jail_Bird
First of all, I would strongly recommend renaming Epic category to something that isnt as loaded a term like High Level Arc. Epic means too many things to too many people. If you want to do an Epic category in addition to this, thats fine, too. I personally dont see a need for such a thing but, others may.
@Dr. Aeon: Any chance of incresing the space for the arc title so I can fit the award in it as well? *Cough*
Did my arc have the longest title? I think it did...
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Tierdome! Two arcs enter, one arc leaves!
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Quote:Moving from point A to point B could be content if you had to break through a blockade on a besieged town to bring something vital to the people resisting inside and re-establishing a communication line, then joining the besieged for a special operation where you capture the enemy general while the main forces launch a diversionary counter-attack on a different point.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Add on:
6. Moving from point A to point B is not content!
But I digress, that's not the A to B that's usually been "sold" as content. -
Quote:Depending on the skill of the writers making GR, it's going to be interesting to see how the self-proclaimed "straight as an arrow" handle the moral dilemma.Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
I'll be damned if I left a 6 year old keep me from supporting the Loyalists, and since "No it's not!" and "Because I said so!" is not even a valid argument, I pretty much ignore it.
Some members of the resistance have been captured, after some missions trying to find their location, you're down to one 10-minute timed mission before executions commence, and you're sent to the last location where you could find something.
In there, you find out that the location your resistance contact sent you to is a military base where the 6-year-old son of one of the top brass was being kept safe, and the choices are to either kidnap him to force the rescue (knowing that there's going to be some damage to the kid whether they comply or not, you can't make empty threats and I'm sure the kid ain't going to be too thrilled about being kidnapped), or leave and let the executions begin. No time for other plans.
Go!
That's just a simple example for shock value. They've said repeatedly that not everything is nice and rosy in two colours in Praetoria, so I expect some delicious moral dilemmas. -
What I have done with my latest scrapper (blue side) is get to 25, and always run the Ouro arcs in the previous tier. So, at 25 run the 20+ arcs, 30 the 25+, etc. Skip all the fillers from the actual contacts and get straight to the arcs! Thanks to the new rules about +5 levels worth of powers, it's like I never flashbacked.
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Quote:"Whee! New instance! Ahn'Qiraj? Sounds funky... Ooh look, the final boss of the 20-man raid is a giant Anubis-lookalike that serves an insanely powerful ancient god! Can't wait!"Originally Posted by Jophiel
Even more satisfying is to progress 50, 60 or 70 levels and entering some lost temple of an ancient powerful race or the extradimensional planar realm of a deity and finding... "Frothing temple rat" and "Shimmering planar cockroach".
"Well, sure, but most of the instance is about killing bugs."
"Bugs?"
"Bugs."
"As in... Bugs?"
"Wasps, beetles, maggots... There's a giant centipede boss, a giant beetle boss, and a giant wasp boss."
"Well... That... Bugs?"
"They're giant bugs though. Well, just kinda big actually."
*Facepalms*
A couple of the boss fights in that instance were good, and for some of the regular mobs they went through the effort of trying to at least make them look like cool insectoid-like bipedal warriors of some sort, but... I was fighting plain, slightly big bugs most of the time.
Bugs!
Seriously, I just couldn't get past that. After the fine and acceptable trolls in Zul'Gurub (the previous 20-man raid at the time, yay apostrophes!), AQ and its bugs I hated. -
Haha, awesome! I just noticed I got a neg rep for this:
Quote:And the comment was:Originally Posted by Aliana Blue
Whether he still exists or not doesn't matter, it's not like worshippers of a dead or imaginary person/deity/whatever need a real presence to go all fanatic, is it?
Someone goes and neg reps me because they took all personally a general comment about fanaticism ("Yeah. I act surprised"). Even better, it was basically applied to an imaginary giant blob in a videogame.Quote:Who is dead or imaginary to you is srs bznss to others. Sorry.
The delicious, delicious irony of that neg rep isn't lost on me, I think I'll be smiling for the rest of the day
I specially like the last "sorry." Yeah, sure, you can really tell that person was so sorry, it's not like there was a mass synaptic discharge at the pleasure center of his brain when he sent the rep. "*Click* Aaaahhhh..."
I love the rep system. Nothing like anonymity to get a good insight of the true human nature. ^_^ -
Quote:And that's why everyone should have at least one badass scrapper to pull crazy stunts with. It does a body good!Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It really comes down to visuals. A large-scale battle where enemies drop fast is exciting. A small-scale battle between a tough hero and a tough monster is interesting as a plot point, but as a spawn-to-spawn occurrence, it just GRATES. It feels like hard work, really, and that's not what I play games for.
http://www.walkiry.com/CoH/Freak%20Madness/index.html
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Quote:See, that's what I'm talking about. The corrupt society that has been built by humans makes you fearful of getting in touch by nature. Being part of the cycle of life is a wonderful thing! We are born and reborn, constantly, but only by being part of Nature you truly feel part of the whole!Originally Posted by Primal
Prostrating oneself before the DE, much like worshiping Cthulhu, is like flattering the bullet after it leaves the barrel. Probably worse, since if you're just part of the faceless throng, there's a chance you may be eaten (or "prerecycled") in a gulp, but singling yourself out is the equivalent of stamping "I'd be a really [FUN plaything before being eaten] / [FERTILE host for emanators before being prerecycled]!" on your forehead.
It's okay, we'll help you even if you don't want to help yourself. We love you that much! ^_^
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Well, I suppose I can always pull one of the ideas from my idea hat and see where that goes.
(It's actually a notebook I carry around with me and where I write any idea that crosses my mind that could be put down on paper. I've got a few there.) -
I'm amazed at how people can write a whole novel in a month.
I think I've done something like a chapter of my novel in the last month. Then again, I'm doing hilariously unreasonable amounts of research on it (who says you can't use real Science in Science Fiction?)
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Quote:They may be unlockable (I can't remember), have you checked the ticket vendor?Originally Posted by Kry8ter
Well, I have looked and looked. If you find them, or can talk to your friend; please let me know.