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A "Simulation," "Challenge," or "Test" tag sounds good (tho, we already have a Challenging tag)

But definitely no to "Farm."

I remember this one, great dialogue and an interesting "What if" look at the Clock King since there is a bit of debate on CK's age. Was a good challenge and an emotional story!

Congrats! Very deserving of Dev Choice!

Interesting proposal, but there's a big difference between the Devs understanding that a certain amount of players are going to use AE to farm and supporting that desire.

By making a Farm tag the Devs would, essentially, legitimize the behavior and, thus, encourage it. I doubt that's something they want to do.

Plus, it does nothing to quell the multitude of existing & abandonded farms that will still pop up in general searches.

Very sad.

I have at least 4 level 50s that are only slotted with SOs and maybe a couple HOs and they never have problems getting on any TF or PuG.

Besides, anyone that wouldn't take them on their team is someone I wouldn't want to play with anyway.

We've had some good discussion about what's wrong with the MA ratings/Search and come up with some great solutions in this thread.

My favorite idea was moving all the Dev Choice/HoF to a separate tab and making the main search page a mix of a few random Dev Choice, HoF, 5 star, & 4 star arcs so it's always fresh, with new content, and not always the same Dev/HoF arcs.

As it is, MA has the appearance of being stale. Since there's so many Dev Choice arcs, it's always, pretty much, the same ones up front. There's tons of new and exciting content that most players never know is out there.

Great read, anyone know the Arc# of that Space Marine arc he mentioned?

This part, kind of concerned me, tho:

Yeah, coming from the lead animator, that's fantastic news!

I've got a quickie, 1 mission story for ya. If you like anime (and the comedy AzuManga Daioh in particular) you should get a good kick out of this one.

Everything should be giving full xp, I've updated it a couple times since the last issue. It now has penguins!

Enter the Father Hat Gang
Arc #21391

Well, he interviewed Dev choice winners and Dr Aeon, himself. I think that more than counts as doing the homework. Plus, it wasn't an article on the MA community, it was about the system, itself, so you really shouldn't knock him for his interview choices.

It's actually a pretty good piece, especially for those that haven't played the game or tried MA. And I expect that's the audience the article was targetted at.

I really liked the bit from Dr Aeon. Gives me hope that the search UI will get an eventual upgrade and we'll get more toys to play with:

Yikes, cutting it close to the Mr & Mrs Paragon City finals on test tonight. Hope the maint. doesn't have any complications that make it run over.

• When you get an introduction mission, you do not have to take a mission from the person you're introduced to ie. Wincott in the Hollows or Peebles in Striga. Simply click on them to complete the introduction and return to your original contact for further missions, without asking them about missions.
  
  If you ask about missions from one of the new zone contacts, they'll immediately open a story arc that stays open until you complete it. This can come back to haunt you later as there is a limit to the number of open story arcs you can have at one time and story arcs are level capped, so doing the arc at later levels often means fighting greys.
  
  
• The only heroside Giant Monster that does not reward a badge is the Clockwork Paladin in Kings Row. You earn this badge by preventing his creation. If you fail, then he spawns and rewards inf, xp, and merits for his defeat...no badge.
  
  Sadly, the only reward for preventing his creation IS the badge, which is why he's often seen stomping around High Park with a couple duplicate buddies.
  
  
• In the university tutorial you can earn a free Luck Charm salvage (easy Inf on the market) by choosing to craft the Accuracy IO and either dropping the mission to craft it or crafting a different item that you have the recipe & cheaper salvage for.
  
  
• You can earn credit for the Gravedigger badge if you do any amount of damage to an Embalmed Vahz before he blows himself up. This also counts towards "defeat X Vazhilok" missions.
  
  
• Easy DE to find & defeat for the Aura mission are Swarms in Crey's Folly. Found close to the entrance and away from most other groups.
  
  
• Circle of Thorns spawn in higher numbers on the rooftops at night in Kings Row.
  
  
• Vazhilok spawn in higher numbers at night in Faultline.

Great job, particularly liked Infernal and Faultline's segements

Hmmm...not working for me. I'm using Firefox with ad blocker plus if that makes a diff. The site comes up, but no results show.

I'm still unclear on what text fighting is. I checked urbandictionary.com and they only have 1 version...and it involves cell phones.

Awesome! A very deserving arc that highlights a unique AE mechanic and actually has a good story. Gratz Bubba!

Worked for me, finally. Thanks Ava!

I'm having the same problem. Been trying to copy an alt over all weekend and no luck. Tool says it's in the process but character never arrives.

Is it dead again? Been trying to transfer an alt over all weekend and no luck.

edit: works now, after Avatea restarted the tool. Thanks!

WN, this is a great topic for discussion as we've already seen that everyone has a different standard of rating stars. In the spirit of making this productive, what solutions are on the table to solve the problem?

I saw Zamuel had a suggestion. Any others?

What a cute way to make that announcement. Congrats!

This sounds like a lot of fun! I look forward to playing them