BadJuJu

Well, I'll throw mine in the ring as well.

53006 - Witches and Warriors - Heroes

42221 - Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V - Heroes

2150 - Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics - Villains

2142 - Ninja Crimewave - Heroes

Yeh, 2 accounts.

AE System
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Welcome to Architect Entertainment -- Neutral
Death for Dollars! -- Neutral
Bare Knuckles of Rage (9304)
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Character/Supergroup Origins
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Birth of a Fossil -- Heroic
Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V (42221) - Heroic
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Classic Super-Hero/Super-Villain
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THE BOMBER --- Heroic --- 16607
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Comedy
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The Extadine Lab -- Heroic
MacGuffin Delivery Service (1567) -- Villainous
ParaCon -- Heroic
The new and improved Lord Recluse Strike Force -- Villainous (though I wouldn't recommend against a hero )
The Fire Bunnies - Neutral, They are only bunnies after all...
You Say It's Your Birthday! (3630) - Neutral
Trademark Infringement -- Heroic (2220)
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Comedy/Drama
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A Super Team is Born -- Heroic
Attack of the Space Clowns (18749) -- Neutral
Cause of How Some Silly Stealed My Wings #1481 -- Neutral
How to Survive a Robot Uprising -- Heroic (12669)
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare -- Neutral
It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding (9059) -- Neutral
TURG FICTION: Ghost in the Machine, Act I - Heroic (althoughs romantic villains could try this too )
Rum Runners of Bloody Bay (3691) - Heroic
Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! (2019)
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Crime/Gangs
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The Bravuran Jobs -- Villainous (16809)
The Monstrous Regiment of Lesbian Hellions -- Heroic (27178)
Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics (2150) - Villainous
Ninja Crimewave! (2142) - Heroic
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Drama
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The Fan Club -- Heroic
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Global Domination
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Axis and Allies -- Villainous (10597)
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Heist
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Celebrity Kidnapping -- Villainous (20161)
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Historical (Realistic)
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Historical (CoH Lore)
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The War on Superadine - The Regulators in their 1980's drug war (Heroic) (Arc 7959)
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Holiday
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Horror
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Dark Dreams -- Heroic (18914)
The Amulet of J'gara (1709) -- Heroic
Project: Perilous - Into the Chthonian Pit (#3586) - Neutral (Unless you happen to be a mad cultist, in which case, go nuts!)
Small Fears -- Heroic
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Large-Scale Crisis
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A Hero's Halo -- Heroic
This Is War, Part I - the Revenge of Hro'Dtohz -- Neutral
Win the Past, Own the Future - Heroic
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Magic
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The Magical Miss Fitz (5079) -- Heroic
Chains of Blood (5492) -- Heroic
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Military
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Redoubt Operations #1: Fires over Kalago -- Heroic

Red Storm Rising Arc 4912 Heroic
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Misc. Adventure
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The Portal Bandits (3326) -- Heroic
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Mystery
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Blowback (18575) -- Heroic
Dream Paper -- Heroic (13030)
Dream Paper 2: Restless Sleep -- Heroic (16797)
Dream Paper 3: Broken Dreams -- Heroic (13064)
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Mythology
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Anactoria's Descent Into the Underworld -- Villainous
The War of Fate: Betrayal (19698) -- Neutral
The Seelie War -- Heroic
The Unseelie War -- Villainous
Tales of Cimerora, volume 1 : Of feathers and fur -- Heroic
The Aegis Affair - Heroic
Witches and Warriors (49594)- Heroic
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Nemesis Plots
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Brass Reaver: Part 1 -- Neutral
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Player-Chosen Outcome
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Hunting the Dark Dragon -- Heroic
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Sci-Fi
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Adventures of the Space Marines -- Neutral
Adventures of the Space Marines 2 -- Neutral
Netrunner -- Heroic (14434)
Above Mars - Part 1: The Wellington -- Neutral (13215)
The Final Nemesis
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Un-themed Survival/AV/Time Challenges
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The Meatgrinder -- Neutral
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I'm sure Venture is busy, so if anyone wants to review mine, feel free:

2142
2150
42221

Other good level 1 enemies: Clockwork, infected, contaminated, security guards, longbow, paragon police.

Also, you can make some pretty easy custom enemies for low levels, you just have to use the right sets.

If someone's having difficulty with a minion with "easy" regen, there isn't any help for them. That's the set I use when I want to "waste" a power set, and no character I've played has had any difficulty against such characters, even ones with primarily lethal or toxic damage.

The "length" descriptions are misleading. My missions are all "very long" because I use 5 missions and 98% of the available space, but they're almost all short maps (I think each arc I've done has one "long" mission on an outdoor map).

If you're looking for an arc to start a new character on, you might try 42221: Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V.

It's an "origin story" for a tech based character. It does assume a couple of things about the character, such as their background and source of powers. This is a little bit from the first mission intro:

" You were always the person that could fix things. Every time anything broke, from the TV to the computer, people called on you to take care of it. In High School, you were the kid that lived in the computer lab, and that's pretty much what you've been ever since: The Techie. You can't count the number of cell phones you own, your house is a maze of spare computer parts, and you get the shakes if you're away from electronic devices for more that twelve hours.

That's how you ended up here, working at Architect Entertainment."

It's definitely soloable - I ran through it on a level 1 Energy/Dev blaster without using any temp/vet powers.

If you want to RP it, skip outbreak and start in civvies, if you have a free costume change. Most of the missions are short, except the fourth one which is destruvtible object hunt on the outdoor Shore map.

It's 5 missions long and took me from level 1 - 4.5. It should take 1 - 2 hours at most. It will be slightly harder for characters using lethal or toxic damage or relying on stuns.

There are no EBs and two optional bosses in the last mission.

Awesome idea. Hope your son has a good time.

Your Brute might enjoy Arc 2150 "Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics", Plenty of things to Smash, Heroes and policemen to beat up and loot to steal.

As long as you can take an EB, you should be find, since there are some in there, but there are allies provided to help as well when they do come up.

Fun, friendly, helpful...trade tips, arcs, etc. I've had fun so far using it and and found some pretty fun arcs.

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When it comes to the amount of slots we've been given, this is all that needs to be said.

Arc Name: Ninja Crimewave
Arc ID: 2142
Faction: Heroes

Difficulty Level: A couple EB/Boss Fights, Levels 30+

Synopsis: Battle Ninjas! Battle more ninjas, and then some more on top of that! No Ninjitsu!

Estimated Time to Play: 1 Hour

Link to More Details or Feedback: Here

Arc Name: Win the 2009 Freak-lympics
Arc ID: 2150
Faction:Villains

Difficulty Level: 1 Mandatory AV/EB Fight, Level 40+

Synopsis: Go for the gold! Smash, steal, raid Paragon City and beat on the police!

Estimated Time to Play: 1-2 Hours

Link to More Details or Feedback:
Here

Arc Name: A Cautionary Tale of the New Regulators
Arc ID: 21254

Faction: Villains
Creator Global/Forum Name:@Buildmaster

Difficulty Level: Easy - EB/Boss fight at the end, at least one ally in each mission (some are optional)

Synopsis: There's a new superhero group forming in Paragon City. Lord Nemesis has a problem with that, and he's looking for a little help taking them down.

Estimated Time to Play: 1 hour

Discussion Link: Lie, cheat and stab your friends in the back.

Arc Name: The Holiday Bandit: Easter of Evil!
Arc ID: 21102

Faction: Heroes
Creator Global/Forum Name:@buildmaster

Difficulty Level: Hard. Last boss is AV set to extreme.

Synopsis: The Holiday Bandit has arrived just in time for Easter...and in her basket is a plot to blow up Paragon City. Can you stop her and her candy-coated minions in time?
Estimated Time to Play: 1 hour, most maps are short, no defeat alls.

Link to More Details or Feedback: mmm...Chocolate Bunnies!

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Although several arcs have successfully integrated the AE as a part of their story, and I admire them for that.

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I thought about starting a thread along the lines of "Premises consistent with the AE backstory that let you do basically anything you want".

I've held off mostly because I had the feeling that an open discussion might irritate people who came up with those ideas independently and wanted to finish their personal creations before revealing their methods. In a way it's like PvP tactics; letting people explore and find their own solutions is often a good part of the fun, and I didn't want to create what might basically amount to a "spoiler" thread.

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Well, since my Arc is done, I'll say that the way that I got around this was that the future DJ Zero figured out how to turn the AE equipment into a time machine, and is contacting the PC through its holographic interface. So it leaves the "AE as Holodeck" story intact, but makes the contact and missions "real" at the same time.

More shameless self promotion.

To wreak havoc and create mayhem while cutting a swath through Paragon City, all for fun and prizes!

Shameless self promotion

Arc Name: The 2009 Freak-lympics
Arc ID: 18167
Faction: Villainous
Creator Global/Forum Name:@Buildmaster

Difficulty Level: Hard. 2 Mandatory EB/AV Fights (Allies provided to help) 2 Optional AV/EB Fights.

Synopsis: Steal, Smash and Kill your way to Freak-Lympic Glory! Tear up Skyway City! Raid Atlas park! Pick on the Paragon Police until they cry! Smash the Atlas Park Activist into sticky paste!

Estimated Time to Play: 1 Hour
Feedback Link: Here

Arc Name: Robot Apocalypse
Arc ID: 17385
Faction: Neutral
Creator Global/Forum Name:@Buildmaster
Difficulty Level: Several AV/EB set to extreme. Soloable on low difficulty.
Synopsis: Travel to the future to help the survivors of the Robot Apocalypse make their last stand.
Level: 40 - 50
Estimated Time to Play: 2 Hours
Fedback Link: Here

Arc Name: The Redemption Contract

Arc ID: 8784

Faction: Villains

Creator Global/Forum Name: BadJuJu

Difficulty Level: Hard - Reccomend villainous for soloers. The bosses/EBs are set to "hard"

Synopsis: Willy Wheeler is looking to get back Lord Recluse's good graces...all he neds to do is deal with the Council, Longbow, The PPD and a group of teenage superheroes. He's lookingto you for help...which may just make things worse for him.

Estimated Time to Play: 1 hour or so. 5 missions, but the maps are all small. no clear alls.

Link to More Details or Feedback: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....=0#Post13218339

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This change and the previous one is bad because it still allows for some teammates to grief your team should they choose to log off and not quit. I have had it to happen twice since the first change on a few tfs I have done. Once on Katie hannon and once Sara Moore TFs. We need a way to be able to kick people from the team that are not currently logged in. Secondly neither of these changes have done anything to address the reason why this softloading of tf/sfs happens in the first place. If the recipes that people can actually use were more readily accessable we would not be going thru this now in the first place. Either address the issue with the drop pools or you are doing all this for nothing and all it is doing is punishing the rest of the playerbase instead of farmers.

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Understandable and thanks for the feedback. However, I would have to advise you to better get to know the people you are grouping with. Simply put, if someone has a reputation for such, don't engage in a task / strike force or trial with them. You would be well advised to only take your most trusted allies with you to tackle such challenging and dangerous missions!

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You have no idea how your own game works, do you?

So you recommend people check the resumes of everyone they group with? Group with SG mates only? You've got content that requires 8 people to sign up...you really think people are going to know the history of everyone? And since the game treats disconnects like logoffs, are people supposed to get a crystal ball to know if people are going to have technical problems?

HOW ABOUT YOU STOP TRYING TO FIX "EXPLOITS" AND START TRYING TO FIX THE REASON PEOPLE ARE EXPLOITING, LIKE THE LACK OF CONTENT IN THIS GAME?

I swear. Do you even play this thing?

If it's the new NCNC Policy to sell individual emotes, I'd rather have Jack and his cracked out idea about gameplay and balance back any day.

Should have known that this was coming once the makers of the craptastic lootfests lineage and lineage two took over.

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Right Back atcha, bub. And I'm more of a tireless rebutter or pinko. With bong mixed liberally in too, of course.

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I say one more page of posts and until it turns into this.