BellaStrega

Plenty of people do. One thing I really enjoyed about Wrath of the Lich King was how much story they put into each zone.

But at the same time, I don't feel it's sacrosanct, and I enjoy seeing what people do with the CoH background in their missions. At first I thought custom group possibilities could be cool (and I've seen two I like so far), but I generally prefer arcs that have the official groups in them, just for feel's sake.

After reading this post, I lost so much respect for you.

It's probably not for the reasons you might think, at least not directly. You've built an entire edifice out of one guy saying he finds women more complicated and interesting than men. Does that really leave you feeling the need to defend how men are really interesting? Seriously? You know, there's a reason that men tend to get the central roles in action films (for example) while women do not. And yes, you can bring up Sarah Connor and Ripley, but they're not the rule. For every one of them there's 10 or more John McClains. In general, women are viewed as less interesting than men in any media, and if someone says he or she finds women more interesting, this isn't a sign of a threat to men in general, it's an exception.

And your analysis doesn't even make sense - women are primarily portrayed positively as overcompensation for sexism? That's a fairly problematic statement to make.

This could be my life story.

My one try at a male character was Tyler Do'urden, so there were more obstacles to any success there than just his gender, I think.

Also, I only made him for screenshots.

If you're not going to like them, that's one thing (although I think you're underrating things considerably), but when you start throwing in jabs about fanfiction, yeah, it's excessive snobbery.

They've had closed betas for several issues now.

I think the reason had to do with improving the initial signal-to-noise ratio, but I could be misremembering.

Never ever.

Or even the Petrovic Brothers (Skulls).

The Tsoo need an archvillain, but that's all they need.

I agree with this entire comment, but especially the quoted part.

Yeah, I was going to say there's no way for this to be anything more than a popularity contest or forum game.

I also think that it's even simpler - someone who likes you can forget to rep you over many posts, but give you negative rep because you said one thing that really turned them off. And sometimes you can get rep for just disagreeing with specific people. So it's not even an entirely accurate popularity contest.

Also, people who post more are more likely to get repped, just from visibility.

It doesn't mean anything. It's just a game.

I've found several via discussions on the forum. I've found a few via the other means I described above. I've found a handful of arcs that are better than the majority of story arcs available from in-game contacts, and I still haven't scratched the surface. I've also only managed to accidentally step into one farm.

Of course, I tend to also think that people are excessively snobbish about fan fiction.

Where do you find the top 10?

So is Aion good?

I don't even know what it's about yet, but it looks pretty.

Well, when you say that enough revenue to cover 100,000+ accounts probably only covers 50,000 or so, with the rest coming from sales (micro-transactions and box sales), I'm not sure I'm doing the twisting, you know?

I kinda thought forum names made certain people easy to spot!

Seriously. Who gives one NPC scaled at his level healing aura and transfusion?

...okay, then search for four stars?

Do a search for 5-star arcs, and you'll see them all. You can filter by number of stars in searches.

I'm not saying they're the best in the MA, but they're a good start, and they're handily indexed.

You can also check out review threads, especially if you find a reviewer who's taste isn't far from yours. you can also filter by keyword, number of stars, or other criteria, and start looking.

My point is that there's a lot more in the MA than a series of farm and PL maps, and I was objecting to that characterization. Yes, a lot of people use it for either or both, but that shouldn't be a condemnation of the tool they used.

I like both of these:

I think that the Rogue Isles could definitely use more enemy variety - less Longbow, less Arachnos, more Legacy Chain, more Wyvern, etc.

I also think that Paragon could use more Arachnos. Paragon is the focus of much of Arachnos' efforts, after all, so it only makes sense to have them appear more frequently than they do, in more story arcs.

You can estimate from the earnings reports, although micro transactions tend to muck that up a bit - I doubt to the tune of 50% or more, as Kruunch suggested the other day on the tanker forum, but.