Clave_Dark_5

When you're writing paychecks for people to fix exploits in the AE system, such time just might count towards "time we can garnish on this one part of the game." Our dev overlords have to budget out everything, time included. But I'll agree that this (and it's side effects) does not end up feeling like "love" to you and me and other AE fans.

I'm not part of a supergroup and - oh wait I am, after a couple of years of not bothering with one... anyways, no one in my super recommended my arcs in this thread (all one that has gotten dev-play anyway).

You'll have to do things like I did and most others did I think - start a thread about your arc here in the AE forums ("My New Arc: 'Awesomeness McAwesome' #blahblah" is a good title for such a thread) and then listen to players' comments and suggestions (odds are, some will be worth taking and listeing to carefully), keep reworking it, writing more etc. etc. etc....

and hope someone likes your work enough to recommend it here.

Traditionally, they tend to wait a bit before adding in the new sets. I guess they're spending some time sitting around and trying to think of ways the power set might be abused into an exploit or something... On the other hand, AE has been seeing precious little love of any sort recently, so it might just be inertia on their part.

Devs hate pie!!


Wait, no they must love it if they have two pieces of pie...


Devs hate cake!!

Pretty much my take on it, except my odd hours and "new shiny end-game content all the time" makes it hard for me to find or even make teams when I play, so that part has been less fun.

(For example, for those who might care, earlier this week I logged on to Virtue, red-side. At the Cap BM I saw only two other players, I think all of Cap showed maybe 5 when I /searched. I /searched RWZ and the list of 50s ran down to the bottom.)

To be fair, it's gone in cycles of farm central to ghost town a couple of times as new ways of exploiting it are found. Back in its "new shiny" days though, anyone could get some plays, but that's pretty unlikely to happen now without adverting your arc around.

I agree with what Eva said, AE isn't something you can just add-in and forget but sadly the devs seem to have stopped doing much with it at all (even base building is getting more love these days), unless time spent fixing exploits counts (and it might).

AE itself really should have gone further and could still be pushed further if they wanted to. They could if nothing else could even try and make what rewards it can offer - good stories - easier to get, such as by letting a whole team see the text. All these and more have been gone over many times on those forums.

Still, thinking something they haven't spent much time on lately must be a regret means the game is filled with them as they're always leaving something in the dust to rush after the new shiny - unless it's end-game content, they're going to make enough of that stuff to choke a whole herd of horses. Maybe they regret having tried to interest us in anything but end-game raids, or maybe they regret having had to resort to them?

Er, did you check the date on that article?

But this is great news indeed! Not long ago I was looking down that list and sighing... this gives me hope for the nerdy future.

I like the idea on its face, but I'd fear we'd end up with a ton more entries and not enough time to play them; that I think is what we need more of.

It's been said already, really, but this was head and shoulders above anything I saw in the 80s. My opinion on this might be suspect as anime I try and watch these days strikes as nearly the exact same thing I was seeing back then, but so it goes.

I'm still taking it as one, if delivered in back-handed way. If for no other reason because I knew some people would walk out of it wondering just what was up with it (see below).

Other players seem to have done pretty well with seeing what I was going for with it, judging from most of the comments I've gotten.

These sots of things are often fall into the YMMV category, I know. I'm willing to work within that category knowing some people don't care for it.

This just cannot come out fast enough for me, TY guys very much! Maybe once these go into effect, the whole "lolstalkers" thing can finally fade away in a year or two... (hey, you know how people are!)

Quite sad. I mostly play villains and I think I've been in DA maybe five times total, so my opinion on this might not count for much (although others here seem to share it), but man that place is/was unforgettable for those two elements alone.

Bad call.

You wanna make it a zone that actually has stuff going on in it? Cool, go for it, but don't strip out what was good the first time round.

Edit: NO FAIR!!! Noble Savage posted while I was composing my post! >

Beat me to it. That said, Pixar rarely steers me wrong and my GF loves them, soo...