Clave_Dark_5

Remember how people would whine about all the good names being taken and suggest the devs free up names from inactive accounts and the devs said no? They don't want to risk alienating returning players with that. I'm guessing that same thiking would apply here.

Rather than unpublish, they could mark all - ALL - arcs with a 'do not show in search' and send every author a message that asks them to go to AE, PLEASE make sure the arc is playing 'right', "maybe give it a once-over", and then click a button to make it visible in search again. Combine that with a "works in progress do not show in search" function and I think that's clear the search (which needs its own help too, yes) of a lot of dross, without annoying people previous authors who came back and wondered where the arc they spent HOURS on got to.

And yes, switch to a "like"-only system of rating an arc. Showing previous player comments would be nice too.

I get that in those rooms too. I can play in them, just have to adjust my mindset to twitchy viewing and sort of intuitively knowing when to stop running forward, turning around etc. I probably don't suffer from it as much as you did though.

And we really appreciate it. Shame it's still only done so much. :/

That'd be an awfully long list. Awfully long.

My examples were just provided as that - examples, please don't miss my forest for its trees. I'm just playing dev's advocate for the idea that maybe the dev's have a reason for not allowing us more than eight slots. Here's another: Perhaps their reasoning is coming from a game economy stand-point. Maybe they don't like the idea of a 'good arc writer' getting so many tickets in if they have over 8 arcs that are all golden.

(Also, I realized that changing current five star rating into thumbs-up ratings would end up having the same 'bad effect' WN mentioned: older arcs that got tons of plays in the old days would end up pages ahead of newer arcs.)

Reset them all to "not yet rated" like any new arc, yet still show the number of plays for all to see. The author got his tickets already, it's not like they'd be taking away something of real value with that. Couple it with a deadwood-sweeping effect and I'd be perfectly happy with it.

Most applicable part bolded. Seriously, I hate respecing, it's like dull homework when I could be out bashing someone or working on an AE mish. Even with a carefully thought out build on paper in front of me it's a dull PITA. I've only done it... hm, once? that I can recall because the build needed to be rethought after they fixed the way Poison Trap worked.

Maybe if they were to someday make respecing more friendly I might... if I ever feel the need to play those toons again.

I stand corrected on resistance, you're right about the use Bodyguard.

I find (on my storm and dark) MMs that taking agro is really pretty easy with the AoE slows and such, nothing like a Tar Patch to draw agro.

I've quite successfully played tankermind sans any of the attacks from the MM primaries, 75% resistance, Provoke or a health pool on par with tankers.

My take on one solid reason to skip the attacks is that there are usually (If not "always") far more useful power choices you can make in your secondary. And I'm not sure you can comparatively describe the damage from your minions as merely "taking up the slack".

This can be, to a degree, a matter of play-style I'll grant, min/maxing of one sort or another (plus some people can't stand just standing around while their pets do the mayhem - my dark and storm Bots MMs still whipped out their Nemesis staffs nearly all the time), but I don't think you painted the picture as it is.

Nnnnoo, I think you'll find there is no plausible argument for spending that sort of money in my world view - this coming from someone who bid-creeps when shopping for a Kinetic Weapon.

Not long ago, I bought and crafted a handful of these at that level for frankenslotting a tank I'm working on and let them sit on my stalker market toon until the tank was ready for them (yes, I know, "waste of slots" and all that, but she's a lazy marketeer). Somewhere along the way I must have decided I had one too many so I put it up for sale - I think. I don't remember doing it, maybe I accidentally clicked on it in my "stored" and put it up for sale, who knows at what price.

So I log in my stalker marketeer one day... hm, perhaps it was about the 7th?... and I found I'd sold one of these that I didn't even know I had put up for sale. It sold for 200mil, which was about exactly one extra zero above the last five prices. That cash went straight to a troller I'm slotting up and despite buying some IOs already, he's earned enough to keep his bankroll above 200mil.

So either this error is "going around" or someone 'round here has found another way to burn inf for teh lulz.