Clave_Dark_5
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This board is for discussing the technical side of AE. The board you want to post this info on would be here:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=602
Good luck with your arc!
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Sadly, I was unable to make the usual Sunday outing I attend of the MA SG - shame, some of these sounded like they were fun. Oh well, the Corr I ported over from another server wasn't ready yet anyways. I hope to be there next time!
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Poster by Soul Storm
Against the WickerWork Khan!
Arc number 346904
@Clave Dark 5
Length: medium
Neutral (leans heroic though)
3 missions (small, large outdoor, small)
23 to 50
Custom foes on all maps
"Journey to Pandan Earth (a somewhat-parallel Earth where pandas are the sentient race) to save a princess from their deadliest villain The WickerWork Khan (or is he?) and his army of wicker warriors! [23rd - 50th level - AV, Elite Boss, Timed Mission - SFMA]"
Ever wonder what a parallel Earth populated by panda bears instead of humans would look like? Sure you have! Ever wondered what it would be like if that world was ruled by a near-parallel CoH/V villain who creates wicker puppets and a panda bear princess had contacted you for help because said villain wanted her for his bride? Again - you know you have!
First mission has custom foes, second has them again plus an AV, third has a different set of customs plus an EB - it is also a timed mission. This was meant to be at least a little challenging so gear up a tougher/higher level toon and/or make sure your difficulty settings are low (it is solo-able that way, my 25th level stalker didn't die once; bring inspirations!).
I had a lot of fun with designing my customs and hope you enjoy it as well. Any and all feedback highly welcomed!
And a big thanks goes to Soul Storm for designing the above poster - he's just that kinda great guy! You can find his poster thread here. -
Hi! I'd be thrilled if you were to take a gander at one of the arcs in my sig or especially if you took a shot at my newest
"Against The WickerWork Khan!" #346904
which I haven't gotten to seriously posting up just yet (because I just finished it last night). It has an AV so it's kind of tough, but doable certainly as I've soloed it on a 25th level stalker (I think the boss setting may have dropped him to an EB at the time though).
Thanks for your consideration.
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In under the wire!
Here are one of the two groups of customs that appear in my latest arc,
"Against the WickerWork Khan!", number 346904.
The arc basically pretty much nothing but a show case for the custom group I designed* to answer the question "what if there was a parallel world where panda bears were the dominant life form and they had their own version of the ClockWork King who made his puppets from bamboo fibers instead of metal and uses them to rule the panda world?" I think it would go something... like.... this...
Minions: In front is either a WickerWork Shinai (Katana/Regen) or a WickerWork Splinter (Spines/Regen); behind is a Lantern Warrior (Archery/Fire Blast)
Lieutenants: Lacquered Warrior (Martail Arts/Invuln) or (DB/Invuln)
Boss: Lacquered Shogun (Broad Sword/Invuln)
Named Boss: The WickerWork Khan (AV, Mind Control/Psionic Assault)
*(that said, I have still found it pretty playable, even with an AV; my 25th level stalker did just fine fighting him on low settings, so don't let him scare you, just be ready) -
Quote:Yeah, my 3 arcs have something like 126, 56, 25 plays, in order of when they were published (guess which one was current when the MA rewards took a hit and the crazy rumors started to fly). That's why I think we need to set out sights lower these days. Realistically, I'm guessing that a real "break" would be getting a Dev's Choice or something similar, although I'm not sure the notoriety would "trickle down" to all an author's arcs (one can hope though).Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
One arc has 94 plays and has been up since day one. Another arc has about 45 plays. A third has 20-25.
I'd be curious to know how well the arcs that only recently got the Dev's kiss on the brow have fared, I may have to go look that up when I get a chance.
As for working the PC arcs into the search tabs - I love the idea, but they were based on such a small number of player's choices that I dunno how the devs would receive the notion of that extra work. Can't hurt to try though.
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Quote:We're not done arguing yet!Originally Posted by Macro_Ninja
I will put an end to this. <hopefully>
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Quote:Being able to sweep all the foes standing around after you've just gutted one of them adds to a squishy stalker's survivability.Originally Posted by Leo_G
What doesn't make sense, to me, is linking Sweep to BU and AS when BU and AS is the start of another combo.
BU+AS=Target dead (or nearly so), but also="Everyone's after me!", so a Sweep right then will finish off the first target if he's not dead yet (or get him that much closer) and protect you from incoming attacks for a few more seconds.
Having BU and AS as part of another combo seems to me to help you out if you miss your Sweep by missing with Ablative - you get the consolation prize of Empower by pulling Placate, which cannot miss (assuming I have all the orders of the combos right in my head). -
Quote:How does one even define "break" these days? How many plays are average, how many are above average and so on? I haven't gotten any plays going on three weeks now.Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
I'm still waiting for my "break".
I think I recall you saying you've had a total of 40 plays across all of your arcs - maybe by today's standards (post AE changes that chased a lot of farmers away) that was your "break".
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Quote:Following that, Ghost Widow would be some sort of take on Ghost In The Shell and Mako would be sushi... there's an "alternate dimension" arc in this somewhere.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Well that puts the horrible mental image of Lord Recluse alone in a dark room with a computer, a TV, and countless pieces of anime memorabilia and figures (including a few body pillows *shudders*), wrapped in a blanket watching Lucky Star and sighing the word: "Mo-e"
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Quote:Something like this for me.Originally Posted by Sailboat
I think the variety in the source material (by which I mean the comic-book genre) is a big contributing factor.
On any given night, I can log on as an ancient mythological Minotaur or as a WWII fighter test pilot or as a social worker whose nightmares come to life or as a professor who crafts inertialess arrows to save his students taken hostage or as a stone spirit from Easter Island or as a fierce Ice queen bent on revenge or as a super-cool 70s blaxploitation homage in go-go boots.
Around me, the world teems with anime schoolgirls, movie villains, mad scientists, Irish heroes, knife fighters, deranged telekinetic housewives, and the occasional sentient kitchen appliance.
It's not all a bunch of knights with swords or soldiers in the same uniform. There's an inherent randomness that constantly appeals to my sense of wonder, or my sense of the absurd.
I'm not a gamer, never cared much for video games after the initial exposure/explosion in the 80s, they took up too much time (and still do) while offering palid fun at best. I've never played another MMO and when this one dies (r something happens and I quit on my own), I'll never play anther one because I doubt it could offer the same amount of fun as described above. -
Quote:The only solid advice I have to offer is send a bug report, I've never seen that happen before.Originally Posted by StratoNexus
I have a mission with a collection item that activates upon the rescue of an escort (it activates on the rescue, before you lead them out).
The collection does indeed become active (you can click it and complete the objective), but it fails to glow and make noise once it becomes active. This naturally means people who play it will have trouble with that objective.
I have tried several things to make this work: changing the object; adding a 2nd collection; removing the collection and then adding it back in. No glow - no sound.
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Quote:Hey, YOU'RE NOT THINKING OF THE BUNNNNNNYYYYY!Originally Posted by The_Larker
Haha...sorry I tend to type what I'm thinking.
I get all weird around the holidays...example;I was singing hymns in the car while me and the wife were Xmas shopping today.She asked why I get weird around this time of the year,I dunno I just like to have fun even if nobody gets it.
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Quote:I must be a freak, I find more names (usualy a couple a week) than I will ever get a chance to use. :/Originally Posted by Tangler
And I thought I had problems thinking up names for my characters.
If anything, I'd be stuck which one to use. I'm thinking to move a Rad/Rad Corr over for this group and renaming her, yet I hate to lose one of my original three toons - that makes two names I can't decide between right there. -
Quote:And aside from all that, remeber, the dev's promised extra special milk and cookies to the ATs who stay true to their original sides, meaning that no changing goodie-two-shoes Brute would ever see those. Who knows, it might make a difference.Originally Posted by JWatt
Aside from the differences in powersets, Scrappers have a higher base damage than brutes, as well as the ability to crank out critical hits. This means that scrappers can crank out more damage at the start of missions. Also, most scrapper attacks don't have built-in taunts like Brutes, leaving them much more free to hammer on enemies without fear of retaliation (provided that there's a tank doing its job) than a brute, who needs to attract attacks to itself in order to better build fury.
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Quote:That's what I've seen, anecdotaly. PvP players can't be bad players or they'd never survive PvP - so they make good PUG members.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
EDIT: Actually, even though i'm no PvPer, I think i'd rather PvPers move to Freedom, as I think more stuff going on is generally better for my game even if i don't choose to partake in it for the most part.
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Quote:Maybe some people like those blobs because the option is there?Originally Posted by macskull
...I can change it to whatever I want, because that option is there....
...Only problem I really have with color customization is how some people have managed to change the FF and Sonic bubbles into seizure-inducing blobs. -
Quote:Untrue! You forget the fear that an AS can raise in the nearby survivors.Originally Posted by Dispari
Some sets have ZERO AoE powers.
But yeah, if AoEs (that cause damage) are your thing, then stalkers are not for you. I only have one toon I made as an AoE monster and he's fun and all, but it's just not my raison d'etra in this game (neither, obviously, is min-maxing, DPS or XP/sec).
I still think stalkers are far less loser-tastic than they are made out to be; like any powerset combo, some do less ZOMG-SPECTACULAR than others, but they are all eminently playable. But obviously this is all getting down to matter of personal play-style choice at this point. -
Quote:Playing redside 95% of the time as I do, I have never seen that.Originally Posted by FireWyvern
Maybe it's cause i play a lot more on redside, but my observation are the opposite. I've seen very few corruptors with only there tier1 secondary power and just attacks. On the other hand, i've seen a lot of "pure support" defender that only get the tier1 of there secondary.
In average, corruptors seems to be the most balanced ones.
Getting back to stalkers - one reason I feel they've always been thought of so "lolstalkers" (even when not deserved) is because of the Brute AT. They're a button-masher's dream AT and, far as I can tell, are only matched in solo DPS, survivability and so on awesome-itude by MMs. Being easier to play than MMs, they tend to be THE AT of choice for a lot of players, especially the lazier ones (no offense, I'm not trying to paint all brutes that way, just some). (I'm guessing I've just stoked a lot of fury bars... )
If stalkers had been somehow in the mix of blue-side, I don't think their reputation would have been so rotten for so long. I could be wrong on this since I don't play blueside much though. -
Quote:Always a good idea, the list of "romance", "comedy", etc. is too generic I think.Originally Posted by Zamuel
What might work best on the MA side of things is to try to use this as a springboard to get the Devs to expand our current tag selection since there are things that aren't just Save the World/Rule the World in scale.
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Quote:*moves every toon off Freedom*Originally Posted by Casual_Player
Posted here because no one reads the PvP forums?
Or as a warning to the rest of us to flee from Freedom while we can?
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Quote:>>fixedOriginally Posted by Scythus
It's just something that lazy graphic designers use to fill up empty negative space.
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Quote:Worth tossing in here: some us publish an arc before it's really done so we can earn tickets off the interminable play-testing. So I migt have an arc up for a month before it's really "ready to play" (which in fact I do right now) which throws off using publishing date as a metric.Originally Posted by Turgenev
See, a "lesser known" author or arc doesn't translate to "new"... If someone is a serial writer, posts a story, takes it down, posts another one, takes it down, etc... the whole "1 arc published" doesn't really stand on its feet. I don't think there's an elegant formula to this, beyond actual admission from the arc author - and then we'd be taking their word on it (assume honesty here).
My only suggestion might be by going from the "first published" arc? It focuses on "new releases" vs the relative experience of the author, yes, but it doesn't exclude them either. Either way, it's the "arc" that's arguably new in this case (unless, of course, you get someone who unpubs/repubs...), and that would lend itself to review, rather than focusing on the author.
If you needed a definition for "new author", I guess one set of criteria would be:
a. First arc published within the last 2 months
b. No more than three arcs
c. No more than 50 plays TOTAL across all arcs (the number is variable, but the concept is that the person hasn't been marketed well and could use the highlight)
Then again, if I wanted to toss it into the ring for this contest (were I a new author), since the arc has had no plays other than myself, I could pretty simply unpublish it (after making sure I saved the final version!) and republish it to get a new date on it.
In some ways I think this is about the only solid method we have to define a "new" arc. "New author" would have to be part of that, something like "first arc published within the last two months" or something. -
Quote:I agree. Please - don't think we're coming in here to gang up on you and tell you you look funny and have a big nose or anything, your this arc shows definite yuletide potential!Originally Posted by GrinningSpade
In short, this arc got some 'large' issues that can 'easily' be remedied to turn it into a fun experience.
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Quote:You're right about the squishiness factor; far as the damage thing goes, didn't someone crunch a buncha numbers and figure out that stalkers now average higher DPS than scrappers because of that chance for crit from teaming? Maybe that's my inner stalker-fan lying to me again...Originally Posted by Ideon
I generally see Stalkers as Scrappers with stealth, since their damage output, combined with assassin strike and placate for almost guaranteed crit should be fairly similiar to a scrapper. They're just probably not as durable due to lower HP values and altered secondaries.