DeathSentry

Originally Posted by Ramification TM

Oh there's a thread or two already on the subject ...

All boils down to AE is a forgotten building. Sometimes I wonder if the devs cover their eyes while passing by it in game.

Seriously though. There's many threads out there on AE and its much needed improvements. There's a flawed rating system which can easily be griefed, bugs, bugs, and more bugs! They won't even address the current issues much less add things we want.

Almost every mission that I've ever created ended up with me having to redo everything because of a bug.

Might as well not get your hopes up. The devs aren't interested in AE and/or its improvements. They all have their heads in the incarnate stuff. I'm sure within their boardroom meetings they consider AE a flop and not worth the time. Only explanation for their lack of communication. They won't even talk about it...

So much could be done- they just aren't going to do it. Personally wish they would merge the base builder into a way to create custom maps for your arcs. Plus all the things you've mentioned and things mentioned in the many threads before it.

Originally Posted by Soul_Stormer

it should be noted that although the damage boost is the same on the common and uncommon enhancements, the amount that bypasses ED is double on the uncommon (1/3 versus 1/6). so on attacks that are already ED capped with 3 SOs worth, the common would add 5.5% undiminished and the uncommon would add 11% undiminished.

Originally Posted by Frost

I think it might be a mistake to base what the incarnate system will be on what the in game incarnates can do. Statesman and Lord Recluse are just Archvillain (or hero, but...same difference) class constructs with some souped up powers. They have mountains of hit points and gigantic endurance reserves, along with all the damage resistances and status effect protection of other AVs because of game mechanics that make them challenging for players to face.

The player incarnate system is a whole other ball of wax entirely. I expect any intersection with what the in-game versions of States/Recluse can do to be purely coincidental.

Originally Posted by Phewmite

I may be misinterpreting your question, or even the usage of the Alpha Boosts, but it is my understanding that you can only slot 1 boost regardless of tier and only get the boost related to that boost alone. So in other words, you can slot the common and get the 33% boost to damage, or slot the uncommon and get the 33% boost to damage and the 33% boost to immobilize.

These boosts are not cumulative in that you do not get 66% damage boost and 33% Immobilize boost for having created both tiers since you can only slot one or the other.

Originally Posted by Wrong_Number

Awful idea. That would put the 1000's of arcs published in the first few weeks 1000's of pages ahead of every arc written since. Just look at HoF. The few there are all from the first few weeks of MA's release and the next few closest too it come from that time too. You have to go all the way down to 5th closest and it's only about 1/4 the way there after over a full year.


WN

Originally Posted by Bubbawheat

The User Interface

The search tool, or how to find the arcs you want to play.

problem: When you try to search for the kind of arc you want to play, there are too many arcs that you don't want to play at all that show up. And arcs with 5 or less 5-stars show up much higher than arcs with a couple hundred votes at 4-stars.

solutions:

*Allow players to check a box to hide an arc from view - this helps repeated searches to avoid searching through the same bad arcs over and over to try and find the good ones.

*Adjust the display mode. More plays should be more important than a higher average. i.e. 500 4-stars is more significant than 2 5-stars.

The Front Page, or where most players find arcs to play.

The Problem: The front page hasn't changed in almost a year, but that is what most players see when they first load up the AE. Also, a front page arc gets a significant number of more plays than any other arc.

Solutions:

Tabbing: Add tabs to the front page for the guest arcs, dev choice arcs, and hall of fame arcs so they're not automatically shown on the front page.

Alternate Sorting: Change the sort order on the front page to only show maybe 3 guest author arcs, 3 dev choice, 3 hall of fame, 3 5-star arcs, and 3 random arcs. Or anything else that allows the front page to be much less static.

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

Elitism is alive and well in this game; its characterised by those who can afford to slot a powers-list chock-full of 500 million-Inf recipes and those who cannot. Luckily purple merits mitigate this somewhat.... but only somewhat.

I don't want the Incarnate stuff sellable on the market, nor would it make sense for it to do so since it would be.... completely unattainable to many players. If purple recipes are selling for 300 million plus these days, what do you think those would go for....? But that is even to the side: people who want to be Incarnate can get their hands dirty AND EARN IT THE HARD WAY. Do you really, really think States and Recluse bought their way into the Well of Furies' abilities? What a ridiculous idea.

Nor did they earn it like we'll have to, but my point is that becoming Incarnate is NOT a financial transaction, NOR SHOULD IT BE. At least it better not be, that would be incredibly stupid from a lore standpoint.

*gets off soap-box*

Originally Posted by _gohan661_

hyper-intellegent pan-dimensional beings!! or hyperintelligent shades of the colour blue! they would stand against us!! or it could go star trekky and we fight Q! (lol my minds wondering! i need this issue before my imagination causes me to implode)

Originally Posted by Jacks Assortment

Good to know the incarnate system wont take years to be fully released. I bet Posi is goin to work on CoH 2.0