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I too find a change. And as someone who enjoys creating missions, initially I was going to buy a couple of more AE slots, but given the focus on farming, I still have the 3rd original slot available and short of making a farming story, not sure what to do with it.

I really enjoyed writing and playing stories from our talented community, and not that I'm anti-farming, but I had such high hopes for AE and just experiencing the creativity and ingenuity of the authors. I still do, but I play most of them solo now as the primary invites are AE.

I do plan on doing the new TF once the bugs are fixed (was rough in Beta too!); but again, for AE, I hope something changes to swing the focus to use of creative missions vs. just farming (though please no more nerf bat swings).

The two at the bottom, they contain allies including ally bosses and patrols in each and I always play them solo..enjoy!

The two included in my post below, both feature bosses but also include allies..plus the bosses aren't too hard..

Its part 1 and 2 of an alien invasion attempt from a federation of races called the Anakim led by an emperor and queen. Part 1 you have to repel their scout forces and eventually the queen. Part 2 you take the fight to their home world with the aid of a team called the GalacticEnforcers. But be careful, they have some powerful friends as well due to alliances with other CoH groups.

Been having trouble lately with custom allies with flight where I give them flight power, but in the game, they can't fly..anyone else having this issue?

Awhile back, someone had posted a link to another website where one of the European gamers had copied pics of the maps and placed them on a website so that you would know what the map looked like before you used it.

As an aside, I keep trying to use Unique Maps -> Tech Lab -> Portal 2, and its one of those maps, that even under i15 on test system, there is no clear denotation of front/middle/back and when I try to put critters there its never the same each time...was trying to find a tech type map for a thanagarian invasion story with their headquarters

I have a couple of missions where I made sure it was playable from levels 1-50, however when you get teams of mixed levels and not enough sk's, its a problem. I saw some missions where players were automatically set to the level of the mission, any idea how to do that?

I have to say that after having been on the game for 5 years and doing so many arcs, MA was like a breath of fresh air both in being able to create my own arcs and seeing the creativity in others. Yes, there are farms, but there are sooo many other arcs out there and I will periodically go sample them; primarily those that are not Dev Choice, etc.

To me, the idea that users can create any sort of arc gives the Freedom (pun intended) to create what they like, and conversely, users can select which ones they want to play. My arcs are more story based and as to the earlier comment about getting it played, its a concern of mine as well. However, I have to admit that the ability to create fascinates me and has extended my addiction to CoH for more years.

I found that some of my old friends on Guardian have returned because of MA and now we go and run each others missions, and some of the SGs i'm in are also doing the same; so those may provide avenues to play your arcs as well.

In any event, I for one am ecstatic that MA was added, I am humbled and honored to play with so many creative people its just amazing..yes there is junk out there here and there but just like in any bookstore, you can choose to have discriminating taste and really choose the genre that best fits your gameplay.

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AE System
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Welcome to Architect Entertainment -- Neutral
Death for Dollars! -- Neutral
Bare Knuckles of Rage (9304)
Signal to Noise -- Neutral -- 67277
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Character/Supergroup Origins
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Birth of a Fossil -- Heroic
Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V (42221) - Heroic
Noah Reborn -- Heroic (2370)
Jumping in Feet First - Heroic - 1345
Midnight Bells Toll ----Villanious
A hero is made, not born. -- Heroic 20863
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Classic Super-Hero/Super-Villain
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THE BOMBER --- Heroic --- Arc 16607
In The Shadow of Statesman --Neutral--1160
A Show to Die For! --- Heroic --- 30645
Check... and Mate #15095 - Heroic - Mini Task Force
Teen Phalanx Forever! -- Heroic (67335)
This Life Immortal - (5756) Heroic
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Comedy
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The Extadine Lab -- Heroic (2595)
MacGuffin Delivery Service (1567) -- Villainous
ParaCon -- Heroic (1684)
The new and improved Lord Recluse Strike Force -- Villainous (though I wouldn't recommend against a hero )
The Fire Bunnies - Neutral, They are only bunnies after all...
You Say It's Your Birthday! (3630) - Neutral
Trademark Infringement -- Heroic (2220)
Hail to the King Neutral (34640)
Walk On the Wild Side - Neutral - 3580
Shirley You Jest (25474) -- Neutral
The Invasion of the Bikini Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space! - Heroic - 61013
Gnomish Madness (30204) - Heroic
Doctor Nadir and the Hellion Heist (49661) - Heroic
Laugh? I Thought I'd DIE! - Heroic
The P.U.G. Strike force (arc 35585) -Villian
A Translator is the Wind or the Thunder in Turns -- (2936) - Heroic
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Comedy/Drama
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The Running of the Bulls -- Heroic 29973
A Super Team is Born -- Heroic
Cause of How Some Silly Stealed My Wings #1481 -- Neutral
How to Survive a Robot Uprising -- Heroic (12669)
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare -- Neutral
It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding (9059) -- Neutral
TURG FICTION: Ghost in the Machine, Act I - Heroic (althoughs romantic villains could try this too )
Rum Runners of Bloody Bay (3691) - Heroic
Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! (2019)
The Toypocalypse! (49280) - Heroic
Fishing for Fame with Red Herring - Heroic (66861)
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Crime/Gangs
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Bricked Electronics -- Heroic (LIVE! 2180)
The Bravuran Jobs -- Villainous (16809)
The Monstrous Regiment of Lesbian Hellions -- Heroic (27178)
Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics (2150) - Villainous
Ninja Crimewave! (2142) - Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
The Internet is for Crime (53385) - Villains
Plastic Pistol Peril (1135) - Heroic
Friends in Need (Of Body Parts) - Villainous (31005)
A Little RnR - Heroic (17523) click for Promotional Poster


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Drama
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The Conciliators: Simone -- Heroic (4010)
The Fan Club -- Heroic
Matchstick Women -- Heroic -- 3369
Of Mentors and Legacy - Heroic - 1589
Digital Love -- Neutral -- 3571
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Global Domination
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Axis and Allies -- Villainous (1379)
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Heist
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Celebrity Kidnapping -- Villainous (1388)
Easy Money -- Villainous (31490)
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Historical (Realistic)
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Wrinkle in Time -- Heroic(68920)
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Historical (CoH Lore)
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The War on Superadine - The Regulators in their 1980's drug war (Heroic) (Arc 7959)
Origins - Volume 1 (57077) -- Heroic
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Holiday
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Hectic Holidays -- Heroic (36999) also comedy
Santa's Missing List - 34961
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Horror
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Astoria in D Minor (41565) -- Heroic
Dark Dreams (3615)
Don't Play With The Dead (31813) -- Neutral
The Amulet of J'gara (1709) -- Heroic
Project: Perilous - Into the Chthonian Pit (#3586) - Neutral (Unless you happen to be a mad cultist, in which case, go nuts!)
Small Fears -- Heroic
Lights, Camera, Scream! (#68627) - 3 Mission arc that get's you into the B-Horror film circuit.
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Large-Scale Crisis
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This Is War, Part I - the Revenge of Hro'Dtohz -- Neutral
Win the Past, Own the Future - Heroic
A Warrior's Friend - Heroic
The Clockwork War -- Heroic (18672)
Flight of the Valkyries - Precursor (20272) -- Neutral
The Human Hive (#1632) - Neutral
War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 1, Neutral (15006)
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post13304513
War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 2, The Terran Revolt, Neutral (46711)
url=http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13304455&an=0&am p;page=0#Post13304455
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Magic
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The Magical Miss Fitz (5079) -- Heroic
Chains of Blood (5492) -- Heroic
A Deal with Destiny -- Heroic
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Military
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Redoubt Operations #1: Fires over Kalago -- Heroic
Red Storm Rising (Arc 4912) -- Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
Axis and Allies -- Villainous (1379)

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Misc. Adventure
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The Portal Bandits (3326) -- Heroic
A Glitch in the Wyre- Arc 73197-- Neutral (Fun for both the good kids and the bad kids too!)

Mystery
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Blowback (18575) -- Heroic
Dream Paper -- Heroic (13030)
Dream Paper 2: Restless Sleep -- Heroic (16797)
Dream Paper 3: Broken Dreams -- Heroic (13064)
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Mythology
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Atlantis Attacks! -- Neutral (30898) -- Click for Promotional Poster
Anactoria's Descent Into the Underworld -- Villainous
The Seelie War -- Heroic
The Unseelie War -- Villainous
Tales of Cimerora, volume 1 : Of feathers and fur -- Heroic
The Aegis Affair - Heroic
Witches and Warriors (53006)- Heroic
The War of Fate(12220,46722)- Heroic
Rites of the Maenads (61159) - Heroic
The Parable of the Fruit Salad -- Heroic -- 65369
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Nemesis Plots
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Brass Reaver: Part 1 -- Neutral
The Handbag Plot -- Heroicish -- 36414
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Player-Chosen Outcome
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Hunting the Dark Dragon -- Heroic
Playing Gods -- Heroic (51106)
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Sci-Fi
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Adventures of the Space Marines -- Neutral
Adventures of the Space Marines 2 -- Neutral
Above Mars - Part 1: The Wellington -- Neutral (13215)
The Final Nemesis
The Adventures of the United Earth Rangers -- Neutral (29549)
The Continuing Adventures of the United Earth Rangers -- Neutral (70237)
Spaced Invaders --Heroic(56856)
That Mysterious Buzzing Sound - 12774
The Knights of Rularuu -- Heroic (75386)
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Un-themed Survival/AV/Time Challenges
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The Meatgrinder -- Neutral
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Puzzles/Riddles
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Grim Riddles (#1396) - Heroic

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ho do you access the emotes?..didn't see it on my costume screen

Thanks for the feedback; I know with the allies I've had to at times make the enemy run past them to have them engaged; and have it set on aggressive.. I'll take a look; and I will look at changing EB bosses power to make it easier.

Personally I like fire with an energy secondary, gives you melee power with the damage of fire primary. I have a fire/eng and and an eng/fire, with the latter being my first toon ever and I guess I didn't know better

Can you try 15006 and 15707, its a two-parter with the title "War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion (part 1 and then part 2). Although its two stories, its mostly because I had so many custom chars that I ran out of space. Would appreciate some honest feedback. Initially I had it on test and at one point, someone rated it 4 star and had some suggestions which I made. Then another friend ran it and didn't like the changes (first one said: too many chars, so I removed some, 2nd one then said: too bland, needs more characters).

Thanks!!!

story 1:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post13304403

story 2
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post13304535

feedback forum
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....=0#Post13304455

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Name: DeathSentry
Global Contact: @DeathSentry
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Origin: Science
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I can't wait for Architect and write my own stories..amazing!!! Wondering, as a larger question, what else could be done in future releases to increase the subscriber base.

I too have used a number of server transfers and renames to spread my toons out a bit (plus Guardian population, though I love it dearly and will always be my home, seems to be declining).

Beautiful!!

When would we start to see moonbases? and if so, possibly some real other aliens (vs. those fake ones in the shadow shard which are copies of nemesis, etc, though the rularuu are good!). I want to see future issues of CoX be able to expand the subscriber base and i agree with other comments that we don't want to turn into yet another fantasy mmo. I do like the idea that perhaps we could do some more scifi, perhaps heading to the rularuu/rikti homeworld finding out that they are in cahoots or that we are in between an intestellar war between them. If a TF could be constructed that could include transit in a starship to the homeworld and have us fighting on the ship including it shaking as it took on enemy fire (can you say photon torpedoes!) and perhaps even being able to see space from inside the ship. states could be like in the captain chair or something. then make the rikti homeworld something to behold, rich in texture, detail, scale so that is more than a city, but a whole world (let us compete with WOW!).

Wish something could be done for rad defenders primary (radiation blast). The offensive powers are so weak, with the first level rad blast power, it still takes me at least 6 blasts at lvl 50 to kill a lvl 38 minion..thats pretty sad

Does anyone have a list (or can tell me how to get one) that shows the roleplaying SGs on each server?.. When I first joined, my SG did some roleplay and it definitely made the game more interesting, so looking for more of the same across the servers.

Thx!

I just want to say that after having been around in the game for the last 3+ years, and like others, I missed the initial Rikti invasion. There is nothing like taking down a ship in midair (ala STF taking down ship as you fight lord recluse) or when the Rularuu first came to paragon city (shooting down the bug-eyes in midair). I was around for the 5th column vs. council war and again, was great fun in terms of the worldwide event.

My only request is that we allow the world wide event to continue for quite awhile and.. to preannounce that day so that I can put my real life on hold (lol yeah i know..but I can't help it). This news of the Rikti returning in force is..well..um..er.. FANTASTIC!!!.. I can hardly contain myself (damn, time to wipe up again).. Yes yes yes, I know there are things others would like but that is the nature of this game (the only MMO I have ever/will ever play), in that other releases can still come down the road. I guess we should be happy that this is focused on moving the storyline forward, and there is nothing to bring heroes together like a world wide event (Emerald Order on Guardian, hopefully any stagnant members will reactivate and join us in this Omega-level threat!!).

LOL...u got a good point about CNN.com...funny but true!..Ok, here's to creating my uber tank as altitis swings back into full gear!

I wish it would turn out differently but in all honesty, and I absolutely love CoX, I think this spells the beginning of the end. As a previous poster noted, the focus of the devs now is just on making the current base happy (had read a dev interview maybe last week before I knew about MUO and was surprised they didnt focus on increasing subscribers). The sad thing is that we invested so much time into our chars and yes, even though the game may still run, if we see this mass defection to a new, more managed game, for those of us loyalists that remain, it would be no fun if there are so few playing.

So not really sure what to do at this point, I guess play until the proverbial plug is pulled but I won't be putting in the time as much anymore on making new chars, etc, not with the death penalty so close behind me.

I have a claws/regen scrapper and its my first scrapper. I tested the new animations and I too was ok with it. On a related note though, I thought scrappers were more resistant (though of course not as much as a tank). I took Tough, is there anything else I can do to increase how much damage my regen scrapper can take or is he destined to always be just slightly more resilient than a defender/blaster/controller?