Decorum

Here's a whole board mostly dedicated to such.

Heh, I just noticed that they didn't really create a new board, they just used the old "pre-merge" Villains board.

That's a nice touch, folks.

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Sort of yes and sort of no. It started more as a "maybe this will shut up people up about farming" initially.

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Making an arc based on your character instead of the good of the arc is a major cause of bad arcs.

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I do believe most professional writers would disagree with your views. A great story is made by great characters.

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Yup, my upcoming arc, "The Revenge of Mary-Sue" will show everyone exactly how incredibly awesome my character is. I fully expect everyone to be so floored by the sheer awesomeness of my character that it probably be both Hall of Fame AND Dev's Choice. Because my character is JUST THAT COOL, and hey, I should know, cuz I made them, and I know they're just so awesome that no one will EVER defeat them. They'll be too busy being awed at how great my character is, and then they won't even see the big one-shot attack coming!

Don't worry tho, I've included an ally who is almost as cool as my character. He can pretty much complete the whole mission himself, but you get to watch these two totally cool characters fight. Man, you gotta admit that'll be pretty sweet.

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Very cute, but there's a huge difference between using one's characters' stories for an arc and Mary Suing them.

With the setting on what? Because I've absolutely found that not to be true as a generality.

The thing is, that you're making them a certain way, but these things are also subject to the difficulty settings of Notoriety. Also included in the mix are that some ATs solo better than others. It's very difficult to balance things out (maybe better after the next patch...we'll see). But it kind of gives me a bit more sympathy for the devs.

Your best bets? Make it as soloable on a non-melee toon on Heroic as you can. Then let the chips fall where they may. Alternatively, just make it as challengeable for teams as you want, and put in you description "Challenge for teams. Not solo-friendly".

OK, just curious. Thanks.

Agreed. That's just a little bugginess in the system. You can do it, it just requires the above "reload".

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It's a problem in outdoor and indoor maps alike. You'll tell your ally to run away, or run for the nearest door... and they'll start!

But then what happens?

They stop dead in their tracks and just stand there.

For some missions, I have you meeting with one character three times. It gets confusing when they bug out and you have all three ally's standing around.

A bug? Intentional?

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Known bug.

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I completely disagree, in most cases Standard is TOO easy. I tested my Critters on Standard today and they are absolute pushovers now compared to on Live, where they were also on Standard.

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What are you testing with? Your Brute?

Sadly, that's the number of a pizza place over in Talos.

I have to agree on the label. "Single" made it sound like one guard, and I didn't know differently until I read it on the boards a while back.

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One of the named knights you fight in my below named arc is named Sir Robin. When you start fighting him, he yells, "Run Away!" and propmtly does so.

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"Oh, he is brave Sir Robin..." Nice!

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Here's a hint to help you: If the mission states it has a boss, get help. It is the same way in the game. Its an MMO. And since there is no XP bonus, you can simple quit the arc and start a new one. You still get your noraml XP. Sheesh.

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Being the only person I know in RL that plays this game its not that easy to get help just to kill one boss and some bosses take a whole group at that. Whats this about "XP Bonus"? I noticed that when I completed one of the Dev Choice arcs I got a huge bonus of XP at the end, but when I complete a normal arc or one of my own there was no bonus? Is that what you are refering to? But it was a Dev Choice arc I was playing when on the second mish after killing everything there the boss was too difficult to solo, and I was hoping for that XP bonus when I completed it

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That is exactly what's referred to. Dev's Choice arcs are set up more like regular in-game arcs, not MA arcs. MA arcs give no end-of-mission bonuses.

As I've said many times, never attribute to malice (or "cheating", in these cases) what can easily be attributed to stupidity.

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Hmm, is this really possible? All I can think of that has +Perception reliably is Devices, but is Targeting Drone available to minions?

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Super-Reflexes has Focused Senses even on minions.

Up or nothing? I think I'll stand firmly against that. I think making the ratings into a "fluffy bunny" system is going way too far to counter griefers.

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Well, I just created an arc entirely in Korean and it worked in every field I put it in including names and descriptions of custom critters, patrol and boss dialog, navigation text, contact dialog, and even the name of the custom group and the file name! 아사! :-)

edit: but apparently it doesn't work on the boards...

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In order for it to work on the boards, you have to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. Then then the forum font changes to venusian.



Eco.

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Or maybe just upgrade them from a system that was past its prime already back in '04.

Well, one positive thing and a bunch of unknowns. We're not sure if they're fluff or not.

But, yeah, more info would be nice. Maybe as we get closer to it.

Whereas the "hanging-out" is one of the main draws for me and "my kind". The social aspect, as it were. But, addition accepted.

I'm not sure. Can we change the font style? I don't remember seeing that option, but I wasn't really looking for it, either. Most of the "strange" characters like Greek or Cyrillic are simply "alt+" standard options included in the more widely used fonts.

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ALL mmos are pretty mush the same - they are ultimately all about levelling.

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Eh, not really. At least not for some. I (and I know several people who feel this way) would be just fine with playing with friends and staying the same level all the time. In fact, there are some that are actually upset that they have to level to to make their characters the way they want. I'd play CoH if it allowed you to make what you wanted as a character and have them just stay that way (conceptually...not to make the UBAR!).

But, yes, for some it's all about leveling. And I'm sure the devs and investors want it, because it's a lot better business model.

Why fear? Some people have been treating this game like WoW for a long time. This young person is more interested in watching his XP bar moving than actually playing. If he gets bored and leaves, that's kind of his own fault.

EDIT: Actually, the WoW comparison is a bit overstated and unfair. Change it to "Progress Quest".

That one's easy. They recently capped the ambushes at 6 per mission (including the ones from destructible objects).

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Well, I don't know who sb is,

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somebody