DeepShade

Title: Villains R Us Training School
Arc ID: 67597
Creator Name: @Deep Shade 2
Difficulty: Low to Medium
Synopsis: Learn how to be an uber bad guy at the Villains R Us Training School
EB's/AV's: none
Story type: Something a little fun and silly
Mission Count: 5
Time to play: 30-60 minutes

I dunno, maybe they didn't think anyone was going to buy it online. I want my costume pack and I want it now!

I guess I'm im the minority because I don't think the Portal Corps map is all that big. As has been said, it's only four levels and there are only 4-5 "rooms" in the whole thing. Unless it's a defeat all, that map shouldn't take all that long to navigate. I think the large office maps can be far more irritatingly mazelike.

OK, I did that and it just created a new published file with the same name (I had less than three published arcs.) Has someone written a step by step guide to republishing?

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I'm a little disappointed there's no badge to go w/ the new contacts in mercy and atlas

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Others have posted, and not without merit, that they do not like having to try to run all their characters through an event mission in order to get the badge. This, of course, is a matter of choice and priority.

My lack of enthusiasm for the new contacts/missions is that there is nothing about them that stands out or is memorable. There is simply no point to doing them. It's not about whether there is a badge or reward attached to it. It IS about integrating content into the overal flow of the game. Is my character more interesting, powerful or playable because I have completed this mission? Is there anything about the mission that would make me want to repeat it if I could? Would I rather do a regular radio/newspaper mission?

This mission could have been so much better. An easy addition would have been to have the mission giver from the other faction as an elite boss/archvillain even if no regular AV reward was granted . Attendance at the wedding event could have been made mission dependent.

Again, my issue with this mission is not it's lack of tangible reward. It is simply a case of bad storytelling and for any game such as this, that's a very bad thing indeed.

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And to stay on-topic, I will re-iterate my position on the wedding pack: too little value for too much money. I won't be purchasing it for both of those reasons. I'm not going to act all outraged over it, though.

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Now if it gave a sixth costume slot, then maybe.

This may have been mentioned already (I didn't read through every page) but the price would seem more reasonable if it also included a month of game time like the GvE package did. Charging for "extra" content is a bad idea, IMO.

Grats to all the contest winners and awardees. I'm really going to have to step up my writing to break into such fast company.

Having a 50 is nice (insert sense of accomplishment here) but so is being able to play a wide variety of characters with different power set combinations. Some might even be the combination but be played differently for a host of reasons. I have a modest 45 alt's currently with one 50 but a few others getting close. The joy is in the journey not the destination and there is no wrong route.

Grats in advance and thanks to Kat for a good idea. Hopefully this will get stickied because the rush of level 50 villains is near. Not from me, however.

If you've asked someone if you can join them on a mission and been accepted in, don't turn around and demand the star so you can invite your buddies along. If you want to team with them, TEAM WITH THEM.

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Do not send a tell with an invite right behind it when someone has in their search comments, "No blind invites."

Do not expect that someone will want to sk with you, just because its uber XP!

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Thank you!

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I think hes going to be a busy man soon. With tax refunds coming! Great work, love em all.

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Great idea! I hadn't thought of that as a source of funds.

My first "encounter" with anyone from the boards was when I saw Miss shadowing a low level character who was fighting trolls in the Hollows. I thought it was pretty cool that a high level player would help out a lowbie like that. Now that Biff is into his high 30's, I try to emulate that helpfulness by taunting foes off of players who are doing hunt missions in places like Crey's Folly or Brickstown.

From a strategy/build standpoint, Tic Toc's in depth posts have had the most impact and probably saved me a lot of time in respec'ing potential bad builds.

While I have not teamed with many of you here, most of you make me laugh, both in game and out. Threadjacks, innuendo and all, Justice is still a fun place to be and play this little game.

Ironically, the one I got with the regular box is Ghost Widow. Maybe I should put it on Ebay and make back what I paid for the game. Seriously, Cuppa did say that it was a wide spread problem and was being looked into.