Demonic_Gerbil

Oh good grief.

I've been kind of interested in working on another arc... but after having to fix Strife of the Grave in a very silly way (my 'Possessed Abomination' enemy had to be deleted, and recreated from scratch with a different name since just renaming the boss in the mission itself didn't fix it, neither did trying to edit the boss's name in the critter editor since it would never let me hit Save no matter what I named it or how I changed its description) I'm a bit... reluctant to see what new ridiculous hoops I'll have to jump through to fix things that shouldn't have broken in the first place.

There's some great stuff stuck down at 3-stars from the rating cabal wars from years ago too

Really? I hadn't played them since they were all new, but they were pretty entertaining.

I try to get through it as quickly as possible. Thanks to the ITF, it's usually not too bad.

So all we need to get plays from you is to claim we were rating bombed? >.> I see a marketing opportunity <.<

Well now I'm confused. Someone way up there said you were in the "Confirmed 4 one-star ratings" club. But you're not?

Lies. No one plays AE anymore but farmers, and you're not a farmer are you?

If I was that prescient, I'd have some better rated story arcs

Maybe one got tired tired of being constantly insulted and told that they're going to get bored and leave in a week (constantly, since the AE system came out, even) and their dollars aren't worth as much as TonyV's, for example. When someone keeps trying to pick a fight, eventually they'll get punched by someone. Isn't there enough room for everyone to live happily side by side and get together around the AE campfire (or mission entrance) and sing kumbaya while the asian farmers go in and out of missions, dragging their 7 /Sonic Resonance corruptors everywhere they go?

I like that change, it's a nice little conceptual shift. ...here's a dumb question, those tags you can set when you rate a mission... Can we actually search based on those little buttons, because I can't log in to check the interface right now because of maintenance. I'd love a big, heavy-handed "X kind of mission goes in this tab" and "Y kind of mission goes in this tab" element to the search interface, so people would never ever have to see the kind of missions they didn't want to see, even by accident during a search. I don't want to see your challenge arc full of the nastiest enemy from every villain group, really, I don't, stop showing up on my search results, please.

I dunno, maybe I'm weird. I like mowing down gobs of dudes (dat ebil farming) *and* I like great/fun stories (Two Tickets to Westerly is probably my favorite arc in the AE system). When you guys all get going with the bashing at one another, it's like watching my parents fight and then I go into 'Nam flashbacks (this is hyperbole, but really, I came 'round looking for cool arcs in the story contact tree sticky and then found the same old RAGE that made me quit making AE missions is still going on *sigh*)

Keep the dream alive.

My rule is pretty simple. If it's as good as the worst arc/mission the devs put into the game (I'm looking at you level 30-45 hero content), it gets 5 stars. That's all 5-stars means to me, "It's something that's as good as things the devs have put into the game already." We have two special categories for "better than merely as good", they're called Hall of Fame and Dev's Choice, so I don't worry about separating the wheat from the chaff past that level. I think I've changed my stance since back in the day, because seeing how things evolved, I think it's pretty much the only way I feel I can properly show my appreciation for the good time I've had in the mission. Wish we could just go to a Like/Dislike choice for ratings, though.

Wow. I must have touched a nerve there, that reads awfully defensive. I'm just throwing out the idea that, especially back in the day, the MA community was awfully harsh on people and expected way too much without giving enough positive reinforcement to encourage people to keep making new and (hopefully) better things. I don't think that's such a radical statement to make.

You can totally argue with that statement. Don't let little things like outdated design intentions get in the way of trying to make the MA a better, friendlier place. The current HoF and various other popular arcs suggest the devs don't even care about their old design anymore. So people that are using the system as it was intended to be used are doin' it wrong, obviously. A lot of problems would go away if the devs just gave us different tabs in the MA interface for different mission types. "In Depth Story" "Challenge" "Experience Heavy" "Unofficial Task Forces" and whatever else sounds good. It would quickly segregate the 'evil farms' away from everything else, and make whatever someone wanted to find much easier to, uh, find. But I guess since that would take interface work, we'll never get that. ...heck the whole interface needs a do-over, because I find it hard to find anything I'm actually interested in playing unless I already know what I'm looking for, which sort of defeats the purpose of having a search. (The interface does enable my masochistic bouts of 0-star Roulette though: you never know what you'll get.)

I could probably just keep rambling on and on, but I'll spare everyone. Most of what I'd say has been said by several others before me in various places around this forum.

You use them (and Hasten) before going IN the mission.

The devs haven't commented on the feedback from the party pack, have they? Thus it's an exploit by your logic.

Is that even a problem that needed fixing?

Every CoP I've been on has had the Storm AV in it and has ended in abject failure even with nukes. Couldn't you do something like "Make the rewards not suck at all" (50+ merits like Hami) or "No more Storm AV haxing everyone to death" or "Make the timer to kill the AV a little longer so people can kill the Storm AV" or or or

Nope, I guess that's just too much work... and maybe I'm a little bit bitter about wasting so much time for absolutely no reward at all. What happened to Risk vs. Reward? Or the Time vs. Reward paradigm merits established? CoP doesn't get either applied to it?

lulz

Alas poor Sleet, I never took you, and I guess I never will.

Highfive for the slight buff!

The various actual bug fixes are pretty great, I like those a lot!

Ah memories.