Doctor Wishbone

Well I went and got a level, and it didn’t help. Being level 30, I’m beyond the threshholds to force the issue. Both of the characters it’s happened to were server transfers, I wonder if that has anything to do with it, because now that I think of it, I’ve done changes with other chars and didn’t have trouble.

Oh well, sent in the petition and will see what comes of it. Thanks for the replies!

Yeah that makes sense but what I’m saying is that I’m not able to choose new ones. Do you guys know for sure if you can later?

Been doing some faction changing lately (the long way), mostly villain -> hero, and when I get there, I have no titles. Okay, no biggie, don’t want the good guys running around with “The Sinister” above their heads, I get it. But the trainers won’t allow a change either? And I just trained up a level and even after training they won’t allow it?

Now, I got the level during the final morality mission, so I haven’t done any full dinging hero-side yet. Will titles be available afterwards, or am I title-less for the remainder of my career?

Anybody noticed a sudden change in ally AI? My allies are now fleeing at the first hit or two. It’s really annoying. Their health is just fine, and they don’t have aggro, but in an AoE or something, they go running and I lose ’em.

Or is it just me?

Yeah it’s all the power graphics and just in Atlas. Even in Atlas 2 things are normal.

In spite of a fair amount of over-reaction and under-reaction, in a modern MMO climate, we have a fair expectation of a certain amount of downtime—not “no downtime”—but a “certain amount.”

And while reasonable and rational-thinking people can understand the changes involved with the big release and rollout of Freedom and all the new players, the point of view of a modern MMO player (myself included) has, again, a reasonable expectation of a “certain amount” of downtime.

The amount of downtime we’ve experienced recently exceeds this amount.

Well you certainly don’t need all caps and “?!?!?!!??!!?” that’s for sure. And it’s true, “servers down more than up” isn’t going to help.

Nevertheless, in a reasonable assessment, there has been what I would term an “excessive” amount of downtime of late.

Yeah I’m someone known in my circle for extraordinary patience and longsuffering. Been through stuff like this in MMOs more times than I can count, but patience has limits. And although under most circumstances would take all this with a grain of salt, after this 2nd day in a row following the multiple downtimes recently, even I am finding myself getting frustrated.

You could also set for a massive battle to spawn after your glowie, which could potentially fill the map with lots of baddies fighting you and each other.

Noticed this as well (Cap on Pinnacle). It sucks.

Check your objectives. Not all the maps support all the objectives—or in the numbers you may have them. I just dealt with this recently that some of the outdoor maps didn’t support all the things I had in the mission, so that narrowed the choices down quite a bit.

If the Publish button is grey, then something is generating an error, even if there are no errors called out. Try making a mission with one simple objective clearly listed in the map’s allowed objectives. If that mission doesn’t allow publishing, then try with different enemies. Sounds like there is some kind of conflict somewhere.

Sorry can’t be more specific without analyzing the whole of your mission settings.

Almost like someone giving you pie then yelling at them cause it hasn’t got the favorite crust that you like. They’re working on the crust but hey…free pie!

You could always give success the illusion of defeat.

Write the text so that it looks like you want one thing to happen, and no matter what, the text says they failed.

For instance, have it so they MUST secure something in a safe (simple clicky). Set the safe in the back, set a boss up front, the whole time the boss is getting beat down he talks about how it’s awesome that the player is wasting all their time on him/her while their operative is at the safe now. The player gets to the safe, clicks on it…and the text says it’s “empty.”

Also, you can have the mission “fail” even if it succeeds. The player does all they are supposed to do, but the contact told them it was all for naught, because X got away, or the files they downloaded had been corrupted, etc. Heck, he could yell at them for getting the wrong files. You could even suggest it while they’re downloading the files, by having the click message be that the files are a mess and that you hope you’re getting the files X needs, and couple that with a fairly long download time (10-20 secs maybe?). Then you get back and he’s like, “What is this garbage? FAIL”

If you have a mission that actually can be failed easily (timer on defeat all mobs, etc.) then you have your mission fail text say what you want, but you can have the mission success make it sound like they failed in some way also.

Hope that helps or at least gives you some ideas.

There is not.

While not a perfect solution, you can set it so your allies are in the “Front” portion of the map (assuming it’s not an outdoor map, which has no “Front” per se), and you can rig it so that no one is guarding them. Take care though how you set their AI, as in my experiments with this, by the time I got to them, they were already fighting, and sometimes already dead…

Ah okay. I was hoping to make a “Random” boss from my mix-n-match custom group, but it doesn’t look like that’s possible. Thanks!