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#452144 - "The Murders in the RWZ Morgue" by @FredrikSvanberg
Heroic levels 35-54, Single Mission, Rikti / Vanguard
Description: "There has been a murder in the Vanguard base and Longbow need your help to catch the killer."
Summary: This is fun, well written and exactly what it says on the tin. It's a murder investigation in the Vanguard base, though it certainly puts almost everyone involved in kind of a bad light. It probably works best solo given that it doesn't make a bit of sense without stopping to read all the clues, and you know how people are. It did require a bit of running back and forth, but the Vanguard base map is pretty small so it's not a big deal.
#379160 - "A Wake for Dead 6" by @Clave Dark 5
Heroic levels 5-15, Long
Description: "Your friendship with the mysterious hero known only as Dead 6 lead a villain to go straight when he lost his superpowers. After a chance encounter, you and he recount your brief contact with Dead 6, perhaps to honor him in a way."
Summary: This arc is in an unusual style for AE arcs which I can only call RETRO-ACTI-VISION, and the meta-narrative is you and a former C-list supervillain talking about a now departed hero you both used to know. If that kind of thing (assumptions about character actions) in an arc makes you a little cranky then this arc will drive you mad as a march hare. But if not, play away, it's a well done low level arc, and not terribly difficult despite the orange "oh noes!" the ever temperamental architect system tries to warn you off with. And it's rated B for Bunny.
#259194 - "Madness + Murder = Bedlam!" by @Swelter
Heroic levels 1-54, Long, Customs / Banished Pantheon
Description: "Experience the mystery of the troll cave! Save hapless psychiatrists from their patients! Rescue a heroine from a fearful fate! Learn the secret of the Tablet of Raving Death! And save Paragon City from an evil madman! Witness the rise & bring about the fall of Baron Bedlam & the Lunatic Fringe!"
Summary: Finally, we are shown an undead threat even more terrifying than a room full of Spectral Daemons or the Banished Pantheon's shenanigans in Astoria... no, it's singing zombies. Terrible singing zombies. This is one of those silly-serious arcs which either work for you or it doesn't, and you probably know by now which of those two boxes you fall into. Fun if groan-inducing at times. The arc's key error is that 1-54 is way too wide a level range, particularly given the exotic mez of some of the Lunatics. Don't bring your lowbies to the party, unless you find debt a laugh riot. Though that would be appropriately insane! -
Quote:Well the obvious solution would have been to have them all take place in 'board transit' instances.Originally Posted by Ironblade
No need to fix what isn't broken. This is how they decided it should work. Just because YOU don't like it does not mean that it's 'broken'.
I mean, ultimately, stuff like how abandoning missions and dismissing contacts work isn't well documented in game - you can play the entire game and never need to ever use it or even know that you can do that, until this event which can load you up with things you can't clear. We all know how to get past that because we use the forums - and I know that's generally the place I look for info if I derp on something in game. But requiring metagame knowledge to proceed is bad design.
It's cute to actually take stuff to people in their in-game locations, but it's a bad idea if they can't restrict you to only getting v-tip combinations you can deliver. There's no sense getting too worked up about it now of course, but I would be shocked if this wasn't altered for next year. -
Quote:You can apply the CoV:CE code on an account that already applied the CoV code, but you can't apply multiple CoV:CE codes.Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
Depends, I believe, on what codes you have previously applied to your account. If you have already applied a city of villains code, or a CoV:CE code to your account, you cannot apply them again. But I'm not 100% on the specifics.
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Quote:Also, platypi. I mean, what the heck?Originally Posted by Lycanus
Anyway, the more I learn about science, the more I believe in God. Everything is just so simple and complex at once that I have trouble seeing it happen by circumstance.
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Quote:Yeah, /vault is pretty unknown, since it's nowhere near as awesometastic as /ah. Personally I use it mostly for stashing the bits I need to make base empowerment buffs, but that's a whole 'nother thingie.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
And THIS is also why this thread is awesome. I just learned something new. never noticed that there was a /vault command. I honestly only knew about /auctionhouse.
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Quote:Tuning customs is definitely as much art as science; it's hard to find that balance of appropriately difficult for what they are, and "d'awwh, your head came off".Originally Posted by Sparkly Soldier
Oh, thank you - I'm glad you liked it, and it's an honor to be listed here!
Yep, the friskiness has been worked on: one bit of difficulty was a pure spawning oversight, while a few late-enemy powersets that players have pointed out were causing headaches have been down-frisked accordingly. -
Quote:Yeah, now there's one guy who's never going to get caught due to scheduling mishaps. Unless of course he married someone as obsessive about precision as he is. Then hilarity might ensue.Originally Posted by Gnavitas
And as for the original topic, Efficiency Expert Pither has a valentine to a lady, even though he has a wife and kids. I guess he'll just be very efficient with his affair.
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#534314 - "Forsaken People: A Tale of Old Astoria" by @Sparkly Soldier
Heroic levels 20-29, Long
Description: When a district judge and the former deputy mayor both turn up dead, you're enlisted by MAGI seer Azuria to stop a phantasmal killer whose origins lie hidden in both the perpetual mists of Dark Astoria and the shadows of Paragon City's darkest hour.
Summary: This is a great and well-researched arc that you ought to be playing right now, hitting a lot of the plot points of pre I22 Dark Astoria. Though there are some enemies in the later missions that can get a bit frisky if you're not super tough, you didn't really expect to thumb your nose at the Sleeper and not get it bitten off did you? Though, I mean... he IS asleep, so I guess that would have been a fair expectation... Shame about your nose though.(*)
(*) - Friskiness of enemies apparently subject to revision (downwards?) by author in response to critique. Caveat friskitor. -
Quote:Hey, don't knock it. The tears of the oppressed really bring out the flavor of a rich tea like pu-erh. If you don't like it, it's your own fault, anyway, for driving down the price of the oppressed to the point where anyone can afford to have one handy.Originally Posted by TopDoc
I guess it's a different mind-set from most marketeers who enjoy sitting around drinking tea made from the tears of the oppressed, and then swimming through all of their Inf to get a little exercise.
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Quote:Besides, after a certain point, you have to realize that you're spending a fair amount of time doing stuff that some people do for their actual job that makes actual real money, and wether, if you really enjoy that, you might ought to look into trying to make money at it rather than spending money on it.Originally Posted by MeanNVicious
After playing the market game for so long in so many niches, the game has already been played so to speak. Though this is intriguing and has potential, once you've already hit the point of ridiculous wealth and holdings, its a matter of more effort for no real further benefit.
Granted, the world of high finance lacks a certain degree of, let's say, tights-wearing facepunchery, but what can you do? -
Quote:Yeah, the free server transfers mean that every month someone can get voted off the island. I don't spend enough time in game to fill a server now, given that.Originally Posted by Organica
There are too many servers and free transfers for me to ever feel I need to delete a 50. Though some of them I just don't ever play.
Also it's hard to get them that high and not have them be more than just the numbers on the sheet, as it were. -
Quote:If only we had the ability to add "sponsored by" taglines to the character name display.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
... you could save me the hassle of stripping all of old BZB's IOs by giving me 10 billion.
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Quote:'cause I've got things to do, mostly. I did some sell high/buy low like you're describing (I dumped my entire stash of damage purples) but ultimately there's only so much time I'm willing to spend on it. It'll suck when my stashes of mez purples run out, though, since I do like me some dominators and controllers.Originally Posted by TopDoc
What really confuses me is why almost no one else is doing what I'm doing. The profit potential is HUGE!!! I may become a trillionaire. I have seen other bids here and there. For a while I was in a bidding war with someone bidding X,090,000 or something like that, but then those stopped. According to Arcanna I pushed her out of the market because I drove up prices too high. Too high?
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Quote:Yeah when I went Vigilante->Villain I kind of expected a more unique morality mission to cap off the murdertastic Vig->Vil tips. I'm a bit disappointed you just get the normal villain ones.Originally Posted by Organica
...apparently by confronting my future self who is a god, who came back into the past because they were evil but then became good again and wanted to prevent me from making the same mistake. Whatever that was.
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Quote:PinnBadges seems to be where a lot of the fun gets coordinated - or, if it's started elsewhere, warm bodies will be solicited on PinnBadges. Or, if you want warm bodies, you can generally find them there. They may or may not be coherent but they will be alive.Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg
I recently returned to Pinnacle after spending some time on other servers for 4 years or so.
For any of you long timers, way back when I lived on Pinnacle, I used to be in a supergroup run by Schnax -- something with a black and blue division, but I can't remember the name exactly. My mains were Suspicious Pkg, Green Nuke, Zentropy and Bloodnut. I remember running with the likes of NIGHTOFIRONSTAR, Crypton, and others.
Anyhow, to the point of my post -- I'm currently leveling a brute on blue side and it seems kind of quiet. Real quiet. Some posts less than 6 month old recommend joining the PinnBadges and Cozmic's Playground channels. Are there any others I should join to get re-integrated and more importantly, find drinking buddies?
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Quote:Yeah, I really hate missing. Like, with the burning passion of a million suns. Friends don't let friends use -ToHit powers in AE missions.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Stacking debuffs, especially to-hit debuffs. This doesn't come up as much as it used to, back when AE was new and everybody wanted to show off their Evil and Kewll Dark Minions of Darkity Darkness custom group, who of course all had darkity darkness powers so you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if you had to fight more than two of them at once.
I'm not a huge fan of easily stacked Slow effects either; if someone tags you with one occasionally, sure. Also, those AoE glue effects are Right Out. -
I have discovered that my fire tank has a distressing lack of Notices. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter to correct this oversight.
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Quote:I guess this is another reason I don't run TPN, or, maybe my dislike of it is flavored by the fact that experience tells me not to run it. I'm just going to say that when you encounter something with a crash error so severe that it requires a rollback of the instance data, stay the **** away from it. "Rollback" is not a word that you want to be using when describing data in a production environment, certainly not repeatedly, and definitely not when it involves your data.Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
A few days ago, a league I was on got kicked from TPN. When we could finally log back in, a bunch of us had lost the 60 thread reward from defeating Maelstrom part way through -- there seemed to have been some kind of short character roll-back, as the 60 thread drop was about 8 min before the kick. No dice from CS about getting the threads restored to teh character, so I'm leaving TPN well alone until I'm sure the bug is fixed. Having to restart is one thing, potentially losing rewards already gained is quite another.
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Quote:Yeah, the "suddenly, Incarnates!" bug is the best part of TPN.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
But enough critique, let's get to the issue. The trial was apparently programmed extremely poorly and not debugged. The thing kicks people regular and then you cannot log back in with the same character. Then when you do log in and try to join the trial you get to be in random person X's mission.
The server getting really confused about which instance you ought to be joining isn't a new bug to TPN, but it does seem to manifest much more regularly with TPN than anything else. -
Quote:You want the auto-doc able to do elective surgery on you?Originally Posted by Alpha-Six
A in base Costume Designer because screen shakes and other powers are annoying when working on your costume! could even make it a function of the auto-doc.. or another auto-doc like add on that requires a badge to get.
I'm not sure that's a good idea. It and the Automated Expert System have been talking. -
Quote:Darrin Wade hits you! Evil Masterplan was forced to hit by the streakbreaker.Originally Posted by Sulfur_Tios_EU
That was what Statesman said in SSA5, or something close to it, now see where it got him
Darrin Wade hits you for 2,000,000 points of damage.
Darrin Wade hits you! My Moment of Triumph is autohit.
Darrin Wade hits you for 1 point of damage.
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Quote:Wasn't there one Brute who famously got stuck blue side shortly after CoV went live? It apparently took some serious effort in order to finally get it resolved and return him to the Isles. There were screenshots of him hanging out in hero zones, chilling with everyone during a Hami Raid, etc.Originally Posted by Android_5Point9
I remember something similar happening in the CoV beta. Missions would occasionally bug out, and somehow after exiting your mission your full team of evil and doom would pop into Atlas Park. And then you'd go train with Ms. Liberty, because well, you totally could. Just had to be careful of those dang drones...
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Quote:I think it's more that Ouroboros is apparently kind of hacked together to begin with and the idea of integrating Praetorian stuff into it will make some poor dev reach for the Pepto-Bismol.Originally Posted by Iannis
Praetorian arcs need added into Ouroborous. Even if you were a Praetorian you can't go back through Ouro to re-do them, bleh. I suppose they could just say that the Menders can't go back in time in an alternate dimension so they can't meddle in Praetorian history?
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Quote:Yeah, arbitrageurs will take care of any truly ridiculously optimal strategies.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
The "optimum" strategy for using converters depends greatly on what becomes common practice once they launch. If I was the only one doing it, the optimum strategy I can think of produces hundreds of millions of inf in value per converter token on average. But I doubt that's likely in actual fact unless all the marketeers besides me get hit by a truck before they launch.
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Quote:Yeah, that happened sometimes right after CoV was put in. It was even more hilarious really, since here are these poor villains trying to level up and then suddenly level 40+ heroes roll in. It's like some poor thug tries to rob a 7-11 and Superman is just randomly there buying a soda. Evil will never triumph, because good is lucky.Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down
A few years back while on a blue side team, we logged into an instance and quickly defeated the first foe we came across as we rounded the corner. As we continued on with the rest of the map... and it dawned on me that we'd just mowed over another player that had accidentally spawned into our instance. (In our defense, he was playing a villain.) I sent him an apology and we chatted for a couple. I felt bad about it, but fortunately he laughed about the whole thing. Bug reports were sent by both parties.