Eva Destruction

If you never die, you're doing it wrong.

Death penalties are meaningless in this game, and you never know what you or your team is capable of until you try.

Of course if you're faceplanting every other spawn it might be time to rethink your build or find a better team.

My very first instance of Scrapperlock was fairly recent, considering I've been playing Scrappers for years. I've been a good little Scrapper, mostly soloing, or pinch-tanking on teams, or playing "hey you, stay away from my squishies."

It was a Manticore TF, and some people started making noise about stealthing what could be stealthed. So I volunteered, popped my temp stealth from Siren's, and ran to the boss room.

It was one of those lab rooms, the small square one with the big pillar in the middle, where the mobs are all spread out, there is no safe place to teleport to, and there was another mob in the hallway right behind me. So I figured, what the hey, I'm one purple away from soft-capped and it's not like the rest of the team is sitting on their thumbs waiting for a TP (my husband was tanking, sitting ten feet away, and merrily leading the team on a carnage-filled romp through the Countess's hapless minions). So I ate that purple and dove in.

A few minutes later, Mission Complete. My eyes were opened that day.

Give them Regen or Willpower as a secondary, and add Revive.

Fire Armor and Dark Armor have a rez ability too, but those have an offensive effect and are far more annoying, especially the Dark Armor one which is auto-hit and has a very high-mag stun.

If you compare intent to reality, then yes, the system is a failure. The OP's (and many other authors') response to a 4-star rating is proof of that.

Four stars is considered "excellent." The intent is to inform the author, "You did a good job. I enjoyed this arc." The intent is to inform other players "This arc is above average. Playing it is a good use of your time."

The reality: 500 people rate your arc "Excellent," "Enjoyable," "A good use of your time," and the system considers it worse than every arc by an author with a second account.

A four-star rating should be a reward, not a punishment. The system punishes you for getting one. Fail.

If your mission grants full rewards and has custom critters, that means they have to be set to "Hard." Which means they probably are too hard, since, depending on what powersets you gave them, they'll have powers like Build Up, Rage, and Power Sink.

A good story length is whatever is necessary to tell the story. If your story needs five missions to tell, it should be five missions. If it can be told in three, it should be three.

As for mission length, again, the map should be as big as it needs to be to fit your objectives. If you have a lot of objectives, required or optional, you can use a bigger map. If there are only a few, you should use a smaller map, rather than have a huge map full of spawns standing around doing nothing, that a player without stealth who doesn't know what needs to be done has to slog through to complete the mission.

I've ignored him on every single character I have, doesn't seem to affect anything.

Nice. Thanks for the tip.

Except a navbar should look like this:

computer, 3 crate., Baddy
Mc Badpants, Dark darkity
Darkness, Haxxorz, Rouge
Angle of Satin., Baron von Evil,
Hapless citizen.

Crimson and Indigo gave each other cell phones, and then neglected to exchange numbers.

Burkholder got Megas-XLR on Blu Ray.
Maestro got the Complete Beethoven CD set.
Arakhn got a gift certificate for Victoria's Secret.
Nosferatu got SPF 100 sunscreen and a tube of body glitter.
Vandal got WD-40 and a LazyBoy recliner.
Requiem got nothing, because he's hanging out in the past and they didn't have Christmas back then.

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This arc is one of my favorites. It's got hundreds of plays, has been nominated for both the player's choice and official Arc awards, there is really no point in going into a long-winded rundown or critique, so I'm just going to give a few reasons why I like it.

The concept isn't new, or original. It's Groundhog Day. Star Trek TNG did it, the X-Files did it, Buffy did it, Stargate SG1 did it (some of which is referenced in one of the optional clues) it's pretty much inevitable that someone would do it in CoH. The danger here is that, in keeping with the concept, you are essentially playing the same mission over and over. The trick is to give the impression of reliving the same mission, while keeping the missions varied enough to make for an interesting experience, and to make the player feel like the arc is actually going somewhere.

So first off, the author used an enemy group (Wyvern) that doesn't show up all that often, so you don't mind fighting them over and over. When you use this concept you can't actually go through the same day over and over, you have to get to the point, and fast, and start figuring a way out. The maps start out small enough that it doesn't feel repetitive, and the tileset is easy to play through. The gameplay is quick and easy; even if you defeat everyone the mission is over before you have time to get bored. Things are added along the way that weren't there before. The single repeating mission is evolving. The evolution is nicely paced as well, with the final showdown mission, in keeping with the time manipulation theme, evolving before your eyes.

The idea behind the culprit is cool, and fitting, and its nature is actually reinforced through game mechanics (this is one custom critter that just begs for power customization); rather than the player just being told that yeah, it can do that, the player sees it do that. Then there is Steve. Poor Steve. I hope he'll be ok.

Most importantly, the arc doesn't try to take itself too seriously. It's fun and it plays to that strength.