Eva Destruction

Seriously. We get it MrCaptainMan, you have money to burn. Some of us don't, we play CoH because it's a relatively cheap hobby.

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They also should have 3 MA buildings a side plus RWZ and Pocket D. Too many buildings so people flood to one area. Seems like Vills hit Cap and heroes FLOOD Atlas.



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Er, no. I like my nearly empty buildings in Kings Row, Talos, Port Oakes and St Martial.

I've fallen in love with many characters. First there was my MA/Regen Scrapper...I played nothing else throughout i5. Then it was my Sonic/Energy Blaster. Then my DB/SR Scrapper...the first toon that I IOd out as I was levelling her up, all with her own money. Right now, I think I'm in love with my Fire/Storm Corruptor. IOing her out with her own money too, playing nothing but Mission Architect, and loving it.

Of course, most of them get to 50 and never get played again. The DB/SR Scrapper is one purple IO away from finishing her build, has been for months. I'm too lazy to go get it.

I share your philosophy Lazarus. People with a tl;dr mindset wouldn't like my arcs anyway. I only highlight the AV/EB warnings because it's expected; I always warn of them in the arc description, so that solo players can avoid the arc if they choose, and I don't think it's too much to expect people to remember that there's an AV in there somewhere, so if the contact says "the big bad is a tough customer, you might want to bring friends" it might just maybe be referring to the AV the description warned you about? But meh, spell it out in orange letters just to be on the safe side.

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Is it? This toon has been named Mistress Elektra for years and they never had a problem.

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The toon name filter works differently from the AE filter. Also if the toon predates Marvel's lawsuit, the name might not have been in the filter when you made her. And as long as you're not a ninja who wears a lot of red, there would be no reason to generic your toon.

Elektra is a Marvel character.

I find too much highlighted text breaks immersion. It's like you're trying too hard to make it "easy." It breaks the flow of the contact's dialogue for people who are actually trying to read everything.

Really, all the tl;dr crowd probably needs to know is "go in there, rescue the hostages and kick the boss's butt." If they want to know the whys and wherefores, they can read the unhighlighted part.

Because it's trademarked or "profane" usually. What kinds of names are you trying?

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Circle of Thorns question:

If you kill a CoT member, presumably only the body dies and the Oranbegan spirit is once again rendered incorporeal until it can find a new body, correct?

Can the Oranbegan spirits actually be killed off permanently? If you kill a spectral, does it actually die? Or are you just weakening it so it needs to recover its strength before it can manifest again?

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It depends on whether or not your name is Sam Winchester. He and his girl Ruby seem to have a permanant supernatural solution for that kind of thing.

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Who?

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Question: When Lady Grey stole some of Honeree's essense during that last big battle in the comic, she said something like "May I have some of your years."

That made me wonder, is that what Council vamps and dark melee characters do? I made a dark melee character yesterday and it freaked me out that I was stealing years off of peoples' lives. That's definitely a post golden agey-thing for a hero to do to win.

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Bolded for emphasis. I would like you to think about that for a second.

Furthermore, it's not possible on all maps. Some of them have spawn points that can't be replaced by objectives.

I seem to recall orange being used for warnings in canon missions as well. I use it because I find it easier to read than red.

So I logged in Taraklis's cooler level 50 twin and finished her build...and realized I've run through all of Crimson's arcs. So I'm throwing another horse into the proverbial race:

Thunderkiss, Level 50 Energy/Elec Blaster.
In this case, give me the unloved, the groan-worthy, the pain in the butt guys that have some of the best story potential. I want stories focused around Malta, Knives of Artemis, or Rularuu. Nobody will play your arc because it contains those guys? Well I will. She's pretty tough for a Blaster, I can handle a downgraded AV or three, as long as the missions aren't filled with customs with KB and Mez protection.

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I personally don't care if everyone farms, as long as they're not using exploits. I DO care that everyone is publishing their own farm missions. Seriously, there are so many around already, many of which are obviously not going anywhere, just use one of those and quit making more. What is the difference between your Meow and the other guy's Meow? None.

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Well, to play devil's advocate here, if I put up my Meow and somehow it becomes a popular Meow, I'll get tickets from people running mine and rating it well, right?

I personally have no horses in this race, my only thoughts on the subject are that I find farming too dull to be worth the time.

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Ok, let's say I'm a farmer. Am I going to run your farm that you just published? Or am I going to run the one with a four-star rating and over a hundred plays?

Although I guess some people think their farm is special somehow because it has their name on it...I don't know. I don't pretend to understand.

I played a lowbie arc a while ago that used backloaded missions, presumably based on the assumption that lowbies would be leveling up mid-mission a lot. It worked out rather well.

I personally don't care if everyone farms, as long as they're not using exploits. I DO care that everyone is publishing their own farm missions. Seriously, there are so many around already, many of which are obviously not going anywhere, just use one of those and quit making more. What is the difference between your Meow and the other guy's Meow? None.

The same thing happened with badge farmers when there were still badges to farm. And those arcs are still up, and they're probably also going to keep clogging up the search indefinitely.

I15 will not introduce a "not a farm" tag. The tag system assumes that people are using the MA for story purposes, so there is no tag that states that.

I believe the first rating is the one that awards the tickets, the latest one is the rating that sticks. After about a week you can re-rate an arc and award tickets again, although you still only get one rating, the new one overwrites the old one.

Thank you for the suggestions so far. Some of these I have already played, namely two of Lazarus's arcs (Darkfire will be playing "Amulet" soon), "Fireside Poet," "Matchstick Women" (although it was along time ago, will replay since you've probably made changes since then).

In answer to Alt-aholic's question, I am playing solo. Also, I am looking for somewhat specific genres with these characters, while I appreciate people's desire to promote their arcs some of them don't really fit, genre-wise. Also, I left it out of the original post but Kira is looking for reasonably easy arcs, on par with standard enemies difficulty-wise. I don't want to turn down my difficulty, I'm a fire/storm, I need lots and lots of guys to annihilate

Just ran _jjac_ and Venture's arcs with Darkfire...next up are Lazarus and Bubbawheat.

Next up for Kira: Sumericon and Jophiel.

Funny thing PoliceWoman...I ran that arc on that character a few days ago. I'm not too big on the tabloid humor, but aside from that, as a "fun and profit" mission it was a solid arc. Even though the last mission is not really stalker friendly, I did beat it, with much Focus spam. I don't recall that there was anything actually wrong with the arc. I ended up giving it four stars, because it was lacking that little bit of extra awesomeness that would have made it truly memorable and pushed it up to 5. (The kind of awesomeness "Teen Phalanx" has).

I'll start on the other two tomorrow.

I have several characters on the go right now that I'm trying to level up almost exclusively through the Mission Architect, since I'm tired of dev-created content. However, the Architect search function is not very good. This will improve with i15, true, but it still won't be perfect, so I'm asking here, gimme some arcs for the following characters:

Taraklis, currently level 8 Archery/Devices Blaster.
Looking for: Sci-fi or Tech-themed arcs. Any alignment. Lowbie friendly for now, obviously.

Darkfire Avenger, currently level 23 DM/Shield Scrapper.
Looking for: Darker themed arcs. Heroic or Neutral. She's a Scrapper, so she can handle mezzing enemies and an easy EB/AV or two, but I would prefer arcs specifically designed for mid-level characters.

Cobalt Red, currently level 32 Claws/Ninjitsu Stalker.
Looking for: Profit. She's a mercenary, she'll do anything as long as it pays. Again, I prefer arcs designed for mid-levels. I actually kill stuff rather than sneaking past everything, so details like escorts don't bother me, but to-hit buffs on custom enemies do. Can handle easy AVs/EBs.

Commander Kira, currently level 40 Fire/Storm Corruptor.
Looking for: Self-serving villainy, or mystery/investigation arcs of any alignment. Minimum level 39 or higher; I'm willing to exemp her but I've grown rather attached to that little cloud in the short time I've had it. No AVs or knockback-resistant EBs please, I'm squishy. Also enemies with high fire resistance take too long to kill, fire armor EBs are right out.

I'll provide feedback in-game on any arc I play as a result of this post, or more detailed feedback in this thread, your arc thread, or a PM upon request.

So....hit me!

While playing someone's MA arc (not a farm) I received the following message:

One or more architect tickets were not awarded because you have reached the ticket cap for this map.
You have received 163 architect tickets for completing the mission.

It was on a bank map, so a small map, on challenge level 4, so a lot of enemies, with three bosses. The RNG was kind, and gave me tickets for all three bosses.

Have they set a lower ticket cap for smaller maps? When did this happen?

The hot door is a good idea in theory. I mean if some poony hero was invading MY base, I'd send a bunch of goons to deal with him as soon as he walked in the door, right? It would actually work fine if you could set ambushes to trigger once the player passed a certain point on the map (in this case, a point fairly close to the door...that would show those over-eager people who just HAVE to run around the corner and wait there for everyone to zone, then complain when they don't get buffs....)

*Politely asks Devs to let us trigger stuff off points on the map, at least the ones that already have trigger points, like pawn shops. And the Mayhem/Safeguard maps, which aren't available for MA but should be.*

Cyclops doesn't have X-ray beam or Laser Beam Eyes. He has the Energy Blast set, only it comes out of his eyes instead of his hands 'cause he can be more angsty about it that way.

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This statement runs so amazingly opposite to my experiences, I don't even know what to say. Pretty much all of my SG mates who've given up on the architect have done so exactly because it's glutted with farms and there's not much 'real' content. We're not even an RP group - just that if we want inf, we have infinitely better ways of getting it than AE provides, and we've all got enough 50s to know there's pretty much zero point in racing up levels any more - it's not like there's an end game.

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I think you find what you're looking for. Whenever I look at the MA I find lot's of fun, creative, and interesting missions. Sadly, many are unrrated..theres just so many I don't think it's possible to play them all.

But if you go into the MA in ATLAS looking for a farm, well that's what you'll find. If you go to any of the other zones (which I do for the peace and quiet) there's plenty of fun non-farming mish's to be had.

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Glass half full, glass half empty...Me, I'm lazy, I'd like to just click a mission with an interesting sounding title and be assured that it at least has a semblance of a story and someone put some effort into making it. I'd be willing to bet much of the player base is equally lazy.

It's actually less effort to go to the forums and sift through a thread here or in the "Stories and Lore" forum until I find an interesting sounding arc in someone's sig than to look for one in the MA search window. That's problematic IMO, considering the stated intent of the MA.

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The plot of "World Wide Red" is very straightforward: Malta seeks to reinstate government control of superhumans by having China take credit for the mass murder of supers through an amabassador replaced by a shapechanger then capitalizing on the resulting crisis.

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If you can't see what's wrong with that sentence, I can't help you.

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It's straightforward for a Malta plot. Which is kinda like a Nemesis plot, only with a chance of actually working.

From a gameplay perspective though, the only redeeming thing about that arc is the giant robot ambush. Fifteen missions of one enemy group over and over might be required for the story, but it detracts from fun factor.

Circle of Thorns question:

If you kill a CoT member, presumably only the body dies and the Oranbegan spirit is once again rendered incorporeal until it can find a new body, correct?

Can the Oranbegan spirits actually be killed off permanently? If you kill a spectral, does it actually die? Or are you just weakening it so it needs to recover its strength before it can manifest again?