Eva Destruction

Yep, I figured you'd get a reward window when the downgrade description said "your choice" but no choice was presented. I like the way they did it, it saves scrolling and will probably save some people some misclicks.

I list mine for 1. I just want the badges, and to get rid of it. Usually I just delete the stuff, but if I'm at the market anyway I figure I might as well dump it off there.

Telling people "if you have a grenade, hand it to so-and-so" and "if you have an acid, use it on a door or hand it to so-and-so" and "MAKE SURE TO CHECK YOUR TEMPS, they might not show up in your tray" is really all the help anyone should need. If you need more help, it's not like you're incapable of typing and asking for it. If you need more help and are incapable of typing and asking for it, team content just might not be for you.

Not sure which one you mean....I only recall Longbow bases with the submarine entrances. If such a map is from one of the newer arcs (i17 or later) then it's not in AE. The only map I can think of that has submarines at the back is the Arachnos cave map from one of the Faultline missions.

The Longbow bases with the submarines are supposed to represent Longbow bases at sea, that you use a submarine to sneak into. I think some of them are underwater bases.

Did you unlock all the Arachnos unlockable enemies? If so, he'd either be under Arachnos or he isn't there. I think his max level is 45 or 47 or thereabouts. He's an EB. Unless I'm thinking of someone else. If you really want to use him and can't find him, just substitute a standard Bane Spider and name him Hugo, I know I wouldn't care if I played an arc that did that, can't speak for others though.

The steam powered robots are his only redeeming quality. Nemesis is a bad character because he's supposed to be a genius, but the people writing him aren't geniuses, so in order to make him look smart other people have to be made to look stupid.

If you're just in it to mash buttons, you shouldn't be working on an RPG. As soon as you put the letters RPG in a game's description, the story becomes important.

Yeah, we have NPCs for a reason. They're the ones who should be affected by the story in a predetermined way. As for the protagonist, the story should involve opportunities for character development. It should not take character development as a given, then decide what form this development takes.
No, these techniques don't "make our characters feel like they matter." They make our characters into puppets of the plot.
Yeah, that thing you said about character driving the plot? Crey and Malta are characters that drive the plot. Those stories do provide opportunities for protagonist development. These guys are working on a plan to kill heroes with a touch of a button...how does your character feel about that? Are you afraid? Are you determined to take them down? How do you feel about the Revenant Hero Project? Do you wonder if Paragon Protectors have feelings too? Do you feel sorry for them? Or do you consider them abominations to be put down at the first available opportunity? The writers don't need to tell you these things, they just need to present a scenario for you to react to.

You don't need to do something stupid like join Malta to interact with their stories, or to be an important part of them. After all, the last time I interacted with Malta for any length of time I received the thanks of the world. That makes me pretty important in my book. I didn't have to save the world, I could have just told Crimson to do it himself, but I went and did it anyway, for reasons that are entirely my own and may or may not make sense to you. Not because some guy from the future told me I would, or because some big blue guy said it was the only thing that mattered.

I see them more as vigilantes. What annoys me about that is that they're hypocrites about it, and the game treats them as heroes, and expects us to treat them as heroes despite evidence to the contrary.

Ewww, no. There's enough stupid flashy crap going on in the trials, I don't want a stupid bright aura through the entire sabotage phase just because I happened to get a temp early. However, I would not be averse to the temp adding an icon to my buff bar....so the team leader just needs to take a look at teammates' buffs to see who has the temps.

If someone DCs then at least you know there's a good possibility they took some temps with them, and screaming won't help. Not that screaming helps anyway, but that way you know it really won't help.

Anyone who gets in a forum argument with Golden Girl pretty much wins by default.

The RWZ spans a 15-level range, and a range where you take longer to level. It's unrealistic to expect it to have enough content to fill that range. No other story zone except maybe the Hollows has enough content to fill the level range it covers either, and all the others only cover 10 levels.

So yeah, no wonder it "wears thin" to you, you've only seen 1/4 of it. 1/5 if you've never done the LGTF. I will agree with you about Cimerora though, the arcs there seem like an afterthought, they have no substance and half the missions take you out of the zone anyway.

The RWZ is all repeatable missions? Did I just imagine the four quite substantial arcs it has?

We hated it because it had no point. I don't care if you got an LotG, because your getting one doesn't affect me, or the rest of the team. If you get an acid, it does affect everyone.

Something that may be helpful though, especially with people who are new to the trials, is to volunteer to take acids off their hands if they get one but are unsure of what to do with it. I've had a self-admitted trial newbie hand me acids on a Lambda, possibly because he didn't quite know what to do. It may be helpful if people know this is ok to do.

I am there yet. I'm pretty forgiving of a lot of things my fellow players do or don't do. But when you can't read and follow a simple instruction, my forgiveness ends right there.

I also honestly don't understand why people would be wary of announcing they are new to the trial, when specifically asked in a way that implies that if they speak up, someone will walk them through it. Do we have so many jerkwads who kick newbies in this game? I have yet to encounter one; the worst behavior I have seen toward newbies trying to learn is simple indifference.

That is odd, considering how many outdoor spawn points that map has. If you set him to spawn at "middle" though, then he will spawn inside the warehouse and not on top of the player's head.

Yep, one collection allowed means there is only one collection spawn point. I'm pretty sure you can fill up all the collection points. Unlike boss spawn points, which some maps don't allow you to fill.

I've never seen this done, so I'm assuming you can't do that. You could split up his dialogue a bit if you have him talk as his health drops though.

How so? you step out of Preatoria and are immediately introduced to a guy who informs you that one of Primal Earth's villains is waiting for you, and has either rounded up a bunch of versions of you from other dimensions or has already started cloning you. Doesn't that make you feel right at home?

That's the only Warburg map.

I'm guessing you mean he's spawning at the front of the warehouse portion of the map, since if he's outside he'll spawn wherever. Looking at the map, there are two "middle" spawn points in the interior. Which one he spawns at is random. If you want him to run instead of attacking, I believe you need to set him to flee at full health and, if he is alone, either 0 or 1 minions remaining. (I haven't set up a running boss in a while, but in the early days the boss himself would count as a minion). I'm not entirely sure what the settings are if he is guarded.

The "back" area of the map includes the scaffolding to the left of the door, as well as the area to the right. It also includes the area behind the doors, where I assume you want him to be, but there is no way to guarantee which of those points he spawns at.
That is the only collection spawn point on the map. If you look at the map details, you'll see that it only allows one collection.

Oh yeah, I think I have that badge.

On a completely unrelated note, at one point I heard they were going to make a Terminator 3, whatever happened with that?

Yeah, and you know what? I still think the old Faultline looked so much cooler. They should have left the dam alone, thrown in some newer buildings near the gate, added a way for superspeeders to get out of the trenches, and saved themselves some work.

Now that you mention it, the i13 Cimerora arcs were also pretty crappy, and were the first time to my recollection that a big deal was made of "we have new tech for this mission, check it out!" I guess the Reichsmann TFs were what really drove it home for me, after the debacle with letting a new guy who didn't bother to do any research at all write them, Akarist being a villain, new mechanics that were not fun at all and seemed to be introduced strictly for their own sake, and just being an overall and very visible trainwreck.

Uh, the new Faultline and that villain mission where you halt the rebuilding of Boomtown say so. Faultline is full of obvious signs of construction, and Boomtown is still trashed because jerk villains keep showing up and wrecking all the mundane construction equipment they're using to try to fix the place up.

You do realize that the trope namer for A Wizard Did It was an attempt to explain away sloppy continuity, right? Invoking it doesn't exactly help your case.

Except that the dialogue from Apex suggests that the invasion had just started at that point.

Don't bother trying to explain it. It's just another piece of content shoved into a level range in which it doesn't belong, because "we needed more stuff for level 20s to do" (as if people who don't have SOs yet have any business fighting multiple AVs at once, or spawns made up of nothing but bosses, or being swarmed by uninterruptible, fast-moving suicide bombers) and the devs love their Praetorian invasion storyline so it had to involve that.

Whenever you spot inconsistencies like that in anything from i15 onward the best explanation seems to be that they just didn't care.

Yeah, that.

Well, except I don't take this storyline seriously, since the devs obviously don't either (exhibit A: Fusion and Jane Tremblor). So at this point, I just consider these overdesigned TFs where every map is new and unique a colossal waste of time that could have been better spent adding more missions and arcs so we wouldn't finish an entire issue's content in four hours.