FredrikSvanberg
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Quote:I think you got the second word wrong. It starts with FU and ends with ERS. You can probably figure out the rest from the C he gave us.Originally Posted by LilithDarkweaver
I know your research may show limited interest a roBot inCubuS booster, but trust me...it's there. Oh yes... -
Quote:Thanks, anonymous negative reputation spreader. In the future I will stop being positive about our efforts to improve the MA and just do what this guy says: give up and stop caring.
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I once made a suggestion that they should have Statesman and Lord Recluse kill each other in an epic battle, and then let Positron and Ghost Widow take over the Phalanx and Arachnos respectively.
Then they could move away from the frankly quite boring vendetta that seems to drive the entire Arachnos plot and do something more interesting with it.
If they don't want to actually kill them, they could have them shunted off to another dimension where they will be locked in eternal battle, constantly preventing each other from figuring out how to come home. -
Quote:I don't understand why but I'm not going to argue. I'll just say that a numerical ratings system where the numbers don't mean the same to two different raters, or even to the same rater twice in a row, is bad.Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
To quibble pedantically, a straight up or down vote rating system would be less subjective than a star system.
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Quote:I'll never be so grateful that I don't want to improve on something that could use improvement. Besides, we (most of us in this thread) are the people who create the content in the MA.Originally Posted by Ukaserex
Hmmm. Folks, let us simply be grateful that we have the MA system. Let us also be grateful that there are players who create content for us! For nothing more than the fun of it. (Ok, the badge might be their fun)
I've long been a proponent of ditching the comparison system of the stars ratings for a more subjective approach. Like thumbs up/down, or "liked/disliked" or similar solutions.Quote:Let us not worry about how many stars we got or did not get. Very few of us could sell our opinions for money. That is to say, comparisons are just not a good idea. Someone will always fall short in a comparison in the natural world, will they not?
I can't, I'm too busy creating content. Seriously though, how is this helpful? You think we don't play or rate stories? You think the problem is that the readers of this thread don't rate and play stories?Quote:Just play the stories you like. Rate them highly if you think they earned it. If not, don't.
More like something you are not going to achieve unless you are very, very lucky, and have a time-machine. Evidence: an exploitative farm mission made Hall of Fame a while back. It didn't take stellar writing in that case. Further evidence lies in the data found by Wrong Number which shows that unless you published your arc in the first two weeks or so after the launch of the MA, it's not going to enter the Hall of Fame under the current prerequisites until about 2017.Quote:Perhaps the Hall of Fame is an ideal that you simply are not meant to achieve unless you're very, very good at creating the right story lines at the right time.
An irrelevant tangent?Quote:But, let's get very real. It is still the developers that have made this game as supernatural as it is. To think that I could be playing (insert any popular arcade game here) at an arcade for 25 cents a game! What is that, compared to the awesomeness of this game?
And I'm constantly looking for ways to improve the same game just because I like it so much.Quote:I'm counting my blessings, as of late. One of them is being able to play this game. -
Never noticed it myself but I haven't been on very large teams. Do you usually wait for everyone to go in at the same time, now that you know about this?
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Quote:I've made many similar suggestions. My name is Fred. I usually prefer adding some kind of flag to hide the arcs instead of unpublishing them.Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea
I thought it was me. I guess my name is Fred.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
Not too much public grumblings, but more than one person grumbled privately to me about one of the runner ups, and many people privately told me after I had played their arc that they were surprised to get a play and were planning on unpublishing the arc since they didn't win and weren't getting any plays.
I unpublished because my arc got plays. The arc I made for the contest was quite different from what I usually make and I didn't want people to play it and expect the same from my other arcs, whether they liked it or not. After the contest, while the arc was still up, when I told people to look for my arcs by searching for my global they would for some reason (it was shorter) pick the contest arc, and since I didn't think it was representative I decided to remove it. -
Thanks for playing my arc.
Quote:Correct, it has been "issue 17 improved" for your convenience. I added some more details to the last mission today to make it seem more alive, without killing the rewards.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
It's a solid "heist" arc, although the mission design is somewhat bare-bones (some of which may be due to cutting allies due to the nerf). -
Quote:Gracious.Originally Posted by PoliceWoman
So I'll concede this point.
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The Hall of Fame requirements has two big problems.
One is that 5 stars is somewhat easy to get but almost impossible to maintain, since, as we have pointed out a billion times, a single 1-star rating for some reason carries a much greater importance than a single 5-star rating. One 1-star "weighs" as much as five 5-star ratings.
The other problem is that an arc may be extremely beloved and have very dedicated fans but if it has 999 fans who play it religiously once a week for two thousand years, it will still never get a hall of fame ranking. A farm that someone made in 30 minutes and thousand people played once, 5-starred as a "gratuity" to the author, and then forgot about can make it into HoF in an afternoon.
Every completed play of an arc should count, even from the same account. That's the only way to really know how popular an arc really is. Of course this wouldn't include the author's account. Sure, someone might sit around and play their own arcs on their second and third accounts, but unless their arcs are good enough all it takes is a few (very few) people to rate below 5 stars and it will drop out of the Hall of Fame in no time. -
Tour de France: martial arts/SR scrapper who ran around looking confused, shouting "where are the bikes?" in french. He didn't last long.
Just One Fix: kin defender (can't even remember the secondary) who apparently was some kind of drug dealer or something. It was a long time ago, don't judge me!
Sadomechanic: robots/whatever mastermind who apparently could control robots because he could make them feel pain, so he would beat them up and they would obey him because they were scared. To be honest I never bothered playing him. I just thought the name sounded cool. I sat on the name for 2 years before I finally deleted him the other day. -
Search for @Fred and you'll find all my arcs, two of which are for level 10-20.
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Quote:Her nipples are really hardcore.Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko
That apron seems really tight and thin as the nipples poke thru
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If nobody else can see it and it happened suddenly without any game updates it's probably your machine's fault. Or something else you installed. Too bad you can't post screen shots. Why can't you post screen shots?
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Quote:All I want is for the pets to STAY where I put them. To not move unless something like a burn patch drops on them, and maybe not even then. If they are robots or undead or demons they will stand in that fire until I order them to move, or else! And if they are living human beings they will do it too, or else! If the MM pets would just stand still when I tell them to everything else would be fine with me.Originally Posted by gameboy1234
How hard is it really to add a "range preference" and a "melee preference" to the AI?
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I don't really want a recharge inspiration but I could accept adding Slow resistance to the otherwise pretty meh orange inspiration. I believe Slow resistance will cut the duration of Slow effects, which is all I really need.
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Having made that purge suggestion dozens of times I can only agree. The rest of these are also great suggestions. Especially the numbered spawn points.
I also think there should be "invisible" sentries, and that the sentries should be able to "speak" when activated. That way we could replicate the communicator effect from the new arcs in Issue 17, where our contacts and enemies "talk" to us in the middle of a mission. It could be used for many other effects as well. -
If you're looking for arcs to play, "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" (#114284) is level 15-20 and recently updated to actually give rewards. I hope you'll like it.
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Quote:With my suggestion he would need to know the IDs or authors of them in order to find them. Unless he just searches for every ID one after the other, which will take a couple of decades, probably.Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Why do I picture some lone jerkass clicking "play" on every outdated single-mission Steel Canyon blinky grab he can find?
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Quote:How about this then: the arcs can still be found by searching for the author or ID, and the first time they are played (completed) after the purge they get unmarked and shows up in searches once again. That way anyone can "reinstate" an arc by simply looking it up and playing it. Admittedly a few arcs might be lost because nobody can remember its ID number or the author.Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5
The "everybody republish your arcs" idea that FredrikSvanberg has is pretty good, but I'd hate to think we might lose some good ones just because an author left the game and isn't around to do it. Then again, considering what we stand to gain... I might be able to live with it.
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But they don't check every arc; they check arcs that are reported. Nobody knows how that system works or how many arcs are reported in a given time period.
I know that they can restore an unpublished arc so they are probably all still on the server and just no longer showing up in searches, which means that they can still check an arc that was published briefly, violently exploited, and then unpublished.
I still think what we need is a great purge. Mark all arcs currently in the system and hide them from searches that don't specifically target their ID numbers or authors. Remove the mark when an arc is republished. This would push abandoned arcs under the rug while authors who care about their work won't be affected beyond a five minute republishing spree. -
I think I have a couple of villains in that range, actually, and this time I'll be able to join. Unless something unexpected happens.
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Quote:He's not counting the 90% who disappear to an uncertain fate, but probably not death. Praetoria always needs more Clockwork and Infected Ghouls. Ok, Prateoria doesn't need ghouls. They just get them anyway.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
You're not counting the 90% who die during his Powers Division indoctrination program, right?
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Quote:Why do you think it's a run-of-the-mill Nictus?Originally Posted by TrueMetal
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Well, DUH.
I meant that I thought there was some sort of Uber Nictus or another AV of sort who was behind the whole thing instead of it being just a run off the mill nictus ...