FredrikSvanberg

Don't use the in-game search engine. It will only serve up abandoned old farms or worse, current new farms. Or even worse: Dev's Choice arcs! Nooo!

Go to the MA forums instead and check out the review threads to find the good stuff. Or at least stuff that isn't yet another fascinating story about samurai or robots who won't move to attack.

Just to be contrary and provide opposing evidence I'll mention that I just recently made another alt for the sole purpose of farming zombies in DA, and I love that zone. While levelling up this character I went to Boomtown to grind for xp. I love that zone too.

Now, I agree that the hazard zones could perhaps use some new touches here and there, Hollows-style, but I don't want to lose the thing I love about them which is endless huge spawns of enemies in close formation... Adding some missions and a TF in each zone to tell the stories behind them, sure, but don't mess around with spawns and things like that for no good reason.

Independence Port could use an internal transport system, perhaps ferries located in the north and south end, one near the train station and one at Terra Volta. These ferries could also connect to the ferries in Talos and Peregrine Island. That's all I would change about IP.

You're right, we totally need a package slider for male toons.

Are those my tags or yours? Because if they are mine I'll have to do something about them. My tags would be Canon Related and Drama. I had better check that.



Ghost Widow's tower is supposedly also the head-quarters of the Widow corps, and most of them aren't ghosts. Of course, from how they behave it's likely that most of them never go to the bathroom either, and are thus full of... it.



She's terse because she's talking to VEATs, so she doesn't have to explain things to them like they are small children. Unlike the Destined Ones. She most of all doesn't have to explain why they are going to do something, because they are soldiers and are supposed to follow orders.



Would you tell anyone that your suspicious peace treaty with the Snakes had caused some of them to invade a laboratory and then refuse to move out? The Snakes mission is the weakest part of this arc, I'll give you that.



If you would have played the special arcs VEATs get you'd notice that my arcs are a vast improvement. I wasn't particularly interested in telling a story really, the arc was at first a showcase of typical Arachnos activity in Mercy - "behind the scenes" of Project Destiny. The kind of missions I would have wanted to get as a VEAT, basically.

I was actually trying to make a VEAT version of Kalinda's normal arc, featuring missions that she would send Arachnos soldiers on but keep secret from the Destined Ones. Each mission would be its own little piece of story without necessarily tying into the rest.

Thanks again.

NutriPaste is canon, of course - what else when it's me? It's the only readily available food source on the Rogue Isles: cheap, nutritious, abundant. A plaque in Cap Au Diable near the tailor explains this much.

Yes, it's supposed to be funny. A bit like Paranoia, as you mentioned.

Doesn't speak like what? Not sure what you mean here.

Map was chosen for having spawn points in the right places and reliably spawning everything in the same places. Also, since the lab is under attack by Snakes, it makes sense for it to be on fire and with crushed NutriPaste samples scattered everywhere. I was actually looking to use the Skulls Superadine Lab Warehouse for this mission but alas it's not available. It has a nice green haze to it.

Yes, too big and too destroyed. Also, snakes don't leave burning footprints as they somehow melt through steel walls instead of using the doorways. So that map, while cool, didn't work.

Laboratories can have offices in them, can they not? Anyway, moving on...

The University map didn't work for my purposes. Not enough spawn points, too small. I decided to introduce the University archives, which looks a lot like a regular office...

She does. She says "AAAAAH!" and runs away, if I'm not mistaken.

They were stealing the research data, of course.

Good idea!

I don't have the mission in front of me but I think Brass mentions that he wants you to "go through your regular duties" while you wait for the NutriPaste to er do something. Getting valuable research data is part of your regular duties, or at least it is now when Brass orders you to do it.

I don't understand this fixation with sprucing up the accept text, but I'll see what I can do.

Of course.

Map was chosen because it was on fire, and because the map is actually called "Arachnos Warehouse On Fire" if I'm not mistaken.

Ah, scheduling must have got it wrong. Shame that. Too bad you're still to blame in the eyes of Arachnos. Totalitarian regimes always want to put the blame on someone.

Luddites hate everything Aeon Corp does, in general...

Ack! I have double, triple and octuple-checked them, but there's always one missing...

I think I wrote this shortly after we played a certain arc where EVERY mission popup mentioned a smell of some kind. Might have affected my decisions.

Oh that's bad. I had no idea the enemies could spawn like that on this map. I'll have to do something about it, I suppose. Defeating all of the terrorists seems like a reasonable thing to do, though, so I don't know... I don't want to change the map.

Brass doesn't care about technicalities like the truth or details like who's fault this really is. You're in his face and he's got enough problems so he's taking it out on you.

Kippers are smoked, much like you are after escaping the burning warehouse. I guess I should add a popup about that somewhere.

This actually refers to a newspaper mission which is worded exactly in that odd manner. So it's on purpose.

I think they provide a clue about how the Luddites aren't taking any prisoners. At least that's what they are supposed to do. They are actually there to fill up the front spawn locations to prevent stuff from showing up there by mistake... And to set atmosphere. Yes, atmosphere. That sounds much better.

That's what I've heard. Never tried it myself.

Luddites are also hypocrites.

That's probably right. I wanted him to tag along to help out so he could get hurt and deliver humorous quips, and also to provide help for ATs who need it. I suppose I'll make a custom Aeon as a Boss instead.

That's what I get for trying to make things more varied... But you're right about only requiring the boss, those spawns get spread out all over the place. Stupid map...

That was my reasoning behind using sapeur instead of sapper.

In my first version of this arc I had King Midas show up to protect the plant, which someone thought was out of character. He was also a pain in the butt to defeat. I agree though, needs more oomph. I'll see what I can do about that.

The problem with adding too much junk is that it makes it even harder to find the objectives which are actually required, especially on an outdoors map like this. But these are good ideas, I'll certainly consider adding something to make the map seem more interesting, beyond all the things I've already got on it. Battles and patrols have to be silent, of course, since they will otherwise deliver their dialogue as soon as you zone in, making them more annoying than interesting. This is probably why you never noticed the Gold Brickers battling the Luddites.

Marshal Brass actually hates Professor Aeon and would have loved to see him get hurt just a little, even if he told you to save him. He explains this in his dialogue.

Consider it a McGuffin, perhaps? Albeit an abstract one.



Thanks again for the review, this will be very useful when I get back to working on this arc.

No, they have just categorized exploits as aberrant gameplay behavior. They have known and tacitly approved of farming ever since they put a timer on the Warwolf mission and introduced an aggro cap. Farming can't be prevented unless the devs suddenly make every mission only accessible ONCE, and even then there's still street sweeping. Farming itself is not the problem.

The farms, abandoned farms, broken farms and similar junk arcs in the MA easily outnumbers the story arcs because of the simple fact that a farm can be made in a couple of hours or even minutes while a good story can take months to finish. And makers of farms don't remove their garbage after they've soiled our pristine database with their filth, it stays behind forever, like some kind of non-biodegradable styrofoam box which once held a fast-food meal but now simply constitutes landfill.

If story arcs are supposed to compete with the tidal deluge of non-story arcs in a fair and level environment there must be a simple, effective way of separating them to make sure that the story arcs can be found by those who seek something more filling and nutritious than a fast-food meal.

Knowing the OP I'm pretty sure he wasn't joking.

So your post is twice as pointless since he didn't actually break the rules by bypassing language which isn't filtered in the first place.

And now I'm doing it too. Language is a virus!

Those still aren't working as intended, or considered to be WAI!

Except maybe the wolves, since I'm not sure what you mean by those. And I have no idea what you mean by "pet recharge".

You're probably right about the Kora fruit but I never heard them mention that it was a "quick fix". From what I recall it was a legitimate nerf because villains couldn't access the Shadow Shard.