Jophiel

Is that a "I always have more stuff to make until I have one of everything" or "I can't get enough shards just to make the bare minimum"?

Yoinks! Caemgen just told me about this in-game or else I would have completely missed it. It looks just amazing and I love it. The shading, texturing, details etc... it's really great work. Thank you.

I'm not sure. But then I wouldn't have guessed that you can make maps of boss-reward granting monkeys either. I don't have an exploiter's mindset but I trust in them to find ways to screw things up.

Yeah, I made a couple missions and the lack of options in the editor felt really restricting and put a quick end to some story ideas I had. I wish we had access to things such as NPC dialogue inside the missions, the floating text boxes they use for radio transmissions, "exploding" buildings (like the villain doppleganger arc, new Medi-port arc and others), etc.

I can see why they wouldn't want you to place every mob in an arc for exploit reasons, but allowing you to manually place 2-3 mobs and maybe 1-2 clickies would be nice for setting bosses or other key mobs in intelligent locations on the map.

Using the base editor would be amazing although they're stingy enough with their tiny memory slots as it is without the bloat a custom built map would add. I'm all for seeing it happen though, just not optimistic that it'd ever be on the table.

I tried that but the elevators wouldn't work. I tried all four doors and just got a "You can not enter" for each one. So then I thought they want me to go down and by the time I looked around down there, saw nothing, went back up again and tried the elevators again, it was in the 1:00 range and I said the heck with it. Crime never pays.

Huh. I know exactly where you're talking about, too. Oh well, I beat them down without Nance's help.

I feel your pain. I ran this with a 26 Bots/FF MM (0/x5) and those PPD were hard. Each mission on the first PPD map left me resummoning my pets at the end and I only made it through the arc by toning it down to x3 and making judicious use of Teleport Foe to pull the Equalizers to me and smack the crap out of them in a six bot beatdown before they could glue/acid mortar me.

I talked to Nance and he told me to contact him within the mission and he'd come help. But I didn't see anything to contact him with (at first I assumed it was the computer you download the chip to but nope). What did I screw up?

Speaking of screw ups, I also couldn't figure out the fire/rescue thing. The elevators up didn't work and I used the stairs to go down but there was nothing down there. Eventually I just stood outside and sang "The roof is on fire!" as thirteen men were burned alive inside. Good thing my MM changed from villain to hero because being a villain doesn't give you opportunities like that!

Which would make comparing it to iPad apps "apples and shotgun shells"

Pretty much this. The system feels largely abandoned by the developers first and foremost, the authors who got sick of the clunky interface and four-star purgatory and therefore the players (unless it's a farm or exploit). It's hard to care enough to spend time in it when it seems obvious that few others do.

I noticed it even replaced the walls in the Entrance/Exit portion of Pocket D so I'm guessing it was a change to the tile set in general (but I haven't run enough warehouse missions to really say).

Is the drop rate in a Task Force somehow higher than the individual drop rates on the mobs? I assumed people cleaned up on shards in TFs primarily because there was so much mob death going on at once (and of course the end reward).

Excluding the ending reward, if I ran a whole bunch of timed Cimerora missions at x8, would the end result be different from defeating an equal number of Romans in the TF? I guess you'd lose the elites and AVs but there aren't that many of them to make a big difference set against the number of minions-bosses you fight.

But Statesman allowed the Well of...

Oh yeah.

Never mind.

Game mechanics aside, the story of the Alpha slot arc is that Statesman and Recluse got a mega-dose of the Well of Furies from the start which gave them great powers but also made them something of thralls to the Well.

You're given a "choice" to take that route or a slow and steady route which would allow you to grow your powers and retain your control. That choice is taken from you when the Well is missing and you have to settle with some damp towels in the corner or whatever that clicky is supposed to be. So you're taking the slow route.

A smart hero would just tell Azuria that you saw a Hellion stealing her rabbit-in-a-hat next door and then, while she's gone, dunk your head in that jug of Fury water she keeps in her room.

Better yet: Battle Maiden blue patches at the mission door. Yay!

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