Lazarus

You'll find Empty in the Enemy Groups list. Also you can use the Empty group as the group surrounding a Boss to make it spawn by itself and without bodyguards. However this is a bit bugged as it only works correctly if the default group for the mission is set to Empty as well.

Nope, I've been using the 1st url this entire time. Never used that 2nd one ever.

Just got kicked out again. Windows 7, IE8 and Firefox.

From your original post it sounded that you wanted the exact opposite: to have three groups operating under the same name. Instead you want to keep them separate but in the same mission.

To do this you just need to use hand-placed details likes Bosses, Battles, Patrols, Defendables, Destructibles, etc... When you specify a group for the map that is only the default group that fills spawns that you haven't overwritten with details.

You can also use the Empty option on the map and then fill the spawn points by hand using the above method. That is what I do to avoid the common issue of Tech Lab maps becoming overcrowded with stacking enemy spawns.

Hell Scott Pilgrim didn't even beat Inception, which is in it's 5th weekend now.

Ok, so some people who play CoH are posting a lot about Scott Pilgrim. I'd still bet money that a lot more players went to see The Expendables and just aren't being so vocal about it, especially as people tend to post more to complain about a film than about how much they liked it. Personally, I don't think I'll be missing much if I never see Scott Pilgrim, the trailer didn't get my attention much either. On the other hand I probably would have seen The Expendables even if it didn't have such a star-studded cast, although that cast certainly closed the deal.

And Terry Crews put it to much better effect in this movie than Brody did in Predators (where it pretty much killed nothing!) I was just waiting for him to show up with it and knew what was coming when the guys got pinned down in that dead end tunnel.

I was surprised to see the characters actually reloading their weapons as well. Sly was going through magazines like crazy, although he was still getting way too many shots out of those 1911's than you really could.

I did wish there wasn't so much CGI though, some of it was so obviously fake and some just stupid like the visible laser beams in the cargo hold. If it weren't for that stuff this movie would look just like any 80's action film, which is what it feels like it's trying to invoke.

Which is very much necessary if the Devs, and the authors as well, want anyone to actually play MA arcs.

For every author who makes SG-only vanity arcs there are at least a hundred* who make arcs that they'd like everyone to play and enjoy. This change makes things much easier for them.


*Ratio provided by Department of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.

You can merge groups together by using the Custom Group Editor. Select New for the group on the right and then select the group on the left to add critters from. Click the critters to add them to the group on the right. You can then select another group on the left and continue. When done, click Save As and the filename you enter will be the name of the new group. This way you can merge A and B into the same group and they will use the name of that group when you add them to the mission using that group.

It's the same as the way to make a custom group using members from non-custom groups.

If you don't want group C to show up except for in non-random spawns, then you should just add it specifically using boss and patrol details.

Once again, very few powers are actually disabled. The powers that are confirmed to be disabled on a non-DH are Heals, Debuffs (as in it's a power that just debuffs, not an attack with a small debuff in it), Buffs (like Fortitude, Recovery Aura, etc...), Defensive Auras (Dispersion Bubble, etc...), Damage Auras, Mezz Auras (Oppressive Gloom, etc...), Holds, Rain Attacks, and Controller Pets. The DH will use ALL of their powers.

Here is some testing info from beta.

I think Vulcan is supposed to orbit 40 Erandi.

Plus it's had a lot of schedule slips lately. That combined with the increasing twistiness of the plot and I really don't know what the hell is going on anymore.

That is the best interpretation of Signs ever.

True but it was one particular horrible singer that pretty much nobody still listens to anymore that turned out to be their weakness.

That is the whole point of the Predator though and much of the time they do pull it off.

In the original story it was explained that the Martians really had no concept of disease back on Mars. Apparently they had somehow wiped out pathogens so long ago that they forgot about it and didn't know how vulnerable they really were. They also didn't have proper digestive systems anymore and subsisted off of animal blood directly, so no gut bacteria either.

Or pull a stunt like RPG World did, with the author just deciding he didn't want to do it anymore right when the story was hitting it's climax.

I'll suggest a few:
70-Seas
Buck Godot - Zap Gun for Hire
DMFA
Girl Genius
Keychain of Creation

Buck Godot and Girl Genius are both Phil Folio comics.

Buck Godot is rather short and ended a long time ago (it's a print comic that is available online for free now) but the epic arc that it ended with is well worth the read. That arc starts here.

Also as of last night allies set to Passive and Do Nothing were actually doing nothing like they should be.

Another thing: a Mastermind ally set to Aggressive will summon their henchmen right after being rescued, while one set to Defensive will wait until the first time they get into a fight to summon.

Ticket Rewards

The end of mission ticket bonus does have a modifier that increases for each mission of the arc.

And as for the 1500 ticket cap, that is for the largest maps. Smaller maps have lower ticket caps. I don't have numbers on that though.

Your mileage may vary. My old man didn't have trouble following the story and he often gets lost in much simpler plots. Of course it might just be that Inception did real good job at holding his attention so much that his mind never wandered.

Basically put: you can not make a custom enemy who gives more than 40% reward (XP and Inf and Tickets) if they do not have at least one ranged attack. This is required to prevent people from recreating the old Werewolf farms from years back where enemies didn't have ranged attacks so players would just hover out of reach and blast them from above.

If you try to make a melee-oriented custom enemy and remove the ranged power, the reward will cap at 40% no matter what. Now it only requires 1 ranged power to get past that, from either the primary or secondary. An example is a Martial Arts/Dual Pistols enemy: you can take away the Shuriken from Martial Arts (which normally would drop the reward to 40%) but the presence of the ranged powers in Dual Pistols will still satisfy the "must have at least one ranged attack" requirement.

There is an issue right now, and that is that it is fairly easy to hit 100% reward with a custom minion (and most lieutenants) without having to add an obscene number of powers (most canon minions/LTs only have 3-4 powers) but it's currently very hard to get 100% rewards on a custom boss, especially for a melee-oriented boss, without making them obscenely powerful. This is because the either values on the powers that determine the max reward are not adding up properly, or the 100% threshold is set too high, or both.

Also there is no way to exceed 100% by making a custom harder than normal canon enemies. You can make a boss who is tougher than many archvillains but he still will not give more XP than a typical boss.

It is possible for you to make a custom enemy group populated with non-custom enemies. The exploit was that people were filling these groups with enemies who either give abnormally high XP (like the Zig Prisoners) or enemies who have no attacks at all (like Cimeroran Surgeons). Rather than fixing the XP numbers or making it so you cannot make a group of just this kind of enemy the Devs chose to simply remove them from AE entirely, probably because it was much easier than the other option and they needed a fix right there and then.

Then there were things that never should have been allowed in AE to begin with, like the Hamidon Mitos.