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No Rewards = Even less people use it than they do now

No Rewards = Less authors because most won't bother writing content that few people will play when they have so much other content that does give rewards.

Only three of those, and two of them are not only both Arachnos Base maps but are also pretty small maps.

Or you could just stop playing arcs with customs instead of whining.

1000 times, unless we're assuming that the author has 10+ friends who are each willing to play it 100 times. Or play it 1000 times himself.

How do you think some of those current HoF arcs got there in the first place?

Or at least show the total plays as a separate stat that we can also use when searching for arcs. It says something when an arc has many more repeat plays than ratings and is not a farm.

I consider replayability to be very important when declaring an arc to be "great."

If you don't rate then the author doesn't get any tickets. But after several days you can rate an arc again and it does give the author tickets but does not increment the ratings total. The latter is what I am referring to.

I know that I am getting repeat plays one at least one of my arcs because every day or so when I log in the "You have X tickets to claim" number has gone up again yet when I check AE I only see a few new ratings a week at most.

From what I recall Arbiter Daos saying during the final Von Grun arc, every one of the Council AVs is a mad scientist except for Maestro and The Center.

I really hope that the lag and chronic mapserv's on the servers gets a lot better after this. It's only been getting worse since issue 17 and I've got a hunch that we are in need of some major maintenance.

I just finished watching that movie tonight.

This leads into a little ProTip: choose a level range for your arc and balance your critters for that range. Trying to make an arc that goes all the way from 1 to 54 is a PAIN. It also excludes you from including most of the existing villain groups in the game.

Make it easier on yourself and balance over a smaller range like 10-20 levels. If Footstomp is too powerful for level 20 players, then set the minimum level higher than that so they know that they might be getting in over their head if they try to run it on a character who is below the recommended minimum.

Not to mention that 1-54 arcs also break the arc search since they don't let us set a level range for the search, only "Arcs my level" that picks up every damn 1-54 arc out there.

I'll admit that Arachnos did serve as a bit of a model for when I built my big "infamous" Nagans group. Their abilities vary wildly and it's rather certain that Spawns A, B, C, and onward will each have a different mix of powers. They're definitely a love-it-or-hate-it group, I seem to get just as many complaints as I do compliments.

Of course every arc with them has the Challenging flag on it, but most of the complainers apparently don't bother to read those flags at all.

Longbow is a fine example of how NOT to make a enemy group. They are boring, boring, and monotonous. They all look the same and aside from the bosses have mostly the same powers, falling into a small range of damage types.

Make more than one of everything, you have plenty of room for it now. I prefer to use the 3-minions:2-lieutenants:1-boss ratio as a basis for any custom group.

As for making multiple bosses, I wouldn't bother if you don't expect the player to either run your arc with a team or plan to spawn them manually via details. Plus if you're only going to use the group for a single mission then more than one boss will probably be unnecessary as well.

That one map is: Cimerora - Phoebas Point.

The SERAPH Lab is an example of a really glitched one, it even has a front spawn right in the middle of the back spawn area for no apparent reason. Not that ANY of the spawns respect the Front/Middle/Back setting.