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After all these years I still refuse to believe that the maps with the Random Destination Portals are working as intended and continue to /bug it whenever I see them. Especially when my work in AE has shown me that only a handful of the Oranbega maps contain this nonsense while the majority have portals that work properly.

I don't like "pseudo-defeat all" missions. You know, the ones with so many required objectives (Defeat the boss, Defeat his 12 lackeys, Rescue their 13 Hostages, Trim the hedges of many a small village...) that you end up killing nearly everything on the map anyway just to complete them all. Just simplify things and make it a Defeat All instead of a Defeat 95% Of.

Yep, we've had quite a few Community Reps in the past who moved to forums for different NCSoft games or even handled multiple NCSoft forums at once during the time before Cryptic sold CoH to NCSoft.

True. Nothing gives that professional touch like Hired Goons.

Perhaps if they had focused more on gameplay than "oh pretty graphics" they'd have had enough room.

And of course that damn mission is not auto-completable either.

What I hate about that one is that the 4 Mu are randomized among the two destinations, so chances are very good that you will backtrack repeatedly just to get them all to where they need to go and cannot pick up more than one of them at a time despite some of them being close to each other.

I don't find the Council cistern to be problematic at all, I guess some people just have no sense of spatial awareness.

The layer cake room is far, far worse with all the random holes that you (and your pets) can fall through, especially as those holes become nearly invisible depending on your camera angle since all the cave surfaces are the same damn color and there are no shadows being cast to give away the positions of the holes.

Many have said the same thing over and over for the past year. One can hope that the Devs will finally do something about this issue if they really want AE to pick up again.

That's generally for the better anyway. Level ranges wider than 10-15 levels tend to have atrocious balancing issues.

Yep. CheshireCat's "Tomorrownauts" arc even uses it for comedic effect with the recurring boss going from the "Dark Lord of the Moon" to the "Former Dark Lord of the Moon" to "Former Former Dark Lord..." and so on with each mission.

Issue 15. You can do that for Allies, Escorts, and Hostages as well.

I have a level 50 Mace/WP Brute and a level 41 MA/WP Scrapper.

If you get hit with -regen powers, you're screwed. Willpower depends on it's +regen more than anything else, which is why Willpower Tanks and Brutes are vastly more durable than Scrappers and Stalkers.

If you get hit by a Sapper, you're screwed. No end drain resist means you are just as vulnerable to detoggling as any other resistance-based set. Your defense being typed rather than positional doesn't help here like it does on a SR or Ninjitsu.

If you get hit with -resistance, you're in trouble. Major -res debuffs like Sonic Arrow and the Longbow Sonic Grenade ignore defense as well.

You also don't have the same resistances to -defense as purely defense sets such SR. In one test against a number of customs with a variety of -defense powers I saw my defense numbers go from +24% to -64% within seconds. The +regen from Rise to the Challenge could not keep up with every enemy having a nearly guaranteed hit.

As for those mezz resistances you keep touting? They'll be a big pain for a Controller or a Dominator; but Willpower can still be slowed and debuffed to death by Corruptors and Defenders; plus a melee AT player will generally not be affected by those mezz resistances at all since they will just be beating the bejeezus out of the critter rather than trying to mezz them.

On top of it, all X/Willpower combos are not made the same! Do you expect the game to try to calculate the risk/reward for Mace/Willpower, SS/Willpower, Archery/Willpower, Thugs/Willpower, Fire Control/Willpower, and so on so on?

You sir, just don't get the message.

PW already has a Dev Choice, that disqualifies her from this thread anyway.

It's broken again, they are not staying put.

Well-stated. The presentation is one of the main things that put me off with this announcement, after months of silence from the man.

Also agreed. If they want more people to get involved then must promote it outside of this forum. Otherwise it's just preaching to the choir, a somewhat disgruntled choir as well.

It's really sad that so many people think that the "constructive" part of constructive criticism implies that it has to be positive.

Posting in character has not stopped him in the past.

Anyhow, I've said what I've wanted to say. Hopefully Aeon will address these concerns.

EDIT: What do you know, the Dev Choice Suggestion thread has been restarted by Dr. Aeon.

No, not all attention given to MA is bread and circuses, but distractions like this Aeon Challenge are when it acts as if "everything is fine and good, now go write me the kind of arcs I want to see."

And acting complacent is not an effective way to get something addressed. Did you forget that we are their customers, after all?

So where is the rumor control about rewards in AE? Why was the Designated Helper hardly mentioned in the GR release notes? Why was the long-awaited fix to the Back/Middle glowie locations left out of the patch notes entirely? Why have Kinetic Attack and Electric Control not been added to AE critters yet over a month after GR's release when Demon Summoning and Dual Pistols were added immediately upon their release to the pre-purchase customers?

No, but apparently doing nothing at all is not any more encouraging.

How 'bout some contests that don't involve "you must have an open arc slot (or one you can sacrifice) and write only the type of arc that we want you to write"?

Are we not getting an Architect Awards this year? They never confirm or deny that and seeing that Aeon's contest ends in November is not a good sign about that.

Who said anything about quitting MA over this contest? Those who have complained only said that they weren't participating in the contest itself.

However if the neglect that is being complained about continues then that may very well change.

Nor can you really compare this to the PvP situation, where an entire section of the playerbase had the rug literally pulled out from under them and a mile long list of suggestions for improving PvP utterly ignored.

That gets so many views and replies because art is universal and used everywhere in the game. Of course it's going to get more attention.

Which they are not bothering to. Not even the Designated Helper, that fixed the horrendous ally XP nerf, got any advertisement aside from what I and other players have given it. That should have been something for Aeon to announce and talk about himself right when i18 went live, rather than waiting for a player to do that job for him.

Still no answers on the Hall of Fame issues that Wrong_Number has been presenting for months, or on why the Dev Choice nomination thread was deleted and never restored after the MA forums merge. Some Dev discourse on those matters would go a long way.

Of all the things that have been asked for in MA, another Aeon Challenge was no anywhere near the top of the list. You must be hanging out in a different MA forum than the rest of us.

You know how the Devs operate, if they are not frequently reminded of issues they tend to forget more and more about them over time until they take a lack of complaints as a sign that it's not an issue anymore. Sorry if some of us feel slighted when long-existing issues are ignored for another round of bread and circuses.