MrCaptainMan

The couple of vodkas occurred after more than a couple of beers lol.

Eco.

lol it hit me after reading this that i should qualify my griping with some thanks at Clave 's very nice and appreciated feedback. Thank you for enjoying it and engaging it in the wayn it wa =s intended,

I thinkm I ve got a bit of a thing about RP cillain/Heroc stuff.

But evene so, I'd appreciate my Heroic Arcas being played with herous ance vice versa,

B3est regards

Eco.

I got a 'hi! Thanks for entering dr Aeons challenge!' type tell ingame yesterday from someone official sounding. Anyone kbow what this signifies? Does it mean my arcs been played by a judge, or is it just a 'your arc is officially a contender' notofication?

Any ideas?

Eco.*

I really enjoyed this arc. Dead 6 became an instant favourite custom. The 'relating the story' framework used is one of the better renditions I've seen using this style, and at one point where I realised who's point-of-view I was presenting as a mob spoke some lines, I broke out in a wide grin.

Highly recommended.

Eco.

Good luck, everyone! I'm playing through the arcs on Samuraiko's list atm, and enjoying meself no end!

Eco.

Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 by @MrCaptainMan

I thought of the title about a year ago, and the concept came to me a little later. It's not an easy thing to engineer using the maps we have, but I'm happy enough with the result. Originally it was a little more complex, with a defendable object at the end, but repeated testing with a lowbie using no inspirations consistently failed to save the object in question from its attackers, so I reluctantly had to ditch it. I'm VERY happy with the ending, however. I hope players find it unusual and enjoyable.

One more thing which I again reluctantly changed involved the destructables in it. They're all the same object, but originally I made three different versions using the same object because that way you can vary the defenders dialogue some, which i feel enriches an arc. I needed sth to trigger only after all three had been fulfilled, however, so I eventually had to just use one objective for the three objects. I wish we had a 'This Objective triggers when Objectives X, Y and Z are completed' option.

The arc was made over three days this week, it took about 10 hours all told i think. I finally published it and sent the email off with just 4 minutes left on the clock!

It's a single-mission, ten-minute timed arc with the aim of rebooting a de-powered Citadel. It was tested mainly on a lvl 10 DB/WP scrapper.

As it stands, I'm quite happy with this little arc. I hope it provides a fun distraction for ten minutes of your time!

Feedback appreciated, though I'd appreciate no spoiling of the root concept or the post-exit surprise if possible

Cheers!

Eco.

I sent D_R a PM, but I'll put it here too in case anyone else wants to play it - my arc for the challenge (emailed with 4 minutes to go before the deadline!) is:

Storming Citadel

Arc ID 379488

Synopsis: With just 10 minutes left before Citadel's mind is wiped, Positron turns to the only hero available for help - you! Travel to a location few heroes have travelled to (!) to save Talos' sturdy hero!

Eco

And with 4 minutes on the clock, I publish and send the email

The arcs called Storming Citadel, it's 1 mission long, 10 minute-timed, and it's arc ID 379488

Eco.

Do I have some time, still?

Eco.

It's people such as yourself, WN, that ensure that I can just not envisage ever cancelling my CoH sub. You're exactly the type of person that makes the MA community in CoH feel more like a family.

/em thank you.

Happy birthday, WN!

Eco.

For the first time in my life, I'm going to respond to a thread without reading all the posts in it.

Apologies if anything I say has already been covered.

I've been playing WoW for the last three weeks.

I now don't consider anything in CoH to be in any way an onerous time-sink.

God I love CoH.



Eco.

I'm Welsh and I play on Freedom, and so does my SG-mate, also Welsh. We frequent RF2009 and RF2010 and MA Arc Finder, among others.

Eco

Gratz, Bubba! I'm currently stuck in a hotel room in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, with a case of The Squits, and my mood isn't fantastic, but this cheered me up no end. Nice to see the deserving rewarded.

And thank heavens for wifi!

Eco.

I think that pinnacle would be a better place for PvP, seeing as it starts with P.

And also because Freedom's my main server

Eco.

EDIT: Actually, even though i'm no PvPer, I think i'd rather PvPers move to Freedom, as I think more stuff going on is generally better for my game even if i don't choose to partake in it for the most part.

"When I'm in a zone and I see someone conning as an enemy, I have to assume they are there for PvP. More so, I have to assume they are as good or better than me because if I don't and play sloppy, I'll die in a hurry. Giving up the element of surprise plays a very large part in that. We don't know who you are or how good you are. All we know is that you can and most likely will try to kill us. And unless we play at our very best, you'll succeed."

The delivery of this is so earnest it's endearing, although I can state with certainty that your assumptions are in error when it comes to me

eco

". You could, I suppose, apply a slippery slope argument to that and say "well in that case you'd be very happy with just beating up on a zone full of AFK enemies" and to a point, you'd be right. That'd get mighty boring after a while, though."

That sort of 'PvP' would only be boring to you after a while?

we're just going to have agree that we'll never understand each other.

eco

"That first shot, getting in without being detected (in the stalker/veat/ILL controller/anyone with stealth case even more so) is vital. It's a big advantage. Giving that up isn't "sporting," it's suicide. "

it's suicide against sb who kbows what they're doing in PvP, maybe. I doubt it'd be suicide against me, for example. And it's not exactly giving up 'first strike' either, just giving me slightly more warning that an attack's on its way than the current none.

Eco

iPhone so snip-quoting.

"And TBH, done *that* way? I think we'd get nothing more than even more "PVPers are jerks" posts, as it comes off as... arrogant, barring pre-arranged RPvP or characters that otherwise "know" each other."

I think you're right in that some would see it that way. I personally would very much welcome it, and it would cause me to stay and fight rather than run. I don't think I'm alone.

Eco