Paisley

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Qr. Join the MA Arc Finder channel. Lots of story-focused MAurthors on there.

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That channel is just named "MA Arc Finder" ?

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Do we really need to go into a discussion/argument YET AGAIN about "whats wrong with farming" and "all farmers arent evil, only the corn they grow is" blah blah blah...move on already

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Agreed. Can the Devs just extract all of the for/against posts from this thread without locking it?

This thread is more about how to find one kind of content and avoid another. About what will work in scanning missions.

I am starting to think I will have to be the one with star from here on out, to avoid getting tricked by people just using me to get larger pulls - but of course if I start believing I can't trust anyone else, why should anyone else believe they cannot trust me?

On the forums for two servers I have a good number of characters on I've put up threads looking for an SG or VG that is SFMA focused. Got one offer, so I may give them a try - and if I have to, may jump server all-together.

(I'd start my own VG, but lack the time for it).

I want to play Missions that are:
- Stories, like some of the best of the story arcs or TFs in the game.
- New or unknown. I want the thrill of discovering a new story author and spreading the word about them. Otherwise, I'd just run Dev choices.
- Play a few characters solely through exploring the stories other players of this game can come up with.
- Take my time leveling.
- Not be tricked by deceptive missions or deceptive PUGs that put me in content different from what they claim to be.

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If I clicked on one with that tag and got a farm, I'd be SO quick to flag it for being a farm, moreso out of cussedness at getting tricked than anything else. I doubt that'll ever happen much. I could be wrong.

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Well so far everytime I've joined a group claiming it was running story arcs only, I've been taken into farms. So I'm working from a jaded perspective here.

Maybe its just the PUG mates trying to get numbers higher for greater farming rewards.

Several farms I got pulled into also contained minor 'story trappings' - a clickie goal, an unkillable escort but no place to take them to, a neutral mob in every pack of farmees labeled 'save me.' or something equally thin. All as if the farm-author was trying to conceal their farm mission from detection.

Might just be my bad luck. I have -not- yet tried scanning for that code. So I will on next login and see if that can finally get me to the content I'm looking for.

I'll give that a try. And this tag is not yet being widely used to hide farming missions?

I'm also thinking maybe I should start shopping SGs for an SFMA focused SG.

I personally am an on-again-off-again player, so I've never been able to stick very well in an SG in CoX due to the 75 and now 150 limit - I get dropped for more active people.

Everytime I've tried using the MA, I've found myself in farm missions.

Even when I go for missions that advertise a goal, and I zone in and there is a goal (click X # of Ys) - its still just arranged as one massive farm with the Ys out of the way so you can just get them once you get bored.

PUGs I join that claim to be trying to avoid farms end up the same way - we zone in and once again, its a farm.


So...

Any tips for what to look for in the selection screens to find actual arcs? I'd like to be able to run things that aren't just Dev choices - those may be great, but I'd also like to have a hand in finding the next up and coming great picks - which means I need to know how to delve into the unknown masses, and yet still come up with gems, or at least missions with actual stories.

For those of you who have figured out how to find actual stories in between the farms and farms disguised as stories, any tips?

Will this alter the system requirements of the game?

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Yeah, but it totally [censored] normal teaming and everything people do AE wise blows.

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People will just go back to regular regular missions again - be they in the outside game or in the MA.

In a few days, normal teaming might actually return.

Did that last set at the top of page 8 of this thread get added mid today?

I downloaded the test version early this afternoon to look at the shields and didn't see any of those.

I'd like to see a round tribal shield, especially one with feathers as part of its options.


Too bad tankers don't have a single blade sword option, a sword and board character would make a perfect tanker concept. And of course, the spear. Spear and shield is needed.

Can't wait for this issue to come out. I've got a few 'names on reserve' already for shield characters.

I'd be dancing in the streets over this, but my Mac is a PowerPC, dates to 2004. But its still newer and faster than my PC.

Oh well.

But at least I can recruit all my family members that use Macs and play WoW. Everyone else has a newer machine...

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

I have a Mac, but it's a PowerPC...

And its actually the newer of my two machines...

Besides, the beta form keeps giving me:
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We’re sorry - the server could not accept your request. Often this is due to too many characters such as “><|--;=” being used. Please try removing these characters or reducing your post size. If you still experience problems please contact Customer Support using the subject line “Issue with official website”.

[/ QUOTE ]Despite having zero of those characters in my form.

Interesting that the article notes that they desired a system that would not just be for the very wealthy toons, but then declare that this method will probably command a very high price...

There's all of zero need to have more than one melee weapon power in the game, and more than one ranged. Game effects can be identical - all that matters between them is the animation.

Personally I think all the weapons powers should be merged down to / split into two:

Melee
Ranged.

And then give you a costume design like tool to custom skin whatever you want your weapon to look like.

Do I like PvP?

No.

As the OP requested, further comment by me is reserved for another thread.

Citygametracker is giving me a similar error when I click on its download link

When I try to log in I keep getting:

<font class="small">Code:[/color]<hr /><pre> Server Error in '/' Application.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the
execution of the current web request. Please review the stack
trace for more information about the error and where it
originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of
the current web request. Information regarding the origin and
location of the exception can be identified using the exception
stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
controls_ToonImage.LoadImage() +9
controls_ToonImage._toonImage_PreRender(Object sender, EventArgs e) +5
System.Web.UI.Control.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +2114636
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +77
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint,
Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1360


Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.832; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.832 </pre><hr />

EDIT: Put in some line returns.

Impossible though it may be, that is a cut and paste of the webpage I ended up on after trying to log in to citygametracker with the user and password the titan page claims to have given me.

Are we not supposed to log into the other sites?

Made my first two login screens:

http://arcady.deviantart.com/art/Cit...gin-1-63338822

http://arcady.deviantart.com/art/Cit...gin-2-63340384

So... what happens when you fail a safeguard mission? Can that character then never do it again, never get that special item?