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I've put in bold why I think this could be a problem but to elaborate on that a little more I'll give a full explanation as to why I think this is a bad thing. Now it's not all bad, for Hamidon Raids, Rikti Mothership Raids, and the new content being added with this update this could be a really really good thing. However the fact that you can form a team of 48 players "for any purpose" is what makes it bad. I mean 48 players is a bit excessive for standard missions that currently exist in the game. I don't think most of our current mission maps are even large enough to support 48 players.

Keeping in mind that larger team sizes also mean larger mob sizes, a team of 48 players would fill a standard sized mission map so full of NPCs that players would be killed by mobs standing on eachother's heads the moment they loaded into the mission. Think, full team of 8 Masterminds but much much worse because of mob sizes also being increased.

Basically in order for this to work the game would need entirely new map sets for already existing missions, maps big enough to support the larger team sizes. Either that or Leagues would have to be limited for tasks that can already support such a large number of players and not be made available "for any purpose" as the quoted in the above announcement.

Aside from this one glaring flaw I'm really excited about all the new features coming out. One of the things I'm most excited about is this.

Sounds to me like this eliminates the need of 1 person trying to find the players necessary to accomplish the task or for spamming the broadcast and request channels sense you can just que up and go about your normal business till enough players also que up to form with. And this says "currently only available for Incarnate Trials" so hopefully as this feature is improved on it could also be made available so that you can que up for specific Task/Strike Forces and automatically be teliported to the contact when the proper number of players are cued up. Maybe even que up for other trials and raids and be automatically teliported there as soon as the requirements are met.

Some people may not like this feature as it promotes PUGs but as there's no real issue other than just some people not liking it they don't have to use it. The other feature I mentioned you technically don't have to use either but it actually poses a potential problem if it is used rather than me just not liking it. I actually do like both features but there's a big difference between potential problems caused by players and potential problems that could break the game. (Players being the possible leech queued up to join an Incarnate Trial and Game Breaking being that there are too many players to fit on the mission map.)

This is of course all just my opinion and speculation based on what I read in the announcement. Non of this may actually be an issue when it goes into the game hence the phrase "potential problem" as apposed to "Actually a problem" we'll just have to wait for beta and see how it all works out before placing finale judgments on it.

You know I hear the pet aggro thing allot from other players as a Mastermind but never actually see it.

There are limits to how many mobs can be pulled, how far you can pull them, and even how much space you put between yourself and your pets. This isn't to say that you can't inadvertently aggro more than your team can handle at one time but it does mean that this happens allot less often than some people would have you believe.

You can in fact pull up to 3 groups from one room into the next room on any map. This is also true without even playing as a Mastermind. Tankers especially are very good at this sort of aggro. Any more than that would not be possible unless you were intentionally trying to aggro.

If you move farther than a group can be pulled you have to continue attacking or taunting that group to make them move passed their normal limits. Something pet aggro alone has never done.

The second half of that myth is that pets will run threw every mob from beginning to end till they reach the MM. This is not true because of the limited distance you can actually move away from them. Once you get passed that limit your pets automatically re-summon next to you without running threw anything.

In order for your pets to actually run from the beginning of a mission to the end of it, you would have to be on a small mission map otherwise teliporting that distance will cause your pets to automatically re-summon where ever you are standing.

I've had this argument multiple times on multiple different teams and I always end up summoning at the door and getting teliported to the end of mission without any aggro what so ever. This actually saves time on summoning when they're already out and not having to wait for someone to TP me before I can summon. There's even been times when I've run threw a mission myself without getting much aggro if any at all.

These limits have always existed sense beta as built in safe guards against any massive amounts of Aggro. However because the limits are based on distance that doesn't prevent pets from aggroing mobs that are close together from the start. This is where the real problem is. Crowded maps, with an inexperienced MM can be hell. However if you're controlling pets in these situations rather than letting them run it doesn't cause a problem.

Pets blocking door ways, which people complain about with noobs is easily fixed by using the "go to" command which will cause your pets to move away from the door so you and others can get threw it, once clear then you hit follow again. Though it's rare that you can't just push them out of the way. I have more issues with other players blocking doors than with pets, especially if I'm a melee character and can't get into a room to attack because some idiot is standing right in the door way and it's usually a Blaster or other ranged character that doesn't need to be standing in a door.

Right and next you're going to tell me there's a difference between manually changing a pet to aggressive and typing out /petcom_all Aggressive. It's the same command one way is just faster than the other depending on your key binds. I happen to have all the slash commands binded to my numpad so I don't have to manually or otherwise type out the commands every time I use them or even use the 3 commands MMs come with that fill up power slots. It doesn't make one bit of difference what version of the command you use, they all do the same thing.

The only real work around someone suggested is to avoid zoning with the pets summoned in the first place. I've noticed some other Masterminds doing this mainly to avoid the weakened pets from being SKed to a higher level then when they were originally summoned. (LKing down will kill them off automatically because you can't have pets higher level than you are but you can have pets who are lower level than you are.)

And believe me, I know all the commands and what they do as I have 7 MMs and have been addicted to MMs sense CoV beta. Even the dismiss command will get rid of all pets in the window that aren't pets. Dismiss happens to be the only command that non-MM pets can respond to as all pets, MM or not, have a Dismiss command function. That's why Acid Moderator, FFG, ect can be dismissed with the same command.

I hear that allot in game but don't you think that would be first thing I'd try. It was in my original post here and all 4 of the bug reports. Pets can't be dismissed. It makes them drop from your pet window but I found after doing this they remain at the zone entrance not moving. Because they're actually still active when you try to re-summon them the power reads that they're already out and fails making it impossible.

Pet less Masterminds are noobs that don't know the first thing about a Mastermind. I've encountered a few of them myself including one who was so confident that his pet-less MM was so much better than one with pets that he actually believed he could beat me in the arena. Of course like any noob gamer ever after I beat him, without even touching him I might add, he still insisted he was better than me. I stood by and watched as my pets killed him over and over again before he could even get close enough to attack me. That's what a pet-less Mastermind is, all talk and no show.

Pet-less MMs are like noob Tankers who try to be DMG dealers rather than meat shields and wander why they die so much. Except that Tankers still have the highest HP in the game which means they can still last for a while in a fight even if they're built like Scrappers. Masterminds on the other hand don't even have their HP to fall back on with a lack of pets. The very instant a Mastermind ends up in a position where they can't summon they get killed. I've had this happen many times, mainly in AV fights when the AV catches up to me while I'm recharging.

Now that same pet-less MM I killed with my pets and many others like him seem convinced that the summoner is capable of inflicting more DMG then the combined efforts of their 6 pets. Now how does that math work? You have 1 guy with 3 attacks of his own, maybe more depending on secondary powers vs. 6 guys who will always have more attack potential than their summoner. Maybe if you were doing to math when compared only to your tiar 1 pets with no upgrades then you'd be right because they're actually really weak at that stage. All 6 pets fully upgraded and your math sucks. 6 is always greater than 1. And really it's actually 7 vs. 1 because I like to fight along side my pets. The only reason why I didn't during that PvP match was because our agreement was that I wouldn't fight back if he could even get close enough to me to fight me at all. As our agreement stood I was only allowed to send pets in to attack him and not use any of my own attacks or personal shields, just him vs. my pets and as I predicted, I didn't need any of my own powers because he never got passed my pets.

I figured it might be one of the "You can't do that -YET-" options which is why I asked if it's not currently possible.

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I was thinking maybe there's a command I could put in the number field that I might not be aware of that could multiply by the number of team mates.

It's still a fun option to play with as is, just wishing I could do more with it.

It was a comparison of two separate costume related contacts one of which appears to be functioning properly and the other of which is not.

Actually it was clear. Perhaps you should try reading the post more carefully and not just the topic title. "Costume Slot Missions" is actually where the bug is that's why it's the title. Costume Aura mission was was brought us as a non-buged costume mission related thing to compare with.

Actually yes I did, you even quoted it. Here look again.

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Either way you put it it was clearly two separate thought. You are aware that Lauren is the level 30 tailor in IP who gives out the costume slot missions right? Lauren is not the name of the City Rep. I'm clearly talking about two completely different contacts.

As stated above it looks like you didn't even bother to read the post all the way threw. Had you read the part that clearly said Lauren not the City Rep we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Looks identical to me. :P Anyway this is about a possible bug with the tailors working for either side regardless of alignment not about being a grammar natzi. If you want to contribute to the topic and have a better attitude about it then you can correct my spelling but if you're just here to be rude and derail the topic then don't even bother posting.

Also if you're going to correct my spelling you might want to make sure your own spelling is correct first. There's no such word as mischevious, it's spelled mischievous.

What the heck are you talking about? I never said anything about the city rep giving costume slots.

I said my level 30 Rouge can't do the Aura mission with the City Rep but can do costume slot mission with Lauren. That's two different thoughts. :P

I should of realized his description was missing when I saw his power sets change back to an older version. I fixed the power change but forgot about the description. I lost allot of data when my computer crash and even though I had the files on back up they don't transfer well. I'll go back threw and rewrite all the descriptions when I get a chance.

There's a reason for his power sets which is not relieved till the 3rd story arch. I won't explain it here so as not to give the story away but if you're still confused later you can PM me.

Yes every mission has at least 1 or more Dopplegangers in them. He's a basic run down of each Doppleganger I used.

Your Ancestor = Black and White + Random Power

Your Mythical Earth Counterpart = Inverted + Not telling for Spoiler reasons.

Doppleganger Demon = Demon + Shadow

Good Contiance = Angel

Bad Contiance = Demon

Praetorian Counterpart = Reverse

Flawed Clone = Random Power

And there's probably more, I've lost track of them at this point. lol

They are captives not allies. Though I'm not quite sure why they won't leave when rescued. They're set to run to nearest door after you save them but they've never done that. This appears to a bug in the game rather than anything I have any control over.

On a side note any grammar problems with the Stranger, Capt. Jones, First Mate Jack, and the Mysterious Citizens were intentional. I wrote all their dialog with the grammar of the uneducated people of that time period. Remember back then only the wealthy people were ever educated. The poor and middle class, which is what these guys are, were never educated that well if at all. Hence the reason why they say "ye" instead of "you" and other things like that.

Anything outside of that is just because my own grammar isn't that good either. :P

I actually thought about not giving him the swap ammo power because it doesn't really fit the time period but elected to give it to him as a clue to who the Stranger really is. The colors of his costume are another clue if anyone happens to pay attention to it.

The map is actually the smallest I could get with the amount of objectives it has and everything is set to spawn in random locations just to make it a little more interesting to run multiple times. Mission never turns out the same way twice. The map itself is also set on random cave maps all about the same size. Some missions do have specific maps in mind before I make them others are just any generic cave, office whatever will work for what I need.

As for your suggestion on changing the new objective triggers wouldn't that actually cause MORE running around?

lol I like breaking the 4th wall and the contact is actually me. Literally, I designed the contact to look like I do in real life. His NPC group even says "Real World Person" and it made for an easy way to get some of the major plot points out of the way when there was no real way to explain them with the current game mechanics. For one being there's no way for you to meet the Stranger without the 4th wall break and the rest of the story wouldn't make any sense.

In a past version of this group there were custom NPCs that got deleted. The colors are based off that but these are meant to the Legacy Chain of Mythical Earth which are a bit different than their Primal Earth counterparts though the Circle of Thorns look the same in both worlds.

First off thanks for the Kudos that was my intention. And about Shark Mage, I can't say too much about what his plans are because it's a major story point but he currently believes you to just be another CoT member and is just treating you as he would any other member. Note your Mythical Earth Counterpart is the CoT leader.

Again these are questions which get answered threw story archs. You are right about Davy Jones and Shark Mage being the same character however. Figuring that out brings you about half way to figuring out why he's attacking Imperial. And as said above, his power sets will make more sense later on.

This is a mistake due to lost date though there isn't much I can say about him anyway because his normal description would give the entire story away and the point of this is to see his origin not just read about it.

I seem to get this comment allot. The context is actually there but split across the first 3 story archs which maybe I should make clear from the beginning to put an end to this confusion I keep getting?

Actually if we're made to believe that every person has a double in other universes (Marcus Cole exists on Primal Earth as Statesman, Pretoria as Tyrant, and another place as Reichman) then we can also assume that entire groups of NPCs have counterparts in other worlds. The way the story was written is that the number of CoT on Primal Earth are actually relatively small compared to the Mythical Earth counterparts because it's a universe where EVERYONE knows Magic and the CoT are one of the largest Magic groups in the game which means their Mythical Earth counterparts would be outrageously numbered.

Actually that's not entirely accurate. Lord Imperial, Neptune, and James Robbert Hermes are all modeled after me and would all look alike in street cloths. However they are in fact 3 different characters. James being the real me. Neptune is the Primal Earth version of the character and Imperial is from Mythical Earth. They're different but the same much in the same way that Tyrant and Reichman are both Marcus Cole. Neptune and Imperial, their real names are Donald James Hansen and both started their hero careers as Ducklingboy. Because of the different histories which get explained later one was genetically altered to become Neptune and the other became Imperial.

The real reason was because it would of been a boring mission with no one to fight. I original wrote the script for this as a YouTube video which never got produced about 6 months before AE even exited. I still had the script and had to modify it a bit to make it work for AE. The scene this mission was based on originally was only meant to be a dialog scene to explain Imperial and Neptune being the same person. Allot of that dialog still made it into the AE version which is why Mallardman asks "Are you OK?" originally that was directed at Imperial who was suppose to fall from a portal in the sky next to Ms. Liberty and Mallardman. Neptune would come into the scene later when Imperial claimed to be him but there was no Circle of Thorns around or anything to do during this so I kept the dialog that was needed and threw in a bunch of Circle of Thorns. The same thing occurred in the last mission. The spell lock plot device was just suppose to be a scientist looking at a computer, no CoT actually attacking portal corp but that wouldn't work for an AE mission.

Oh but there are answers, that's the whole reason for playing threw the next 2 story archs. It all wraps up in story 3 mission 4 then there's a bonus mission which wasn't really planed but I like it. The 3 new missions (4, 5, and 6) are mostly set in present day with new stories that don't take so many story archs to explain what's going on.

Well it's the law of the city so I kinda feel like a hero should obey the law even if he isn't staying in the city though Imperial isn't really obligated to obey the law yet he also hasn't started falling prey to his own dark magic yet either. Anyway, I ignore that stuff for villains because I don't get why villains would carrey ID cards on them. :P

The CoT Leader in the 3rd mission has undergone many changes sense the original script. That mission was and actually still is intended to be set in the last mission of the Ice Mistral SF with Akarist as the EB only I don't really want him there anymore I just want that map. :P As the story is now you not only get follow Lord Imperial but also your own Mythical Earth counterpart. This change was made to make the story more interesting to the player sense originally it had nothing to do with them and was all about me. Having that in there gives players something else to care about besides me.

Yeah that. I didn't have it set to spawn off other objectives when the missions were first made and occasionally I would run into the EBs and die before I even found the allies to help. So this is just an easy fix to make soloing possible. I of course run these missions myself and actually got one of my characters threw her first 30 levels just running these missions over and over again.

I don't actually know how to change the text color. I didn't even know that was possible. Also the title does say 1 of 6 right at the start. :P

This was actually explained by the scientist you rescued. His rescue text explains why Imperial can't go back to Mythical Earth.

That is something I easily fix the next time I'm in edit mode. Just remember that allot of the story that your missing is missing because you haven't played it yet. I do want to fix the descriptions though, damn blue screen of death probably deleted them all and I didn't even realize it till you pointed out the descriptions were missing.

I actually ran this in a team of two, just with one extra person and the NPCs often got killed off so don't think they're invincible.

I've been playing around with Mechanics allot more in 4 5 6 and did more things with them that I didn't even think would ever be possible when I made the first 3 story arch. You might enjoy my later story archs more for that reason but I don't feel that they're as up to par with my original 3 for other reasons. Mainly because I improved 456 rather than working off a script so there's allot more dialog I haven't fleshed out yet.

Not just the dopplegangers? Really? I didn't think I did that without them so thank you.

For some reason my quote ends there and can't see what you're referring to. Perhaps I should look at your signature? Whatever the case I will add it to my list.

Not sure who you're referring to. I actually posted a few Critiques before asking anyone to look at mine though I haven't reviewed any others sense then. Though I'm unsure what hasn't already been reviewed at this point.

I'll eventually be changing my signature to include 3 new story archs I made with a second account and I've updated these 3 again. In the mean time till I finish the new ones please PM me if you'd like me to critique your story archs. I'll post my feed back in this topic of the first 6 story archs that get sent to me. After that I'll update my signature to show all 6 story archs I made. Hope this helps.