Robo_Knight

Does anyone have a picture of the Savior of Boomtown badge? I can't find it anywhere and I want to do the new TF when it goes live.

What does the badge look like?

The Shadow Shard has some of the biggest zones in this game. Why is there so little content? Heck, in it's own right, it could be a box expansion.

Screw Jelly Beans, I like my Cheese Beans better!

I heard they finally added the arena badges and an accolade for them. Took them long enough, I wonder bs excuse they have for not releasing like they were supposed to for i4.

How is Nemeses able to utilize Steam Power so effectively. I know he's a genius inventor, but it doesn't seem like steam power could be that effective.

That and what lead him to become the super villain that he is today? Did he have some kind of tragedy behind it all?

It's been good and bad for me. I now know how to download MP3s and that you can always freak people out with a wtf moment.

So, how do I get a paid testing job from home?

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I don't qualify for any of these... how can you get into the game industry if they're always looking for game industry experience????

I'd LOVE to be a QA tester for this game.

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The "experience required" flag is put onto job postings to limit the number of applicants who flat out would not qualify. It is not, however, a "hard" requirement -- if someone is sufficiently gifted and does very well on the various tests/interviews they can still be hired. It's happened before, it will happen again....but it is rare.

Work on Mods to popular games in your free time. This isn't "real" game development experience, in that it isn't usually a paid position, but it can teach you a lot about the why's and wherefore's of game development. This is more true if you work as part of a team, rather than solo mods.

Write Pen and Paper game designs. Whether adventures, game systems or settings, designing these can and does help you hone your skills and can be used as a sort of "portfolio" of design work in some cases.

Lastly, and best if you can get it, work as an intern at a game company. There is no better way to get past the "no experience" boundary than this.

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I'd love to be a tester at Paragon Studios. Would be nice seeing as I'm in college getting my degree so I can get a job in the video game industry.

I'm actually typing out action script code right now, it's part of my last home work assignments in Multi Media Authoring 2. >_<

Yeah yeah, shaddup... -_-;

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Well, now we know how CoH is gonna steal subs from CO.

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Yeap agreed, CO is looking to launch in July, round 3rd week or so from what Ive heard. So Im looking for this to be released around the same time, early to mid july at the latest. Can see them getting it out BEFORE Co so it throws a wrench in their plans...who knows thou

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A whole new stand alone expansion seems like it would come out next year imho.

I mean, all we saw was a demo video. Plus the Devs had to put all if not most of there man power into I14 with the MA.

Just my 2 cents.

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When we created Mission Architect, the goal was to have an outlet for players to craft cool stories, using our assets, that other players could play and participate in. Other players could rate those stories and the best-of-the best would rise to the top.

While we have accomplished some of those goals with the initial launch of Mission Architect, some have found ways to abuse the system we put in place. We are not blind to this happening, nor did we not expect it. However, it is time to take action regarding it, so please be aware that we are about to implement a zero-tolerance stance on the extreme abuse we are seeing in the system.

One thing was made clear to me when I interacted with the players on our Anniversary. It was that you guys really don’t like the powerlevelling that is going on with MA. The constant spam of MA PL teams forming, requests for “Meow” missions, 5 star badge cartels, and the inability to find quality content in the Mission Architect listing are all things I heard complaints about over and over while I was logged in on Tuesday.

So here is a list of things that are going to happen:

• Players that have abused the reward system egregiously may lose benefits they have gained - leading up to and perhaps including losing access to the characters power-leveled in this fashion.

• Currently, some badges are being modified, and some may be removed from the game entirely. The list of changes being made to the MA badge system is not final yet, but you will be made aware when we have a concrete plan.

• Players who knowingly use an exploit when creating an arc, run the risk of having access to MA suspended, or worse- depending on the severity of the action, their account banned.

• Players who have a story arc banned for any reason, will have it continue to use up one of their publishing slots. Players will NOT be able to unpublish this slot without Customer Service’s help. This sets up a “three strikes and you’re out” policy. If an individual gets three story arcs banned, they will no longer be able to publish since their slots will all be used up with banned arcs.
•• This lock will not take place on the first level of “complaint banning”, where an arc has received a larger number of complaints. Players will still have a chance to fix the arc.
•• If Customer Service looks at an arc and determines it was banned in error, they will mark it as “unbannable”. At that point the arc can not be banned for any reason. The unbannable flag will reset if the player makes any changes to the arc at that point, and the arc can be banned again.
•• Remember, publishing slots are account wide, so players will not be able to log in another character on their account and use their slots instead.
•• Players are urged to avoid using common farming terms in their story title and/or descriptions. Even if it’s a joke, DO NOT run the risk of having an arc banned and requiring Customer Support to grant you your publishing slot back.

Some of you have taken the stance of “how does powerlevelling hurt the game?” and “shouldn’t I be able to play the game the way that I want?” What we want to make clear is in order to keep the game fair, balanced, and challenging, we have to maintain a risk:reward ratio. This is a ratio we’ve spent years attempting to achieve. Mission Architect is not immune to this, and we are taking swift action to see that the problems

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You do realize that some people are farming for hte badges because some of the badges are ridiculously high, 50,000 for the last test kill badge? :/

Not that I'm promoting farm arcs or anything, but it would take forever to get badges like that the normal way.

I need too try this mission, what's the ID for it?

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Infinity was the only down server for 2 hours after I12 went live. Why does Freedumb get special treatment?

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Heh, I was born in 87.

Hey wait, I think I went to high school with the girl in your avatar! O_O

Hmmm, well, while we're on the subject of showing photos of ourselves, here's mine!

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Bloody bay will get interesting again

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Wow, is that you in that avatar Oobe?

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I finally got 600 badges on my badge toon. I feel this is a real mile stone.

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Hey, me too! I'm now working on Clubber and I'll be getting my 51 month Vet-Badge on March 28th!

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I want....to marry....issue 14. Gonna be spending a lot of time in that architect development environment.

Ugh, for me wanting to be a game designer in the far off future, I'm gonna be getting some practice in with this baby

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You and me both!

(Is in College right now getting a Digtial Arts Degree).

Please tell me that were are getting an MA function for Bases as well.

Bah, this holiday event is just like last year. One big middle finger, no new badges what so ever. No offense or anything, I hope everyone else enjoys it though.

The only reason I'm po'd is that I spent my last 100 mill inf buying up brainstorms to work on that badge. So thanks for not putting this in the test patch notes Posi, thanks for the middle finger.

*Swears so much that it would make a truck driver blush*

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Autonomous Expert System - can now attach 9 auxiliary control items, and accepts all auxiliary items the Supercomputer will accept.

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I logged in at around Noon today and the additional Aux items were not connecting.