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some really nice idea's.. I accually have something along these lines i wanna do, the only problem is i dont want him to kill the heroes, or even attack them

One way to get missions to fail is a very short time limit, that could be one way to make sure they get a fail, only the best teams would beable to do some missions with out failing, or perhaps there is just too much to do in the mission? Not sure if you want the mission to Be a fail, as part of your story




But i have a thing i wanna do. basically there is a weapon rack collection in the final area. its a weapon to be used for a ritual. I want to make a custom boss ambush, bascially steal the weapon and then run outta the mission with out hurting the players. basically the entire senario is a set up for my next Arc, Tsoo/family/cot. Its not a big map he is on, and he would probly make it outta the cave as he is only gonig against at tops lvl 14's, But i dont want him to die. Grab the sword, say some stuff and vanish. any idea for a good way to do this for lowbies? Id think putting SR or WP up to exteme might make him just impossible to damage to get to a damage run point.

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And, y'know, browsers like Firefox come with a spell-check built right in.

IE is de debbil, I say!



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Hmm, Ive never used it, though i have heard about it. Is it a good browser? Perhaps i should look into it.


Is there a way to play CoH in a window? that would make it much easier to copy/paste if i could window the game/MA and put it next to the spell checker prog, im gonna install office on this new comp just havent gotton around to it yet.

Hmm is there an offline MA builder? that would even be better esepcially for something like this. I dont need to play test spelling checks, then just log in and edit and repub?

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No one says crap if you suck in math, or cant even name the last 2 presidents, or cant even point out north amercia on a globe.. But miss spell Speel and its a travisty..

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I'm pretty sure there are lots of people on the forums who would make snide comments about everything in that list, but none of those things come up very often. Spelling errors are visible in every single post.

Rather than getting bent out of shape because people pointed out your spelling errors in your missions, you could correct the errors and feel grateful that some total stranger took time out of their life to offer up their assistance, free of charge, in an area where you have difficulty.

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I wasnt getting bent that people pointed it out by the way.. It was just annoying that they had too cause of lack of a spell checker.

On constieration, even though that did pop up in every comment, they also did say the loved the story. One person said, it was the best arc they played yet, another said they would definatly play another i made. Only a few were sorta well, doesnt mater, but even they said they enjoyed the story, outside of the spelling.

My point of the post was to adress the fact that there isnt one, and i think its something that should be in there. Im working on getting the mission spelling/grammer mistake free, but its taken me a bit. Up till now ive been working on getting the mission bug free, story, flow, content.. all working before i did final spell check/grammer. Though im gonna go hit the main story text with copy paste atleast for now. Hopefully between fixing the main stuff and the glowy addition the NPC text wont bug them as much... as i have a TON to go through.


Im also adding a glowy to the first room of the mission, along with my feedback welcome glowy, Spellchecker Besides it will work with the theme.. the circle has something to do witht the story and they like books right?, basically acknowledging the fact i know they exist and im working on getting them removed soo maybe i can get more helpfull feedback. Like.. Loved the mission mobs, great maps, didnt like 4rd mission theme.. ext, something that would be more helpfull.

I also returned all global comments with a thank you, and saying that its being fixed, and short reply on there other comment. they did take the time to give me feedback, i think its common curtsey. I also took down names of people that said they would like to play more of mine, soo i can send them a message when i add another.

In a way i should look at it as a positive thing i guess.. If the only thing they didnt like was the spelling.. thats a very easy fix incomparison to, Story sucked, mobs sucked, maps sucked, custom bosses sucked.. basically outta everything that could.. I supose spelling is the one i can live with.

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Edit: and a spell checker is not required - you have to fix critical bugs. Nice to have features come last.

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With the amount of complants i see about spelling i think its more a "must have" than Nice to have..

But thats why editors make the big bucks.. ohh wait, they dont, the writers do

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Use a browser with spell checking, and at least you'd have that here.

<ducking and running!>

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why would i do that... you wouldnt be able to make snide comments if i did..

But you do realize some people just have trouble spelling cause of the way there brain is wired, and not cause they are stupid.. there are many disablities that can effect it too.

No one says crap if you suck in math, or cant even name the last 2 presidents, or cant even point out north amercia on a globe.. But miss spell Speel and its a travisty..

Just currious why this isnt a feature of MA. I know i can copy paste too check, but thats a total pain. I supose i could edit the text file with MS word, But for some reason when i change stuff on the mission the thing comes up invalid for some reason. Outside of the fact that there are limits on what things can say and many times they are right at the limit, ilke 100 characters for speak, or 300 on clues. heck even main quest dialoge can run long at times. having to count characters+spaces and line breaks and color keys is kinda a pain which can also break things in the editor

Sooo basically, whats up? there is a crazy name filter, yet no spell checker.

if you wanna try my latest publish,, should work fine for your lvl, it runs from 5-14.. takes 1-2 hours depending, i average about an hour on lowbies. any feedback welcome

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well one person did play it last week, gave me 1 star, i republished later, now someone just played again and gave me 3.

neither left comments soo no idea what they didnt like. I could care less about ratings, id rather have comments.. Though i really dont put much in a low rating if no comment is left, Perhaps they just dont like me

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There was a thread in a section that disappeared, and I had a list of things that may keep people from playing an arc (or at least keeps me from playing.)

Your arc hits quite a few. First the title says Origin of, that's a turnoff right away. When I query and get a few thousand hits, I skip certain things in titles right away. I don't really want to play someone's personal favorite hero's origin story. That may not be what yours is, but that's what my brain filter thinks.

Another one is a very long arc with careless spelling and grammar errors in the description. I skip those because I think that the whole thing will be sloppy. A short arc with a few errors I may take for a spin. Questions in a description sound exciting when one writes them, but when reading them they aren't nearly as exciting as good action sentences.

I'm intentionally playing low end arcs and search for Hellions. A custom group as the main in a low end arc is discouraging. Again, I may sample it if it is a short arc, but I don't want to start playing an arc with the first two missions being standard mobs only to be floored by ninjas in the third.

Btw, your contact "Enrika" is a girl's name; Enriko or Enrico would be the masculine version.

Just some thoughts that may help you repackage it to get more people in the door and perhaps better feedback down the line.

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Umm can you tell me whats mispelled? Cause i honestly didnt notice anything..

I did change the name Origon, to Rise.. But basically cause its more the Rise to power.. its not my favorite hero btw.. its a brand new villain that i made up for a muliple arc theme.

I did change the question, to a statement.. No idea if that would help..

I also added what the custom group is.. Its a Mage only CoT spawn for some capitives, and i removed Spectral followers from CoT mobs the final mission to make it easier... I also have one troll for a little comedy in the first mission, holding a girl captive trading words.


BTW, i knew a guy named Enrica.. Sooo *shrug.. guess maybe its like jamie, or jessy, or those? I dunno im not spanish.

also the lenth if very deceptive, those maps are pretty small in size, the first is only 4 rooms, the last is one main cave room and some halls, another is a lot smaller than the size states. It takes about 1-2 hours depending on team size and skill lvl.. about 15 mins a mission bascially.

You could always try it and see if its as bad as you think... maybe you will be surprised.. As far as spelling and grammer, ive been going over it and fixing anything i see wrong.. Or anything people tell me. Ive spent over 40 hours on this arc soo far between writing and testing.. I would hope its not too sloppy, and semi polished.

You could have an objective tied to the boss defeat, Seek clues as singluar, then not make the other clues mission criticel, YOu could seek them, or not seek them. though i think that wont make them spawn till you defeat the boss which could make them spawn in already explored areas.

OKy.. i got my spawning right, and everything seams to be working except for my Nav bar again.

Now after i resuce the second girl, I get "spunky girl" showing up in nav bar. This is the name of the second girl you rescue. When you save her, Its supose to say "Save Jenna !" thats what i have writen in jenna's singular text. Her plural is "friends to save"


After you rescue her, its supose to say "Lead Jenna out of the sewere" thats in escort text.

None of this stuff is showing up. It just stays at "spunky girl" Which ironically is NOT something that is writen anywhere.

For some reason doing that made the arc invalid.

I did fix it though by replacing the bosses and escorts in the right order and they are working right..

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if you can't solo a mission on heroic, maybe you need to learn 2 play?

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Ohh that must be it.. cause being one shot on a scrapper by a stalker is me not knowing how to play..

there are bosses that can drop tanks in 2 hits, guess the tank should learn to play too huh?


but outside of that, I think part of the prob now is people are making stuff for IO'd out 50's, and then making arcs that are ment for lower lvls, yet tested with the exempt 50's

I think now we got dual builds, maybe some MA creators should use a second build and just SO it if they are meaning for the arc to be playable at lower lvls

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Yea.. i suck that bad... thanks

I have no probs on normal stuff solo.. I can take down EB's, i can solo on unyeilding and invici.. this has nothing to do with my game play..

Heck i ran into a boss on my fire/storm, 50 mind you, and i can stack holds like crazzy and the boss would never hold. I logged on my ice/storm and with the slows of cold i had no prob stacking hold.

This isnt game play, its lack of testing on MA creators.. Just currious how many different toons you tried solo'n all those bosses with.. How many have you tried on a toon you were lvl'n up, Or ones that are just in DO's still..

Oky.. soo i go through and fix a bunch of little things, and tweaks.. I republish and find something i didnt change has changed..

I go back to Re-Edit, and everything i changed the last time reverts back to what it was before.

Some things are changing and i didnt even do a thing to them, Like i rescued a girl, yet her name is showing up as not completed, and the other persons name isnt showing up as it should.

I go back and change it, repub and i get that part right, only something else has changed that i didnt change. I go back to re-edit and find other stuff is different. what is doing on here?

Like an ambush is happening thats not even placed, Or the boss keeps getting set back to middle even though i keep setting it to front. another is i had 4 corpses, I droped to 2, I repub and its back to 4.

I have zero clue why all this is happening.

well one person did play it last week, gave me 1 star, i republished later, now someone just played again and gave me 3.

neither left comments soo no idea what they didnt like. I could care less about ratings, id rather have comments.. Though i really dont put much in a low rating if no comment is left, Perhaps they just dont like me

noone has even played mine yet.. well outside of one freind. guess people dont like hellions and skulls

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I wouldn't say quite so much about gaining levels so quickly, unless you want that to be changed.

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He's probably a buffing corruptor. It's no different from inviting a buff caster to a normal T/SF if they're at the minimum level, and letting them just cast their buffs, hang out in the back and bathe in the XP.

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You do realize the devs are data mining all things MA, things will be adjusted. Ive already seen a bunch of tweaks/exploits fixed. Id expect many more changes over the next few months as well.

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Ohh that must be it.. cause being one shot on a scrapper by a stalker is me not knowing how to play..

there are bosses that can drop tanks in 2 hits, guess the tank should learn to play too huh?


but outside of that, I think part of the prob now is people are making stuff for IO'd out 50's, and then making arcs that are ment for lower lvls, yet tested with the exempt 50's

I think now we got dual builds, maybe some MA creators should use a second build and just SO it if they are meaning for the arc to be playable at lower lvls

still havent solved it.. any suggestions?

thanks, figured that out eventually.


But now i got another problem. When i republished the arc i had some stuff break for some reason, I didnt change anything but clue text and some other misclanous stuff.


But now, every time i try to switch this one character to spawn on the first character rescue i get some circluar logic error.

It says, you cant get A to spawn cause B needs A to spawn.. which i know what its trying to say but its not what i have it set at


Oky way it works..

first room, rescue girl off of front door enterance clue.

talk to her, she tells you of 2 freinds to rescue.

you should meet the first of the 2, on the way back to the boss. once she is rescued, the clue changes from 2 freinds to, to rescue Jenna. If you skip her, it should go from 2 freinds to save, to escort jenna, 1 friend to save

last room is the boss, a ritual and and jenna, You save her, defeat the boss, destory a alter. then nav texts says lead her out, She also spawns a boss near the exit to help further the story.

Anyways, for some reason every time i try to make her spawn on the first girl, "frightened girl" It gives me this circlaur logic error.

I cant for the life of me figure it out, cause, Its only spawn her on "frightend girl" complete, and "frightend Girl" Is spawned on mission lauch, soo there is no way for her NOT to spawn, unless you dont save the first mission criticle girl, and being in the first room and she always pops there, there should be no reason to pass her and not to get the other to spawn.., which is what the error is telling me


If You wanna see for yourself, go check out my mission, it shouldnt take more than 5-10 if you just skip mobs.

The mission works perfectly as it is now, the only thing thats NOT working is the Nav clues.. Jenna is showing up before she should on nav bar, but as soon as you rescue frightened girl it works correctly. The main reason is i have her spawning on mission start, But the nav bar fixes it self after you rescue the first girl.

I also need to tweak last boss text slightly as i did have him spawning earlier before, soo he has pre boss stop clues now, instead of Post.. Minor detail.. will fix that on next pass. But i really want to get this nav bar figured out and why its giving me this error

Id say you can use all of those.. Its not what you use, its how you use it.

the person is making notes on how these powers can suck, and i pretty much agree with all of them. Its about balancing out stuff.

CoT doesnt have all ghosts and spectrial lords, they have archers and mages, and fire breathing guys and other things to fill up the space.

Say i put a dark, ice, fire, minions, Dark armor/BS leut and a TA boss, this mob would probly work pretty defecent..

But if i went, 3 Ice minions, 2 TA/fire leuts and 1 DA/DM bosss.. that just went from, a mob that probly wasnt to hard to one that is insainly impossible

Text color..

oky, im in the text feild, I added {M1} to the clue, highligheted to change it to light blue, all the options on right click im getting are Copy/cut/past

bugged text fixed itself.. i was at 1200 words..


and im not adding new missions, im revamping some text, and doing lots of little fixes, stuff many people wont even notice unless they are paying attention. Tweaking a boss text here, a clue there, altering some other things like changing some glowy text, timers, that sorta crap.. Its all little polish tweaks, Nothing that i dont thnk requires a compeltely new publish..

Out side the fact not ONE person has played it, or atleast rated/commented sence if has been published for over a week.. Soo in that sence im not worried.

BTW ive ran through it a bunch of times, Its been pretty well tested by me.

oky, 3 Q's..

First how do i add color to my text. I wanna make some text Light Blue, yellow, red, green,) add to clues, and descriptions.


2, I opened the editor and clicked on the main mission setting page, aka the pen, and when to look at the suveiener and the text was just blinking and flashing soo i couldnt read it. I tried clicking on the text but it didnt help. this is the only text that has done this to date.

3rd, After having a crash the other day and lossing 3 hours of work cause auto save got turned off and i didnt notice.. Im now very leary of making sure this is working right.

I want to tweak a published arc, But if i trun auto save on it says "null" I dont wanna lose my whole days work on a crash again. SOo basically is there a way to get auto save working on a published arc?, or do i just republish, I get tried of updating my Sig and mision number all the time.. any tips?

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Out of curiosity. I wonder if this is censored.

teabagger

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Nope and there is even a emote, /e teabag

go figure lol

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I'm gonna guess that you are a straight, white man, y'know, the thing that has been in power for the vast majority of human history. Your family and racial history likely doesn't contain anything to instill a sense of respect, fear or contempt for any words or patterns, and so you don't have any of that, but other people do.

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accually, im part english, nordic, and amercian indian, and grew up poor soo trust me ive heard my fair share of put downs. butsaying that whites have been in power for the vast of human history is well pretty well, Just competly not the case.. Eygption, aztez, myans, bysinteens, yesh, asian countries like china have been civlized for 2k years before whites even got outta the dark ages.

But the point isnt what i put on words.. or what i think, or some debate on philophy, Its about a filter that just doesnt work... Hate speak, and words that have double meanings are two completely seperate things. Thats what this thread is about. No one is saying that we should have Hate speak in MA.

Safe cracker, Soup and crackers, Poly wanna cracker.. Not being able to use a phrase like that is rediculous im sorry.


Sad when i can type Coochie coochie or say it to a baby and get him to laugh.. wonder if you know how offensive that is to some playing..

The filter is broke, plain and simple

Maybe next time im in a restraunt.. ill say.. can i have the tommato soup and some of those dryed up sqaure salted things.. wouldnt wanna offend anyone.

The other name for richard, a male chicken in a coupe, a female dog.. the list, well its pretty darn long. You just gonna ban everything that could possibly be used in a bad way? Ive already had to rethink a bunch of dialoge over this filter. Yes i can do it, but it many times changes the whole flow of the phrase.