Tangler

That's a shame, I make it a habit to make a courteous "thank you for commenting on my arc" to everyone that leaves a comment be it good or bad. Most of them don't go through since I reside in the EU, but I appreciate them putting in the time to write one.

I recall being particularly brutal in one of my comments back in the early days of MA, but the author was very open to the critique and we ended up becoming friends. So I guess it can work either way.

I wasn't aware that there has been grumblings about the competitions, but if you say so I'm not inclined to disagree.

I would like to see some more comps too, though I assume Dr. Aeon's been holding off further comps until we finally get some semblance of a fix to the ally nerf, which I can totally understand.

This. Back when I reviewed arcs, I have always suggested to authors that 99% of the time you should use an EB in place of an AV. EBs can still make an exceptionally tough end-boss that doesn't screw over control ATs, though that said I would also recommend that "but my scrapper can solo it" is not a good yardstick for boss difficulty on arcs meant for any AT.

Back on topic: I usually play the recently DC'd arcs by Dr. Aeon, ones made by in-game friends and anything that crops up on the MA subforum that looks interesting. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that GR will get rid of the latest band-aid, so I can less painfully look for randoms again as well making a start on a new arc.

Works beautifully, thanks.

I played around and made my own variation that selects them based on their pet# which corresponds with their respective Alt+numpad#, since I gave my pets custom names. For those who want to try it I'll post it here:

Do you know what goes great with damage? MOAR damage. Take both Assault and Forge, Tactics isn't "needed" if you're slotting for acc and are remaining in Supremacy anyway.

I don't know the exact workings, but currently any comments sent to you gets amended to a text file stored on your end. In-game they can be read by clicking "comments" on the respective arc.

AE hasn't used the tell feature in a long time though. Presumably the current system is be able to distinguish between 2 accounts that share the same global as with your situation, though I would be interested on a confirmation on this too.

Edit: actually I'm a bit unclear on your situation: was the arc in question made on your EU or US account?

Hey thanks.

Also, you just reminded me that I still haven't given it a few fixes on stuff raised since PW's review of it. I'll need to get on that. :/

From a quick skim of the arcs I've reviewed, I would recommend The Coldest of Wars (299972). It's a fun arc with lots of corny goodness.

I can think of one reason: it's the holidays. For the past few days I have been teaming with a lot of new and returning players, drawn in by all the hubbub over GR. If I were to hazard a guess on what the devs are thinking, it's that they don't want a repeat of the last great AE farming and drama that ensued that happened during yet again another holiday, that saw a lot of new, and returning players checking out the hubbub over MA.

If this was the case and the devs said so upfront when they implemented this nerf, I could have understood their stance. I still think it's an amazingly bad implementation and they could and should have found a better alternative, but I wouldn't want a repeat of what happened last time either.

No argument here that exploits are bad, but exploits are hardly something exclusive to MA.

That we can only speculate on. What we do know is that Dr. Aeon was hired on specifically to be the AE guy, so having him working on AE is not redirecting developers.

Everything screws up the market. Arcane salvage was heavily hit back when ITF was shiny--but we shouldn't start giving dirty looks to it just because that happened.

They've been doing that since the days of PI and Television. Again this is not exclusive to MA, the only thing here that some people need to realise is the difference between farming and exploiting.

And I've come to the conclusion that AE has been the single most awesome thing ever implemented by the development team. I have played arcs that have genuinely made me go "Wow, that was good" and I am sorry to hear you never had the same experience, but please don't stomp on my fun because you think it will somehow increase yours.

MA is and always should be an alternative leveling path for the players. This was how it was given, and it has been player enforced by the plethora of pre-20 arcs that players have made to get away from the same old grind.

Reading that certainly makes me want to write an Arkham Asylum style arc.