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Hmm. A faint odor of a positronic suit, there. Must be my imagination.
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No way, I would have gone with Drops II: Attack of the Drops.
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How about Drops II: The Search For More Influence
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I'm seeing a lot of posts where people are suggesting that implementing the Flashback system should be used to open up Start Arc drops to level 50s. Guys, I think it's safe to say that ain't happenin'. There's a fair amount of code that would likely need to be added to make Flashbacks a reality, and Cryptic seems to be pretty frugal with its man-hours. Use the KISS priniciple, here. The simpler the solution, the more likely it will be considered.
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/Agree.
How easy would it be to break up on of the Shard TF's into a couple of story arcs? Those suckers could use a revamp anyway, right?
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Inventions has been touted as something that shelved level 50's can partake in. Level 50's that have completed all their story arcs already. Please, how can both of those occur? Level 50's can not experience IO's if they are locked out of acheiving specific rewards because they happened to hit the level cap before I9.
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It's like I said, we are looking into other options that keeps the mechanic of the four pool system. Our intention is to not make people feel "gimped" for previously completing all their story arcs.
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This is just a layman's stab at things:
Inventions make anything that can be rewarded.
Recipes are a reward.
Therefore, inventions can make recipes.
So! All we need now is source material for a recipe. Which I will give the decidedly back-of-napkin name "Inspiron B".
When you get a reward from a Trial or Task Force, you can choose "Inspiron B". "Inspiron B" can be combined with invention salvage to create any recipe from pool B. Which tier it's from depends on what invention salvage gets used. Recipes which need "Inspiron B" as an ingredient should probably be standard workbench recipes, though on a different set of worktables from the common university ones.
"Inspiron B": giving you what you need, when you need it!
--GF
talk with your doctor before starting a regimen of Inspiron B side effects are generally malevolent and may include convulsive laughter megalomania swelling of the corpus callosum and spontaneous human combustion women who are nursing pregnant or who have been pregnant should not take Inspiron B or handle broken tablets due to risk of a specific temporal anomaly keep out of reach of children and just about anyone really do not taunt happy fun Inspiron B
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My arcs: Dream Paper (ID: 1874) | Bricked Electronics (ID: 2180) | The Bravuran Jobs (ID: 5073) | Backwards Day (ID: 329000) | Operation Fair Trade (ID: 391172)
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I'm seeing a lot of posts where people are suggesting that implementing the Flashback system should be used to open up Start Arc drops to level 50s. Guys, I think it's safe to say that ain't happenin'. There's a fair amount of code that would likely need to be added to make Flashbacks a reality, and Cryptic seems to be pretty frugal with its man-hours. Use the KISS priniciple, here. The simpler the solution, the more likely it will be considered.
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I agree.
Personally, I like the idea of schedule B recipes being tied to story arc completion. It gives me something extra to look forward to as I'm playing, especially since I don't do TFs or trials.
The schedule B recipes just need to be attached to something else as well, something that's repeatable but not easily farmable, and something that level 50 characters can do.
I wouldn't mind attaching them to mayhem/safeguard missions with a minimum cooldown period. Say you can only get the recipe reward once a week through mayhem/safeguard missions. That doesn't sound very often, but keep in mind that there are very few story arcs in each five level range.
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No way, I would have gone with Drops II: Attack of the Drops.
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Drops II: The Devs Strike Back
Since Story Arcs award Souviners and Trials and Taskforces as well as some particular Story Arcs award badges, and that is all on a character's record, any chance of being able to retroactively award salvage and recipe drops for each character to give a jump start to the whole system going. Also, that would allow characters that have already completed Story Arcs and have out-leveled doing any future Story Arcs (aka level 50's) to benifit from previous play experience. Think of it as a bonus or special reward for not skipping content and playing out the game. 
This could be done on Test to try out and if it works okay, go live.
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I am listening to your ideas, but a Flashback system is simply not something we can implement in a timeframe you would all be happy with.
Instead we are looking into other options to get you the Pool B choice so level 50s don't feel gimped.
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ARGH! Well PLEASE PLEASE do give us a choice. Some of us didn't PL, some of us ran PUG's day in day out to level up - and missed at least one story arc's along the way!
I sincerely hope "we are looking into" becomes something along the lines of "we've implemented ..."
Thanks
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That's tiddling.
Twiddling is actually geek speak for "making magic"
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Ok, sure, it would have been best if Inventions had been in the game all along and you got them as you did Story Arcs, but I don't think that should preclude the team from adding extra "stuff" to those arcs.
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Yes and no, but no not really. When CoV launched I easily missed half of my early contacts because I ran with a group every night and outleveled the 1-20 story arcs VERY quickly.
And that sir, to be technical, blows chunks.
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Yes, but after ED, some of us are very gun shy around Crytpic.
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*CRY*
Oh Sweet Lord, when will you hear our impassioned prayers to live the past again!
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I think that most of us expressing concerns about our 50's not having access to story arcs are thinking about how to best min/max our favorite characters using the new IO system. But not allowing us access to the most rare parts, and therefore the most powerful complet sets, is a non-starter for most of us.
At least this is what I feel. And I'm guessing/assuming/reading between the lines that others feel the same way.
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I think that's the case.
And people need to be careful here. All we're asking for is the chance to do this through more-or-less normal play. While some might ask it to just be handed to us, I think the reasonable among us would be satisfied with a chance. A chance that doesn't require the use of auction houses.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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Thanks to the Elite Boss change to missions, it's now fairly easy to solo a TF. First, gather a minimum-size team for the TF you want to do. Start the TF. Have everyone quit the team except for you and one other character. Have that one character other than you log off. Now you can run the TF solo with appropriate difficulty spawns. As long as one other character remains on the team (even logged off) the TF can be completed.
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Note that the rank of the end "boss" in Task/Strike forces never changes, no matter the difficulty setting or number of people on the team. The foe at the end of the Positron TF is always an elite boss. The foe at the end of Bastion's TF is always an AV.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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Thanks to the Elite Boss change to missions, it's now fairly easy to solo a TF. First, gather a minimum-size team for the TF you want to do. Start the TF. Have everyone quit the team except for you and one other character. Have that one character other than you log off. Now you can run the TF solo with appropriate difficulty spawns. As long as one other character remains on the team (even logged off) the TF can be completed.
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Note that the rank of the end "boss" in Task/Strike forces never changes, no matter the difficulty setting or number of people on the team. The foe at the end of the Positron TF is always an elite boss. The foe at the end of Bastion's TF is always an AV.
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Personally verified for every possible TF heroside. (not Faathim due to the 4 simultaeous glowie clicks - Quaterfield has no end boss anyway)
@Catwhoorg "Rule of Three - Finale" Arc# 1984
@Mr Falkland Islands"A Nation Goes Rogue" Arc# 2369 "Toasters and Pop Tarts" Arc#116617
They have been heard. Just don't expect to see a Flashback system this year, whether or not they delay I9 to implement one...
Story Arcs I created:
Every Rose: (#17702) Villainous vs Legacy Chain. Forget Arachnos, join the CoT!
Cosplay Madness!: (#3643) Neutral vs Custom Foes. Heroes at a pop culture convention!
Kiss Hello Goodbye: (#156389) Heroic vs Custom Foes. Film Noir/Hardboiled detective adventure!
Whatever the solution, I do hope it's generalized enough to deal with a related problem: Accolades which require a badge which is in turn granted in a specific mission.
I don't min/max. I do bother, though, with trying to make my Heroes / Villains as tough as I can without breaking out spreadsheets and poring over tables and percentages. I don't carefully plan my Contacts.
I just play.
Now, when I get a toon to 50, it's because I enjoy plaing that toon. So I tend to continue to play them.
Finding out that it's TOO LATE to go off and get a badge because I didn't plan ahead (hundreds of hours ago) and hunt down a particular mission when I was level 15-20 is unnecessarily frustrating.
I can see the appeal, from a Dev point of view, of including cool things inside special missions.
However, there needs to be a solution to the consequent frustration of feeling that if you don't hunt those special missions down when you're the appropriate level, you're left with no option but to hang around a particular map and broadcast every few minutes, spam-begging for someone with a particular mission to please let you join their team.
Yeah, you can get it that way, but there just has to be a better way than that.
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People has been slapped silly for less
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
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This, at least, I can give you good news about: it's possible to join someone else's mission, Exemplar down to them (paying off extra debt in the process, or making more INF if you haven't any debt to pay off) ... and get the badge, even if it's not your mission.
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Whatever the solution, I do hope it's generalized enough to deal with a related problem: Accolades which require a badge which is in turn granted in a specific mission.
I don't min/max. I do bother, though, with trying to make my Heroes / Villains as tough as I can without breaking out spreadsheets and poring over tables and percentages. I don't carefully plan my Contacts.
I just play.
Now, when I get a toon to 50, it's because I enjoy plaing that toon. So I tend to continue to play them.
Finding out that it's TOO LATE to go off and get a badge because I didn't plan ahead (hundreds of hours ago) and hunt down a particular mission when I was level 15-20 is unnecessarily frustrating.
I can see the appeal, from a Dev point of view, of including cool things inside special missions.
However, there needs to be a solution to the consequent frustration of feeling that if you don't hunt those special missions down when you're the appropriate level, you're left with no option but to hang around a particular map and broadcast every few minutes, spam-begging for someone with a particular mission to please let you join their team.
Yeah, you can get it that way, but there just has to be a better way than that.
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An surefire way is to roll an alt, get the mission, get a friend on the team, let him enter, give him the star, log out, then get on the guy you want the badge for (making sure he is in the same zone as the mission before logging on) and then blowing through until the mission is over. Voila, badge on both your characters.
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Here it is, they have heard and are working on it. Thanks Doc.
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No, they did NOT say we are getting flashback.
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
www.repeat-offenders.net
Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
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Dataminins shouldn't be that hard. Those who've finished the arcs have the souvenirs, the data is all right there. Can't you award us based on that, retroactively?
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last time they did datamining like that, it took them 1.5x the period reviewed to get it done (badges). Otherwise, they would of had to stop developing ANYTHING the data-analyzing/mining people could work on.
3 years x 1.5 = 4.5 years...
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
www.repeat-offenders.net
Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
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Star Wars reference; +3 Points. Reference is a prequill, -11ty billion points! 
Better would have been; Drops 2: Return of the Drops. 
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I vote the next one be called "Drops 3 : Mission Undroppable.
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
www.repeat-offenders.net
Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
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Ok. How about a choice when someone is exemp into a lower level TF (or Trial) they could choose whether they want a TF or Story Arc recipe? That way people who need a lower level ultra rare story arc recipe have at least some shot at getting it without messing up people who are doing it for the TF UR recipe.
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Well... he's been locked up in that armor for almost three years now...
"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter
29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
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