List of ways to promote your arc!
By
American_Angel,
Posted on: 2009-04-03 07:24 in Mission Architect
SG/friends gets the job done for me 
I don't agree w/ sending tells to people though...or the ticket whiners who get mad cause you 1 star'd their arc even though it wasn't fun at all.
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Just saw this in a recent post:
<ul type="square">[*]Include an exciting or tempting screenshot in your mission description! (a preview of your custom Boss or Enemy Group would be great)[/list]Best of all: no art skills necessary! 
Craft your inventions in AE!!
Play "Crafter's Cafe" - Arc #487283. A 1 mission, NON-COMBAT AE arc with workable invention tables!
how about posting a youtube video promoting your arc, like showing the gist of what to expect in your arc, I would post a link to my video in a thread containing my arc but I don't thing it is allowed here. but still youtube is a good place to advertise your arc.
Youtube vid is already on the list, and yes, you CAN post a link to it...just keep it clean
Craft your inventions in AE!!
Play "Crafter's Cafe" - Arc #487283. A 1 mission, NON-COMBAT AE arc with workable invention tables!
I've just finished up an external site to track player reviews of MA arcs... always up for feedback. 
City of Heroes Mission Review
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City of Heroes Mission Review .:. MA arcs submitted and reviewed by the CoX community
Someone in another thread suggested by mentioning one of yours when you send a review on someone else's. This could be incredibly cheesy if done wrong, but it's still a thought. If nothing else, just make it a polite suggestion - the better your review (meaning thoughtfulness and helpfulness, not number of stars), the better I'd think your chances would be.
Forums<ul type="square">[*]Include an exciting or tempting screenshot in your mission description! (a preview of your custom Boss or Enemy Group would be great)[*]Mission Arc Critiquing Thread - Review an arc and publish yours! (Read the rules)[*]Announce your latest creation here![*]Arcs Listed by Genre[*]Forum signature[*]Classified ad in the Scoop[*]Sponsored art commission...or video
(submit to Scoop, too)[/list]In-game<ul type="square">[*]Form a team and play your arc! Alternatively, play an arc from each member of the team.[*]Global channel "Freedom Architect", "MA Arc Finder", "Mission Architect" [*]Arc Sponsored costume contests & events[*]"Roleplay" marketing (ie. hero/villain hanging at phone talking to agent about his arc in /local)[*]Player billboards (hero name: "For a fun mish read my bio", bio has promo/details for arc)[*]Team/SG billboard (each player on the team has same costume except for chest letter detail so they spell out the arc ID to play: I D # # # #)[*]Referring to your arc in other arcs: souvenirs, clues, cameos, dialog.[/list]External websites<ul type="square">[*]SGSpaces Play my arc section [*]SGSpaces Arc discussion/rating (Under Construction)[*]Ouro Portal[*]Virtue Verse - In-game info for those on Virtue server[*]http://www.masearch.somee.com/[*]City of Heroes Mission Review[*]Create posters adverting your arc, and then upload to favorite file/image repository.[/list]Work for hire<ul type="square">[*]Dark_Respite makes nice trailers! (real money)[*]"Hire Magoo to create an image (poster, comic book cover, web ad, signature image, etc.) to advertise your mission. "[/list]
Add to it!
Party Clown,
For players on Virtue, I've added the in-game channel "Virtue Publishing" for promoting arcs and seeking MA teams. Obviously a global channel is great for promoting, but I feel each server should have their own so that teaming is made simpler.
Hope that helps!
-- Xason
"Begin with the End in mind" - Covey
Arc #1270 The Death of Xason Mushu
Arc #15364 Frostfire's Plea
if not noted - for arcs that are story driven (not for a challenge, farming, etc) - add the tag SFMA (for story focused mission arc) in the description.
There are 6 pages of them already, and people will search for the tag.
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<ul type="square">[*]Player billboards (hero name: "For a fun mish read my bio", bio has promo/details for arc)[/list]
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Please, no. Immersion is abused enough already.
'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
What ever happened to in-game ads? Has anyone ever seen them? How much do they cost?
Hmmm, while I've got my account reactivated... try the site that the EU have put together for mission reviews and listings - seems to be a bit more comprehensive (so far) than some of the offerings here...
City of Guides Mission Listings and Reviews
Nice site, but are we allowed to post US arcs on it?
Craft your inventions in AE!!
Play "Crafter's Cafe" - Arc #487283. A 1 mission, NON-COMBAT AE arc with workable invention tables!
Of course! Nothing stopping you and we can play your arcs over here too.
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Nice site, but are we allowed to post US arcs on it?
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I think arcs and comments/reviews written by players on the US-servers are more than welcome at City of Guides - especially while the ingame comments don't work between the US and EU server groups.
I suspect that you may need to list an arc at the site before you can leave comments, but I may be wrong on that!
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Someone in another thread suggested by mentioning one of yours when you send a review on someone else's.
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I used the reverse today - contacting people who'd previously commented on my arcs when I published a new arc.
I've been keeping a txt file of feedback received on my arcs and so used that as my 'mailing-database' when I published a new arc today...
So the people (on the EU servers as that's my main home) who had really enjoyed one of my arcs that was similar (in both tongue-in-cheek humour and length) to the new one were sent a tell something like this:
As someone who enjoyed my sense of poor humour in the past, I'd like to let you know that "City of Norms" (arc 132944) is my new JD-style-humour look at the recent events on the EU boards. Hopefully you'll enjoy it if you try it!
Now I think by keeping to people who really enjoyed a similar arc I managed to:
a) Keep the mailing list small;
and
b) Avoid it being just a spam mailshot to all and sundry.
Not sure if it's the sort of promotion idea you're after in this thread - but initial results suggest that (done carefully/sensibly) it seems to work.
Everyone should try my ARC on Virtue called "The One Hit Wonder and the Untold Conspiracy" Arc #150471. Its really sweet and really random, should be fairly easy to solo. It involves history, espionage, conspiracy, demons and other mischief. Enjoy!!
I have taken careful notes here and now have infinite ways to promote my arc.
Unfortunately,, I have not come up with a good arc idea yet to create, let alone promote.
Oh, well. At least I'm having fun playing some of yours.
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I have taken careful notes here and now have infinite ways to promote my arc.
Unfortunately,, I have not come up with a good arc idea yet to create, let alone promote.
Oh, well. At least I'm having fun playing some of yours.
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Well you could use your super-promoting powers only for good by finding arcs you like by other players and promoting them...
You need a "Ways NOT to promote your arc" list.
It can start with:
Posting "Play my Arc" messages in otherwise unrelated threads.
MArch spam has come to the forums.