Issue14: Architect is Now Live! ~Discussion~
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Cende,
Posted on: 2009-04-08 10:58 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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NCsoft will be granting a (1) free respec to each active character, to enable your freespec please type /respec on the build you wish to change.
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when will this be granted or has it been already?
YMMV---IMO
Ice Ember
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NCsoft will be granting a (1) free respec to each active character, to enable your freespec please type /respec on the build you wish to change.
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when will this be granted or has it been already?
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Has been issued at launch today, an announcement went out on March 30th: Respecification
Ex
Are you kidding?
The Architect is still doing that thing where if you dare try to use it for too long it sucks up all your memory and you're left staring at a still image. I could barely get out of the editor, I couldn't even quit out of the game. I could barely even end it in the Task Manager! Nothing like that ever happened to me until Open Beta started. Near as I can figure, this is largely due to the fact that the Mission Architect isn't a separate screen like everything else in the game, but rather a resizeable window that hovers over the screen.
Maybe I'll just edit my arcs by hand in Notepad...
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Cool! Now where do I go to complain because I can't do X with the Mission Architect tool?
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On open beta and now Live I get the whole system lock up thing. Everytime I'm in the MA, if I click on anything it will randomly and without warning, lock up my entire system. I've complained about this for a while now with no real answers solutions from the GM's.
Just tonight at 9:24pm central 04/09/2009, I was in mission architect editing my groups powers and such. All I did was click on a minion in the left window in group editor and my entire system locked up. I couldn't ctrl/alt/delete out nothing worked. Had to hard shutdown my system.
Now I can't even enjoy issue 14 in all it's splendor or I have a total system lock up failure. Booooo....! >.<
I can't feel my legs..!
Has anybody else noticed that since the patch all the supergroup banners for the supergroup base seem to be broken? Instead of the normal patterns, they all just show up as gray with the group symbol on it.
Yeah, that got noticed during test.
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This thing is really good. now i can make my adventures i was thinking making manga about. where the EX. soldier in the field whom have fought for the longbows become found badly wounded by the arhacnos and dont remeber who he is. i was thinking it will be a story arch in about 8 mishes
Whose genius idea was it to put an AE building in Cap on Red Side? Let alone put it in Aeon plaza. God the freaking farmers and PLers have all moved in because they only gotta move 10 feet out of the building to get to Black Market, Arbiter, Fateweaver or to sell. Can we get rid of that AE building and send the scum of the game back to Grandville where they belong?
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Are you kidding?
The Architect is still doing that thing where if you dare try to use it for too long it sucks up all your memory and you're left staring at a still image. I could barely get out of the editor, I couldn't even quit out of the game. I could barely even end it in the Task Manager! Nothing like that ever happened to me until Open Beta started. Near as I can figure, this is largely due to the fact that the Mission Architect isn't a separate screen like everything else in the game, but rather a resizeable window that hovers over the screen.
Maybe I'll just edit my arcs by hand in Notepad...
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I also noticed that ever since I14 went live, merely logging in, my RAM usage will if I simply stand still, slowly climb, or if I move around, it'll shoot through the roof, and never come down, and if I use the mission architect, heaven forbid I load any custom characters, or put in more than a couple boss fights or rescues, because it seems to want to take up all my system processing and memory resources, per item I add to a mission...
Basically Mission Architect seems very unoptimized for middle end PCs: (Current specs are 2.33 Gigahertz processor, single core in an asus board that supports multi core, but I don't have the cash for more, 512 meg GEForce 7xxx series video card, and 3 gigs of RAM) it's an amazing tool, and I've been having tremendous fun with it, but most of my missions have to be watered down a lot because I have to save them, purposely end-task my city of heroes client, go back in, do a few more changes, save and crash myself again to get my RAM back...
Any way to optimize all of this, like defaulting the 'character preview' window to no animation, or stick figure, or off, and let it be turned on? It seems that even with all of the bosses or other such things minimized on opening, the thing nearly wants to crash my system.
2 things I would "love" to see coming for the MA....
1.) The ability to specifically say "this boss/mob/glowie goes here" (or at least have in the map layout have a diagram with it split into sections or whatever you want to call it so that you can see "oh, section A is generally where I want this boss" and then in the drop down box for the boss select "section A").
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2.) The ability to specify how many mobs come in an ambush. As sg-mates and myself have noticed, if you have an ambush set to x event and that ambush only has an AV/EB in the group....oops, you get up to 3 AVs coming at ya 
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Now, when you say "innovation"...
City of Heroes isn't the first game to try something like this. It's the most successful MMO to do it, and has chosen an excellent implementation. But user-created content for multiplayer online games has had other go 'rounds... Ryzom, for instance, which while never as successful, was the first MMO I'm aware of to pull it off. And of course plenty of other games have permitted users to create their own maps and scripts over the years -- ranging from Furcadia (which, while having no game rules of its own, comes out pretty far ahead in terms of its scripting system and the extensive degree to which it allows players to re-create any game element, including tiles and avatars) to Neverwinter Nights (both versions of which have had Persistent-type online servers) to straight up FPSes to, heck, TinyMUD. Now of course I'm kind of going down and away on a list in terms of relevance to CoX's MA project, what with starting out with another MMO and enduing up on MU*s... but this is a long tradition. And it saddens me to see so little of that acknowledged, both within the game and in the press surrounding it.
Is the subforum Issue 14: Architect: Feedback (Open) closed now? It's disappeared from the main index.
Yes, it was closed, like we were warned about a week ago by ex. Relevant threads have been moved elsewhere I think.
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Hmm...I didn't get the memo, you'd think they would have made it read only before transferring stuff.
Nah, not enough chance to break the forums that way
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Youve learned the specifics about it and youve read the glowing press articles. Youve watched the Rooster Teeth videos and you may have even jumped into Open Beta and tried it out for yourself! But now the wait is over
Issue 14: Architect is officially available on the live servers! Now is your opportunity to try first-hand the much anticipated Mission Architect system and enjoy some additions to the PvP system as well -- including brand new PvP Origin Enhancement sets that will add more flavor to your combats!
Whether you like to play or create a whole world of user-generated content awaits! So go play Issue 14: Architect and let the fun begin!
Get in the know by reading the Issue 14 Release Notes.
For information on how to transfer your Open Beta stories/missions over to the live servers, read [url=http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13200472]this! Please Note: The action of transferring over will assign your mission a new I.D. number!!!
Here are some important changes you need to be aware of:
NCsoft will be granting a @Global Chat Handle rename token with the Issue 14 launch. To change your global chat handle, type /change_handle Player Name in the chat line or click on Chat Handle (X) from the drop down Menu option.
NCsoft will be granting a (1) free respec to each active character, to enable your freespec please type /respec on the build you wish to change.
Super Leader is now active. Please follow the instructions below to change leadership.
Steps to Transfer Super Leader:
1. The Super Leader selects the appropriate Leader in the Super Group window.
2. The targeted Leader must be online
3. Click Promote
4. A message box pops up, asking if you want to promote this character to Super Leader
5. Click Yes
6. The new character becomes Super leader, and the old Super Leader becomes a normal Leader
Want information on how to gain recognition and rewards through Mission Architect by getting awarded Devs Choice and/or Hall of Fame status? Read all about it in this news announcement and this great guide entitled Devs Choice: Becoming the Chosen One!
For your reading pleasure, heres a handy list of all the new badges being released in Issue 14.
With the release of Issue 14, please join in on the conversations being conducted in our new sections of the Official Message Board:
Mission Architect: Stories & Lore
Mission Architect: Resources, Discussion, & Questions
Want to share your Mission Architect creations with the community? Go to our Message Board and post in the available Announce Your Latest Creation Here thread.
Perhaps you have uber knowledge on how to use Mission Architect. Please feel free to share it with others via the Mission Architect: Player Guides thread!