Published Arc not syncing with .storyarc file?

I published an arc the other day, and have been tweaking it. I've added extra enemies to the mission, etc.

I just took a look at the .storyarc file, and it seems to be from when I first published. It does not contain the new characters or any of the modifications I've made to the text.

When editing an arc and republishing, are changes not saved locally? Is there anything special I need to do to update that file?

Thanks!

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Edit Published Arc -> Save As

That will update your local .storyarc file.

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It's a little confusing. Edits made to published arcs are saved only to the server, not locally.

Similarly, changes made to the local .storyarc file (say, with a text editor, or offline MA editor tool like Leandro's) are not automatically reflected in the published arc when you begin to edit. If you edit the published arc and do a "save as", you will overwrite any edits you made by such methods. This can be frustrating since there are some edits (like reordering details) that can't be done in the UI.

However, the same is not true of critter and group files. If you make changes to those files, and the story arc refers to them, then when you edit the published arc the local changes are automatically absorbed into the runtime model for the story. I believe this is so you can use custom critters and groups across multiple story arcs and not have to make individual edits to each one as you tweak them.

I'm using Subversion to track all my changes to make sure that anything unintentionally changed by these complex rules can be changed back if I need to. There's a thread on that listed in the MA guides thread.

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And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

Thanks for the help!

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