Other than avoiding stuff that buffs perception like Willpower's Heightened Senses, I don't know of any.
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A lot of defense sets offer perception bonuses in one of the toggles.
But yes, I've noticed that custom NPCs are more likely to pick up my scent whether they've got a defense set or not.
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Heh, I aggroed about three sets of mobs way down the hallway in my own arc.
DEY CAN SEE MEH! 
Did take me by surprise a little.
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I did give Willpower to one of my custom mobs, I may remove it and see it that helps.
I may also need to space out the spawns a bit, but I imagine that's probably a matter of picking different maps. Spawns that are simply too close together on solo suddenly morph into one huge spawn when played with a group. I tried my arc with some SG mates last night, and the first room was just absolutely full of enemies. I believe we were looking at 3 different spawns, but there was literally no telling where one left off and the other began. I think my buddies were ready to kill me, despite my pleas that "it's not my fault!"
Did you hammer on the console of the Millenium Falcon as you said it?
I see the whole heightened perception thing as a bonus, really. It could force designers to re-think the strength of individual custom enemies, if you could find yourself facing 3-4 spawns at once.
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Did you hammer on the console of the Millenium Falcon as you said it?
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Hmmm, will have to use a Mk III analyzer to see what the Perception of custom critters is.
I put a custom critter in with a group of snipers and it saw me at the same time the snipers did, so, I'm willing to bet custom critters have a sniper's perception... or agro range.
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Thank you for comfirming this. I have a range enhancer in my Flashfire, and I keep noticing that the NPCs do that little, "stand up fully, hey!" posture change that means they see you as I am firing it off. This goes with several things I noticed with custom NPC.
Blaster NPCs get Defiance.
I just fought a Zombie using Rooted, but he could jump! AND his power set was mace stone armor, yet I was being immobilised! Stone does NOT have an immobilise! Mudpots is a slow and DoT.
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Hmmm, will have to use a Mk III analyzer to see what the Perception of custom critters is.
I put a custom critter in with a group of snipers and it saw me at the same time the snipers did, so, I'm willing to bet custom critters have a sniper's perception... or agro range.
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It has been my experience that, barring +perception powers given to the custom critter, they have normal perception values.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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I just fought a Zombie using Rooted, but he could jump! AND his power set was mace stone armor, yet I was being immobilised! Stone does NOT have an immobilise! Mudpots is a slow and DoT.
[/ QUOTE ]Mission Maker Secondary.Stone Armor.Mud Pots has a mag 2 immobilize.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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I did give Willpower to one of my custom mobs, I may remove it and see it that helps.
I may also need to space out the spawns a bit, but I imagine that's probably a matter of picking different maps. Spawns that are simply too close together on solo suddenly morph into one huge spawn when played with a group. I tried my arc with some SG mates last night, and the first room was just absolutely full of enemies. I believe we were looking at 3 different spawns, but there was literally no telling where one left off and the other began. I think my buddies were ready to kill me, despite my pleas that "it's not my fault!"
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The first mish in my arc is tiny intended to get just that effect.
I do, however, give warning in the departure text that they're watching and may jump you right off the bat.
Dec out.
In an arc I recently ran, and really enjoyed, I walked into a one room map posing as a Biker bar.
Gang War erupted all over the place.
Of course, being a blaster, my immediate first reaction was TROW FIRE!!!!
So of course, I popped off a Fire Ball and went to town.
Had a rollicking good time and enjoyed every second of it.
Of course, talking with another player in tells I was told that since she was stealthed when she went in she just sat back and watched the Mayhem commence.
Yeah, I had my Cloaking Device on when I went into the mission. Hitting Hover instead of Fire Ball would have given me a really nice view of the carnage that ensued.
But that is not the way of the true Blaster.
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Did you hammer on the console of the Millenium Falcon as you said it?
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No, but when I saw all the enemies waiting to kill us, I did swing around in my swivel chair and cried "it's a trap!"
I created a custom enemy group for a mission arc and I noticed that the mobs from this group have an unusually high aggro range. I used a standard group in the same arc and the difference is very noticeable. What makes it worse is that on a couple of my mission maps, the spawns tend to get placed rather close together. Combined with the large aggro range, I found it's very easy to end up fighting 2 or 3 spawns at once.
I didn't see an option for adjusting the perception of custom mobs. Is there a way to do this?