Sometimes, if you make a lot of changes in one session, there seems to be a 'lag' that does weird things like that. Have you tried logging out and back in to see if it changes?
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That doesn't work. I guess I'll petition, though I doubt they'll answer.
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"The Consequences of War" - Arcs # 227331 and 241496
I'm having the same problem. It will let me test it if I click the Save and Test button within the editor. I even ran a successful test run. But on the main screen the Publish and Test buttons are grayed out.
One person said it can happen if any of you text is exactly at the limit. So I made sure none of it is. Some is within one character. I'm at 99% and some change for file usage. I only have this one mission. There are no errors. So I have no idea what the problem could be.
Logging out and back in didn't work for me either.
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One person said it can happen if any of you text is exactly at the limit. So I made sure none of it is. Some is within one character. I'm at 99% and some change for file usage.
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You probably need to shrink the file. That number is an estimate, and it's possible that the real storage size for your arcs on the servers is being exceeded.
As a test, back up the arc and chop out something like one custom critter or a single objective. See if it then lets you publish. If it does, you know that either it's too large or that there's something in the thing you deleted that's preventing the publish.
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That was the problem. I deleted a boss and lowered my usage and it published.
I already tried shrinking the file. Didn't work. I've turned it over to NCSoft, who said they'd have a Senior Support Person try to find out what the problem is.
I took a look at the text file and a couple instances where the html code for a non-breaking space (&nbsp
was used where it didn't seem necessary. That may be an issue that they need to look at. In any case, if it *is* in the MA coding, it's hidden and needs to be accounted for so it will show as an error.
Frankly, while there are many aspects of the MA that are great. The coding could use some work.
The SOLUS Foundation - a Liberty and Pinnacle SG
"The Consequences of War" - Arcs # 227331 and 241496
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I already tried shrinking the file. Didn't work. I've turned it over to NCSoft, who said they'd have a Senior Support Person try to find out what the problem is.
I took a look at the text file and a couple instances where the html code for a non-breaking space (&nbsp was used where it didn't seem necessary. That may be an issue that they need to look at. In any case, if it *is* in the MA coding, it's hidden and needs to be accounted for so it will show as an error.
Frankly, while there are many aspects of the MA that are great. The coding could use some work.
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I was editing one of my arcs earlier and I had one of those wonderful problems show up. But, it did flag it as an error. I copied it to notepad several times, but it still kept coming up as an html code problem. Somehow, while trying to edit some lines in the game, I ended up having the funky problem with things not pasting where I tried to paste them. In the process, a space was placed inside one of the color codes that was not visible because it was at a place that had it showing partly on one line and part on another. They really need to fix the wordwrap problem inside the text fields. For some reason, it doesn't work the way it's set up now. 
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It was the Story Description field. Though it showed as having an even 300 characters, and wasn't lighting up the error indicator, when I clicked "Save and Test" while inside the architect, I got a pop up that said something like, "Description Field too long." Of course it didn't say *which* description field. I eventually figured it out which brings me to another question:
Can anyone but the mission creator actually read the Character Description for a custom character? Not the ones that we type in missions, but the long one that we can type after we've created a custom character?
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"The Consequences of War" - Arcs # 227331 and 241496
Yes. Right-click the character and select Info.
Also, you can have the character selected, click Action in the Target window and select Info.
You can also do this in non-MA missions to see information about the enemies you are fighting. Those enemies also have another tab available that will show what types of possible Salvage they might drop.
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I'll check that, but I thought that was the character descruption we create for each mission we use the character in, not the big 1000 character description in the character creator.
Edit: I checked and I'm right. The description you get when you click on "Info," whether it's from right clicking on the character or from the "Action" drop down is the short description you can create each time you use the character in a mission. I've yet to find a way of accessing the long description that you can write at the end of the character creator. If you can't access other than as a creator, then it makes no sense to waste the memory unless you need to add info that's impiortant for you to remember later. In which case, since I'm familiar enough with all my custom characters thus far, it makes sense for me not to use that field... correct?
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"The Consequences of War" - Arcs # 227331 and 241496
This happened to me on a very full arc. The problem was that the MA inserted HTML code for line breaks and those "characters" caused the character limit to go over. The sucky part was that it didn't show up in the orange error section and I had to go through mission by mission.
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I'll check that, but I thought that was the character descruption we create for each mission we use the character in, not the big 1000 character description in the character creator.
Edit: I checked and I'm right. The description you get when you click on "Info," whether it's from right clicking on the character or from the "Action" drop down is the short description you can create each time you use the character in a mission. I've yet to find a way of accessing the long description that you can write at the end of the character creator. If you can't access other than as a creator, then it makes no sense to waste the memory unless you need to add info that's impiortant for you to remember later. In which case, since I'm familiar enough with all my custom characters thus far, it makes sense for me not to use that field... correct?
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If your custom chars already have descriptions from the creator, you don't need to add anything in the mission space for a description (such as boss descriptions). Just leave it blank. It defaults to what you put in when you created the character. If you add a description into the mission, it just takes up more space because it overrides the version you already have on the character. You can always go back and edit the char to add a description that way if you didn't write one at creation. I think the only time you might want to put a description in the mission is when you're using standard chars (not sure on that) that you want to make 'unique'.
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Ah... so if I'm changing the description with each mission, I don't need the description in the character creator at all? The arc details the effects of a prolonged battle on the characters, so each time they show up their description changes. I know not everyone will check the info each time, but some will, and I'm a completist. 
If that's correct, in my case I'll save space by leaving the character descriptions in the creator blank, right?
The SOLUS Foundation - a Liberty and Pinnacle SG
"The Consequences of War" - Arcs # 227331 and 241496
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Ah... so if I'm changing the description with each mission, I don't need the description in the character creator at all? The arc details the effects of a prolonged battle on the characters, so each time they show up their description changes. I know not everyone will check the info each time, but some will, and I'm a completist.
If that's correct, in my case I'll save space by leaving the character descriptions in the creator blank, right?
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Theoretically, if you want the descriptions to change, then just use the space in the mission itself. The one in the character creator would be unnecessary and just take up more space for that character. It might give you a tiny bit more wiggle room in the file size. If you multiply that small amount by the number of missions that use the character, that can definitely be a lot, especially if the description is long.
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I finally got my arc to a point where I'm ready to test it and then publish it. This is the second long arc I've done, so I'm familiar with how to make sure there are no errors, etc. By all accounts, it's ready to go, but the "Test" and "Publish" buttons are still greyed out. If this has been talked about in another thread, I couldn't find it. Any suggestions?
The SOLUS Foundation - a Liberty and Pinnacle SG
"The Consequences of War" - Arcs # 227331 and 241496