it's on the Wish List.
So far the devs haven't said anything in regards to earnable/purchasable slots aside from getting something to Dev's Choice or Hall of Fame.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
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it's on the Wish List.
So far the devs haven't said anything in regards to earnable/purchasable slots aside from getting something to Dev's Choice or Hall of Fame.
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I have a feeling that about 6 months from now they'll find a way to do that for those that are putting out decent arcs that aren't HoF or DC material but still seem to be popular. It's to keep the interest up. If they feel that people are quitting CoX because they're tired of not having enough venues to share user created content then they'll create more slots.
Just as they gave us more character slots...
It'll just take time.
I want more slots too please. I'd be willing to pay up to 20bucks per slot.
Eco.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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I have a feeling that about 6 months from now they'll find a way to do that for those that are putting out decent arcs that aren't HoF or DC material but still seem to be popular. It's to keep the interest up. If they feel that people are quitting CoX because they're tired of not having enough venues to share user created content then they'll create more slots.
Just as they gave us more character slots...
It'll just take time.
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Boy, I hope that's not the case. Three arc slots is TINY. It's like getting 3 character slots, except it takes me a lot longer to level up a character than it does to make an arc.
My hope is that it's trivially easy for them to create more arc slots, it's just that they want to data mine for a bit to get a sense of how popular arc creation is before they create a scheme to dispense more arc slots.
I'm guessing they also want to wait until the hype has died down, so the only people actually using those slots are people who are serious about creating missions and not just playing around with the new shiny.
Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
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I want more slots too please. I'd be willing to pay up to 20bucks per slot.
Eco.
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SHHHHH!!
I'm hoping it will be a little more affordable than that!
You can already get 3 slots for $20! Just buy a 2nd account, publish your 3 arcs, then cancel your 2nd account.
Granted, you can't edit those 3 arcs unless you resubscribe, but ...
Play my MA arcs!
Tracking Down Jack Ketch - ArcID #2701
Cat War! - ArcID #2788
I'd love to have more slots available. Just having 3 is only a 'teaser' to people that really love to write a good story. I'd be wary of setting up another account to do it because I'd be afraid that sometime in the future (when they start running low on server space), they might decide to delete arcs posted on inactive accounts. If they're really good arcs, that would suck.
No AV/EBs Deal with The Devil's Pawn-207266 Slash DeMento and the Stolen Weapons-100045 Meet the Demon Spawn-151099 Feedback
I think part of the point of the 3 arcs only policy is that in theory it should raise the quality of the arcs. (i.e. Everyone will publish their BEST three arcs, and the general quality of arcs will be higher.) I know, for example, that when I created my fourth arc, I removed from my first three arcs the one that I felt wasn't quite as good.
If you allowed twenty arcs per account, then there are many people who would post every single experimental, incomplete "story" that they made while spending 5 minutes playing around on MA. And there are others who would just immediately post 17 more farms. And we would all suffer as we wade through even MORE crap to find the good arcs.
But, yeah, there should be some way to allow people who are actually contributing good stuff to be able to keep it up indefinitely.
I do understand that some people just hate to admit that their ability to create good arcs doesn't exist, and, they will probably post more crap if given the opportunity. That being said, I would like to see other ways of gaining slots other than the DC/HoF rewards. First of all, I think many of the ones that exist at this point, only got there because they were some of the first missions put into the system. Since the volume of missions available at the time was so much lower than it is now, they easily reached the number of plays required because there was a much smaller field available to play. And, since the MA was the new 'shiny', people's ratings were probably more lenient in granting stars at that point, too. People didn't have time to really get to learn how to use the MA system well enough, early on, and people playing didn't have enough good examples of MA missions.
The chances of ever earning those rewards now are significantly less. Especially the DC, because there's such a slim chance of a really good arc ever getting the attention of a dev. There are way too many for them to wade through. Even the number of plays can be deceiving, since the highest play numbers may very well be on farm missions.
Vet rewards could be one good way to gain more slots. At least, giving slots to players that have been around a while will ensure that there won't be huge numbers of arcs posted by people that only play for a couple of months, then move on to the next game that catches their eye. And, long term players are more likely to want to make good missions that people will like to play. Hopefully.
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If vet rewards are the only way, it'll discourage people who were drawn to CoH, or decided to renew their subscriptions because of MA.
Ideally there would be a way that requires some effort, but doesn't cost real money. They'll probably just do micro-transactions though, it seems to unfortunately be the direction the game is heading.
Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
They've already said that file size isn't the problem.
I think they were planning on having the 3 slots make people actively try and get their arcs into the coveted dev choice area. Unfortunately, there's too much griefing and manipulation of the ratings system for that to work.
Even a way to buy new slots with inf would be fine. You get inf so quickly after level 30 or so that it wouldn't matter too much.
QR - I'd actually prefer it be a real money transaction thing, tbh. It would help weed out the non-serious. An unfortunate side effect would be that it would also weed out the serious but less financially wossname players.
Eco.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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Maybe link it to the ratings of your current arcs?
Once an arc gets played so many times and maintains a 3+ rating you unlock a new slot.
Encourages quality and is automated so the devs don't need to worry about it.
Then we'd see a bunch of "3-Plus Star Cartels" solely so that people could unlock additional slots.
I, too, would like additional slots. I have an idea for a grand epic that'll take eight story arcs to tell (one each in the Lv10-14, 15-19, 20-24, etc. range). Then I want to make a villainous version of that epic arc, so that's 16 arcs total. And that's not counting the other stories I want to do. I'd *love* more publishing slots, but alas ... I only have six (since I have two accounts) slots so I'll make do with what I have and hold onto the futile hope that the devs like my arc enough to give it a "Developer's Choice" spot so I'll get additional publishing slots.
Play my MA arcs!
Tracking Down Jack Ketch - ArcID #2701
Cat War! - ArcID #2788
I agree that vet rewards should not be the only way to get more slots, but it could be one way. I don't think we should have to pay cash for them, real or otherwise, either. If the rating system was more reliable, that could be another way to do it. Maybe, if someone can keep a certain high rating (maybe 4 or 5 stars) over a certain number of plays, they could earn another slot. But, that would nullify the DC/HoF perk, unless they made the rewards for that a little different, too. They'd really need to make the ratings more meaningful to get a more reliable assessment of quality/popularity, though.
I can't really think of another way to make it tie to the MA itself. It probably should be something that players that actively use the MA for creating missions can earn, as opposed to players that never use it for creation at all.
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I *really* hope the devs come up with a way to give us more slots soon, since 3 is extremely restrictive, even though I spent well over 2 months finely honing my missions to fit into the space provided. (I prefer to use completely customized villains, which eats up a ton of space)
Architect is pretty much THE reason that I'm sticking around at this point, and while I admit that AE has largely become the home of annoying farmers, it's also a great opportunity to play some thoroughly entertaining arcs.
At this point, I would like to see additional mission slots made available for both cash and as vet rewards. (perhaps +1 per year active?)
I think $9.95 for an additional 3 slots is a fair price. There should probably be *some* upper limit (maybe a maximum of 12 or 15), but it would give me room to work on new arcs while I'm waiting for my previous ones to reach exalted 'Hall of Fame' status. (Well, I've received almost 100% positive verbal feedback, though my ratings are still hovering around 4 like everyone else)
Sadly, I don't think that tickets are the answer to opening up more slots, for the simple reason that the people who earn the most tickets are the jerks who play and develop farming missions.
QR - Money talks. NCSoft would be crazy to not offer more slots for real money. I for one will pay up to $30 for a slot. If people think that's too high and it should be $9.99 per slot, then in that case I'll buy three. Come on, NCSoft, Have some more of my money. Please.
Eco.
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
Quote:
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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And something would have to be done about locked accounts. Oh you have 3 locked arcs because you exploited the hell out of some glitches? Here you can buy some more.
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QR - Money talks. NCSoft would be crazy to not offer more slots for real money. I for one will pay up to $30 for a slot. If people think that's too high and it should be $9.99 per slot, then in that case I'll buy three. Come on, NCSoft, Have some more of my money. Please.
Eco.
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Will someone please call in the tranqdart sniper on this guy already? 
Seriously. We get it MrCaptainMan, you have money to burn. Some of us don't, we play CoH because it's a relatively cheap hobby.
Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
This thread is SO behind the times.
Start getting your wallets out, boys and girls! 
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This thread is SO behind the times.
Start getting your wallets out, boys and girls!
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Can I get your wallet out instead?
Well... I used up my 3 published missions slots pretty fast... would it be possible to add more mission slots unlockable with a bunch of tickets? Maybe even add in bigger mission size upgrades through tickets too?
Mew