On a failed mission, do you still continue ....
By
Dechs Kaison,
Posted on: 2009-06-09 10:23 in Mission Architect
I believe it *does* kick you out of the mission as soon as it's failed, just like Dev-created missions. And yes, you just continue on to the next mission.
Yes, it does continue. You'll have "failure text" to fill out if your player fails it.
Try out "Blight" by @muu for a perfect example. The first mission is completely impossible and it uses the failure text to send you down an interesting path. I won't spoil it for you, though.
If you are going to deliberately make people fail you had better make it crystal clear in several places that this is not a problem and they should just continue to the next mission. You will still probably receive a few complaints and low ratings.
Geek - "Blight" is my arc. You're thinking "Uncreation" 
I have an escort in the middle of one arc that is possible to kill. The fail text talks about how unfortunate their death was but it was a good thing they told you what you needed to know before they died. It puts a little emotion into the story... though I think since I did that I made the escort a non-combatant and thus unkillable because of feedback. *shrugs*
At any rate, any failure before the last mission needs to be recoverable in some way shape or form because the arc will continue success or fail.
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"Uncreation" by @muu is currently unplayable, unfortunately.
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DOH!
This is what I get for posting at work. Too bad it's currently unplayable. 
The first mission of my MAGI Vault Heist arc (ID# 3885) is another one that's designed to "fail". In this case, I had to put the "failure debrief text" in the success field.
I was experimenting with different mission types in this arc, and although it has gotten good ratings, there are a few rough spots that I will revisit as new MA features are deployed.
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Geek - "Blight" is my arc. You're thinking "Uncreation"
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DOH!
This is what I get for posting at work. Too bad it's currently unplayable.
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Uncreation or Blight? Blight is perfectly playable, it's my arc "Closer to the Heart" that's broken at the moment.
I'm not sure what ticket bonus you get on failed missions. I seem to recall that with regular missions, you get a reduced influence/experience bonus if the mission fails. So you might want to check out whether you get the ticket bonus on failed missions before you decide to this.
If you don't get the bonus, people doing your arc will get half the tickets they would on other stories. That will probably earn you a lot of low ratings.
EDIT: Just tested this on Training Room. I got the normal number of bonus tickets when the mission failed due to a boss fleeing.
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Geek - "Blight" is my arc. You're thinking "Uncreation"
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DOH!
This is what I get for posting at work. Too bad it's currently unplayable.
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Uncreation or Blight? Blight is perfectly playable, it's my arc "Closer to the Heart" that's broken at the moment.
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Uncreation. What sucks is that Muu can't fix it because he can only edit his arcs when Footsteps Initiative is in the Hall of Fame. As far as I know it hasn't popped back into that status in weeks.
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Geek - "Blight" is my arc. You're thinking "Uncreation"
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DOH!
This is what I get for posting at work. Too bad it's currently unplayable.
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Uncreation or Blight? Blight is perfectly playable, it's my arc "Closer to the Heart" that's broken at the moment.
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Uncreation. What sucks is that Muu can't fix it because he can only edit his arcs when Footsteps Initiative is in the Hall of Fame. As far as I know it hasn't popped back into that status in weeks.
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Well, that answers a question I've been meaning to ask Muu. I was wondering if the extra arc slot you get from HoF is permanent, or only exists if an arc is currently in the HoF.
Someone was saying that, now that they've copied the live arcs over to the Test Server, it looks like they've changed the rating system to make it easier for arcs to maintain higher ratings. I really hope that's true, but I didn't think to see for myself during the brief time I was on Test yesterday. If it's true, hopefully it means HoF arcs will stay in the HoF for awhile.
Well that sucks. Uncreation was one of my favourite arcs, and I was gonna take my next character through it.
... on to the next mission? Aside from the failure text, does it still send you on to the next mission without any consequences? When the objective is failed, does it kick you out of the mission?
I was wondering because I want to design a comedy arc in which you fail most, if not all, of the missions.
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