maybe it was unpublished and republished?
Reply may be as complex as 'it was reported for content and the devs took it down' to 'the author unpublished it then put it up'
Would these explanations allow for the fact that the arc continues to be playable if you know its name, but not searchable any other way?
In other words, if I publish something and unpublish it, can people still access it by name? Or if devs ban it and then get overruled by customer service, which makes it unbannable, does it still not appear by key words?
I've looked for and have been able to play this arc for over a week now, yet all week long it has not been available by key word search ... only by exact name of arc or exact name of author. So I'm curious as all get out how this is possible?
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I believe one of the default search parameters is "Show Only Arcs That I Have Not Rated."
When you clicked "clear" to start your new search, that may have been de-toggled.
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I believe one of the default search parameters is "Show Only Arcs That I Have Not Rated."
When you clicked "clear" to start your new search, that may have been de-toggled.
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There are two default parameters: "only show those I haven't rated" and "only show those I haven't completed."
Being aware of these, I always go out of my way to uncheck them before I start my search. That's why this is so confusing to me. I keep wondering if there's a secret "hidden" mode that I'm not aware of.
Maybe the arc creator changed the text and removed the 'keyword' you were searching for, then republished it?
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If you know the creator of the arc you can use that as your search terms, which will let you find a story no matter what changes are made to it.
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If you know the creator of the arc you can use that as your search terms, which will let you find a story no matter what changes are made to it.
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Unless the creator has a global that is a common word. I'm sure somebody must have the global @war and somebody else must have the global @robot. Searching for there names would unleash a flood of unrelated stuff. In fact searching for @venture returns every arc with the word adventure.
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The only explanations I can think of is that a) the author unpublished and republished the arc, b) the author removed the keyword you were looking for from the title/description of the arc, or c) you had a typo in the keyword and didn't notice.
Without further detail here, that's about all the insight I have to offer at the moment. 
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Or the author had a different arc he wanted to publish and not enough room and just dropped that one.
If that had been the case, the OP wouldn't have found the arc again by typing its name into the search bar.
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when you drop and republish an arc, doesnt it get a new arc number? so if you kept the name the same but unpub repub... an exact name search would find it... but number would not...
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when you drop and republish an arc, doesnt it get a new arc number?
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I've never enjoyed farms before, especially the ones in PI where you're asked (told) to doorsit.
But in MA I found an arc that had a great map, challenging mobs, and I really enjoyed playing it. (All the mobs had the same powers that I did, but were of higher level.) It may not even be a farm, for all I know.
But after I played this arc once or twice, something weird happened. I did my usual search for it, and it didn't turn up. I made sure that my button regarding completion and voting were uncheck, so it should have been called up because I knew the key word it used.
At first I thought maybe it had been reported as a farm and deleted. But then I remembered the arc's actual name and placed it directly in the search mode -- and, wah-la, there it was!
Does anyone know how its possible that an arc doesn't show up when searching for it ... even when you know the key word? Is this a bug? Or can an arc "hide," either for personal use or while you are still building it so it doesn't get played while you're testing it? (Some people, I understand, prefer to build and test arcs on live, because they get real tickets instead of virtual.)
P.S. This thread is not about advocating for or against farms. (Plenty of those kinds of threads out there already.) I used the term "farm" because I knew it would attract readers, both for and against. (As I said, this arc may not even be a farm.) Thanks.