Suggested MA Alterations & Improvements

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DR is not any kind of improvement its a stupid devs cruch to heavy handedly dictate to players what to play.

Thank goodness the devs are not stupid enough to implement this stupid suggestion that has been suggested many many times and poo pooed over the past two months for various reasons.

This is just ANOTHER nerf AE thread in disguise.

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ED was a player suggestion as well so they do look at stupid ideas to make the gaming experience more drawn out...

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ArchRex Dojhrom x ?
* Sidus Loricatus: B-NRG2, S-BS/Reg, T-Fire/Ice, MM-Bots/FF, St-NRG2, Dom-Psi/NRG, Cor-Son/Traps, Cor-Ice/Kin, Ctrl-Fire/Kin, PB-LB/LA
* Arachnos Loricatus: Soldier, Widow
* Praetoria Loricatus: B-DP/Dev, Cor-Elec/Elec

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DR would be a horrible solution and would have a large impact on many folks game experience.

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I think that'd largely depend on where those diminishing returns started.

Point is, the devs seem to like the general idea of DR. If it's really a horrible solution for this particular problem--if it is a problem, I'm still not convinced of that, myself--then more ideas need to be put forward.

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DR would just hurt the guy that loves to play a few select characters alot. Farmers would just rotate between different characters or accounts anyway. I mean I was eating dinner last night and saw a team of 8 played by only two people. Enough sonics to cap resists, and a blasting kinetics, and the dude getting Pl'd the rest looked to be on autofollow and the team never entered the map at the same time, just one by one.

The devs need to fix exploitive and harassing behavior such as the broken email system

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ArchRex Dojhrom x ?
* Sidus Loricatus: B-NRG2, S-BS/Reg, T-Fire/Ice, MM-Bots/FF, St-NRG2, Dom-Psi/NRG, Cor-Son/Traps, Cor-Ice/Kin, Ctrl-Fire/Kin, PB-LB/LA
* Arachnos Loricatus: Soldier, Widow
* Praetoria Loricatus: B-DP/Dev, Cor-Elec/Elec

Improvements I would like to see:

1. Enable offsite MA interface (from the Mission Engineer Accolade) to be used in SG/VG bases. I was really upset last night when I couldn't work on an arc while in my base. It would make those SG meetings seem less tedious. =D

2. Also agree that be able to retain the Architect Souvenirs would be nice. I've already lost some really good, well written souvenirs.

3. The map overviews in the MA Creator really need a zoom feature. I can't hardly make out the icons - which might not be a big deal since the legend and the markers are bugged at this point. Still, not much use in having the markers if we can't see where they mark.

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Great suggestions, Lord Xenite!

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Thanks

About the card-collecting idea, I think that essentially this could become a mini-game within CoX where we trade cards and use them to play a card-game based on our own characters/critters akin to 'Magic: The Gathering'. This of course is just an idea off the top of my head, and while I'd like to see something like that, I'd never ask the Devs to dedicate time for it instead of other changes.

Another idea that I think could be great is, remember those Arena Gladiator battles? Well, what if the same way that we earn Gladiators, we could earn Custom Critters from Dev Choice/Hall of Fame missions (or even regular published missions)? I think this could create new interest in the Arena Gladiator battle system and improve the longevity of the game.

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Another idea that I think could be great is, remember those Arena Gladiator battles? Well, what if the same way that we earn Gladiators, we could earn Custom Critters from Dev Choice/Hall of Fame missions (or even regular published missions)?

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Oo. I like this. Would be a good way to "unlock" some of those unreleased heroes and villains from the bank missions and from some of the PVE content (like Sigil, Kadabra Kill, Lady Jane, etc.)

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This of course is just an idea off the top of my head, and while I'd like to see something like that, I'd never ask the Devs to dedicate time for it instead of other changes.

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Hey, who's to say what I want is more important? Assert yourself! This is your world!


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Another idea that I think could be great is, remember those Arena Gladiator battles? Well, what if the same way that we earn Gladiators, we could earn Custom Critters from Dev Choice/Hall of Fame missions (or even regular published missions)?

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What's great about your ideas so far is they tend to take existing items the game does nothing with and makes something cool and awesome out of them. I think that's doable without being lagtastic...

The only question is, what happens to a Gladiator if the mission it was spawned from is banned?

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Hey, who's to say what I want is more important? Assert yourself! This is your world!

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How confusing... some people tell me to shut up, and other tell me to assert myself... boy oh boy what a wonderful world is our world, eh!?

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What's great about your ideas so far is they tend to take existing items the game does nothing with and makes something cool and awesome out of them. I think that's doable without being lagtastic...
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The only question is, what happens to a Gladiator if the mission it was spawned from is banned?

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Well, I think that just like critters are kept in files that are different than the Arc file itself on the client machine, the CoX Servers could possibly store our critters in different files/database-tables, so that if a mission was banned, the critters themselves could still be used unless the critters were the reason why the mission was banned, in which case the Devs could adjust the critters so that they're no longer too weak or overpowered.

Can you imagine having your friends excitedly invite you to a Gladiator match and fight you with one of your very own creations?

Speaking of critter-sharing, why not enhance the AE so that instead of simply being able to play a story-arc, we could also download the story-arcs' critters into our own PC's so we could later use those critters in our very own story-arcs?

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I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!

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The main implement I'd like to see :

- Multiple choice missions, according to player actions or choices while talking to the contact.

That would be a small revolution to the MA and would definitely get rid of this feeling 'anyway it's just about clicking glowies and killing stuff' that leads directly to farming.

If players action inside a mission could lead to different endings, it would change it all !

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I think the very best way to improve this aspect of the AE is for people to stop caring how other players are playing the game and just start focusing on enjoying themselves.

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QFT.

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