You should be able to just create a new character and give them the same name but a different save name. It might not work to just edit them and save differently, not sure though.
I did this for an arc I had published for a little while, I had to have 3 versions of my one toon to show up throughout the story. I had her named the same each time, although I did have her in different groups for each incarnation. You might need to have them in separate groups, but I'm not sure about that.
Also, if they run the arc on Heroic/Villainous, EBs will automatically get scaled down to Bosses. You could just put it in the description that they should tone down their difficulty if they can't handle EBs.
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You should be able to just create a new character and give them the same name but a different save name. It might not work to just edit them and save differently, not sure though.
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You should be able to give it the same name, and then hit "edit save path" and just put in a different file name. I'm pretty sure that's how I did it for the male and female versions of the Drakule Spawn, one with the filename Drakule SpawnM and Drakule SpawnF or something.
Yes, that is how you do it. You can put them in the same group. Unfortunately when you go to edit groups, it only shows the display name, not the save name.
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Yes, that is how you do it. You can put them in the same group. Unfortunately when you go to edit groups, it only shows the display name, not the save name.
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Ah, that would explain why there was only the changed character when I went to check it in the edit groups function. Ok then, I should be able to do this fairly easily. Thanks folks.
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You should be able to just create a new character and give them the same name but a different save name. It might not work to just edit them and save differently, not sure though.
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You should be able to give it the same name, and then hit "edit save path" and just put in a different file name. I'm pretty sure that's how I did it for the male and female versions of the Drakule Spawn, one with the filename Drakule SpawnM and Drakule SpawnF or something.
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I feel dumb now, I actually did the same thing in another of my arcs to add variation to the one minion in the group so that all the writers in the Writer's Guild didn't look the same.
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I've created an arc and one person mentioned that they didn't like the thought of facing multiple EBs. So I thought as an experiment I would create three versions of my arc. One as it is now including EBs. One as the lite version with opponent power levels lowered one step and EBs turned into bosses. And one increased in difficulty with EBs changed to AVs.
I can save a copy of the arc under a different name, that works just fine and I can edit either Lockdown (the original arc) or Lockdown Lite (the first modification of the arc). But when I change an npc in the second arc, even if I give that npc a different path name (in this case Spring Heels Minion changed to SH Minion Lite) It alters the ordinary version as well.
So what I need to know is this. Is there a simple way to copy a npc under a different name and not have the edits on one affect the edits on another?
And just incidentally if you want to see what the arc is about. It's arc# 250142 Lockdown. A silver age type arc intended for teams or SGs.
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