How much of an arc can you change after publishing
By
anachrodragon,
Posted on: 2009-07-19 14:45 in Mission Architect
Pretty much.
The biggest issue is that you can't really test it before republishing. I'm going to make some changes in the finale of my latest arc, but I'll have to run through the whole arc to see if those changes did what I wanted.
...I forgot what experience means.
The only thing stopping you from replacing your old arc with a completely new arc is the pain in the butt factor of editing a published arc. Well that, and the fact that publishing a brand new arc and claiming that it has 100 plays is flat out dishonest.
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
I wondered because i started thinking about losing ratings due to unpublishung. If our arcs kept their ratings if we unpublished them, and then had their ratings intact if we chise to publish them again, people wouldnt need to be so concerned with leaving them up all the time (those for who play and rating totals are important). It would give us more options. I wondered what the rationale behind erasure of ratings for an unpublish was.
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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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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Either it's the same reason for the erasure of your prestige total when you quit the SG (ie storing it is too low of a priority for them to figure out a way to do it) or it's to prevent people from unpublishing their highly rated arc, replacing it with something completely different, and trying to pass the new one off as a highly rated arc.
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
Yeah, its possibly a combination of the two. Its like tge TF minimum start 'rules', we can workaround them but its a hassle.
Its a slight shame , though.
I have an idea for an arc that would need 8 slots, all up and published at the same time. Im not going to take down the three slots ive got up lready though, as im still interested in seeing my plays go up.
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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Lol i just realised- i could use the workaround to edit my already published slots into 3 of the slots i need fir my plan, keeping local copies of them for when i want to re-edit them back.
Lol.
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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I actually know of someone who made a farm arc when MA launched, and got a lot of plays on it. Then when the first round of farming smackdown started, he decided to completely redo it into a story focused arc. It still has a bunch of ratings from when it was a farm.
I can't really fault him though. I'm glad he took the time to make it a real arc.
If he can take the time to make a real arc, he could take the time to pull the farm, publish the real arc, and let it stand on its own merits.
What this is, is flat out lying. You are claiming "100 people rated this arc an average of 4 stars." In actual fact, no one has rated that arc anything; the 100 ratings were for a completely different arc. The rating system exists to tell the playerbase what other people think of your arc, not so you "can see your number of plays go up."
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
It would indeed be 'dishonest' to portray a different arc as the legitimate earner of the ratings gained by the previous arc. I see a corollary here with farming and PLing etc, in that it could be claimed that 'the game allows me to do it; its therefore not cheating'.
I do think its cheating, btw.
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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Pretty much.
The biggest issue is that you can't really test it before republishing. I'm going to make some changes in the finale of my latest arc, but I'll have to run through the whole arc to see if those changes did what I wanted.
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Actually, you can always save the current version of your published arc locally. Make and then test the changes; and opnce you're happy, copy and pastye those changes into your publish arc and re-publish.
Thpught experiment.
I publish a 5-mission arc and after a while its got 100plays, 4 stars.
I edit it and alter everything thats alterable. Whats the minimum that would have to be left the same? The Arc ID?
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)