Arc 275741, Peacemoon's All-Star Challenge,
@Peacemoon
Two large maps and three unique maps - sounds enormous! The weirdest part, the levels for each of the 5 missions have no overlap. 6-9/17-19/27-29/36-39/50-54. Understanding that the premise is to face increasingly tough villains, it is difficult to pick a toon for this. Only a character from 6-9 will gain XP throughout the arc. Will such a character survive the 50-54 level mission? Even in a group?
I'll take a level 50 toon through this, since they don't get XP anyway. But I do wonder what audience you're expecting to play this.
The arc is explained as a simulation.
Mission 1 intro: bare -> bear
The description implies I'm high level when I begin. Perhaps suggest this to players in the Arc Description.
The sendoff says "won't have access to hardly any of your powers" - double-negative. Perhaps "won't have access to many of your powers".
Peacemoon's description: as nurse -> as a nurse
There's not really any story here. I can't imagine a storyline making sense if it was to try to tie the bosses together. But perhaps there could be a story about why the simulation was created - to prepare you for [something], to test your capabilities for the Menders to target you at your weakest time in history, whenever that might be [providing a different reason to trick you into being there] or some other story.
Mission 1 return: lets -> let's
I only did mission 1 since I'm really looking for story arcs. I didn't vote.
Cheers, airhead
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Arc 275741, Peacemoon's All-Star Challenge,
@Peacemoon
Two large maps and three unique maps - sounds enormous! The weirdest part, the levels for each of the 5 missions have no overlap. 6-9/17-19/27-29/36-39/50-54. Understanding that the premise is to face increasingly tough villains, it is difficult to pick a toon for this. Only a character from 6-9 will gain XP throughout the arc. Will such a character survive the 50-54 level mission? Even in a group?
I'll take a level 50 toon through this, since they don't get XP anyway. But I do wonder what audience you're expecting to play this.
The arc is explained as a simulation.
Mission 1 intro: bare -> bear
The description implies I'm high level when I begin. Perhaps suggest this to players in the Arc Description.
The sendoff says "won't have access to hardly any of your powers" - double-negative. Perhaps "won't have access to many of your powers".
Peacemoon's description: as nurse -> as a nurse
There's not really any story here. I can't imagine a storyline making sense if it was to try to tie the bosses together. But perhaps there could be a story about why the simulation was created - to prepare you for [something], to test your capabilities for the Menders to target you at your weakest time in history, whenever that might be [providing a different reason to trick you into being there] or some other story.
Mission 1 return: lets -> let's
I only did mission 1 since I'm really looking for story arcs. I didn't vote.
Cheers, airhead
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Hey Airhead, you are right this is not really an arc for xp per say. It is an arc designed to challenge and test players. Some characters will get xp towards the end, however in a sense the reward is the tickets and the sense of accomplishment. 
For this reason it is assumed people will choose higher level characters.
As for story, the arc is written as a story in the sense that you are offered the chance to take up 5 trials in the virtual reality matrix. Where as most stories try to make the virtual reality into a real world, this arc states you are entering virtual reality and that should explain why you meet old faces like Marrowsnap, Hellspawn and Patient Zero in the first mission. It is not the real them, but a virtual reality version crafted by the creator of the trials to make it challenging. I did go to some lengths to put in backstory and text and not just have faceless enemies and "trial 1, begin". This should also explain the variety of enemies you face.
I hope that clears some things up. Nevertheless, thank you very much for the feedback.
This sounds like something I could test my old tanker with. Phrendon Largo has his level 50 IO'd build and a low end build for exemplaring. I think I could succeed in this with this character. I'll give it a try this evening.
-Largo
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So what did you think Largo? 
ID: 275741
Style: Challenge
Group Size: Solo or small teams
Level: The missions cover all level ranges, which include the 40-50 range. As a result I advise participants to be over secutiry level 30 if they want to go all the way.
Morality: Hero
I thought I'd throw my latest arc out there just incase there were people on this forum who might enjoy it. It is a challenge arc which takes the most difficult canon enemies for you to fight against to test your characters strength across all level ranges.
It has no custom enemies and no obnoxious elite bosses or arch villains. It is designed for solo players or small teams. The idea of each mission is to hunt down a number of named bosses who are taken from canon missions (and their text will be constantly included as I find it)
It is actually very fun, if you like challenging content. I've taken over 10 people through this story arc, not all have rated it however everyone has really really enjoyed it.
As for feedback, any feedback on the difficulty of the missions would be appreciated. As well as any enemies you think I have missed which should be included, or perhaps enemies that I included that you feel are actually too easy to be present.
If you do play it, I hope you find it very enjoyable.
-Peace