Dev's Choice: Becoming the Chosen One!


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Hey All,

There have been a number of questions on the boards about the Dev’s Choice program and obtaining “The Chosen One” badge. We’ve decided to release a little more information to clear up some of the misconceptions about this program and give players some valuable advice on how to get their missions noticed.

Dev’s Choice is a way for us to recognize stories that represent what the Mission Architect can do best. Those stories are personally selected for Dev’s Choice based on the feedback from the Development Team and they are great for those looking for a fun mission to play.

So what do we consider when choosing between stories when deciding which should be selected for Dev’s choice?
<ul type="square">[*]We found the arc thoroughly enjoyable to play. [*]We want to share that experience with others. [*]The arc found a balance between fun gameplay and a decent story. [*]There’s no apparent way to exploit the missions.[/list]
Having your story selected for Dev’s Choice is beneficial in a number of ways. Dev’s Choice stories do not count against your total published arcs. If you have three published arcs and one of them gets turned into Dev’s Choice, you will be able to publish a fourth. If one of those three arcs gets flagged as Dev’s Choice, you will be able to publish a fifth, and so on. These stories visually stand out in the Mission Browser, and Players can filter specifically for Dev’s Choice content. Of course, the creator of a mission selected for Dev’s Choice gets the rare and coveted “The Chosen One” badge.

Please note that because Dev’s Choice stories are hand picked by the Developers, we want to ensure that the caliber of their content persists. To that end, we lock the story permanently on our Arc Server, preserving it in its chosen state. This does not mean that you can’t change or update your story if you decide to do so after it has been selected. However, you will have to republish this story as a second story, without the Dev’s Choice standing. The original story that was chosen for Dev’s Choice will still be available to everyone.


The final question is “How do I get my story selected by the Developers?” One of the things we’ve noticed while on the Training Room is that certain stories begin to build a buzz. Players talk about them in the chat window, posts start to appear on the forums, the Community takes notice and as such, the Developers take interest. We talk about them in between meetings and over lunch. When we log in to play, we look for these stories we’ve heard about. When we play them and they fill the criteria for what we believe to be the Best of Architect, we mark it as such. Dev’s Choice missions will be chosen like this, organically. But to give you some guidelines of things that can help you get noticed, we recommend the following:

<ul type="square">[*]Get people to play your story – offer to play their story in exchange. [*]Humbly solicit feedback and implement changes based off of what other players are saying about your content. [*]Play, rate and comment on other’s stories, this helps build a community of authors. [*]And finally there will be a forum thread called ‘Dev’s Choice: For Your Consideration’ where players can post arcs they think should be considered for Dev’s Choice. The two guidelines being, you can’t promote your own arc (that’ll likely happen in some other forum somewhere else) and you can’t disagree with anyone else’s suggestion (again, that’ll happen in some other thread).[/list]
We would also like to add that our French and German players will indeed be included in this program. Their stories will be reviewed by a team of French and German natives and the same criteria will be taken into account for the Dev’s Choice status and the corresponding “The Chosen One” badge to be awarded.


So that is the Dev’s choice program. As you can see, it is fairly simple and straightforward; we wanted a chance to reward those who write good stories and a way to point them out to everyone as content that is reliably high quality. We’re very excited about MA and can’t wait to see what you will do with it!

-The Development Team


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And finally there will be a forum thread called ‘Dev’s Choice: For Your Consideration’ where players can post arcs they think should be considered for Dev’s Choice. The two guidelines being, you can’t promote your own arc (that’ll likely happen in some other forum somewhere else) and you can’t disagree with anyone else’s suggestion (again, that’ll happen in some other thread).

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This right here calms any worries i had about the devs choice feature, thanks for the update Av!


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This is really helpful, thanks.

One question - thethread for nuding the devs to consider an arc - areyou limited to one recommendation?

Just wondering because I try out a lot of arcs and I want to know if I would have one bolt to shoot, in this regard.


 

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So, what about the Dev Choices at the moment?
Some of them are indeed worthy of that place...some simply aren't. In a major way, in some played cases.


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And finally there will be a forum thread called ‘Dev’s Choice: For Your Consideration’ where players can post arcs they think should be considered for Dev’s Choice. The two guidelines being, you can’t promote your own arc (that’ll likely happen in some other forum somewhere else) and you can’t disagree with anyone else’s suggestion (again, that’ll happen in some other thread).

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This right here calms any worries i had about the devs choice feature, thanks for the update Av!

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Question is... How can we post on the US forum?


 

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And finally there will be a forum thread called ‘Dev’s Choice: For Your Consideration’ where players can post arcs they think should be considered for Dev’s Choice. The two guidelines being, you can’t promote your own arc (that’ll likely happen in some other forum somewhere else) and you can’t disagree with anyone else’s suggestion (again, that’ll happen in some other thread).

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This right here calms any worries i had about the devs choice feature, thanks for the update Av!

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Question is... How can we post on the US forum?

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There will be a thread here, and as there will be fewer posts on it, the chances of the devs seeing them will be higher - another benefit of the Euro servers


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Another question Av, will the devs choice arcs ever get refreshed?


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And finally there will be a forum thread called ‘Dev’s Choice: For Your Consideration’ where players can post arcs they think should be considered for Dev’s Choice. The two guidelines being, you can’t promote your own arc (that’ll likely happen in some other forum somewhere else) and you can’t disagree with anyone else’s suggestion (again, that’ll happen in some other thread).

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This right here calms any worries i had about the devs choice feature, thanks for the update Av!

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Question is... How can we post on the US forum?

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There will be a thread here, and as there will be fewer posts on it, the chances of the devs seeing them will be higher - another benefit of the Euro servers

[/ QUOTE ]The benefit to that being that we will have certain proof positive that the devs visit here as well (even if they don't post). Win-win


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Any ETA on this Av?


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Seconded - when is this becoming 'EU'-centric?


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I'm guessing:
a) when the nether regions reach subzero temperatures;
b) the 33rd of Octember;
c) lolzEU.

Go on. Prove me wrong.


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Lolzeu - good name for a character imo. The sinister Professor Lolzeu, perhaps.


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I'm guessing:
a) when the nether regions reach subzero temperatures;

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Your nether regions?

You're already blue...


 

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Soon(tm)


 

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Lolzeu - good name for a character imo. The sinister Professor Lolzeu, perhaps.

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If only I didn't have a plan for my remaining two published story slots


 

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I'm guessing:
a) when the nether regions reach subzero temperatures;

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Your nether regions?

You're already blue...

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*bites lower lip to avoid giving the answer he really wanted to give*


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I'm sorry all, we wanted to wait a bit for players to familiarise themselves with the Mission Architect and then the whole MA exploit issue exploded.

Now that things are on track for the Mission Architect to be improved, the "Dev’s Choice: For Your Consideration" section should be added soon, next week if we can have the big changes sorted by the middle of next week.

Edited to avoid confusion.


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Now that things are on track for the Mission Architect to be purged, ...

[/ QUOTE ]Oh jeese; don't like the sound of that.


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Now that things are on track for the Mission Architect to be purged, ...

[/ QUOTE ]Oh jeese; don't like the sound of that.

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She means the farming and PL missions which place the Risk/Reward ratio out of whack will be removed from the MA.

Getting rid of about 70% of the arcs currently in the MA making it easier to find actual story arcs in there rather than just PL and farming junk.


 

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Now that things are on track for the Mission Architect to be purged, ...

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OPERATION:BANHAMMER underway lol



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Thank god... it is so hard finding anything cool while I know its there.


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There will be a thread here, and as there will be fewer posts on it, the chances of the devs seeing them will be higher - another benefit of the Euro servers

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I'm glad at least somebody still believes the Devs actually bother to look here



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There will be a thread here, and as there will be fewer posts on it, the chances of the devs seeing them will be higher - another benefit of the Euro servers

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I'm glad at least somebody still believes the Devs actually bother to look here

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All it takes now is to get your story arc noticed in the first place.... *cough sig *cough *cough