Citywide Team challenge

I've been working on an arc(mission) for quite some time now designed to challenge even the most organized group of players. Its story is nonexistent. Its purpose is clear. Take the term hero or villain to a new level. The arc ID is not widely known nor will it be released till i'm happy its finished and ready for the masses. I'm still in the progress of tweaking enemies and conditions with the help of some of union and defiant's best. (Anyone willing to help test can send a global message to @kindeller)

I therefore make this thread as an official challenge sign up. I pose a competition style idea based off the Arc and the MA system. This is how its going to (hopefully) work.

Each team who wishes to take up the challenge will first enter their team members names and builds (simple format i don't want details Fire/emp is enough) here on the forums. To enter the challenge each member of the team must pay a fee of 5 million influence to be eligible to win. Once paid that team set up can attempt the mission as many times as they wish until they succeed. (or give up ) When the competition begins the Arc ID will be released and you can make and change your team and test it for yourself *provided you haven't signed up your team already, any changes after will result in having to pay the fee again!* The winners of the challenge is the team to complete the entire mission for the first time. They take the total pot every team has paid to enter plus an extra bonus influence i will add (not sure on the amount i can come up with i'm aiming to get around 50 million for the pot not including any team entry fees. This may infact increase when released.)

Depending on how successful this is i'll repeat the process like a lottery allowing different challenges each week/month depending on how long it takes for the challenge to be completed.


Terms and Conditions

<ul type="square">[*] The competition is open to anyone, everyone and all those in between. (With exception to aliens, no rikti allowed. )[*]Teams must first sign up in this thread before contacting my global.[*] Teams who are signing up must Designate the Leader and supply the details of the team taking part including AT/Sets and a Team name must be supplied to identify each team taking part.[*]The full team entry fee must be paid before the team is eligible to win. [*] There will be a grace period between which no group can win. This is to allow everyone decent enough time to sign up. (and to allow the pot to be worth actually attempting.)[*]A screenshot of the team including the mission completed navigational bar must be posted on the forums[*]The team can have as many attempts provided the team is as described when the fee was paid (No changing characters after the fee is paid, see below. This excludes missing players, if you succeed without a member for example)[*]If you do however find that you wish to change one the members of your team you can pay the fee for that character alone.[*] If you complete the mission, but fail to complete one or more of the required perquisites you *must complete the mission again*. So make sure you have done everything before putting that effort in! [*] Once the competition is completed entry will be closed. Confirmation will be posted in the thread.[*] The winning team payment between the team will be discussed together. Any dividing will be done there and then to avoid problems. (unless otherwise requested)[*] Any questions, comments, suggestions or other can be posted here or sent in a global message to @kindeller. I'll try and answer all as quick as i can.[*]All terms and conditions are subject to change prior to the official release of the Arc ID, after which they will remain until the Challenge is over. When finished the terms and condition may be tweaked for the next ID release and so on. (as its the first time this has been organized)

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1) You ought to make this more secure than requiring just a screenshot - I'm sure this could be faked somehow. Perhaps a mission complete clue with a code?

2) I trust/hope that by 'challenging' you don't simply mean things like an avalanche of mobs with Ninjitsu, which is just fake difficulty in the form of bug abuse.

Sounds interesting, i can't bring myself to commit to it though until i PARTLY know what the challenge is. For example if the mission has lots of AV i'll want to use my AV killer, if lots of defeat all i'll want to bring my scrapper etc.

Keeping my eye on this thread for further information.

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1) You ought to make this more secure than requiring just a screenshot - I'm sure this could be faked somehow. Perhaps a mission complete clue with a code?

There already is a code in the mission completion and duplicated in the Souvenir clues instructions with what to do with it is included. But wont be released to stop getting spam fake ones


2) I trust/hope that by 'challenging' you don't simply mean things like an avalanche of mobs with Ninjitsu, which is just fake difficulty in the form of bug abuse.
Within the mission is a series of enemies based of difficult builds used by many a hero and villain. Mixed together they form a tough set of opponents per group. Combine this with ambushes and hidden gems each mission requires good team work and a well balanced experienced team.

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Sounds interesting, i can't bring myself to commit to it though until i PARTLY know what the challenge is. For example if the mission has lots of AV i'll want to use my AV killer, if lots of defeat all i'll want to bring my scrapper etc.

[color=blue]As mentioned the arc will be released prior to the challenge officially being issued (keep an eye out will allow for more testing time before the challenge begins) This means you can decide after fiddling with the best combination of characters which to enter.

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