A Penny For Your Thoughts - Dr. Aeon's Challenge
By
ArrowRose,
Posted on: 2009-11-26 18:46 in Mission Architect
Thanks for the feedback!
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I am not sure that this arc meets the criteria for the contest, but I absolutely loved it. It is one of my overall favorite arcs and I definately think it should be a dev's choice.
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3) For me the final mission did not have enough time if a player chooses the optional objectives. I played this arc 3 times today just so I could make the choice that I wanted. The first time I played, I wasted time because I thought I had to destroy the spikes and by the time I had compeleted the optional objectives, I did not have time to complete the final objective. The second time I played, my mistake caused me to not complete as I chose. On time 3, I used my best level 50 and I completed it with 8 minutes to spare. I strongly feel you need more than 15 minutes or much clearer directions as to what needs to be done.
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I'm also pretty amazed you actually ran this arc 3 times in succession.
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You made another great arc Tangler. Only problem I had was in mission 3 where the objectives and clues looked to be tangled up. The navbar text not corresponding with the clue and the glowie/encounter in a few occasions. Maybe things got a bit hussled in one of the updates?
I have chosen to get him out of his dream. It is a big gamble of course, but I know that the best psychiaters are looking into his case. Lets hope he can be redeemed. If not, I will have to hunt him down for good.
Thanks for the comments! I've noticed that the objectives in mish 3 are spawning in places where they shouldn't be, though the navbar muddle sounds new, I'll go give it another sweep.
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Update:
- Changed a few of the navbar texts in M3. Thanks for GrinningSpade to pointing it out to me: I don't think what you saw was the objectives being out of order, rather just me having a minor brain slip with a few of the lines.
- Smoothed out a few more lines, fixed some more typos.
- Clarified a few more points.
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Can't wait to see how all of the arcs did! There were some fun ones out there.
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You are welcome, as it was, it was confusing and I had a few 'uhm you sure this is the correct glowie for this objective?' moments.|
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Good luck with the contest.
My thoughts are posted in my One a Day thread.
And another unsolicited review in my thread. Must be a lucky day for you.
I guess it must be, I'll be replying in your thread. 
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Author: @Frija
ID: 348691
Tags: Non-Canon, Drama
Morality: Heroic (obviously
Desc: As all of the city's Clockwork suddenly fall inert, Penelope Yin has a bad feeling as to the fate of her reluctantly accepted guardian brain-in-a-jar, the Clockwork King. A speculative short-arc on the Clockwork King.
This is my first (published) attempt at a drama piece, and my first try doing something like this with established characters, so I'm doubly interested in what do people think. I won't be submitting this arc till it gets closer to the deadline, so all feedback will be considered to improving this arc before the final 'cut'.
I may just be naively hopeful here, but if anyone does play it I'd also really appreciate it if you could post here with your general thoughts, as well as answering a few questions I am interested in knowing:
1) Should there be more combat, or do you think it has enough?
2) Did you find the final mission too easy/hard/just right?
3) Should the time limit be shortened/extended/leave it as it is?
4) Did you think a convincing argument was made for picking either choices?
5) And just for fun, which choice did you make?
Now to answer your questions:
1) I think there is plenty of combat.
2) I think the difficulty of the final mission is fine, if it had more time.
3) For me the final mission did not have enough time if a player chooses the optional objectives. I played this arc 3 times today just so I could make the choice that I wanted. The first time I played, I wasted time because I thought I had to destroy the spikes and by the time I had compeleted the optional objectives, I did not have time to complete the final objective. The second time I played, my mistake caused me to not complete as I chose. On time 3, I used my best level 50 and I completed it with 8 minutes to spare. I strongly feel you need more than 15 minutes or much clearer directions as to what needs to be done.
4) Yes I think an argument could be made for either choice.
5) I chose the option that involved completing the optional objectives because I am an optimist deep down and I almost never give up on people.
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