Over 20 Billion Inf to Commission some Arcs

Excellent challenge Smurphy. Challenging and rewarding. This is getting some gears cranking in the back of my head.

I shall make this my single goal in life.

I was on that Vanguard team during the double XP weekend.

Much fun was had.

More fun can be had, I'm sure.

Time to make the arc I've always wanted to play.

Ah but you see, he doesn't want a typical farm.

Farms are designed to be as easy as possible to maximize killing speed.

Smurphy wants missions that are just hard enough to kill the players often enough for him to use his awesome Fallout and Vengeance and similar powers in order to make things more fun.

It's not about farming, it's about non-stop fighting action. If that just happens to bring a lot of xp and influence and tickets, that's cool, but as he said - he's already got everything he could possibly need. He doesn't need any rewards except perhaps as a way to attract players to come along on his crazy ride.

And clearly he's a busy man who must go back to his ebil marketeering ways. He can't waste time building arcs when he can just pay some poor schmuck like me to do it for him.

which server is this ogna be on

I don't care whether you consider the mission I want a farm or not. I'm not going to discuss that topic.

Freaks are too easy. My team would not get regular deaths without one person running off on their own to stand in the middle of an 8-man spawn and do nothing. Freaks are close though, they have a few guys with some heavy hitting attacks. You could mix in some Freaks in your custom enemy group to get the right balance of difficulty.

*Disclaimer: These are my opinions on the challenge, nothing more.

Think (+4 or +5 x8, Enemies Buffed, Players Debuffed) ITF and LGTF and I suspect you'll be right on target.
Think surprise Team Teleport onto the platform in the 3'd ITF Mission at +5x8 Buffed Debuffed.
Think surprise Team Teleport into the Nicti and Rom in the 4'th ITF Mission at +5x8 Buffed Debuffed.
Think surprise Team Teleport into the portal of the last mission of the LGTF at +5x8 Buffed Debuffed.

I only got to run a handfull of these before TFs were nerfed, and I expect this is exactly the kind of madness Smurphy is wanting to recreate. It's definitely the kind of madness I'd want. Yes, this means I'm insane, and I wholly suspect Smurphy is too. But until you've done it, survived it, and beaten the snot out of it you'll never understand that insanity.

I'm editing the original post to state that every arc that wins any prize whatsoever will get 5 stars from me. Also, I plan on running these arcs many times and I will tell every person I team with to 5 star the arc.

So you got that goin' for ya.

Interesting timing for this little contest, as I have an arc in development that might help your fallout fix.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Say, Smurphy, I'm getting close to a playable phase for the arc I'm making - all the maps chosen, foes created or factions selected, glowies placed, all that good stuff. But the text will take some time.

Since the story as such doesn't concern you much, would you be up for giving the the thing a look-see (sans text/story) to let me know if I'm even near on the right path, or are you only interested in checking out the final product?

I'm interested in testing whatever people have.

*EDIT*Adding to the original post some info about getting your arc eligible for the monthly challenge. I don't care if you PM me in game, send me a PM on the boards, write it up in this thread or whatever. In order to be eligible for the monthly prize you have to either post it here publicly or let me know explicitly that I can tell people your arc # and provide public feedback. You can be sneaky if you like. If you want to hold out on your arc # until the last minute you can do so. If you want me to give private feedback you can do so. But if I don't make the feedback and arc # public it's not eligible for the end of month 1 billion. I'm willing to provide private, sneaky feedback but I'll be testing it with random people who may or may not be competitors.

Also, in terms of difficulty of enemies I said Romans and Rikti were about right, Freakshow probably too easy and Nemesis too hard. I think Longbow and Arachnos at level 50 are about right. These are generalities and I thinks and sadly not concrete answers. Hopefully those groups and some of the comments I made about what enemies and qualities I do and don't like make things more clear.

I have an arc you can give a try and may make one specially for this challenge. Give Clubbin Nightmar and Breathless Nights a try by @Jonabeth, I can promise your team will die.

Try "Psychophage", #283197. It's been up for a while but doesn't get many plays since it's a) deliberately bad in storytelling terms and b) deliberately built to kill teams.

I will put in a bid for my own task force, "Mantisman Task Force", arc #15819. This AE task force has previously won contests based on the difficulty, while maintaining a story line and the epic feeling of a task force. Of course I am partial, but still feel it's worth your time.

In the past I have actually held contests on my server to see if someone could put together a team for a "masters run" but to date no one has been able to. On a full 8 man team, with bosses spawning, it is a true, epic challenge. The final AV fights are worth it alone in my opinion. But enough of plugging my own arc... I do hope you, or anyone else that is interested in a challenge will try it. Unique maps, custom enemies and devastating AV's await!

Ok, Smurphy, here's my first draft of

The Ghastly Secret Of Dreams, ID#386861.

Take a look, tell me what you like, don't like, think needs work etc. You'll face Cimoeran.. Cimorean... uhm, you, know, those Roman-like traitor guys in one mish, Rikti in another (both groups you said you liked), and two customs I've made for this arc in the other three missions. Plus you'll also get to scoop out your own brain - how cool is that?

I'm pretty sure I've got all the basic elements I was looking to put in such as collectibles, etc. and put them where I wanted. The only thing missing at this point is text.

And your opinion.

Anyone else who wants to take a look is welcome to, but it's not going to be an easy arc even at low settings, I hope!

Having examined their other posts, I think they're really that confused.

I have an arc near done that almost fits the bill, but it caps out at lvl 40. So I am making a new one that is set level 45-54. So far, I enjoy playing it.

The spawns look really impressive set to +2 / x8 and have been challenging enough to have the opportunity to use Vengeance, without causing team wipes or slowing down the team. I am worried it might be too hard for a PuG, but once I get it done I'll make a team half PuG, half SG to test it.