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New architect. Having problem with an Ally

EmperorSteele

By EmperorSteele,
Posted on: 2010-05-02 12:01 in Mission Architect

 

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I'm not really new, but i haven't played since CoH first came out. I just came back. HIII!!!! lol Anyway I've been testing out these architect missions, i created a couple as well. My first one was a simple 'kill everything" kind of thing. It had no real hands on stuff. The second one is the one i am working on right now, and i need a little help with it. I created a werewolf hunting story with 1 mission so far. The NPC you get the mission from looks a lot like indiana jones, and his friend the doctor looks like doctor kliener from half life 2 or jone's father lol. Anyway I have the hunter and the doctor both set as allys in the mission. I set them both up the same way and everything, but only the hunter is showing up in the mission.

I know i can have more then 1 ally because i tried a few other missions like the fantasy quest missions, where you have a ranger, and cleric, and a dwarf in power armor (o.O lol) all following you around helping you. What did i do wrong? I'll try to provide screenshots. Also i'm having a problem with leaving a mission on one of my characters who is currently in the AE building of mercy island. Every time i leave the missions, i get stuck inside of the portal you click on to go in the mission. My only way out is to self destruct, which gave me the virtual victim badge lol.

Hunter Setup = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5776250/cohae_1.png
Doctor Setup = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5776250/cohae_2.png

 

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Originally Posted by Eschia Mousehold View Post
I'm not really new, but i haven't played since CoH first came out. I just came back. HIII!!!! lol Anyway I've been testing out these architect missions, i created a couple as well. My first one was a simple 'kill everything" kind of thing. It had no real hands on stuff. The second one is the one i am working on right now, and i need a little help with it. I created a werewolf hunting story with 1 mission so far. The NPC you get the mission from looks a lot like indiana jones, and his friend the doctor looks like doctor kliener from half life 2 or jone's father lol. Anyway I have the hunter and the doctor both set as allys in the mission. I set them both up the same way and everything, but only the hunter is showing up in the mission.

I know i can have more then 1 ally because i tried a few other missions like the fantasy quest missions, where you have a ranger, and cleric, and a dwarf in power armor (o.O lol) all following you around helping you. What did i do wrong? I'll try to provide screenshots. Also i'm having a problem with leaving a mission on one of my characters who is currently in the AE building of mercy island. Every time i leave the missions, i get stuck inside of the portal you click on to go in the mission. My only way out is to self destruct, which gave me the virtual victim badge lol.

Hunter Setup = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5776250/cohae_1.png
Doctor Setup = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5776250/cohae_2.png
Hmm, that's weird. When you say the hunter doesn't show up, do you mean he's NOWHERE on the map at all instead of not in front where you're expecting him (Some maps have a limit on how many allies or bosses you can put in "front" or "back", and outside maps don't have this distinction at all and so they could appear ANYwhere)? Have you tried going into the architect play options (click the big button in your nav bar) and tried "Go to next objective"?

As for your exiting problem, that's really weird. I would send in a support ticket... also, you could try typing /stuck in the chat bar and see if that shoves you out of the hologram tube thingy.

Also, just as a matter of course: Allies are temporarily very draining on XP. If you publish this, your enemies will probably give less than 50% XP until the devs can fix this. Also, setting extreme/extreme is... extremely lazy, and being set as AVs, are very overpowered. All your enemies will die in 1 hit and you won't get ANY XP from them because your allies are doing all the damage.

Now if you're just playing around, that's cool, but something to keep in mind for any future arcs you make.

-STEELE =)


Allied to all sides so that no matter what, I'll come out on top!
Oh, and Crimson demands you play this arc-> Twisted Knives (MA Arc #397769)

 

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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele View Post
As for your exiting problem, that's really weird. I would send in a support ticket... also, you could try typing /stuck in the chat bar and see if that shoves you out of the hologram tube thingy.
That should work. I get stuck inside the tube all the time and /stuck has never failed me yet.

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It's the doctor not showing up. I'm using one of the unique maps. It's a exterior of a villain city called the flush. I think i have a limit of 3 allies. Not sure. Ah neat i didn't know there was a /stuck command. Thanks. The AV/extreme thing is just temp till i get the place settled. I have the place full of werewolves and 1 werewolf boss. I was hoping both allys would be waiting for me upon entry of the map ready to go, but i find myself having to kill the surrounding mobs around them before they can follow me.

 

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Originally Posted by Eschia Mousehold View Post
It's the doctor not showing up. I'm using one of the unique maps. It's a exterior of a villain city called the flush. I think i have a limit of 3 allies. Not sure. Ah neat i didn't know there was a /stuck command. Thanks. The AV/extreme thing is just temp till i get the place settled. I have the place full of werewolves and 1 werewolf boss. I was hoping both allys would be waiting for me upon entry of the map ready to go, but i find myself having to kill the surrounding mobs around them before they can follow me.
If you want them waiting by themselves, find the part under settings that asks for "surrounding enemy group" and set it to "Empty". Then see if under "Surrounding enemy strength" there's an option for "Single". I haven't messed with that in a while, but it used to be fairly easy to have allies wait by themselves. That SHOULD work but i'm not 100% sure.

-STEELE =)


Allied to all sides so that no matter what, I'll come out on top!
Oh, and Crimson demands you play this arc-> Twisted Knives (MA Arc #397769)

 

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Everything i had a problem with is now working just fine. I have the story published on the champion server. It's called "The Werewolf Masquerade" if anyone wants to try it out and give feedback hehe. It's a 3 mission story. I wont give any spoilers here hehe.

Also check out "Mad Science". It's the first story i made. It's just a comical 1 mission story to go into a lab and kill trollkin. The boss is quite interesting. But then again so is the quest guy... lol.