Zone Invasion with Player Created AE Mobs


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I'm not a big AE guy but I think this might be fun to do this. If the Devs took a bunch of the mobs that were produced by players and populate the AE missions and let them loose on a zone.

The theme could be anything from an evil genius having figured out a way to turn AE Mobs into real life mobs and they are now pouring out of an AE building and invading a zone to take it over (sort of like Ghostbusters when the firehouse power is shut down) to not even mentioning that they are AE inspired mobs but instead are an invading force from a secret organization (think Hydra but without the ugly uniforms).

Anyway the thought just occured to me so I figured I would throw it out there.

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*shrug*

I dunno.

Some of the Custom Mobs in the AE are pretty cool, with thier powersets/names/descriptions/costumes. Some of them are, well.....stupid.
I don't want to face "lolkillu" and "fartguy" that look like they stepped out of the random button of the costume creator, have descriptions of "blah wut" and have poor risk/reward values.


 

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Picking those nifty mobs would be the best way to do it....I agree that the poorly produced ones would have no part it the event but the Devs could get feedback from the AE folks who I am sure could recommend the better ones to include in something like this....I dunno maybe it would be fun....maybe not


 

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Typically, with an invasion, we face Rikti, or the Undead, with maybe a dozen or so different critters in thier faction. In order to do what you want, it would be Faction "AE Creations" with hopefully a lot more variance, wouldn't it?

During the AE Overload (or whatever you want to call it), how many different critters would you like to see in that faction? (Of Boss/LT and Minion status, of course.)


 

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Or the invasion could consist of mobs approved by the Devs? A.k.a Dev's Choice.


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Originally Posted by Rowdy View Post
Or the invasion could consist of mobs approved by the Devs? A.k.a Dev's Choice.
This would be the only way to do it. Otherwise we'd have, say, Archvillains with every power in Energy Blast and Willpower or nonsense like that. I do my darn best to avoid those AE missions written by people who think "stupid hard" is fun, so I imagine I wouldn't like that in a zone invasion.

Plus, some player-made critters just have really dumb names.

That aside, this doesn't seem like a bad idea. And more zone events are always cool.


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