Enemy Redesign Contest 1

AE's been a little quiet lately...how about a contest? I'm thinking of running a biweekly enemy redesign contest. I'll pick an enemy group and people will tweak it and stick it in a quick mission as an example or publicly upload a zip file of the group. The catch is that the enemy group must retain one enemy from the original version.

This week's enemy group shall be... *spins wheel*

Warriors.

Deadline: 09/15/2010
Prize: 50 Million inf

How are you going to rate them? Just by overall feel?

How excatly do you want them to be redesigned?

Harder? Updated with more recent powersets? More expanded? Made for level 50s?

Sounds interesting. I'll give it a shot.

Arc ID: 445334

I've re-imagined the warriors in a slightly more difficult and bloodthirsty way. It may not fit all your criteria... but I think they're fun.

Well I'm a noob architect, but I may try it out. Not sure how you would move groups around, but its trial and error.

Just a friendly reminder that the contest ends next week. Hopefully I'll have picked the winner and mailed the prize by Friday.

Looking at my watch, today is the 14th, therefore tomorrow is the 15th and the deadline. 50 million inf is up for grabs for one lucky entrant.

Well, rather than redesign the whole gang, I've added a few new mobs at each rank to raise the challenge a bit without making it as trying as a group of completely custom critters.

You'll find them here:
Warriors come out to play
Arc ID: 449306

D'oh, wish I'd seen this thread earlier. The contest sounds like a lot of fun, Zam. I'll have to jump in on the next time you run something like this.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Completely forgot about this contest. Dang it. Will there be a gallery of the winners?

I tried to make something for the contest but I couldn't. Maybe next time.

Both entrants have valid takes on the redesign. Gonna take a bit to decide between the two. However, I need to check something because there's a possibility that one might lose on a technicality.

In the end, I decided to award both. I need to sit down and hash out a more specific reward criteria for the next one (be on the lookout for it). However, in-game email has been used to mail the inf prizes for this one.

For Hotaru's entry, he opted to keep the Warriors the same but with newer models. Perhaps the most defining change was adding "Amazons" that did manage to fit in with the rest of the group visually. While the arc itself wasn't the subject of the contest, it had a few funny bits in it here and there.

For Kidou's entry, he played up their dedication to Greek myth by having high ranks don armor and even having a rarer boss spawn with Zeus Lightning. It was a more diverse group than Hotaru's offering but had a few more typos and lacked one of the original Warriors mixed into the enemy group.

Both groups incorporated archers for more range than standard Warriors and both had shielders though I'm curious about the powers the shield guys have.

In the "I'm not a dev so nobody cares" side of things, I'd actually merge the two. I'd have an Amazon faction within the group while having the group as a whole slowly become more myth inspired as they go up in rank. I think Kidou may have had them level up a smidge too fast. Granted, random weapon caches and mystic artifacts abound in Paragon but I'd have a more distinct half and half between street thug and 300 for the LTs.

It may take a bit for me to get the pics from the groups. However, if any Ultra Mode enabled folks would like to take pictures then it would be much appreciated. *hint hint nudge kick stab*