is MA dead?

It seems its the same arc never changing in the MA top list all the time. Im so sick of playing the same arcs because theyre the only ones that give xp and loot. And noone ever does anyhting but farm now. Even that's not that much.

Also this forums is like slow as hell.

What can they do to revive MA??

AE being dead is more of a preception issue, and part of reason why it looks dead is because its littered with prolly hundreds of thousands of invalidated arcs that nobody has cared to remove and the devs havent purged invalid arcs

if all of the invalid arcs were outright removed then it would be easier to see what arcs were around

if you want a fun and challenging story arc to play, try the arc listed in my sig (and if you want can submit feedback)

I wonder why they keep developing something no one ever uses.

No, the MA isn't dead.

Eco.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Interestingly, just last night I saw a toon who's search comment was something along the lines of "Looking for AE team only. Will NOT accept non-AE team invites". ...

most of the LF AE turns out to be LF farms

One of the reasons non-farmers were using AE was to experience new content they hadn't done a dozen times already. That's what I was using it for. Now I have a ton of new dev-created content to play through. So I'm on a break from AE, and I wouldn't be surprised if other people were too, for the same reasons.

And tickets > regular drops any day. My AE-only character (no farms, only story-based arcs) is level 32 and has earned over 600 million inf from crafting and selling bronze rolls. If I were running normal content I'd have earned...quite a few immob, confuse and fear recipes that nobody wants, a lot of commons, and a lot of common salvage that the market is saturated with. Ticket rolls are weighted to produce more stuff that people actually use while normal drops aren't, so I generate tons of damage and defense and heal recipes instead.

Of course if you're after XP then AE sucks. I personally don't care about levelling super-fast, especially if it means I don't have any inf without marketeering, which I don't enjoy all that much. It also means I don't have to cross three zones to get to my mission or run to Azuria or hunt 20 anything, ever. Playing arcs by forum regulars also eliminates the "defeat all enemies in the four-story map" missions. If you're a villain and don't want to switch sides, AE also lets you avoid Longbow and Arachnos when you inevitably get sick of them.

In the lowb range, both red and blue side, I would say for a all practical purposes the MA is dead. It was pretty much unused prior to GR, now I rarely see anyone else, and I cant remember the last time I read a broadcast for a MA group. I still see plenty of people and groups outside of MA though.

For me the MA was about creating and playing stories with Player created custom critters, and the Devs ****** this part of the MA (For a problem that was not even really related to custom critters.), and the Devs have yet to un-**** this aspect of the MA. Many of you comment about not building lowb custom critter story arcs; the problem with this is that you learn a lot of your habits in the lowb game (This is one reason newb Tanks have a problem jumping into groups when they have reached the upper levels. They learned in the lowb levels that they were pretty much just as squashy as any other AT.), and if you do not provide lowb custom story arcs, players will not get in the habit of using the MA. Of course if you do then you have the other problem of the players getting annihilated, or getting little xp, and getting the impression that the MA is just not worth the trouble.

I don’t think the MA will ever get to the numbers that it had at release, and probably shouldn’t, being it was broken at the time, but I also don’t think it's going to get much use until the Devs go through and clean up the mission list, and get their heads out of their ***** when it comes to Custom critters risk vs. rewards. Despite the tweaks they have made this is still broken.

I still get about 3 plays a week on my arc in the MA.

I don't know how many times we've said on the forums that the biggest problem with the MA is all of the undeleted farm arcs that are still present.

I regularly report arcs that have the word FARM in the description. When I do so I always get this email: "I am escalating your petition to a Senior Customer Support Representative to further assist you. Please be aware, however, that there may be a delay in reviewing the issue, based on ticket volume at the time your ticket was submitted."

Months later and none of the arcs I've reported have been deleted. That's how much attention they're giving the MA.

I think the best way to generate interest is to have the DEVS possibly add missions to the game canon/lore on a regular basis. These could become the paper and/or scanner missions so it doesn't disrupt the lore too much.

This may be a lot of work but if they set up strict guidelines and then look at the arcs, it may work out. Maybe state they would like to add one mission every two months for a while? I know it would get the MA interest way up!

Is MA currently dead? No but it isn't too active as far as I can see. It's tough for a player to find something well put together and fun.

I really like this as an item in the game to use and play. For some reason I have teamed with players that have a 'no AE' policy and others who complain about the lack of XP, rewards and difficulty. It's too bad but maybe one day the MA will get some legitimate interest and not rubbish missions and farms.