Do you re-play MA arcs?

I find that I rarely replay MA arcs.

Sure, I have my list of favs and will run them with a friend who hasn't done 'em yet, but I just don't find myself going to AE and re-running the same arcs over and over (my own mission excepted since I have to test it every update.)

By nature, I'm easily distracted by shiny objects and I don't like farming so that may be part of it, but whenever I have time to play in AE I'd rather try something new than play a story I've already been thru. There's so many thousands of arcs out there, I'd rather spend my time finding something exciting and new.

The strange thing is, I have no hesitation replaying Dev Content over and over...

How about you? Do you like to replay MA Arcs?

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Solo I'm more willing to take the gamble on new arcs, even random ones.

If I'm leading a team and trying to show them good stuff in AE then I'll always fall back on my short-list of proven arcs.

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My problem is: I can never catch up with my list of arcs that I want to play. I've got over 10 right now that I want to play, and by the time I finish those, there will probably be more. The only times I've replayed arcs is by request.

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I do sometimes. Partially because I tend to prefer standard rewards, meaning I'm a bit limited in my selection of arcs when I want that. (It's the XP bonus, we loves the XP bonus.)

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There are a few arcs I return to though they are often the short ones where I enjoy the group I'm up against. If showing new people around I will replay arcs or sometimes on the MA Super Team we do arcs I've done in the past.

WN

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Check out one of my most recent arcs:
457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story

I replay my own arcs, of course, for testing and because I (naturally) like them.

I will sometimes replay an arc that someone has asked me to replay because they have changed it a lot since my first play-through, and they would like to know what I think of the latest version.

There's a small set of arcs that I replay because I really enjoy them. This set is moderately biased towards lighthearted, fun arcs (though, not exclusively so), mostly because that's my personal preference.

I would guess that when I start an AE arc that is not my own, approximately 90% of the time it is a new arc, and 10% of the time it is a re-play of an old arc (numbers not exact, just a guess). This is affected somewhat by the fact that I am trying to find and identify high quality story arcs to add to my "Contact list for MA".

Worth mentioning, I started a "Favorites List" thread some months ago asking people to post their favorite story arcs, where I stipulated that it could not be counted as a favorite arc unless you had played it at least 3 times. The great majority of posters who responded said they never play anyone else's arc 3 times, no matter how good they thought it was. I thought that was a very interesting factoid.

(Ironically, I'm sure the farms get re-played a lot compared to the story oriented arcs.)

Personally, I'd love to try to make my story arcs involving enough that people will want to play them over and over again. But it looks like it isn't easy to do that.

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@PW - Police Woman (50 AR/dev blaster on Liberty)
TALOS - PW war journal - alternate contact tree using MA story arcs
=VICE= "Give me Liberty, or give me debt!"

I will replay arcs if I'm looking for something to play and don't want to be bothered with looking for something new. I will also replay an arc if I played it a while ago, liked it, and the author has made significant changes since then.

I think the reason even our favorite arcs don't get a lot of replay is because many of us (me included) play AE to experience player-created stories. Once you've already experienced it...what more is there? We replay dev-created content because it's what we've always done, which isn't the case with AE. Add to that the quasi-TF coding that encourages finishing an AE arc in one sitting, and dev-created content is just more convenient. After all, if you finish three missions of a dev arc and a friend is putting together a TF that you need the badge for, you don't have to quit the dev arc.

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Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
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Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World

You know what a narcissist I've felt like playing my own ARCS over and over? Glad I'm not the only one, lol.

I play my own ARCS lots... Since nobody else will I might as well play them right, heheheh.

But I never replay others ARCS. I don't even like rewatching movies or repeats on TV so guess it's natural. Also I want to spread myself out to hit more authors.

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Check out one of my most recent arcs:
457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story

Yes, though not often. I think "Talos Vice" and "Escalation" are the only arcs I've replayed significantly.

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Current Blog Post: "Why I am an Atheist..."
"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"

I've never replayed an arc, since there are still tons of arcs I've not played. I use AE specifically because I'm tired of replaying arcs, so with 116 characters, I never play dev content below level 20 anymore. Like others here, the sole exception is my own arc, both to keep testing it and because I haven't found a good 1st level arc yet.

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@Doctor Gemini

Arc #271637 - Welcome to M.A.G.I. - An alternative first story arc for magic origin heroes. At Hero Registration you heard the jokes about Azuria always losing things. When she loses the entire M.A.G.I. vault, you are chosen to find it.

If every play counted I would probably replay arcs more often. Since replaying them won't help the author out I, like almost everyone else, prefer playing new arcs where my play can contribute in some way.

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Winner of Players' Choice Best Villainous Arc 2010: Fear and Loathing on Striga; ID #350522

Thanks all, interesting results. Here's a compiled list of criteria an arc should feature to get replays:

• Short
• Team Friendly
• New to AE Friendly
• High Rewards
• Light-Hearted, Fun Story
• Good/Creative Enough to be Fav'd by a Regular AE Player
• Changed/Updated Often
• Make a Request for Replays/Feedback
• Have Devs Add Rewards for Authors Who Get Replays

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Craft your inventions in AE!!

Play "Crafter's Cafe" - Arc #487283. A 1 mission, NON-COMBAT AE arc with workable invention tables!

Being the odd man out as usual, I actually like running AE arcs again. I don't do it often for various reasons but I try to come back to ones I enjoy. I guess it's comparable to a movie you like and come back to every once in a while.

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I've eased off from my initial obsession with the AE over the last few months, but arcs from WN, Policewoman, Fred, Clave, and Rose's Wizard of Oz arc have all been revisited multiple times. DtD, Celebrity Kidnapping and Fred's lowest VEAT arc used to be standard fare for any toon on days when I found myself at a loose end for an hour.

Eco

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MArcs:

The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)