Thank Goodness It's Mission Architect Thursday!
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7deCoeur,
Posted on: 2011-06-17 13:21 in Mission Architect
Important: don't try to craft the Lost Cure wand in the Crafter's Café... the salvage will disappear but you won't get the wand. Everything else works fine though.
Winner of Players' Choice Best Villainous Arc 2010: Fear and Loathing on Striga; ID #350522
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I have that in disclaimer dialog in the mish, too, thanks to your eagle-eyed efforts Fred |
Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
Important: don't try to craft the Lost Cure wand in the Crafter's Café... the salvage will disappear but you won't get the wand. Everything else works fine though.
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As a bonus incentive, I offer to provide the dev running the arc with recipes and salvage for the whole team to craft when they run it! Just PM me and I'll work out a time to meet in-game or gleemail it to ya
Also, this week I'd like to nominate the inspiration behind my Cafe arc:
#452144 "The Murders in the RWZ Morgue" by @FredrikSvanberg
1 Mish, Heroic
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Did I miss the announcement of new DCs? Has it been a month yet? i have '17th New DCs' post-it-noted to my monitor for some reason.
Eco
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)
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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."
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Also, it looks like no AE Thursday happened yesterday. I was on, monitoring globals from all servers from about 3:30 to 6pm pacific and nada.
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Might well be because of Comic Con.|
Originally Posted by BackFire
Also, it looks like no AE Thursday happened yesterday. I was on, monitoring globals from all servers from about 3:30 to 6pm pacific and nada.
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WN
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'm sure it was, but I kinda figured they'd let us know when they were skipping a week.
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How long does comic-con last?
Eco.
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)
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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."
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So, was there a TGIMAT run yesterday?
Craft your inventions in AE!!
Play "Crafter's Cafe" - Arc #487283. A 1 mission, NON-COMBAT AE arc with workable invention tables!
Oh, almost forgot! This week's nomination goes to:
#373846 "Unfair Trade" by @Lazarus
4 Mish, Villainous
Craft your inventions in AE!!
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Victory saw a beefed up Freitag and wee me invade their Rikti War Zone AE building yesterday to try out Drakule vs. the Werewolf Bikers from Hell #340316 by @LaserJesus.
Thank you to the heroes and villains who took the time to run it with us. Our team was quite a wild one with feathers and claws a-plenty (who said a bird-man and a cat-woman can't fight alongside!).
The arc itself was very entertaining. The theme was maybe not the most original one (vampires vs. werewolves) but it was nicely executed with interesting custom characters and a great use of the AE maps.
If you haven't done that arc yet, please give it a go! Don't forget to bring plenty of garlic and silver bullets though!
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Shouldn't there have been at least one actual DC awarded by now? Maybe there has been, and I missed it?|
Originally Posted by Dr. Aeon
We will be gathering a number of arcs that will be eligible for Dev Choice and then marking them as such once per month, which will be accompanied by a post here on the forums explaining why we felt this was a great arc.
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I think I must have completely the wrong idea about how this DC thing is supposed to work. I thought that this new venture would see in its first month a spate of DCs finally awarded to deserving arcs which have been waiting patiently for a long time, followed by at least one or 2 DCs a month.
Throw us a bone, eh?
Becky's Revenge, Fear and Loathing on Striga and Drakule vs. the Werewolf Bikers from Hell, the 3 that have been played so far, are all IMO fairly good candidates for a DC. In terms of writing, mechanics, design and intent they are at least as good as and in many ways better than a number of DCs already awarded. Also, their authors are certainly deserving of some recognition for their contributions to the AE community.
My view is that if they don't measure up, then either the bar is bafflingly high, or the success criteria are unfairly arbitrary.
Eco.
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)
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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."
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I agree. This is week 5, and the last day of July is Sunday. This started in June. Zwillinger at least has publicly mentioned that he really enjoyed Becky's Revenge. There should be one posted by now. At the very least, those eligible that have been played this month (including the one played at the end of June) should be awarded very early next month.
Wasn't there something said about actually doing the picking next month? It was in ustream or a Zwill post this week, I think.
Either way, I'm sure they'll get to it soon and I'm glad to hear TGIMAT is still rolling along
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Your expectations were way off. A new Venture could hardly be anything but a pale shadow of the original.
| I thought that this new venture would see in its first month a spate of DCs finally awarded to deserving arcs which have been waiting patiently for a long time, followed by at least one or 2 DCs a month. |
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"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"
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Ba-dum-bum-CHING and a chorus of groans.|
Originally Posted by Venture
Your expectations were way off. A new Venture could hardly be anything but a pale shadow of the original.
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THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Becky's Revenge gets a DC! Yay!
My commiserations to Clave and Laserjesus.
Since we're only getting one a month out of the four or five possibles played, can i request that my arc Storming Citadel is NOT played by the Community team - I still have free slots and i'm not hugely bothered by DC, so I'd rather see someone else's arc given a chance to impress.
Eco.
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)
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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."
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I wasn't aware it was a competition between the arcs played in a month for only 1 possible Dev Choice. Let's look back at Dr. A's quote from the OP:
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I see how you could infer that there will only be 1 DC per month from quote above, but I took it to mean they could mark any number of arcs as a DC once a month. In other words, "once a month" refers to the time they make the choices, not the # of arcs chosen.| We will be gathering a number of arcs that will be eligible for Dev Choice and then marking them as such once per month,... |
Or it could also mean that they choose 1 a month from the pool of previously qualifying played arcs which includes ones played in previous months.
It would be a complete disservice to arbitrarily eliminate a DC-worthy arc from future consideration simply because they played another DC-worthy arc in the same month but only chose 1 at the time. That's just silly.
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I agree with all of that except... they haven't really spelled out for us what they're doing. |
Originally Posted by BackFire
I see how you could infer that there will only be 1 DC per month from quote above, but I took it to mean they could mark any number of arcs as a DC once a month. In other words, "once a month" refers to the time they make the choices, not the # of arcs chosen.
Or it could also mean that they choose 1 a month from the pool of previously qualifying played arcs which includes ones played in previous months. It would be a complete disservice to arbitrarily eliminate a DC-worthy arc from future consideration simply because they played another DC-worthy arc in the same month but only chose 1 at the time. That's just silly. |
I recall some talk about 'building up a backlog of DC-worthy arcs as a bank for later', so that could mean they're making a list (and checking it twice?) of arcs they wanna DC, but only DCing one per month to give them breathing space for times when their other workloads get to be too heavy ("Can't get round to it this month with Freedom breathing down our necks, good thing we have five arcs on our list already that we want to DC!")(personally I find that silly - why wait? but que sera, sera). But that's just conjecture too, we won't know until we see what happens down the line.
Or, you know, they tell us!
Any Dev Choice worthy arc will obviously not be discarded, fret not! Dr. Aeon may not post them all at once though
As for today's AE run, Freitag and I visited Infinity and gathered a very colourful team to run "The Time Bandits" by IantheM1. The arc was fun to run and the story itself was well thought out. There were a lot of the same NPCs visually speaking, but the variety of maps used throughout the story did offset that and the clues were really a great read!
Now he's a great screenshot of our team!
P.S.: Who said I should adjust my graphics settings?
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I'm starting to think there's something to Wrong Number's theory that the devs do not like her... or at least her arcs.
Oh the choice of today's arc was certainly more random than previously but we will be testing one of her arcs soon
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I noticed that, too, but figured it probably had more to do with playing so many arcs recommended from just 1 person than a conspiracy to avoid WN's work.|
Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
I'm starting to think there's something to Wrong Number's theory that the devs do not like her... or at least her arcs.
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Then again, just 'cause you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you...
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the PC Awards were picked by the MA community of players and not one person. Clearly they should have all been played first. I feel very bad for her as she deserves much better treatment from the devs and the community.
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Originally Posted by BackFire
I noticed that, too, but figured it probably had more to do with playing so many arcs recommended from just 1 person than a conspiracy to avoid WN's work.
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Jail.Bird
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Big big thanks for spelling that out for us. |
Originally Posted by Avatea
Any Dev Choice worthy arc will obviously not be discarded, fret not! Dr. Aeon may not post them all at once though
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The next time you need to craft-on-the-go, simply fire up arc #487283, Crafter's Cafe, and explore this non-combat, 1 mission arc...complete with usable Invention Tables!
Arc by BackFire.
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