Not a "horrible oversight," but I wouldn't argue against having them put out in a fixed order.
If she gives out a different mission than your teammate, it's always possible to abandon the mission and talk to her again, getting another mission.
That said, sure, wouldn't mind getting her order straightened out.
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Originally Posted by Quinch
If she gives out a different mission than your teammate, it's always possible to abandon the mission and talk to her again, getting another mission.
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Does that actually work? I've never tried that to see if the mission changed. Great suggestion if that really works. I've also run into this problem when trying to run the Frost Fire arc with teammates.
As far as getting this fixed so its not random please put me down as PRO REFORM.
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Actually most of the Striga contacts do the same thing.
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Originally Posted by ArcticFahx
No other arc in this game does this.
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"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
I'm pretty sure some other arcs do it, for example, Willy Wheeler's.
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Indeed. Doesn't make it any less annoying. I too think it should be changed, but yeah, it's not the only by any means.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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At some point, some genius at Cryptic decided that it was a great idea to create story arcs which still locked you into a story but followed no particular narrative and were given in random order. What they did was essentially take what were one-off missions in the Launch and I1 game and just called them "zone arcs." These were touted as the new benchmark of mission design (a claim I scoffed at even back when it was new) and so were jammed into everything new for the next few Issues.|
Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Indeed. Doesn't make it any less annoying. I too think it should be changed, but yeah, it's not the only by any means.
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The Hollows was I2, and this is where these started. Then came Striga in I3. Finally, we had Croatoa in I5. All three of these are plagued by the same "zone arcs" that neither tell a story nor present a coherent experience a team can run through. Luckily, City of Villains had been in the work for I believe a year when it came out, so most of its missions followed the older proper story arc structure, and so its story arcs didn't suck. I'm happy to report that beyond Willy Wheeler, I'm not aware of any other "zone arcs."
And thank god for that.
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Yes, I would be very much in favour of locking those arcs down to a logical, rigid story progression. And re-writing them so they tell actual stories while we're at it. Cause and effect and all that.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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As the title says. The arc, as it currently stands, is antithetical to teaming through it, due to the middle set of her missions being given out in a completely random order, thus preventing concerted efforts to do the arc together. No other arc in this game does this.
In short, fix this horrible oversight.