Nice going! Glad to see some spotlight on Mission Architect. 
I'll totally have to buy a copy of this magazine.
@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!"
what the hell is WN?
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Wrong Number. |
Originally Posted by Dz131
what the hell is WN?
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congrats to all of them!
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Originally Posted by JKCarrier
111022 - Doctor Geist and the Scientific Method
375018 - A Hero in Need...is a Friend Indeed! 337333 - Captain Skylark Shadowfancy and the Tomorrownauts of Today! 398110 - By Any Other Name 404549 - The Do-It-Yourself Casino Heist Project (Congrats to the players who's work got featured!) |
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
congrats to all of them!
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Lisa.
So don't wait for heroes, do it yourself
You've got the power
winners are losers
who got up and gave it just one more try
***Dennis DeYoung
As awesome as it is that one of my arcs is mentioned, it kind of annoys me that it's also the one arc of mine that's broken by the copyright filter problem at the moment.
"Trust me guys, this arc is totally amazing! But you can't play it right now. The error message is very moving though. 5 stars."
Astoria in D Minor, a horror arc. Arc ID: 41565 - The Beating Heart of Astoria: A Play in Five Acts. Arc ID: 170547 - Ignition of the Machine, a story with robots. Arc ID: 318983
Captain Skylark Shadowfancy and the Tomorrownauts of Today. Arc ID: 337333 - Signal:Noise, where is everybody? Arc ID: 341194
@The Cheshire Cat - Isn't it enough to know I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
12 second horror stories - a writing experiment.
Captain Skylark Shadowfancy and the Tomorrownauts of Today. Arc ID: 337333 - Signal:Noise, where is everybody? Arc ID: 341194
@The Cheshire Cat - Isn't it enough to know I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
12 second horror stories - a writing experiment.
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That's kind of....hilarious. Yeah, I'm resigned to laughing at and making snarky comments about any and all AE bugs and issues now. So don't take it personally, it was a very good arc, when it worked.
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Originally Posted by The_Cheshire_Cat
As awesome as it is that one of my arcs is mentioned, it kind of annoys me that it's also the one arc of mine that's broken by the copyright filter problem at the moment.
"Trust me guys, this arc is totally amazing! But you can't play it right now. The error message is very moving though. 5 stars." |
Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
What a nice unexpected surprise this was (thanks to Bubba for first tipping me off) also congrats to the others mentioned. I just got a hold of the issue and was nicely surprised to see a picture for each arc with a little write up about it. This really brighten an otherwise hellish week (@Kinetic Jaunt had his bone marrow transplant and is in the ICU). Really cool of PC Gamer and the author to run/write this article.
Cat, I'm sorry to hear that your arc is still broken. "A Hero in Need...is a Friend Indeed!" was also broken for a time, but I was able to do a work around until it got fixed and back to 100%.
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
Last night I found out via feedback that one of the very things "A Hero in Need...is a Friend Indeed!" is praised for in the article, it's custom group, was stealth broken due to some recent patch. A team playing it complained that all the minors were scrappers and that the big end boss was repeated all over the place,
Checking the arc, the big boss had lost is "Don't Auto Spawn" tag and two of the three minions from the custom group were missing. It was the two that were normal baddies recolored with new bios. I readded them and set boss back to not autospawn. In adding them back, I found that "Snake Eyes" was not allowed, so I made them "Snake-Eyes". Gotta love loosing ratings due to stealth breaks. Very very frustrating.
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
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I've got a similar problem with the Tomorrownauts arc, though it's not as simple a fix (or else I would have done it already). My custom group "Doomsday Droids" is considered invalid by the game, because of the word "Droid". The problem is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to change the group's name without re-creating it from scratch. Not that I want to change it anyway, because they're referenced a ton of times in the text as well and I really don't want to hunt through it all to find it (plus "Droids" is alliterative, which was the whole point).|
Originally Posted by Wrong_Number
Last night I found out via feedback that one of the very things "A Hero in Need...is a Friend Indeed!" is praised for in the article, it's custom group, was stealth broken due to some recent patch. A team playing it complained that all the minors were scrappers and that the big end boss was repeated all over the place,
Checking the arc, the big boss had lost is "Don't Auto Spawn" tag and two of the three minions from the custom group were missing. It was the two that were normal baddies recolored with new bios. I readded them and set boss back to not autospawn. In adding them back, I found that "Snake Eyes" was not allowed, so I made them "Snake-Eyes". Gotta love loosing ratings due to stealth breaks. Very very frustrating. WN |
I can still look at the custom group in the editor, but it only shows the two custom bosses in the group, not the standard mobs with modified descriptions. The weird part is that the standard mob information is still in the .cvg file, perfectly intact (The two custom mobs are also properly tagged not to auto-spawn in the file - but the flag doesn't show up in-game). So apparently if a villain group is flagged as "invalid" by the game, it screws up the loading process somehow and it doesn't read the file properly.
*edit*
...Wow, this is so stupid. I decided to take a look at the arc just to see if I could fool around with the file itself and trick the arc into accepting it. Short answer: no, but I did find out that apparently the term "Droids" is flagged by the copyright filter, but not "Droid". Also, apparently "Reprogrammed Doomsday Droid" is invalid because of "D Doom". See if you can spot the problem there.
Astoria in D Minor, a horror arc. Arc ID: 41565 - The Beating Heart of Astoria: A Play in Five Acts. Arc ID: 170547 - Ignition of the Machine, a story with robots. Arc ID: 318983
Captain Skylark Shadowfancy and the Tomorrownauts of Today. Arc ID: 337333 - Signal:Noise, where is everybody? Arc ID: 341194
@The Cheshire Cat - Isn't it enough to know I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
12 second horror stories - a writing experiment.
Captain Skylark Shadowfancy and the Tomorrownauts of Today. Arc ID: 337333 - Signal:Noise, where is everybody? Arc ID: 341194
@The Cheshire Cat - Isn't it enough to know I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
12 second horror stories - a writing experiment.
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This is utterly cretinous. I always try to give the dev team the benefit of the doubt, but if i said what I really thought I'd be banned from the forums for sure. It's beyond senseless and into negligence IMO.|
Originally Posted by The_Cheshire_Cat
...the term "Droids" is flagged by the copyright filter, but not "Droid". Also, apparently "Reprogrammed Doomsday Droid" is invalid because of "D Doom". See if you can spot the problem there.
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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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According to a post in the City Life general forum, WNs arc A Friend Indeed is mentioned in PCGAMER this month!
Here's hoping more plays result!
Fame, WN! And rightly deserved!
Eco
Edit: She's not the only one, either
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)