Clave_Dark_5

I had no idea these had been added as, yes, all I saw mentioned were the Praetoria ones - thanks for listing these! I'll have to go take a gander at them when I get the chance.

Here's a very different idea: make an AE arc!

When I get a bit bored I start a new one and, because I'm something of a perfectionist, I end up spending many, many hours working out dialogue, map choice, etc. Near the end I'm usually tearing out my hair and looking for reasons to NOT work on it (like by posting on the forums >.>), but when it's done, I feel great about having done it.

AND THEN... when I finally get back into playing the game, everything is fun again.

So start dancin' already, we've got our dollars ready!

Congrats to everyone who won and a big thank you to those who voted for my arcs. The biggest thank you goes to Bubbawheat of course for taking the time to do all the work and provide the prizes.

Over these past few weeks I've been busy on a new arc and it's turned into a real headache - things I wanted couldn't be done, second-guessing so many choices I made and retooling (I still have literally pages of notes to go through, argh), etc. etc. etc. And then when it would get to me and I just HAD to take a break and actually PLAY THE GAME, I was just soloing some Winter Event stuff. Combine all that with the fact I usually only get to play maybe an hour a day and... I didn't ever get around to playing these voting. I feel like I was taking advantage of this contest and yet not actually participating in it, and it's a cheesy feeling.

Well, enough of that. For the foreseeable future, when I just have to get away from the endless salt mine of the new arc, I'm going to take my toon (whom I'm now pretty good at soloing with, heh), and I'm going to play me some arcs, these and others.

I'm glad to see you posted the winners from last year as well, I was wondering if that list was still around. I think those and this year's should be posted in a sticky (assuming these all aren't already on someone else's list of good arcs) so that as time goes by and we face another person posting something about how there's never anything good to play in AE, we can point them in that direction.

Again, thank you to everyone.

Well, oddly enough, so far it doesn't seem to have gone away yet; wasn't it supposed to be gone by now? I just logged in a toon I haven't touched in ages and got the "Father Time needs your help" message. Didn't have a chance to hit up the D and check though.

I wouldn't mind seeing it stay up for a bit longer, although I've probably done my fill of it. My troller's soloed Snaptooth so much he's probably earned the redcap badge twice over (along with two levels), and the Lady Winter thing is usually just a speed run to the three obelisks and then 30 seconds later it's done, but I always love the music in the ski chalet.

One man's garish colors is another pretty sparkles. No one is the final arbiter of taste.

I usually have a range of costume options that give me a choice of colors for the bubbles, etc., so that if a team member asks nicely, I can accommodate them.

I had this happen to me the other day when I roled a new toon - I got there and no Clockwork. I didn't have much time to wait for a dev to reply to a petiton or anything, so I just logged out.

You could send a petition though, or do as suggested about waiting and seeing if any show up in a few.

I usually forget to set a new toon to show those ratings, but I do use them on occasion.

I usually do it as an "all or nothing" way of leaving notes to myself, 5 stars with a brief note as to why ("good team leader") one star and another brief note, but with an explanation ("idiot kept rushing in to get the alphas with his blaster").

I don't very often see anyone I've noted as one or the other pop up again though (see the first sentence!), but I did one time end up on a PUG with a one starred player - things worked out ok though, so I just rolled with it rather than quit. One the other hand, if that one star note had said something really strong like "verbal abuse", or "tried to form a team then quit it when he had 6 players but couldn't find a healer" (I got my laughs from it but still, one must have standards), I'd just bow out. Politely.

I have 2 fifties, one on each side. The first one came in about 6 months after I started playing, the other was easily a year after that. No idea how many hours each took.

I have bad altitis and about 25% of my toons get up into the 40s before I got distracted with a new one. I have toons all over the spectrum of levels out there and I want to play every one of them.

RIGHT NOW. AT ONCE.

So I have no idea when I'll reach 50 again, but off the top of my head I'd say it will be my 42 Bots/Dark MM; then again, my 34 Ill/Rad troller is turning out to be great fun.

I heard about this a few weeks back, my GF has already set the DVR. I'm really psyched for this, but I always am for new Who.

Edit: grats for a great thread title btw - HA!