Clave_Dark_5

I actually have some notes for a "farm story" mission... I figured if I ever posted it in the game no one would play it and I'd get flamed here on the forums because it's a comedy (full of puns like my ol' BUNNYGIRLS! arc) but it seems that everyone here now thinks comedy arcs kill kittens. Plus, people hate farms and farmers as well. Seeing how I'm running out of slots anyways, I'll probably never get around to making it, so FEAR NOT. (FLAME NOT too plz)

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And not in cotext of Heraclea's post: I liked a lot of what Freem had to say - although a search feature as strong as YouTube's (or Google's) would be better than what we have now, which is just using simpler terms like "Comedy", "Drama", etc. For example, I can search for "Dr. Who fanmade trailer 2010" on YouTube; in AE I just get to click "Science Fiction" and hope for the best. I'm guessing such a robust search would be too resource-heavy though.

You can have a LOT of fun in there with higher level toons (say 30+ to be on the safe side) as custom-made critters can be a tough fight. But it can be really hard to find something worth playing in there by yourself. Rather than trying random arcs (which will net you nothing, most likely), try some of those listed in this thread :

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=127939

Or this one:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=217207

These are arcs that a number of people have played, given feedback on, etc. so they can be considered to be 'vetted' as worth taking a gander at. Of course what one person likes you might not, but you can be sure none of these will be abandoned arcs that never got finsihed, broken farms (meaning the exploits it used were fixed but the author never took it down after that), downright insulting in some manner, etc.

Wow, I knew that statement couldn't pass unchallenged, but that popped up faster than I thought it would...

But I don't think the existence of 4-star oblivion is their fault in the slightest. I also question how much power a few people have over whether your arc "makes it" or not - if anything, you'd have to blame them and the "slavish followers of their opinion", which I think just getting into silly territory. Remember, only a small percentage of players read these forums.

It was just a thought, nothing more nothing less. Those "arbiters of artistic perfection" at least wouldn't steer you into a farm, an abandoned arc that was never finished or something poorly written. It wouldn't be a guarantee of "artistic perfection" (or whatever), I'd probably not like some of them as well, but it would be a start.

My first thought when I hear that (which I have heard a lot in this thread) is something along the lines of "read the forums, there are lots of 'vetted' arcs lists made by players". This of course is a TERRIBLE reply as one shouldn't have to come to the forums to find something, you should be able to do that right there in the game itself.

But the second part of your post got me thinking that maybe the devs should instead choose a "trusted player" (they work for free!) to pick out some of the better arcs and label them as such... somehow. Pull aside List-Maker-X and ask, "give us a list of five good heroic arcs for levels 25-35"... Or something. Anything.

Maybe they could even just look at the lists we make and rubberstamp a few of them.

Grrr/Sigh. None of that will ever happen of course. First they have to go through an arc with a fine-toothed comb to make sure there's nothing copyrighted in it. I can imagine that is a pretty time-consuming process which is why we've seen so few dev choices.

And yet I still throw away hours of game time working on my next arc when I could be bashing instead!

Read my animated avator - it's a sometimes-reviled bit from Doctor Who, if you don't know.

Maybe you just need to try harder?

Seriously though, what Schlu said above about finding good arcs to play isn't a half-bad idea as it will keep the boredom of farming at bay. Check out this thread for some awesome arcs:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=217207

Welcome to the forums! If it weren't for them, I might not be still be around, so I know how you feel.

/em spit-take, WHAT?!

I'm a regular here and I didn't know that! No wonder 4-star rating = 'might as well have deleted it'. I can't believe we haven't been repeatedly slapping the devs about this since day one.

I was getting those rather a lot but haven't lately. I'm not sure if it was before or after i19 hit; if I had to guess I'd say before.

Powers lagging during Rikti raids ("Oh look, my long-charge power is back up!" click.... nothing "Oh wait, I guess not.") are an old, known issue, I've seen threads about that before (and suffered it as well). I seem to recall it was related to something about the button graphics locally determining recharge time vs. the game lagging, making it's computing of time passing slower. Or something like that anyways.

So this problem (not even betraying like they should) is still on-going? Sounds my story may need some work then - much like Pum's.

Thanks for your answers everyone!

Huh, I didn't think we got tips from grays. Man, those guys better watch out from now on.

I hear she was raised by ninjas in an alternate dimension as well...

The nominations were made in another, previous thread so you've missed the window to add more I'm afraid. :/