Clave_Dark_5

That's me as well. Altitis doesn't help.

Yeah, jump in, but only with one toon. After awhile, you'll get the hang of it in general. At least, that's how it worked for me.

I'm hoping for 'stance' instead of 'emote'. If not, I'll just make a macro for it on a toon I feel benefits from it.

I've seen it quite populated when I step in there like I did I think Friday night at about 8 PM SMT.

Neither your perception nor mine really tell us anything though.

And even if it does, a "nerfage" such as the changes to AE (some of which are temporary, mind you) was totally needed, no matter if it did drive away players; those were exploits, pure and simple.

That was one of the first arcs I ever played, and still one of the funniest.

It depends on how far the devs might look into it; could be they find the guy one-starred a number of 5-star arcs that day without playing them.

I'd go ahead and take the chance that something good might come of it, as it's so easy to file a petition, but it's up to you of course.

Here's hoping you can get back to five stars!

Did you mean in preparation for GR or just in general? Because stalkers got some changes back around, what was it, i13?

I'm kind of leaning towards encouraging you to send a petition about this. You'll never know what comes of it, as the devs don't share such info - maybe nothing will, but on the other hand, you just might get a griefer caught red-handed.

Priceless, as they say.

If I may toss in my two inf here, have you read over any of the guides? I found this one to be pretty good:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=114196

Or maybe Doms just aren't for you; I feel that way about Tanks.

Looking forward to those.

That was my favorite part too!

Strongly composed and executed arc, definitely worth a your time and five stars.

I'd complain too!

The theory in vogue last I heard was that people who've made farms (or heck, maybe just anyone who wants the tickets for their own 5-star arc) will go through and low-ball other people's five-star arcs to kick them out of the running.

I could see that happening; I can also see a small number of lulz-seekers just doing it from time to time as well, sans grand conspiracy; after all, this game has how many players and how many 5-star missions? A 5 star mish is an easy, visible target.

Then I can also toss in the occasional "I not good at computers, Y do this do these thingz?" bad player who gets himself ganked just inside the door of the first mission and then ragequit and one-stars you for his own stupidity.

So - could be a conspiracy, or partly one, but yeah, I have my reasons for trying to avoid falling into that trap 100% (altho Wrong Number's experience is troublesomely hard to ignore).

What this really boils down to: yes, we could just getting low-balled "sooner or later", but ultimately if that small, small percentage of random haters/dumb players and other bad seeds mentioned above can pull almost any arc down from five stars, then our bell curve is deformed at one end, which means the mechanic needs another look-see by the devs.

Which means DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!


Just hadda say it...

I generally hate to fall into possible "conspiracy theories", but I've seen this stuff too (one of my arcs at five stars for about 30 plays then zap) and I'm starting to wonder...

Seconded!

I see it as useless exactly for the reason you sited. If I set my name as "The Clave Dark 5", I wanted the stupid NPCs to use it, or for it to appear above my head that way (I recall it doesn't, right?).

I had one toon once named "The Stars Are Right" (which was something of a ref and a long story not fitting for here). So whenever he'd talk to a contact or run into a room with a boss, the boss would go "Stars Are Right?! What are you doing here?!" I hated that. If "The Batman" runs into a room, he should be greeted as such.

Maybe everyone posting here who hasn't already played&rated should do so to get it back to 5 stars...

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What? Me? Uhm, no I haven't yet... My time's pretty limited, but I'll try to get to it tomorrow morning after server X-ferring some toons.

That's me to a T. I almost deleted my hero 50 (Kat/Regen scrapper) awhile back because he was just sitting there... and I really prefer redside. Later on I found use for him play testing MA arcs, so I'm glad I kept him. I still don't do much else with him though. If I didn't have such altitis, I'd probably take him out from time to time.

I don't use my 50 villain either (DB/Nin stalker), but no way would I delete her.

I'll also take the time to zip around the room a couple of times with Ninja Run to give it time to update and still have that happen. You basically have to keep rechecking until you KNOW you have the latest version up.

Marketing, take note!