Clave_Dark_5

Ah, my bad.

I think there are some CoT too? I know I once had a mish with a "CoT random boss" set and once in a while some really tough guy showed up. I changed it.

I can answer this one: you can't do that.

However, LongBow costumes are pretty easily manufactured with the costume creator, I think all the parts and designs are in there. Now you just have to figure out which ones.

Don't be so crusty about it.

When my Bots/Dark MM is ready for her next mayhem, I sometimes have to wait and set aside close to an hour because by the time I leave (unless the clock catches me), there's not one target-able anything left.

That was nice of you, thanks!
Well, it took only about 70 plays before someone spoke up about confusing mine with that one.
I am not the author of that arc (which is pretty good by the way). Funnily enough I had gotten the basic idea for this arc and was working it all out when that one got dev-choiced three days later. The more I thought about what I was after the more I decided mine was sufficiently different (the custom designs for one thing) that I didn't feel like I would be ripping them off with mine (and hopefully everyone agrees :P). I ended up restructuring some of mine too and focusing it elsewhere, so in the end it was all good.
You recall correctly.
That was indeed a bug. For some reason the current build of MA has a thing against some otherwise "legal" costume options and it invalidated the boss because of my choice of sword?!? I just got back from the AE and fixed that - thanks for catching it.
I'm glad that worked for you, I really had to struggle to come up with anything even close to what I was after (which you now know, as you caught who I was referring to ).
Ya know... that wasn't intentional on my part and now that you've pointed it out I can't unsee it. I may have to go in and recolor them to avoid that. As for the rifle, there just isn't a good "low tech" looking rifle to choose from right now, the Nemesis one is the closest you can come to something that looks flintlock-y. Maybe I'll make them dual pistols and give them the old fashioned pistols design.
YES! I marked the arc as neutral just to allow a hero to make the choice you describe or to allow a villain to 'get back at her for using me like that' and did my darnedest to present each possible motivation in the text. I'm really glad you came away from it with that.
I'll admit it - this arc was all about the designs pretty much.
The more I create for the MA the more I find myself leaning away from 'easy information'. If you're wandering down some lab hallway and some big scary green thing with a skeleton floating inside comes at you, I think it's a bit odd to be able to click on them and find out that they're called Shivans and where they come from. Jumping from our world to the Panda world would be a bit abrupt and not too much would come with obvious history labels on them, right?
On the other hand, I can see your point. When I get to going over this arc again with a fine-toothed comb I'll see what I can add in to help flesh it out more.
No idea what was up with that. I had every mission in it set to go from 23rd level to (default), but to be safe I changed thedefault on them all to 54, which should take care of that I think.


I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for playing and for the great feedback - without such feedback, the MA would be a much sadder (and typo-ridden place.

I'm all up on that idea, but one reason I'll point out for the Asian grading curve there is the sheer number of arcs. If I want to sit down and play a few arcs a week say, there is no dearth of 5-star arcs, "so why would I even bother dipping my toe into the 4-star loser end of the pool?"

I don't like it either, but that's the way things seem to be working to me.

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Also, I'm very up on the idea of seeing groups of custom foes listed differently from standard foes that have just been repurposed. I have a lowbie villain arc I took some standard foes for, changed their color and desription, and now people searching for an arc to play might think I was a fool and put ACTUAL custom foes in it - and skip it.

Yes, I put a note about what's really going on with them into the description for the arc, but at, what is it, 300 characters? that's an awfully precious resource to expend due to poor labeling.

Fixed that for you.

Some of what you said makes sense to me, but... so, putting up patches to stop exploits isn't the devs making themselves a "visible authority figure"? And I would point out that those cars are still driving along that highway, those drivers didn't stop using it, they conformed to what was expected of them by the authority figures, even when they didn't know for a fact they were being watched.

Ah, I was misremembering my iNumbers. For a moment there I was seriously questioning the taste of people who play arcs.

Whoa, wait, wat? That means my first arc is in the select few (at about 137 plays) and that can't be right. I must be misreading or something... :P

With you being Wrong Number, that in an of itself is a certain amount of advertising, I think. As I'm not Wrong Number - and probably don't write arcs that have such cross appeal - I do have to work hard in that fur coat and bling. Or did anyways; these days nothing seems to work except....

Bingo. Despite being a less-than-a-name creator, my WickerWork Khan arc was getting a couple of plays a week because it sat at five stars and because I was busting my hump to sell it on the forums here - and that was when it was still in the 20-plays or so range, not 100+. Once it hit about 67 plays it got dropped into the 4-star box of shame and literally no one's touched it since (even despite a couple of new "sells" here on the forums - guess I'll have to retire that fur coat ).

Five stars means a heck of a lot, regardless of subject matter and history of plays. So does name appeal; I can't help but think that those of you who don't have to work at adverting are few and in that spot due to "who you are" at this point, on the fourms, in your SGs, what have you.

I think the fact that it's come down to that says a lot about the state of AE, which is starting to look bleaker and bleaker to me. If the devs lose the mass of only-semi-informed players, getting them to even give the AE "another chance" gets harder by the day.

I still like putting them on it because I'm hoping that maybe I'll have rteported one that sent me that email only an hour ago and he'll get caught. Sure it only slows them down, but any pain for them I can inflict is a good thing, no matter how small. I think of it as trolling.

I'd say you have a lot to thank him for actually.

(as I'm sure you do, of course)

My dad brought home a Trash-80 and I'm NOT a software developer now.

I know I haven't been - which suits me fine as I hate having a schedule forced upon me as to what I can and can't (or "should") do at any certain level.

The more events that get set up on a tight schedule like that, the fewer I get to play because of my hours.

But-but-but-but...!!

Well, you said it, not me.