Eva Destruction

Yeah, what Tubbius said. Use the "Edit" button, then republish. You don't actually have to make any changes. You do, however need to wait for the "blah blah has been updated" system messages and then hit "search" to refresh the search window before you can see whether or not it worked.

Have you tried republishing?

I'll miss not having to go to Atlas Park to pay my base rent.

"Now he's stuck in a book I wrote. A crummy world full of plot holes and spelling errors."

CoH...IN SPACE!!!!

The Second Coming of the Mega Mech...revised.

And my Shadow Shard arc that involves Malta. I actually really want to write this one. I'm just stuck on how to go about doing it.

Any word on which arc was picked this week?

I much prefer the old "to be continued?" approach than the new "wrap everything up in a five-mission arc" approach. It left openings for expansion. New content could build on existing lore instead of feeling tacked on. Writers had something to go on rather than pulling stuff out of their butts. It let our characters feel like, even after we had prevented an interdimensional invasion, stopped a global conspiracy and screwed over a demon prince, there were still more and bigger threats out there, some of which we didn't understand and some of which we couldn't fight yet. It gave the game world more depth.

The new "wrap it all up" approach is even more jarring when older lore is dusted off and subjected to the "done in five missions" treatment....and even more so when said explanations that really should be end-game content is shoe-horned into the 20-30 level range. I'm not holding my breath that the new low-level stuff will be any better. The old content, for all its faults, did a good job of tying leveling up to the game's lore. You start off fighting crummy street gangs, then move on to fighting their bosses, then move on to fighting their bosses' bosses. You don't stop the underground magical artifact trade by level 20, you just move up to the next rung in the ladder. And that's why Praetoria feels so utterly shallow. There is literally nothing more to explore. First Ward is just going to be a tacked on zone, not a logical progression of the story, because that story has nowhere to go.

And really, the current quality of the writing is only suited for monster-of-the-week arcs that have nothing to do with anything. World-building doesn't seem to be a dev priority these days. Pretty zones and cute gimmicks and "this person sacrificed themselves for the greater good, feel sad dammit!" arcs don't help to build a persistent and immersive world, but they sure are shiny, aren't they? If that's going to be the dev team's approach to attracting and retaining players, they might as well stick to what they're good at and stop pretending to be good at things they're not.

"O Wretched Man" is still one of my favorites in this sense, especially Wretch's speech at the end. It's the first character development you get for...well, any of the signature characters, at least in-game, and it portrays Ghost Widow and Wretch as tragic figures (from a villainous perspective anyway; they did join Arachnos willingly, after all) while not making them any less threatening.

And on a more upbeat and sheerly awesome note, I like the Kronos ambush in World Wide Red. It's still the best "oops, now I've really ticked them off" moment in the game.

I'm not going to bother reading all the "do trials or shut up" posts that always come up whenever someone makes a reasonable request for an alternative to doing trials or shutting up, or the inevitable responses to these posts, so I apologize if this has already been said:

Billz is not normal, and his solo progress can't be taken as "typical." The average soloist will take far far longer.

So....are the old "Earth for humans" billboards being replaced with these new ones? Since, you know, they're not very PC.