Eva Destruction

Ugh. Seriously? You guys seriously LIKE them?

Let's put aside the fact that they're character-jacking god-moding needlessly long-winded nonsense that is completely irrelevant to any character that isn't a hero, human, and fairly well-adjusted, and stupid enough to drink weird red crap falling from the sky in a dimension ruled by a mad god where giant eyeballs try to eat you. Let's put that aside for a moment, and discuss the utter waste of space.

There are 24 badges in the Shadow Shard. 24. Obviously whoever wrote them wasn't limited to the single-sentence blurb we normally get for exploration badges. That's 24 opportunities to get into the lore of the Shard. That's 24 more tantalizing tidbits we could have been given. If done well, they would have answered a question or two, and brought up a dozen more. Instead we get "The Shard is in your head and makes you crazy, whooooo!" (let's ignore the fact that people have been living there all their lives and are still as sane and rational as you would expect from people who have spent their lives trying not to get eaten by giant eyeballs) and "Don't drink the water." Sheesh. If this is what it's going to look like, please don't touch the Shadow Shard, ever.

I will admit, Fist of Fury would look nice over my Brute's head, and my goth Scrapper must get Hate Machine.

They're supposed to drop from level 50+ foes anywhere, so I'm guessing you were unlucky.

Me, I got two in a single tip mission. Then I ran four more tip missions and got nothing. Random number generator is random.

On an unrelated note, the Malta Gunslinger Action Figure tip mission has received the Terra Volta reactor treatment. So in an issue that makes 50s more powerful, and that added an arc with multiple EBs that is required in order to make your 50 more powerful, they made a completely optional mission that can be dismissed and avoided completely easier? Does this seem backwards to anyone? /end rant.

On a completely related note, I want my Spiritual boost I want it I want it I want it!

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My votes for Best Heroic/Vigilante:

#1: Made to Wave the Flag
#2: The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society

My votes for Best Short Arc:

#1 Talos Vice
#2 Murders in the RWZ Morgue

Ok I'm in. Single-mission arc that isn't comedy? You've got me intrigued.

Disclaimer: This is obviously a tribute to "Murders in the Rue Morgue," which I haven't read in many many years, so I had to look it up on Wikipedia after finding the Rikti Ambassador's name rather awkward.

Verdict: 5 stars.

What I liked: It manages to tell a complete story in a single mission.

As a tribute, it was clever; Rue Morgue > RWZ Morgue, the monkey did it, Agent G....I'm surprised nobody's thought of it before.

Commonly recognizable phrases translated into Rikti are always amusing.

What I didn't like: The Rikti Ambassador's name, as mentioned before, was awkward when translated into Rikti. It also doesn't fit the tribute, since you used the name of the detective character.

I felt Agent G's hatred of Vanguard was a bit too much. Mistrust and rivalry, sure, but his dialogue came off a bit too strong. This is of course made worse by the fact that you had to use a captive to allow me to "talk" to a non-hostile, and his Vanguard guards promptly proceeded to attack the Longbow in the area. Not much you can do about that though.

Those are nitpicks though, overall it's a unique and enjoyable arc. I actually thought it could have used LESS combat. All those Rikti are a bit distracting.

Throwing one of my arcs in the ring: #431270 Until the End of the World

It's great that you guys have found creative ways to shut your pets up, but the vast majority of the playerbase doesn't know about these methods, and/or doesn't care that their stupid pets are annoying the crap out of people.

Pets shouldn't make any noise at all unless they're in combat. Period. The demons are simply poorly designed.

Doh, don't unpublish! When you edit a published arc, one of the options is "Save to local (stop working on published arc). Clicking this will save a local copy of your arc (although the changes won't apply to your published arc, so you should republish first, wait for the "Arc name" has been updated message, then hit search to refresh your window, then click edit again) which you can then play through in test mode.

I would have held off on PvP until i5. At that point the Arena would have been introduced, to field test PvP for the release of CoV. With the release of CoV, there would have been a variety of PvP missions introduced, giving rewards that could only be earned through completing these missions. They would include NPC critters as well, to make them more difficult to farm.

I would have never created Arachnos. The Rogue Isles would have been truly Rogue, with various villain groups vying for power and territory. Your character would be an independent agent. Your contacts would be representatives from various villain groups seeking favors or allegiance, toadies sucking up to you, or people offering mercenary work. The Blood of the Black Stream would have been the VEAT. The Legacy Chain would exist all the way to 50, and there would be at least two other heroic groups running around so we're not fighting Longbow all the time.

I wouldn't have created such long-winded, repetitive storylines for CoH. I would have instead created shorter, more engaging arcs. I would have written contacts with personality. None of this "five contacts giving out the same arc" nonsense. There would be fewer zones. IP/Terra Volta would have been one zone, Skyway is unneccessary, as is Boomtown. Crey's Folly and Eden would remain as placeholders for future level 30-40 content.

I wouldn't have created Croatoa, instead I would have created new content for Crey's Folly and/or Eden.

Do not get me started on what I would have done differently regarding AE.

I would have let Nemesis die in Maxwell Christopher's arc.

Getting someone else to host your arcs is also unfeasible unless the person trusts you enough to let you use their account every time you want to update. Which is technically against the EULA anyway. So you can either not update your arc, ever, get your friend to update it for you, or violate the EULA.

This would work for a lot of arcs out there. Not so much for the "non-canon" arcs though. You can only do so much with the Portal Corps defense. It also would run into issues if your awesome arc contradicted someone else's.

On the other hand there are a lot of great arcs out there that are set in the game world but don't directly deal with canon. It would be great for those types of arcs.

So...if you don't play MA why do you bother reading, let alone posting in, a thread created to promote an MA mission?

By the way, complaining that you can't find anything but farms in a thread created to promote something that isn't a farm is even more....ah, forget it.