Eva Destruction

Or people whose 50s are "done" and have all the purples they need and have been shelved for lack of anything to do will start playing them again and generating surplus purples.

Or maybe I'm the only one who will be doing that.

Dude, everyone's online these days. Including the Lost. Check out www,welcomeriktioverlords.com.

Could you maybe use a desk or other piece of furniture collectible, and have the text say there's a radio on the desk or in the desk? Or you could use one of the Arachnos computers and call it a TV; the Lost are scavengers after all, and there are Arachnos hanging out all over the place in scanner missions. Since you can't put a flat-screen on your head, you might as well actually watch TV on it.

Fire/Traps, /Dark, /Storm or /Rad Corruptor. With Fire you get awesome AoE damage to wipe out swarms of minions, good single-target damage for tough bosses, and with the debuffs in your secondary you kill fast and are nearly invincible if you're doing it right.

Ice or Sonic Blaster, or any Blaster if you've built up some defense with IOs. Or you could forego the defense, roll up a Fire/Elec or Fire/EM or even Fire/Fire, grab as much recharge as you can and just use the "best defense is reducing all your enemies to a pile of smoking cinders" strategy all the way to 50.

It's possible there's a @lalagirl on the NA servers, in which case your million inf went to her.

Something similar happened with Mission Architect comments, before they changed how it worked. A player with the same global on both NA and EU servers was receiving comments on his NA account for an arc published with his EU account.

1: Yes. EBs should be fairly easily soloable, that's why AVs scale down when you're solo. Building characters to be able to take on AVs and GMs is an endgame to some people. As long as it isn't trivial to be able to do it (and it currently isn't), it should remain possible.

2: Several. My first was Hro'Dotz, because I was in the arc at the time. It was a "yay, now I'm a cool kid too" moment. I beat up a few Praetorians after that, but really all I wanted was a crack at my favorite AV, the Kronos Titan (the one in the final mission of Crimson's arc, not the GM ambush. I can't beat a GM's regen, although I did tank him solo while I put together a team to kill him.) It took three or four tries, but I won. That was a sense of accomplishment, not just because he was tougher than the others, but because, well, I beat up a giant robot. I haven't bothered with any other AVs since, although if a new really cool one is introduced I will probably try to solo it.

3. Who's to say you'll be able to put a level bump enhancement in every slot? I certainly hope the incarnate system doesn't completely trivialize existing content. Just because I want new content for my incarnates doesn't mean I want them to be essentially excluded from existing content due to boredom.

4. Giant robots are cool and we need more of them. The ones we have should be available in MA as AVs, not just as GMs. So should all the new ones. That way, they can scale down to EBs and everybody can go fight giant robots.

Also, the devs should stop trying to make each AV/EB harder than the ones that came before. People looking to be challenged by these guys can always try to solo or duo them as AVs, or turn their difficulty up. People whose builds aren't so strong though, maybe they just want to finish their arc without begging for help with an EB that hits like a truck, has PToDs, and hits a tier 9 just when you've almost won and are almost out of inspirations. Also, the devs need to realize that not every arc needs an AV. Not even at level 40+. Also, giant sacks of too many HP are never fun, tone down Reichsman already.

Might as well update since my plans to run a few AE challenge arcs this weekend fell through.

#178774 Tales of Croatoa: A Rose By Any Other Name - Best In-Canon Arc '09

Why I chose it: I was lazy. I clicked "My level" and it's on the first page, since it's a Dev's Choice.

This was my favorite arc out of last year's Architect Awards winners. It's a sweet, sad story, with wonderful characterization, a truly sympathetic contact, and enough detail to keep it interesting. The only nitpick is that the custom group is rather sparse, with only a single minion and lieutenant type even though they are rather heavily used.

I would also recommend Cheshire Cat's "Signal: Noise."

Update, tweaked the ending.

Removed Malta entirely. A different enemy group now occupies the mission 5 map. Added official kudos for kicking them out to the list of stuff you gained from this adventure.
Removed the Warburg rocket connection from mission 5. It was a bit too coincidental and not really necessary. A new "stuff you're not supposed to know" optional clue will be added once the editor decides to stop mapserving me.

#298290 "Papers and Paychecks" (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=185804) is a Rogue arc that is down to four stars. It was very enjoyable when I played it, and has been updated since then so it's probably even better now.

Xs are boss spawns, Os are ally/rescue spawns, big dots are "any detail" spawns. Green is front, white is middle, and blue is back. The little things are blinky spawn points, but they're so tiny I can't tell the difference between wall and floor.

I put Epic and pool customization at a higher priority than I would have put power customization a year ago. They've done it. NOW FINISH IT. This is my biggest complaint about the development team of this game. They don't finish things. They abandon them for the new shiny. Everything sits around as a work in progress for.....forever.

How hard would it be really to customize epic pools? They're mostly copies of primary and secondary powers. Pool powers probably wouldn't take a lot of work either, it's not like there are that many of them. Squids and VEATs might be a bit more work, although VEATs should be allowed to customize their weapons at least. I can't really comment on what priority I would give VEAT and squid customization though, since I don't play those ATs. Granite still needs to be customizable. JUST FINISH IT.

Just think of how nice it would look in the i20 overview. Full Power Customization: Players can now customize their Pool and Epic Powers.

I will replay arcs if I'm looking for something to play and don't want to be bothered with looking for something new. I will also replay an arc if I played it a while ago, liked it, and the author has made significant changes since then.

I think the reason even our favorite arcs don't get a lot of replay is because many of us (me included) play AE to experience player-created stories. Once you've already experienced it...what more is there? We replay dev-created content because it's what we've always done, which isn't the case with AE. Add to that the quasi-TF coding that encourages finishing an AE arc in one sitting, and dev-created content is just more convenient. After all, if you finish three missions of a dev arc and a friend is putting together a TF that you need the badge for, you don't have to quit the dev arc.

I don't play Masterminds. I'd love to shrink their pets though. It would be hilarious if like, in the cartoons, that stupid demon growl got all high-pitched and squeaky when you shrank them.

Too bad we can only have one giant monster detail in an MA mission, or I could make the Goliath War Walker fight the Kronos to see which is scarier.

I'm gonna make War Walkers fight Zeus Titans, once they become available.

Without reading through this whole thread, I want:

Sashes. Preferrably in several flavors.

Carnie-style corsets, with and without poufy shoulder pieces.

Succubus boots. Or rather, that pattern for thigh-high boots. I have no faith in the devs' ability to make a decent high heeled shoe after the cankles of the "high heel" boot and the monstrous feet that go in the witch boots.

Crey head-sets. I think Crimson wears one too.

Malta and Knives-style pouches. And now that we have "tights" with stuff stuck to them, I want the Knives "pants" with the straps and stuff too. Also, the Longbow pants with the straps and stuff. I want enough straps and pouches to make a Leifeld tribute.

Freakshow stuff. Cybernetics aside, they get some punky clothing and hair options that we don't get.

Ripped jeans.

I am most interested in getting NPC parts that are versatile, and not particularly associated with any specific group. I'd consider new PARTS a priority over porting some of the NPC parts, except maybe some of the sashes. Seriously, we need more wide belts, especially if you're going to keep making bottoms with skin that don't go all the way to the waist, or even worse, like the witch bottoms, assume you're going to wear them with the corresponding top. And that's why I'd rather have NPC parts than new costume SETS. More and more these sets are obviously designed to be worn together, and as the textures get fancier and they're becoming harder to mix and match.

I'm mostly playing 50s, getting opposite side badges on my mains and such.

Sometimes I play my Praetorian KM/DA Scrapper. She's level 14. I want to remember what life was like before inherent fitness so a few years from now I will have stories to tell to all those darn kids all over my lawn.