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Originally Posted by Grouchybeast

That would still lose from the search interface good arcs whose creators don't play any longer. Maybe it would be possible to have an arc reactivated by someone other than the creator playing through it? There could be an option in the 'Played Arcs' page to show inactive arcs.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

This is a fair point. One suggestion I have seen before for handling this is to make all existing arcs "inactive". An inactive arc remains in the system and retains it's rating/plays but will not appear in player searches until the arc creator goes in and re-publishes it.

The advantage of this is that in addition to avoiding issues with arcs losing their ratings it also avoids the issues associated with an arc creator who has lost the locally stored files for their arc.

All in all though I like the suggestion, clearing out the old, broken arcs from the system seems like a very good idea to me.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I'm just going by what Positron said the other day

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

and players like playing them.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Tripe.There is and never has been ANYTHING skill based about number crunching and hoping like hell you don't happen to miss that last attack when fighting the Boss.

I REMEMBER the old game (ok, post EDN but at least three/four years ago). I remember the scampering, rock strewn runs through the Hollows. I remember slogging from one bloody end of the city to the other because the gods damned contacts wouldn't give me their stinking cell phone number.
I remember cussing out the fact that every other blasted mission was either a Defeat All or searching for 5-10 glowies, shoved in the corner of an Oranbega map. I still remember wishing that whoever had put all these smeg-bloody-tastic 'Hunt 25 mobs' missions in everywhere would kindly drop dead.

I also remember the pre-stamina years. At no point did I think 'Oh well, I might be sucking more wind than a punctured bagpipe being stamped on by an angry Scot, but by golly at least it makes me think about my builds!' At pretty much every other mob I was thinking 'Please, get me to 22. Let this not suck as much anymore...' There was nothing 'tactical' about when you took Stamina, because nearly everyone (not the nearly) had it anyway, and three slotted it as soon as they could so they could stop being so blue-empty all the damn time.

And as for Praetorian mobs...Never has 'fake difficulty' been so appropriate, or so badly placed. I can borderline stomach it at level 50, because hey-oh, at least we have the shiny toys to fight back with by then. But at level 1-20? Really? This is pre-SO level, people, when a character is about as far from their prime as they can get. Explain to me what is so 'skill based' when all the mobs, instead of having the 50% acc base of their Primal counterparts, ALL have 65% basic? AND a shedload more attacks, mez, mez immunity and exotic damage types AND debuffs?

I, for one, am bloody glad the 'Golden Era' is long gone. Because I remember it, and it sucked.

Originally Posted by EU_Damz

Its been a few issues and it still doesnt get old

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Yes - the Well has made Tyrant and his loyalist hencpeople more powerful than we can possibly imagine

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

And who got captured by the guys we're now beating up

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Yes it does - that's how to set up multi-team content, and show the level of the threat we face.
For example, the Praetorian Hamidon destroyed hundreds of superpowered people, and wiped out whole divisions fo the Praetorian Guard as it moved up from South America and into America, and only stopped when it agreed a truce with Tyrant - and now that it's woken up again, it's not something that 3 or 4 heroes could take on by themselves - it'll need a couple of dozen Incarnates just to have a chance of defeating it.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The Trials will always be major story moments, because they're built around the idea that the situation is so serious that it needs a couple of teams of heroes to deal with it - it's something that can't be resolved with a smaller team - which means that it's always going to be a key moment in the meta-storyline.
For example, the Praetorian chapter of the Incarnate storyline brings a resolution to the whole Praetorian stroyline - it's been leading up to the Trials since the GR tutorial, right through Praetoria City, First Ward and Tyrant's invasion - the characters, situations and stories all lead up to our counter attack against the loyalsits to set Praetoria free, as we help the Resistance dismantle the dictatorship and take down the Praetors one after another.

Originally Posted by Ultimus

I remember him. What happened?

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Ka-ZING.

Originally Posted by Gemini_2099

I am not in a panic yet unless the 28th rolls around and no reward token is to be found.

Originally Posted by Lothic

They've been toying with things to do with water at least as far back as that little pool you can swim underwater in outside the western wall of Grandville.

But someone just mentioned that you can "wade" through the water in the pools outside the Kane haunted house in this year's Halloween trial so apparently they seem to still be trying to do different things with it.

Originally Posted by Winterminal

I'd like to specify something: I actually like the trials as content. The story of a grand assault on Praetoria and opening the eyes of its citizens to the twisted nature of their emperor is great, and the grand scale of it makes it feel epic.