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Quote:The main reason why I gave up writing MA arcs is that it is to much hassle to make the text errorproof.This
You can always get a friend to proof-read your work prior to publishing.
For example. My arc Blackmarket has been run through a proofreader, a text editor, I have made dozen of spelling and error changes from people who pointed out errors to me. Still people find more errors! It is as if the errors never end and that is disheartening.
I wanted to change that mission, to make it more of a proper story in that arc. I stopped doing that. Why? Because every single line I add, I need to alt tab and copy the text back and forth to my text editor to get the most basic spelling errors out.
Every time I alt tab, there is a good chance that my system will crash. Besides the problem of the sometimes temperal AE system that refuses to save properly we all suffer from. I got swamped in Blackmarket files on my pc and it was hard to know which file was what.
Plus, I find it hard to ask a stranger to help me out as I don't have handy friends able and willing to proofread for me.
My problems would be reduced quite a bit, if there was at least a spelling checker in the MA editor. -
Quote:Well thanks for the fortune, but why the fool?I've tried GTA4. I really have. Compared to San Andreas and especially Vice City, it's just shiny pants. I don't have a problem with them per se, but if there's nothing in them that I want to get deeply involved in, I get really bored after the first couple of minutes.
And Spade, I saw you on Union earlier, at Black Market, I read your fortune! Don't pretend you're not playing.
As a matter of fact I play on a daily basis. But nowadays more on the NA side then on the EU side to be honest. You was lucky to spot me on GS. Who was just playing the market and changing Day Job locations. -
Quote:I am afraid that your cynical viewpoint could be right JD. I fell for it and I am not the only one that's for sure.And cynically I'm fairly sure that EU players buying NA accounts alongside their 'main' EU accounts is another reason for NC to delay a server list merge (even if they eventually swap completely). And if enough do this, they get 2 lots of subs for the switchover period and then can close the EU servers for low population - all the effects of a list merge with no cost and extra subs.
Of course, that's the cynic in me and no doubt far, far removed from the reality.
But Heck - a list merge would be such a nice Christmas present. -
You made another great arc Tangler. Only problem I had was in mission 3 where the objectives and clues looked to be tangled up. The navbar text not corresponding with the clue and the glowie/encounter in a few occasions. Maybe things got a bit hussled in one of the updates?
I have chosen to get him out of his dream. It is a big gamble of course, but I know that the best psychiaters are looking into his case. Lets hope he can be redeemed. If not, I will have to hunt him down for good. -
I will be happy with just the Pocket D AE access. But those alternate sets do look like a nice idea.
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That is good news. Hope you sort out things soon.
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Nightshade got it right as far as I found out for myself. I am charged in Dollars on my credit card using the normal excange rates for Euros in my case.
I have had to buy the special packs I wanted. Make sure you buy the correct ones. In my case there is a small hyperlink under each pack for the US version. -
Quote:From my experience, most of the US servers are in the same predicament as Union and Defiant. Biggest exception being Freedom where the number of people at down hours are roughly equivalent at what you can expect at semi peak hours at Union. Problem is that most of them are shopping or doing other solo activity at those times. I found that getting parties before 6 PM is pretty hard even there.However, it's interesting to note that it appears to be as bad in the US which helps to dispel the illusion of it being the 'promised land'.
And I miss Sals. They just don't have a good Sals Badgehunter channel there. Did you know that a channel only can have 2500 people? Even if 2400 of those people never relog again? -
The problems I have is the no map feature in the final room and the need for 8 people to click them. It would help if tp was not necessary to do this arc.
Another problem is that it is hard to find people who are able to do this tf. I have yet to do this one on my main badger! -
Ok, ok, it seems obvious that missing Hamidon is no great loss. Good, then I do not have to worry about that one. I am much relieved.
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We did another one with the remaining 5 players.
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Quote:What? and I missed those raids?Well I've been on 3 Hamidons in the last year all on Defiant
I say no to server merges. Merge the lists yes but NOT the servers
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Quote:I always was in favor for this Alpha. I normally don't express it this clearly though as we all know the futility of discussing them in the first place. All has been said.You really have turned into a grumpy sod, Spade.
Also, an all EU merge would really hack off the french and german speakers. I remember the time one of them, think it was french, went down while all the others were up after an Issue. They were not amused.
And yes, a server merge would annoy lots of people, especially if people lost names, etc.
My view has been altered a bit since I got a second account on the US side. Things over there are as bad (or good if you are an optimist) as they are here. Hence acknowledging the imo need to merge servers.
The best part of the EU servers is that us Europeans game at the same time, meaning that I can expect company at peak hours. It would be a shame of us EU players wander of to other servers in the hope of finding more players. I fear a serverlist merge would only weaken our servers and it is because of that that I like to see a serverlist merge and actual server merges.
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Quote:Indeed, we are sorely lacking maniacal laughter and a tie damsel to railroad track emote! Next booster should be:I always imagine myself as a Snidely Whiplash/Dirk Dastardly type villain when using Ninja Run, what with the arm in front of the face like it is. Just imagine your character giving a cartoonish villain laugh while running to tie a damsel to a railroad track and it all makes sense.
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
Classic Villainy! -
Thanks for the feedback Coulomb. Even though it hurts to read that my effort to make a little fun arc makes your head hurt!
Perhaps some things can clear this up. I had struggled with the plot, it started out as a one shot (the first mission) and then I tried to make it into a full arc. But to me the joke lost its momentum so I tried to tie things up in the last mission (that should have been mission 5 btw). It is obvious that the story fails to explain things properly now. I had to take to many shortcuts here. Perhaps, it might have been better if I had left it as a short arc with one mission.
About the garish mobs. That was just the idea, to make those proud Gangsters into a travesty of themselves. It was her revenge for them ruining her own evil plans. They were supposed to be hurtful to the eye.
I am sad to read about the proofreading part. I did have a lot of help trying to make it as error free as possible, including someone proofreading it. I have spend hours on end trying to get them all but everyone who plays them comments about it. Bad penmanship shows I guess, my grasp about the subtleties of English grammar falls short badly and writing this and my other arc has shown me that I am not a proper writer. At least not in the English language. -
Personally I would like to suggest that they merge the European Servers including Zukunft and Vigilance into one server. Then to merge the server lists together. After that I suggest they merge every 3 servers into 1 server. This once more including the EU server.
This would assure that us Europeans stay a bit clustered so we can play during those hours that the US citizens sleep and work.
It would upset quite a lot of people, it would also give the wrong signal, but at least it would give every newly formed server enough people to party with. To do fun things like big Raids like Hamidon. Any one here done Hamidon? 5 years of gaming and no Hamidon for me.
Of course, it is not up to me and things will stay as they are until GR launches. GR is the new big hope of salvation. I expect that it will bring some relief but it wont save this game for a long time. -
Excellent advice Dr. Aeon. For me, the parts about the dialogue and the outdoor missions made me think on how to improve my own arcs.
About the proofreading part. It would be so helpful to have a build in grammar check in the MA interface. I know that I find it very inconvenient to check every single I write in an out of game editor. Crashes are an ever present problem for me and alt tabbing is not a thing to do lightly. -
Quote:I don't find the scripting part that bothersome. Frankly I like it when people do that. It helps me to get more in touch with the inner hero. Sure now and then, this might get in the way of a very well detailed character of mine. However, most of mine are not well established worked out RP toons so I don't mind.Secondly, the scripted parts need to be reworked. I don't mind being told what I'm doing off-panel so much, it's the spelling out of my reactions. Even punching Indigo in the face, much as I, personally, would totally do it, would be out of character for some people. And getting one-shotted by Mr. Inquiry? No. Just no. And finally, I need a better reason. I don't agree with WHY my character is forced to do what she does, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. That is what ultimately breaks the arc for me.
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I had a few problems with this arc. I agree with above posters that a hero before committing crimes should have some very good reasons to do so. A shady person telling you it is for good cause is not good enough for me. Not sure how to improve on that except a complete rewrite of the arc. You might start with letting the first mission not be you fighting law officers. Or at the very least make the contact mention to be carefull not to hurt people more then necessary or something. THe debriefing mentioning casualties is very unheroic.
Then there is the Mr Inquiry is right about this subject. If maiden Justice is guilty of that attrocity then she will have to face Justice. Yes, it will cause a bit of unrest, but I doubt it will cause the apocalypse Indigo sketches. My hero would have walked right there if she had not done form the getgo.
I was unlucky with the last mission. After recruiting help to beat down Statesman (he had proved to me that a DB/WP scrapper has no business fighting him even with a tray full of inspiration) he adopted a Synapse Style combat and it ws some frantic running around before he finally got caught by the black tentacles and we could beat him senseless. Biggest question here is why should I fight him in the first place? After silencing MR Inquiry and the busting of the generators there is no reason to fight him. Get out fast is what you should do but that's me.
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Thorny, I think you are overreacting a bit here. I doubt that the OP tried to blame the Dev's for anything here. He probably noticed the issue and imagined that some people could indeed blame the Dev's for this.
If I were you, I would wait for someone to pop up and claim:
What, no WL in PO and mercy? This is an outrage, how da.....
[insert rant of choice here]
...... cancel my account now!
That would be a good target for your earlier post.
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I don't think that is going to happen. Simple reason is that all that data of their costumes needs to be transferred.
If we get customization then I expect that we will be given a choice which group of pets we are getting. Some examples:
Thugs: normal streetpunks, hellion streetpunks, family streetpunks, hellion girlfriend streetpunks.
Soldier: Standard Soldier, council soldier, WWI german soldiers, family goons etc.
Ninja: Ninja, Catgirls, Street Wariors etc
Zombie: Standard, Trollbased (zombiefied on drugs), Fresh corpses, skeletons
Drone: Standard drones, Council drones, Malta drones, Nemesis drones.
Deamon: Standard deamons, Wailers, Cot deamons, Fae entities, Devouring Earth? -
I have been in 3 attempts to bring him down on the Freedom server with mixed PuG teams.
We failed the first time when we hit him with two full teams. We had him at 1/4th at that time. The second time we had approximately 3 teams and we brought him down fast and spend time to hint the whole winterhorde to extinction in the zone. The last time was with what seemed to be 2 teams again. This time 2 teams proved to be enough.
Conslusion: Bring at least 2 good teams and it should be doable. Don't forget to bring plenty of debuffs and plenty of healing. -
Well, I don't mind people asking for an invitation to a team I am in. Often it is the best method to keep a team going. With the least stress for the teamleader as well. The teamleader wants to play as much as everyone else. They don't want to spend hours looking for willing teammembers either (The reason why so many people hate being a teamleader). So by all means keep asking.
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You sure you play the play the published mission, not the local test version?
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The raptor will do nicely as well and then there is the possibility for a team tp So getting there should be doable.