Lady Arete

Great.. what will the next step be? Every map that can hold large amount of mobs in them.. you know.. to farm?

Another map/thought for arc lost for what...? *sigh*

This is one reason why I have stopped creating arcs.
Cause you never know when the Devs remove things which makes your arc invalid.
Way to go Devs ... (NOT).
Can you possibly find a way to make the MA work for those you wanted the MA to be for... aka those who actually create arcs and stories?

This is.. ofc if you are serious for players to use the MA for what it is supposed to be doing.. you know.. Making playermade stories.

You're removing destructible items (due to xp).. your removing the prisoners (due to mostlikely xp), your removing snake eggs (due to xp).
Can you follow the next logical step aka Reduce the XP? Don't think you will have a problem then.
Oh wait you will...
Fewer will play MA Arcs, but those you loose are those who use it to lvl up quickly (far to quickly).. so what is the loss?

Again... I and as it shows up in this post, others won't use the MA much or at all. Sadly, due to removal (and not mentioning/warning etc) beforehand.
Just take the logical step and remove some of the xp from the MA. Remove the xp or reduce it to soooo small amount that your happy with it and leave the destructible items in. Then add those factions and items, maps and what-not that has been removed.
Please with sugar on top?

Welcome back Wreck.
Mother has already offered her services on globals.
If you want more people to ask questions from, then do give @lady arete
a tell and I'll answer to the best of my abilities.

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I was going to say mroe about the 'advanced' difficulty setting but I can't really put any pleasent words out to describe it.

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I tried, but I think I failed in doing that. But I'm definitly not a fan of this.
And i think I will say it like this:
Devs, please stop and reconsider. You are making the game into a farm game! Even more then it already has been made into (The intention of MA was to create stories for player content. The result as ALWAYS: People are taking the shortest way to get max reward (You should know this by now) which we as players always will.) Instead of hammer down on MA farming we see the removal of things we can make stories from. And if this is bad... the player differculty thingy will make it even worse.
Positron had concerns when Jack Emmet was in charge of the massive amount of xp that was gained through a winter Event (according to an interview, which I atm cannot remember). Avatea, could you ask him please, where his concern for the quick xp is now?

Mostly doing tfs and roleplay Jeff.
But I do got a fair amount of characters and I don't have to be in character all the time...
So do give @lady arete a tell and lets see if we can't get you into some teamage on Union?

Maybe, unless th eperson uses them him/herself.
But drops are anyway low.
If you have a strong enough character that can do lots of damage, even if you run the mission for 8 players on heroic... you... will... get a lot of cash.
So yes, we may not get much invite to pad/fill for teammaximum (less annoyance).
But farmers will farm. They have and they will do so (fact of life). How many new recipes etc has the MA given? Still it is one of the most used places where people do MA missions and MA missions all the time.
Again.. has the WW/BM gotten reduced prices from this?
No!

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Bad thing: More influence in the game and higher prices at ww/bm.


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But it could help push down the prices of purples since the supply of them is so low.

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Seriously doubt it Damz.
With more money in the game there is only one way the prices will go, cause people have more of it... Sadly that way is up.

I would be very happy to be wrong on this, but somehow I doubt it.
I remember when the purples entered the game and the time I began collecting set (Devs said one would be lucky if they would get one in their set, and we where not meant to have a full set of any of them). At that time I could buy one recipe (maybe not the most expensive) for say 50 mill.
Now... that price has increased by x1,25 , x1,5 , x2 or x3 times that amount.
Thus when I-16 has been on for some time.. again we will have another price jump. Cause farmers will farm and people will buy to get the best sets for their characters at any price.

But I hope.. I hope I am wrong even though I fear I'm not.

Sounds like a very nice feature. Finally Power customisatio nand more powers to play with!

HOWEVER
The last bit is a Farmers paradise (once again).
There will be lots of farmers running like crazy around with differculty settings higher then normal (or heroic).
One man teams farming farming farming...

Good thing is. Less chance of being asked to join a farm team (thumbs up).
Bad thing: More influence in the game and higher prices at ww/bm.

Really love the drawing of Star Bright

Going to suggest something that I know has been suggested many times before.

First the Devs gave us Character slots (Wohoo) to buy (or get 1 free each year). For the Altoholics this was bliss.

Then we got the MA and the Devs decided that we only should have 3 MA Arc slots. However the news are that we will be able to buy additional MA arc slots. (I don't mind).

So.. DEVS... When will you add the much needed COSTUME SLOTS? We need Costume slots, I say again MORE costume slots. I enjoy the 5 we got, but with all the costume creativity of Jay and the limitless amount of combos... we are limited to 5 Costumes.
With the possibility of changing height, size, sex and get more costume options with the booster: Science... we are talking about even MORE costume possibilities.

Ok we have the save/load feature (horray), but could we please get more costume slots?
Want us to plead? Ok
/em plead
Please give us more costume slots. Pretty please with sugar on top?

(Ok Think I've pleaded alot now and hopefully not shot the subject completely.)
In advance thank you.

Loves Sirens Call

Maker of events. Gogo Damz

Singstar.
Well its true that many arcs can be run through Oreboros. However sometimes a mission or two via a contact gives a temp power.
I love the no xp button. Made things so much easier. And doing the arc via Oreboros will not grant you the contacts phone number (grrr).

(And Im a hero.. o.o)
One of the most helpful villain players I've encountered on the boards.

Is a creative, friendly and helpful person.

Tsumiju. Yes we need him back. And we need to have a little more talk so that he don't carry the load of things.
We should have a planning meeting and do the next attempt in such a manner that it becomes a success.
Or I fear for Union-Hami

Welcome back Riff / Scarlet

Virtue.. follow my link (badge tool)
All that you need to do is listed there (for MA).

Edit: But seriously.
Anytime you do anything in the MA for the first time you get a badge. All the defeat X, Click Y etc.. all but the first one is gone.
The only one that might be "tricky" is "amongst friends" 8 man team doing an arc in test.
(Tricky as in only for badgers )

Just hope there is some teams around Peregrine and not cluttering around MA.

*prepares my dusty farm hat and pitchfork.* Time to work on the leader badge.

And with the arrival of Issue 15, there is a new update on the badgesheet. So here to aid you is my Badge Checklist.

Removed the MA badges that where going to be removed.
Added the Arena Badges
Only uncertain of if there is an accolade or not "Arena All-Star". So would like to get feedback on this so I can fix it on my sheet.

Fixed a few links, addes a little text here and there.

And into the game we GO!

edit: As in Union is UP.

ooo..
"Account XX is not allowed on this server. Reason:
Access to this server is currently restricted for internal testing by NCsoft employees to verify todays new publish your access will be restored to this server once our checks and tests are complete. Thank you for your patience."

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This publish? ;D (making rumors.. me? never)

Amen.
All hail Captain Global...
umm wait, who will make that char now?

Whops. ;P

But seriously. Yes Global is Alpha & Omega for us now.

We will all be newbs again Only if postcount will be reset and dato of joining set to "date of new forum launch". Else I expect all names, titles, dates etc to be the same.
Thus everyone will be veterans or cohort or "insert term here" and "noobbuster" Damz wont have any noobs to bust! :P

(Poor Damz)

Same here Techbot.. I like my name.
Another thought that hit me was...
I hope this will not be a reality:
I also have a trial account on the US, called ..gah shock "Lady_Arete". Hope this will not mean that on the new forum I will be called "Lady_Arete1".

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Or "Your name seems already to have been taken by another player, choose your new name"