Lazarus

DCs were pretty much being handed out like candy in the early days of i14 beta. It's a shame yours didn't get brought over to live, in my opinion it was one of the few DCs that was any good.

I do like seeing well-designed custom groups. Ones that have decent difficulty balance, that make sense in context of the story, and aren't just overall silly (unless that is the point, like with Vanden's arc "The Extadine Lab"). I like seeing something different other than yet more Freakshow or another friggin' Nemesis plot.

The problem is that humor is extremely subjective. I've personally found a lot of the acclaimedly funny arcs to be utter garbage in my eyes. It doesn't help either that some of them were so overhyped that I couldn't help but be disappointed when I went to play them.

I like my humor to be more subtle, many "comedy" arcs try to shove their humor in your face instead.

And yes, the AE search interface very much blows. So many of the useful options are hidden away behind one or two layers of menus, triggered by poorly named buttons and checkboxes. It lacks simple features like being able to use date ranges to search for arcs inside a certain time frame, or being able to sort by number of ratings instead of their invisible averages. (Honestly I think that an arc with a 4.5 star average and 300 plays deserves to be higher on a list than one with 10 plays and a 4.6 average.)

Same here, I've had an arc on the 3rd page since the week before i17 went live. Not a single damn play since.

Not much motivation left to update older arcs either if nobody is going to play them, not even the die hard MA players seem to care about MA right now.

I honestly have to question just how professional the developers are at times when they pull stunts like this.

I am starting to come around to this suggestion. Sure we could lose a bunch of good arcs because their authors are no longer around, but to be honest I went back and tried to play some of those arcs and found them to be so broken and bug-ridden now that unless the author fixes them no one will want to play them anyway.

And hopefully not soon (tm), no matter what Dr. Aeon tries to tell us.

There is nothing inherently malicious about being a hacker, one can be one without ever doing anything criminal.

Except most of them are only working for the government as an alternative to going to prison. Otherwise they'd still be living a life of crime.

Oh we can if we want to be the only ones playing our own arcs, but the point of writing them is to get OTHER people to enjoy them and that is very difficult now with the current nerf.

You submit it like you'd submit any other sort of bug, this thread is to warn everyone else.

For those who haven't noticed, the markets have been up since this morning.

The Demons simply do this annoying howl at random the entire time they are summoned, while spamming footstomp is a conscious jerk decision. They howl while at mission doors, while at the vendors, etc... No other Mastermind henchmen do this sort of thing, why the Devs decided to make Demons as annoying as possible I do not understand.

Auras never bothered me at all, most of them don't have an annoying audio component like all heal-spamming has.

The two worst armies I have seen so far were 8 Pistols/Rad Corruptors and 8 Rad/Devices* Corruptors. The latter was the worst of those two.

*Apparently Traps is STILL not an option for NPCs aside from Hollowpoint and Double-Tap.

Similar thing happened to me when VEATs came out. After getting fed up trying for a couple hours to get a team for my Dominator, I broadcasted that I was starting a team and wasn't a VEAT. Got so many replies right away that I couldn't invite them all. As people kept coming in to replace those who left a common comment when people joined was "I'm getting so sick of everyone being a VEAT today."

Are these caves maps? I've been noticing that some of the brown cave maps are oddly empty, both in AE and outside of it.

You were able to pull? No matter what we always got all 8 Pistols/Rads on us at once. Having 7 Rad Infections on you is brutal.

Eventually whittled them down with lots of inspirations and hospital trips.

Another one that never got addressed in closed beta.

Another thing: all but one of the new Indoor/Outdoor combined maps do not support any spawn control, as usual. The only exception is Cimerora->Phoebas Point, that one does have working Front/Middle/Back settings.

That one was in closed beta pretty much from day one, really annoying that it never got fixed.

Supposedly.