Lazarus

Ah yes, that one. I remember when I got that message back then on all three of my arcs in under five minutes. Obvious rating trading is obvious.

Well when you explore the Leviathan Cavern map and look at the position of the room with the mouth and the room where the "Eye of the Leviathan" spawns in the Temple of the Waters TF, it does look very much like the head shape of a Hammerhead Shark.

Anyhow, I wouldn't mind a playthrough from you for my newest arc: "Breaking the Barrier (And Putting it Back Together)" (Arc# 347029). This one is a sequel to "The Portal Bandits", but you don't need to remember everything from that arc to understand the story in this one although you will miss a few references.

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

Nobody in this thread is asking for that, the exploiters long ago moved on when the Devs gave them the new "license to farm" difficulty system anyways. My comment was concerning how the answer was not a good match for the question that was actually be asked and giving clarification to the original question.

Yes, the current map does not label them very well and too often there are issues of back and middle spawns being switched, or front/middle spawns spilling over into back spawns when the interface claims that you had plenty of front spawns left.

The interface could really use a zoom function as well, otherwise the larger single-level maps are unreadable unless you enter the mission in test mode.

I've always found it annoying that the Devs have kept assuming that we're asking to be able to do exploitive things whenever we ask for this and just say no.

What people keep asking for is more control over the existing spawns. Right now the middle section is often useless for anything other than battles or random bosses because authors don't like running the risk that their Named Boss or Hostage/Escort could somehow end up spawning right at the beginning of the map before the "front" section.

Likewise, I cannot use something like the Tech map with the three elevators on the ground floor and place a boss on each of those three floors, because only 1 floor will have a back spawn and the rest are all middle spawns, meaning that my special bosses would randomly spawn anywhere; both on the same floor, or all three on the same floor, or even back on the first floor long before you are meant to find them.

We'd also like to be able to make sure that Allies will always be somewhere where they can be found, like at the very front of the map in the way that Imperious is waiting for you at the gates in the finale of the ITF.

The lack of spawn control on outdoor maps is also annoying and doesn't just affect AE. I've lost count of the number of times I entered an outdoor map to rescue a hostage only to find that he was only 20 feet from the door and could have just made a break for it.

Nobody here is asking for the ability to move the spawns around, we're asking for more control over the spawns that already exist.

In addition to that, I'd like to be able to disable some spawns in rooms that are already overly crowded to begin with. The new 4XP/SRSLY System has had some unintended fallout where just being on 2x Heroes/Villains can lead to running into massive spawns of enemies right at the front door of a mission. Some rooms just don't need that many spawn points in them!

So you came back from several months in the future? Did you bring back some lotto numbers with you?

Especially if you like to fill a map with as many details as possible. Not all maps in the Small/Medium/Large category allow the same amounts of all types of spawns.

At least I was able to get the one guy on our lab team to agree to half sausage/half cheese, even the Indian guy (who wanted pepperoni) was getting mad at him for causing problems when everyone wanted to order a pizza since we didn't have time to all go somewhere to eat.

Or anyone past level 40 with Electric Armor. End drain, what end drain?

Port Oakes has nothing to do with Incarnates, you're confusing them with the Blood of the Black Stream. They even get mentioned by name in a Port Oakes story arc but then nothing else ever again.

That was the only good thing about the system anyways.

I know, I read all of the conversations going on in that judging panel group. My point is that you were on this panel, didn't even play the arc, yet are condemning it as if it kicked your puppy or something. At least Venture played it before opening his mouth and for that he deserves some more respect than you.

Since this is Venture's thread, I'll even bring up the appropriate trope.

Then you should have kept your mouth shut in the first place.

Then why are you even talking about it? This is just nonsense.

The arc is actually levels 10-20. It falls into "TO Range" because a) Bubba set the cutoff at 15 but didn't specify that it had to have a max of 15 and b) it is soloable just fine at level 10, which is inside that 10-15 range. It wasn't difficult enough to be placed into the 15-25 range instead, which I had a different nomination for anyway.

If you thought that an arc with a minimum level of 10 which contained EBs and AVs was suitable for a level 6 then the problem is somewhere else, likely inside your head.