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Then you shouldn't be playing a arc that tells you upfront that it has EBs and AVs in it, and certainly not playing it below the level it was intended for (10-20) if you're not already an experienced player. There is plenty of other content out there that babies the player, especially the canon content.

Level 6 may be a stretch, but if I could solo this at level 10 without any enhancements or temp powers at all then either you were playing some really weak solo build or are just a pansy. That's my honest opinion.

Yes, that is how I played it when I discovered it and that was before it had any warnings at all. I still decided to nominate it because I thought it was fun and interesting enough.

Safeguards are effin' boring compared to Mayhems. Even if the badges inside didn't count for accolades I'd still do Mayhems, but after getting my jetpack at level 5 I never bother with another Safeguard again since you can still get new contacts the old way.

I am still annoyed that Controllers stole our Plant set while keeping Illusion all to themselves. I would really prefer for the upcoming Electric Control to be Dominator only, heck we already have the matching Electric Assault set that has been waiting for it all this time.

I wonder why we even have some of these tags while others are missing. Seriously, they thought we needed a "romance" tag more than a "heist" one?

Seriously, what Brute DOESN'T have endurance issues before SOs and Stamina/Quick Recovery? Even my Elec/Elec had endurance issues despite the attacks channeling some of the enemies endurance back into her (the amount is pretty pitiful).

Ugh, only if they were skippable or had a short time limit like 15 seconds, and only once or twice for the entire story arc.

My largest group cannot entirely fit in the same arc, I had to divide the group into "Core" members and then the special ones who only can appear in boss details.

I also wanted to do some fun things like having named minions and LTs who you run into repeatedly, remembering you from last time and reacting in different ways but I simply lack the room since a detail takes up 0.5% before you even add the text.

I also love to cram missions with non-required objective to make it feel more fun an alive, whether it's patrols and boss details who chatter about things happening in the plot or optional glowies that are obviously not what you are looking for but give fun messages for people who do like to click everything. Missions are so boring when it's a bunch of people just standing around and waiting to be beaten up.

Then what was the point of getting a DC on it in the first place if you're going to give it up? It's not like the Devs are going to go "Oh, do you want a different arc DCed then?" The only times that DCs have been reinstated are when it had to be edited for some serious issue or somehow became invalidated.

For example, if you're setting a critter to "Do Not Autospawn" but never using it in a detail, yet are using the custom group as the default group for a mission, the data for that one critter is still included in the storyarc file. That is why I keep all my unique characters in a separate custom group and rename their group when inserting them via a detail.

Signed for emphasis.

Looks like some of my arcs will be getting "Extended Versions" eventually.

Maybe Venture would be happier if he stopped trying to insist that everyone be like him. We don't tell him how to write his arcs after all.

'Course I never understood why people would care about the opinions of a hypocrite who complains about custom mobs and self-insert characters when he's just as "guilty" as the authors he complains about.

Usually page 6 is when I get bored and go on to do something else. I just don't have the attention span and dedication to write a novel.

Then you get a really, really small marker.

That is likely. You can already see this with how Hellion Damned and Behemoths still use the old Flares animation even though players got the animation replaced many issues ago.

Way to miss so many details. If your inane comments are what I can expect from you then I'll happily ignore you from here on. I have way much more feedback saying the exact opposite of what you insisted on in your feedback and that came from people who can actually pay attention to the story and why things happened the way they did. If you saw wild goose chases it's because you didn't pay attention.

Everyone knows that there is only ONE version of Blade Runner.

Anyhow, the movie industry is not going to put out over a hundred director's cuts of the same movie over the course of the year. Every edit to a story arc is a director's cut already and multiple ones can happen in the same week. Final hardly means final for most MA authors, the only reason I even set that flag was because the contest required it otherwise they'd all still be marked as Looking For Feedback.

Considering that part of the prize package ended up being Dev Choice status, what makes you think that the winning arcs of this year would even be eligible for nomination next year?

Actually, while there was no official "Existing DC/HoF arcs not allowed" rule I wouldn't be surprised if there was an internal guideline to not nominate them if they did get submitted.