Wrong_Number

I agree wholeheartedly with cleaning out the "dead" arcs and with revamping the rating system. Both of these however are not required to adjust HoF. As far as I can tell fixing HoF would be as simple as removing one zero from the number required. I feel this could easily and quickly be implemented.


WN

The current Hall of Fame requirements are ridiculously out of proportion considering the current level of plays AE arcs are receiving since I15 was released. The current HoF requirements are 1000 or more plays with a 5 star rating.

Some data:

There are 7 HoF arcs. All were published between 4/8/09 and 4/19/09. AE was released on 4/8/09.

Currently there are only 10 out of 67,901 arcs with over 100 plays that have maintained a 5 star rating. Of those, 6 were published during 4/09, 2 in 6/09, 1 in 11/09 and 1 in 2/10. So 8 of 10 were published pre-I15 (June 30 2009).

The arc closest to reaching HoF status was published within the first week of AE's release and currently has 903 plays. It has been averaging 10 plays a month over the last six months. This means we can expect it to reach HoF in about ten months.* The second closest is a year away and the third is 3.74 years away.

In contrast the arc published post I-15 that is closest to reaching HoF currently has 239 plays. At an average of ten plays a month it will reach HoF in about 6.34 years

In summary, it appears that any arc not published before I15 has no real chance of achieving Hall of Fame status and even those published before will take a long time getting there. Seeing that this is the only way other than receiving a Developer's Choice that a player is granted another free arc slot, I feel it needs to be adjusted to a more realistic and achievable goal. My suggestion is this:

100 plays 5 star average = Hall of Fame

WN

This is the short version. The more detailed version that features data from the last six month's HoF Stats can be found: HERE

* Please not that all numbers assume the maintaining of a 5 star average, no easy feat.

Great time yesterday with a full team and three hours of MA fun. The two excellent arcs run were:


The Doctor Returns by @FredrikSvanberg Arc ID: 1152

Uranmensch: The Atomic Man by @Stone-Fox Arc ID: 440730


Thanks to Backfire for organizing and everyone that showed.

WN

I ran your arc on my level 47 scrapper. I can tell you worked very hard on your mission. You did many things right, but as a first timer also made beginning mistakes. No worries, we have all made them and they are definitively fixable. Feedback follows:

- Add some color to the mission briefing text

- Instead of "Accept" change it to something more fitting of the mission

- Set your level range. You now have 1-54. I would set the minimum to 25-30

- Witches should have a witch hat rather than a stocking cap

- Many of your characters (that look great and have nice bios) are overpowered. You should be careful about giving out build up, aim and the tier 9 powers at the very least especially to minions and Lts.

- 3 EBs guarding one person is way too tough

- People tend to hate chain objectives when they are overused or if they seem pointless

- Your helper characters are too strong. Once I freed Stuperman he one shotted most baddies before I even got near them.

I also just want to mention some things I really liked. The bios and overall look of the customs were great. Having clues tied to several objectives was a nice touch. The dialog was good and I thought the information about the contact was great.

WN

By selecting the powers of your customs you can get them up to 100% exp. I would go with story first, but work to get the exp as high as you can.

The customs in all of my arcs give 90% or better exp to that of standard foes. If someone won't play an arc because they are getting 5-10% of exp less than a non-AE arc then what can you do?

WN

Back when I still had available arc slots to create new arcs it was when an idea would strike me that felt right. Depending on the idea, I might work through until I had it done over the course of a few days to a week or I might start it, get stuck and set it aside. My most successful arc was one that ideas came slowly over the course of two months before getting it releasable.

In total each of my last two arcs I have ultimately invested around 60-80 hours a piece. I would say at least 15 of those hours were post publication changing stuff due to feedback or correcting problems that have come with some game patches. I guess, considering the crazy amount of time spent you have to make them you should do it because you enjoy it.

WN

Monthly update time again.

As of September 1st we now have the following breakdown of arcs with 100 or more plays and that are still rated at 5 stars.

Arcs Published Pre-15 - 7 (6 of these were published in April 09)
Arcs Published Post I-15 - 4

Total Number of arcs out of 67,340 arcs - 11

Put another way: .0001633% of the arcs in the system have more than 100 plays while still maintaining a 5 star rating.

If .0001633% doesn't equal the best of the best as selected by the players, what does? Remember this number includes 7 arcs that all had the benefit of of being published in the crazy early days of MA. To give everyone an idea of just how much of how insane of an advantage that is, there is an arc rated TWO STARS with 199 Plays from that same time period! If you don't include those 7 arcs that leaves a measly 4 arcs out of 67,340 arcs or .0000594% of the arcs in the system.

History
May - 12 (11/1)
June - 14 (11/3)
July - 14 (11/3)
August - 11 (8/3)
September - 11 (7/4)


WN

Is the arc published or are you running it in Test Mode? In Test Mode you get no rewards of any kind.

WN

I see he's not posted in about a month or updated his MA contest and with the GR release I would have expected him to be all over it. Anyone know if he is taking a break or something?

WN

It's been over two months since I submitted my arc to this and I have not heard a peep. Anyone know what's going on?

WN