Darmian

/em holdtorch

For me the story is told over five (or fewer, depending) episodes in an arc. See above. I mean you COULD do it like that. Like say five tip missions or bank missions, but those missions are either going to be very tightly written (possible but tricky) or very slight. It does. Sometimes you have a story that needs more than one arc. Or more than three arcs! It happens. I've done that and so have a few others. Check @TerroirNoir2's epic attempt to play through all of my arcs as well as @Ankylosaur's and @cranebump's.

This is a great image actually.

Thought I'd bump this seeing as TN is updating Part 2.

Nothing wrong with that! Although I wish I'd finished up that final trilogy. I will, whenever the maps I want/need appear. Or I can work out a valid workaround. Which at the moment I'm stumped on. Anyway, there's other writers to review alongside @Ankylosaur and @cranebump when mine are done.

And they're the BIGGER shards.

There's the Backup Radio too. Yeah, it's not a Sig Summons level NPC but it's still back up! As for the Summons NPCs themselves? I'd like to see a wider variety of them rather than the huddled few we have. And no, I've no issue with the cost.

That FF bubble thing was part of my thing above! And for your and everyone else's sanity, it WAS tested and then discarded! LOL.

Weird. Never had an issue. Might want to check your system.

When I'm writing AEs I do keep this in mind as much as possible. And believe me I've played plenty that don't! In game? I'll need to ponder more beyond the ones already posted above, although Who Will Die? has some terrible leaps of "logic" all across its several parts. And the Valentine Red Widow event arc is not the best. And it WAS worse! HC after some careful scrutiny got it up to the level it currently is from where it had been before! I don't think they could actually go further without simply scrapping it entirely and they're loath to do that to any legacy material.

Well, lots of things. The thing that most annoys me is SFMAs that use Fire Farm NPCs. Your average non Fire Farmer isn't built to take that much fire damage so it's a PITA when you run into mobs and mobs of them. On a more comedic note, when I was writing my first AE arc (Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part One), I had given one mob of enemies Beam Rifle and Force Field. A beautiful combo you'd think. Ah, not so fast! Myself and my two test mates ran it and we were bounced around the room with Repulsion, could barely land a hit on anything and eventually PINNED TO THE CEILING AND BEAM RIFLED TO DEATH. So. Force Field was swapped out for Time Manipulation. Yeah, layered Distortion Fields can SLOW things down, but it was better than the test version! Be thankful none of you ever saw it.

I'm half and half with you on this! I'm someone who loves the Lore. And I'm quite accepting of the limits that places on the limitations I have placed on myself by choosing to play a Gold. It is what it is. But there are a bunch of stories in the Ouro that frankly Golds really should be able to partake in, not to mention some trials or zones. The ITF for instance. 90 percent of the player pop just go to Night Ward's Midnight Mansion to get access to Cimerora, yet Praetorians, whose Mansion it is, can't go there? Stick a crystal in the hallway and let us! Hand wave a thing! It's pre Cole anyway so supposedly before any divergence of the timeline. The Shadow Shard? As I said above, Mayhem and Malaise can get there but we can't? Well, why not? No reason.

If there's one thing @Ankylosaur does better than anyone (and they do a LOT of things!) it is the use of allies to lead you to different places/things/other allies. It seems so simple yet it can be so hard to do in practice.

I'm on Reunion and we're tiny in comparison to Everlasting, however all our iTrials are held in Echo Plaza every Sunday so a brief trip across might help those badges. Not sure of the time or time difference but easy to ask.

Hmm, Legacy salvage does nothing....yet. How about that? Whether any of us agree with them or not, the Devs generally don't do stuff without some reason. And not because it's for gits and shiggles.