Darmian

Some pics of the Team and in action!

What @lemming said above, plus you do need to publish an arc once and get someone to play through it and rate it for both Recognized and Author badges. You can always take it down afterwards. And if you want the Early Bird badge then you need to be first to play a newly published arc by someone else. (I don't know if this is strictly newly published or just an arc that has no previous plays, and I can't test it because Early Bird is account wide so I already have it across the board)

Go FULL DEFEAT ALL! Once you've killed all the enemies the map converts to PVP and you can't exit the mission until only one of you is left alive.

I've adjusted that now! It says something along the lines of "The reception area is very quiet but the area beyond is full of activity".

@Zhym, the Nav for M1 all start with Middle, because in a test run one of my IRL friends spent AGES hunting around the reception area with the stairway and bookshelves before I had to point out that nothing ever spawns there, even though it's technically the Front. And I really don't know why nothing spawns there. It's a pretty big space actually. You'd get a lot more use out of the map if that area was usable. And writers learn from each other! @Ankylosaur's use of optional escorts led me to use that in M2, which can really shorten the search time for an outside map.

Well, that's unfortunate! At least you weren't spotted.

And some replies!

I head canoned it as a wealthy but obviously semi rural area, due to the university, nice housing and farmsteads. All that got a bit upended with the arrival of the so-called Fae.

I'm partially imagining a Primal Earth "clean" version of Old Neutropolis.

There really should be what I call "Nearer Croatoas" at the least.

The Loyalist Lounge in Nova is mainly unused, because it's in Praetoria, and is very nice. Only accessible to Loyalists though. Something like that elsewhere would be good.

Well, Paragon Dance Party still exists, and frankly could easily be refitted with NPCs and a "live band" as opposed to the more dance oriented Pocket D. Not to mention the Rikti Monkey Fight Club in Sharkhead, which is a lovely venue, mostly unused alas. And as @Rudra pointed out, Studio 55 in Imperial City.

The Lady Grey Task Force/Advanced Mode - Unofficial Homecoming Wiki

No issues with sharing, @Ankylosaur.

It appears in the Hard Mode version of the Lady Grey TF.

Imagine being able to go into the Hotel Geneva in Atlas Park (just across from Vanguard) and first floor there's a reception with elevators leading off, totally doable as the Loyalty Lounge in Nova Praetoria is basically a small version of that. Leading up to actual hotel rooms. Not the usual random thing but something akin to a cleaner version of the corridor/hallways with rooms off of it like you see in Captain Nolan's intro to Dark Astoria.

I took a walk around it when it was released and then promptly went "nope". And all your points are valid.

Beat me to it @TerroirNoir3!

Have you seen the recent Superman?

Well, I hope @Ankylosaur and @cranebump don't mind me saying this, not taking away from their (or my own!) writing, but sometimes you just get lucky and people spot your stuff and then go back to see if you've done more.

Back on retail I got ganked by a few douchebags, sure. And after a while you knew who they were. But I also met cool PVPers, one (I wish I could remember their name) spotted that I was just grabbing a nuke and rather than just sniping me and taking the kill went to the bother of telling me I'd lost my Scientist (hadn't noticed it myself, it happens) and guarded me while I went back for her. They were there for PVP, not ganking. Respect to that.

Well, you're possibly correct. Mostly I never see anyone there myself.

Maybe. Maybe. But none of the Nuke Temps matches the Incarnate powers you get at 50, and they're not temps. So these days, apart from wanting Rocket Woman as a badge, I hardly bother going into the ghost town that is Warburg unless I'm specifically planning to do the OG LRSF where you face off against the original line up of the Freedom Phalanx with Statesman while being locked at level 40. So yes, maybe they might be nerfed but they really don't need to be.

Well, if it was only even one zone I'd go for Warburg. That zone repurposed, with all the Rogue Arachnos, could be used to enhance the entire VEAT storyline. Hey, Devs, that one is free!

I'm gonna refer to my Sporting/WWE style suggestion in the other thread. Treating it as sport imposes rules. Three strikes and you're out and so on. Now how a shard would build a league, build teams, all that whatever, Weekend games, that's a whole other ball game!