Darmian

I won't bring PvP into this but how about now re AE? Aside from the Holy Mittens work last year and what's in the new beta, the AE is the only place you CAN get new content, whether that's a farm or an SFMA arc or some wacky thing I could never have imagined. I can't comment on your argument about it being a way to get the players to do whatever etc, because RL stuff had taken me away from the game before it dropped and I only got to use it when I came here. But right now, right now my tiny bunch of AE testers slot in things for ourselves along with levelling, trying different ATs etc. As of yesterday there were 2500 slots with no plays/zero stars. So we randomly pick one and look at it. Or there were 165 1 star arcs. Why did this only get 1 star? Let's find out. Oh dear god make it stop. If it wasn't for the simple fact that I really don't want to hurt anyone's feelings I would be so tempted to do a MST3K like set of reviews for the truly awful stuff we've looked at! Anyway, I've wandered.

Content content content. I am very much looking forward to Piecemeal's work (I, like others, am not "spoiling" it for myself by doing it on the beta) and more of those please. But I think that finding a way to port decent AE material into the game in specific instances is a step forward. Yes, it may be the cable TV version of what you want but it would still be there in the game and with expansion of the AE tools cover the gamut of 1 to 50+. And "real". Because I know a lot of players who enjoy AE but for them it's still not really a part of the game, it "doesn't count", despite getting XP (however nerfed) and influence from it. I have copious notes to myself on all this, I must brush them up and look at them, before throwing them here to be savaged LOL.

But what do people REALLY think? I mean REALLY?

I've mentioned elsewhere, and I'll advocate it again here, that in a resource tight economy things need to be reused or repurposed. I think Galaxy should stay gone but also have an entire set of exemped Mender missions created for it where you can time travel back to there and do more than sight see and collect badges. Attempt to warn people of the coming meteors? Failure obviously but that could be a plot hook for lots of other things. Dark Astoria? You could do similar perhaps but given the original nature of DA that would be trickier. Not impossible but trickier.

But but SPOILERS!

Photo of what though?

Zone dedicated mission arcs? There's a thought.

LOL. Nice. However...the buildings should be there.

I'm liking that Kallisti Wharf is finally getting an Exploration badge, if only one so far. *poke* (and I feel bad about this because you guys are doing such great work) But there are seven blank plaques in KW just waiting for a History badge. I reckon one of them should be dedicated to the memory of Ezra Cole. And you know where that one is. The rest? Who can tell?

I was just pondering that there are no firestations in Paragon, at least as far as I can see, nor any fire engines/trucks. So why not? Where does the Fire Marshal come from/go to before and after the fire event in Steel Canyon? And more importantly if there WERE firestations then how about we be able to buy the fire extinguisher temp power there? Yeah, I know REAL firestations don't let you do this, and frankly you could add it to the P2W or to Wentworth's, but actually having a firestation building would be an extra bit of color to the cityscape. And I do mean BUY the power from them. I know the Marshal just hands them out but that's part of the deal, the fire is ongoing at the time. And even if you can't/couldn't buy the temp power I think there should at least BE some firestations in Paragon.

Possibly Praetorians get the option of going down, and this is simplistically thinking on the hoof, the route of Vigilante/Rogue BEFORE having to make a Hero/Villain choice? And the fact that there is an entire area (I know it's just an instanced map but even so) of Praetoria that no actual Praetorian can ever get to, Last Bastion, bugs me.

Doh. I have had that there so long I just forget! Now that I think of it, isn't that just great!

And he has this cool little "Thank you" glowie citing where he sourced them in one of the missions 😄 EDIT. And he actually said that because even though I read it it did not register with me, duh.

The mini Zone map will need realigning too then, for Siren's Call.

Well, sorry to see you go, but glad to hear you're having fun, and that's what matters in the end, isn't it?

Will this (I'm not sure how but I'm asking) need to be reflected in the Siren's Call maps in the AE? Though I don't know if @Lines has already checked this 🙂

The white pieces is a known issue unfortunately. Mainly when you attempt to recolor them to be something different. It's like the color is coded into the shoulder piece/whatever rather than skinned. The Elite Bosses thing? Sheesh. Time for us all to experiment then and see if we can't find some solution.

Oh, like I said above I wouldn't want them back alive, but new stuff set in the past? Why not? Hell, with a recolor of his outfit you could use Manticore's model as the original Manticore and have fun with that! Manticore Senior and a younger BAB, all the fun of the fair before Protean shows up! You could even go all Flashpointy and have a Thomas Wayne-esque Manticore Sr, where young Justin and his mother died. There's a Mender mission for you!

It's Hallowe'en. Lots of peeps with their costumes one 🙂

Speaks for itself really. Welcome to First Ward 🙂

Yeah, it's that time of the month, so I'm polishing up the ego and reiterating my nominations for upcoming Dev Choices. 🙂 (Both come with an intro section detailing "The Story So Far...") In the meantime, keep writing people, there's some great things to be found in the AE Story missions!

Well I'm liking this so far. More Gold Content is good for me. What about people like ME though? Level 50 Goldsiders?

Having read all the comics I like what they're doing, they've changed enough so that it surprises me. And Antony Starr is just great.

Of course these would all be instanced missions in the same way that Mayhem/Safeguards are, because we simply cannot cross over without "naturalizing" as Primal characters. And as soon as we do we lose every access to contacts and arcs that we had Gold side. Or possibly more like the Portal Corps missions?

Thanks, Arcanum. That cut short my googlification! (Still re-reading the end of the novel though for the Brass Monday/Brass Monday Movie idea!)