[What are your expectations for the Loki series?]

That was a good video.  I learned a lot.  I am eager for Kang to show up in the MCU.

[New low level hero arc with Snakes looking for feedback #41022]

Level 1-9 arc for heroes with Snakes, Arachnos, and Rippers.  The idea is a SFMA for heroes with enemies they do not normally face.

[Gocomics - the newspaper comics]

I would make a comment explaining what newspapers are, but this is one place on the internet where I assume everyone has actually read a newspaper before.

 

I recently rediscovered gocomics.com where you can read the newspaper comics - including their entire back library for decades.

 

I've been reading Arlo and Janis as well as Frazz.  I would read Calvin and Hobbes but I own all of the books.  And they don't have the Farside.

 

Any other comics on it I should read?

[What are your expectations for the Loki series?]

The evil time lords bit was the first season of Legends of Tomorrow.  I suppose if the majority of the show is Umbrella Academy season 2, having the ending be LoT season 1 makes sense as a twist.

[Superman & Lois TV show]

I finally saw the pilot. 

 

The cinematography was great.  The show looks very good.

 

I like the actress for Lois.  The relationship between Lois and Clark is great.

 

I did not like the teenagers.  I did not like the plot about moving back to Smallville.  I did not like how slow paced the whole thing was - shocking for a CW superhero show.

 

Overall I did not care for it.  It is a pilot, so I try not to judge by that.  I will watch another episode to see if it appeals to me.  My wife, on the grasping hand, really liked it.  So she may watch it by herself.

[What are your expectations for the Loki series?]

What I liked about Wandavision was that it wasn't a slow build as such.  It had fast paced episodes at the start that were just different from the end.  It was slow in revealing the big plot, but it was not slow.

[What are your expectations for the Loki series?]

So they decided making a villain that was like an evil version of the hero was not enough, now they have the villain be an actual evil multiverse version of the hero.  That was sad.  I lost about 50% of my interest in the show.  I will still probably watch it since my daughter loves Loki.

 

It really felt like Umbrella Academy season 2 time bureau, with the black woman time tracker from season 1 thrown in.  Everything looked cool, but it felt so unoriginal having season Umbrella Academy last year.  I mean it didn't just seem like the Umbrella Academy plot.  The lighting, color, use of flashbacks, the whole feel of the show was Umbrella Academy.

 

This feels to me like a marvel Netflix show.  Really slow and drawn out.  But I felt that way about  episode 1 of Falcon and Winter Soldier and that got a lot better.  So this may just be a lame first episode.

 

And if you have not seen Umbrella Academy, this probably all seem innovative and cool.

[What are your expectations for the Loki series?]

I may see it tonight, but it is D&D night.  It's just 3 here in Seattle.

[Do you play Heroes, villains, or Praetorians?]

I play heroes.  I will go to redside if there is a low level team running missions.  So maybe once a month I play redside for an hour.  But I take a hero to redside.

 

I have played goldside from 1-20 once post snap.  I like goldside content, but I prefer to team.  If goldside had teams I would be there.

[Need some test playthroughs of my first arc #40915]

True, and I could make some Longbow agents as well if I wanted a custom look.  Which might be good if I want to re-use them in other arcs.

[Need some test playthroughs of my first arc #40915]

I just updated it based on Darmian's feedback.  It is now Arc 40915

 

Thanks for the feedback Darmian.  I fixed just about everything you wrote. 

 

I left the allies as minions so you have to protect them if you want their help.  I put them in because I tend to run controllers and having some minions lets me get some use out of my support powers.  I also left in the ambushes - but I will think about upping the minions and/or reducing the ambushes.  I need to get a bit of distance from the arc to judge it again.

 

For the minions, I cannot raise the police up without limiting them to 1-5 or 6-9.  I can raise the Longbow up to Lts and keep them as 1-9. 

 

Is there a way to put the police lts 1-5 and 6-9 in a group and have it select the level appropriate ones?

[Wow the first season of Stargate SG1 is bad]

On 6/4/2021 at 5:01 AM, TheOtherTed said:

Welp, I'm out.  The character Vala completely killed my interest in the series.  Friendly advice for any potential writers or film makers out there - lovable rogues just aren't.

 

How far did you make it?  I got through episode 1 of season 2 and just cannot get myself to watch  more.

[Need some test playthroughs of my first arc #40915]

Arc #40915 (changed since I originally posted this)

 

I've started about 4 arcs but I was trying to be too clever.  It is hard coming up with a story that is not too simple but is doable with the restrictions of AE.  So I have finally "finished" my first arc.

 

Infection from the Isles (I could use a better name)

 

This is a starting arc intended to allow you to start your level 1 characters in AE if you want and to give you different villains than you normally start with blueside.  Arc is levels 1-9 with Infected and Arachnos.

 

It is 5 missions.  2 short, the others medium length.  There is a story and lots of details.  I don't have a lot of clues or pop-ups.

 

I'm looking for general feedback - does it make sense.  Is it too easy or hard?  Are there glaring errors?  Plus what is missing that I should add - clues, extra dialog, etc?

 

Thanks

[Do AoE Sleeps even serve a purpose in today's City of Heroes?]

If you mean the godmode, IO set bonus the game is trivially easy and takes no skill even soloing +4/x8 - then no, sleeps have no purpose. 

 

If you mean in any team larger than about 2, sleeps really have no use except in electric control.  The other players just awaken them too quickly.

 

But if you mean in solo play with a non-aoe build that is not very powerful, then aoe sleeps do have a purpose.  Put the spawn to sleep and pick them off one by one.

 

I have to imagine there are at least 7 players who do this sometimes.

[Greetings to all]

Welcome back to the game. 

 

The thing this game needs most is people who start teams.  A lot of people want teams, few are willing to start them.

[Custom character boss will not spawn or appear as mission goal]

It is the Cesspool map - so non-standard.  What's weird is I have added additional objectives to the bottom and they appear.  So just the one boss did not work until I moved it in the objective order.

[Custom character boss will not spawn or appear as mission goal]

moved it to the top of the mission and it appeared.  Added some other objectives and they do not.  So apparently I have too much stuff in the mission and it just cuts off the bottom part?

[Custom character boss will not spawn or appear as mission goal]

I created a custom boss.  He is the only character in his custom group.

 

I created a mission.  He appears as a boss to defeat.  It is required and is the only objective required for the mission.

 

But he does not spawn and his objective does not show in the nav.

 

What am I doing wrong?

[How do I eliminate some spawns from spawning enemies?]

I really like the defendable object idea.  Adds flavor and removes mobs.

[Hi! Thanks for joining. You're my hostage!]

Those who kahn do, those who kahn't give up.

[The worst characters in the MCU?]

4 hours ago, Judasace said:

You must really hate comic books, because they've been using these exact tropes for decades.

 

I stopped reading comics in the late 80's when they changed from fun to grimdark.  So I missed Civil War and all of that in the comics.

 

I don't hate comic books.  I just hate the last few decades of comic books.

[Winter Event in Texas]

That could be the case.  But there is a shortage of shipping containers, so shipments from China are being slowed down and causing shortages of all sorts of things.

[I'm building a CoH inspired RPG and could use a hand with something]

I will be lazy and just enter character names here:

 

Tomb Fisted Kid - undead cowboy marshal from the old west

 

Pro Patria Mori - WWI pilot who gained powers from an experimental poison gas attack.  Flight, invulnerability, uses a wrench as a weapon (mace)

 

Major Tomorrow - U.S astronaut who got warped into the future.  Comes back with gravity and time control.  Wears a futuristic space suit with red white and blue theme.

 

Shackled Soul - Electric demon from the Rogue Isles.  Bound by the Legacy Chain to become a hero.

 

Aqueous Solution - Scientist who developed water control powers due to a science experiment.  I am the solution!

[Pride in Our City 2021: A Celebration with Music and Contests on June 26th!]

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[What do you think changing P2W Field Agent to]

While I prefer that NPCs have names that fit the world, it is convenient having them named Store and such.