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While I was doing some rare adventuring the other day, I realized that I could expand the enemy type in the Ultrahorde (Meteoroid Monsters, Murderbots, and Xenomorphs) into four types of monstrous creatures...

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I solo all the time, with all of my characters. My archery/devices blaster has been collecting Warburg nukes with little issues. For Elite Bosses (I don't try to solo AVs) I lay down a crapton of trip mines and that usually does the trick.

Welcome back, SunsetBlack! Im glad to see that you landed with an SG. Supergroups have less relevance now that personal bases are thankfully affordable for those who have other ways to forge bonds. (Speaking of that, I know you don't need a base hub for crafting and transport, but my Superbase of Solitude is at least fun to explore for Superman fans. Find the visitable bottle city of Kandor while there. Base pass code Solitude-748. The devs removing the need for prestige to buy SG base elements was the best.)

We are part of the way - First Ward and Night Ward can get you up into the 40s. I'd love to see alternate content to FW and NW for a more interesting time for people leveling up in Praetoria. And I do wish we'd get some mid-40s to 50 content. (I am glad that my level 50 incarnate-unlocked Praetorian has access to the Belladonna V. arc via the mission list from an SG base Ouro Crystal)

I have a 50 still-Praetorian defender hanging about. If I see someone call out in need goldside, I'm happy to assist. And share Enriche with.

AE stands for Architect Entertainment, it is the mechanism for player-created content. If you go to any AE building (there isn’t one in Atlas or Mercy but pretty much everywhere else) and once there go to any of the mission terminals, you can just search on the arc number 47227 and the arc should show up and you can choose to play it, quit when you wish. I only recommend it because it is 100% embalmed cadavers and embalmed abominations for you to test to see if they are prone to explode. Rudra’s alternate suggestion, to go to Echo: Faultline is a good one as well, since the old iteration of Faultline was lousy with Vahz. But you’ll be facing other types of Vahzilok too if you go there.

@Darmian, this makes me so happy. I'm glad I brought up the BV arc earlier in this thread and got your excellent tip on this - I'd previously assumed she wouldn't be available to me as a contact (maybe I should have looked) but it didn't occur to me that she'd show up in the Crystal listing. Since the crystal shows me a bunch of content that I can't do as a Praetorian (because it interprets me as villain-coded and shows me the regular Goldside stuff and also the Redside stuff) I'm not surprised but wasn't expecting that BV would be there, and since it is all done within Night Ward, there won't be any problems.

Excellent! My Fully incarnated Loyalist Praetorian Tyrant Junior blames Chimera for this whole mess, and plans on slapping him around.

I think Rudra is correct, but it is good to test things. There is an AE arc that is 100% embalmed Vahzilok, created specifically to test out tanker’s ability to disrupt the explosion. Arc 47227, the forbidden sewer warehouse of Dr. Vahzilok. if you want to just have embalmeds to test with. good hunting!

Darmian! First up, I appreciate you fighting the good fight, as always. Next round of Enriche is on me. Secondly, I know my Praetorian has access to all of the Praetorian arcs, First Ward, Night Ward via an SG crystal. You are saying that Belladonna Incarnate arc is there too?

The undeliverable Valentines are maddening. Just make them into a Board Transit mission or something so we can deliver them and get them off our plate.

Yeah! My Resistance Blaster joined up with a guy doing the BV finale - he had the mission diff set very tough for soloing. I did have to coach him to not invite people until they were in Night Ward (there were errors in recruiting, still) Putting some toxic ammo into Praetor Sinclair was very satisfying.

Yeah, I'm not reading all that. Pick whichever response is appropriate: 1) Congratulations or 2) I'm sorry that happened.

I think I remember my Loyalists doing double-agent stuff all the time in the 1-20 and remained a Loyalist. When the IDF arrests me, I'll worry about that then.

I am pleased that you are not opposed to more goldside content - would that include content that a Praetorian can ride to 50, or just alternative 1 - 40 mission content? I am pleased that you are not opposed to more goldside content - would that include content that a Praetorian can ride to 50, or just alternative 1 - 40 mission content? I'm not sure what workarounds you are talking about. The LFG literally allows me to organize and start an iTrial as a Praetorian.

I don't know why it matters to justify how I'd be involved, since my Loyalist Tyrant Junior has joined a Magisterium iTrial , and regularly robs Emperor Cole's casino. It's a game and I'm having fun. Just like people visiting Praetoria now are visiting it in the past before it is destroyed, my doing BV missions to fight Chimera is happening sometime in the future. I just haven't Left Praetoria (and by that, I mean I'm still tagged as a Praetorian, much like the Praetorian NPCs who are guarding Sinclair's tower.)

I appreciate this perspective - and I kind of understand that not everyone is going to enjoy one of my stories. (I've had people quit some arcs because they just weren't patient enough to complete the first mission - EXPLODING PLANET filters out the impatient, but once you've done it once, that mission is a breeze.) I've been know to add strong allies on some mission maps - in Clash of the Communist Kaiju, the penultimate mission allows you to accumulate (optionally) two sets of 3 Canadian War Machines (3 Cataphracts, 3 re-skinned Sieges) and a reprogrammed Fake Nemesis as allies. But there's an opponent on that map that will destroy all of those allies. But it's an opponent you don't have to take down. I like for there to be the potential for a spectacle (I mean, I'd suggest a team if one wants to do the hardmode for that mission and take out the giant monster) instead of everything being so tightly scripted that every element is essential. Sometimes it's fun just to do things. Part of the joy of making an AE arc is making it so you enjoy playing it yourself. It should then be good for others, but only to a point. (For example, no farmer will enjoy any of my stories, I suspect.)

I’m not the original poster for this suggestion, so I don’t have to answer for or justify anything I’m not explicitly advocating for. I’m not really asking for Last Bastion access, or even RWZ access - I just generally want more Goldside content to get to 50, even if it was merely boosting the repeatable contacts in Night Ward to support level 46 enemies in maps, so I can +4 it and have level 50 Praetorians work on incarnate unlocks against level 50 mobs without having to use AE. Since you’re bringing up Number Six, in my opinion Belladonna Vetrano’s arc should be available to Goldside incarnates since my Resistance blaster would love to fight Chimera i still say I’d love to abduct Positron as part of a Goldside TF as a connection to Maria J’s arc, but I know that there are much higher priorities for the player base at large, but I will always mention it in a pro-Praetorian suggestion thread.

Nice! I’ll have to try this out. I appreciate the tip (it will spare some civilians from the Ultrahorde, I hope.)

I appreciate all that - I just want more content to be able to grind to 50 Goldside. I honestly don’t need all co-op zones to be available to Goldside as this thread proposes, but I support people wanting more Goldside content so I support threads like these. For example, I don’t know why Halloween tip missions don’t drop for Praetorians. We get the trick or treating door events, and the tip mission location is presumably in Praetorian tunnels overrun by Prime Earth circle of thorns invaders.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on what it means when I say to Leave Praetoria. When I say Leaving Praetoria, I usually mean completing the Crossing Over mission or whatever it’s called, where I choose a Prime Earth hero/villain alignment and leave behind my Praetorian status. I think that is clear in context, but I don’t mind clarifying when people misunderstand my shorthand for the character dimension transition process.

I have a 50 Praetorian Loyalist with all incarnates unlocked and who occasionally joins iTrials if they are running out of Echo Plaza. (He wants to sabotage the Praetors so he can advance ) He’ll never leave Praetoria, despite players in these forums suggesting that he must. Nope. I’m hoping to get a Resistance to 50 for exactly the reasons you mentioned. I want to stick it to Cole as a Resistance member joining in iTrials (if they are launched from Pocket D, Echo Plaza, or … my dream scenario, from within Praetoria itself. anyway, anything added to Praetoria to help me advance to 50 is welcome.

In my most recent arc, I have a problem. I have a mission where I want there to be enemy elements, but also civilians who should just be around. I created a group of minion level characters to be civilians - no attacks (i originally created them using the People setting but then I had problems with them being part of a patrol group, maybe I need to revisit that.) I made the patrol neutral so they wouldn't bother the players (if they were enemy, they'd follow the players but be unable to attack and I didn't want that either) The problem: the enemy elements just murder them which was not my intent. If I could make the patrol Stationary, that would probably limit the chances of them having map enemies blunder into them. I am bringing this topic here for discussion or alternatives - i already added it as a request to the AE content thread in the Suggestions forum

Clickable People Much like we have clickable items in missions, for AE I'd like to see clickable people, which would generate the usual optional interaction text, the interaction/bar text, the optional interruption text, the optional interaction completion text, and the option clue text. Sometimes you want to have an NPC that is there to be interacted with, and often when using an NPC hostage (with no opponents guarding them) the rescue dialog kicks off the moment the players enters the map. Having a clickable person would give more control to the situation.