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Clave, thanks for running this recently and having the post come back up top. I will try the arc out as well.

There’s a guy on Excelsior who lobbies for people to use the LFG queue to kick off an SBB, without pre-forming a team. Has to explain for people to queue up solo with “willing to join” selected. I’ve successfully joined once. But every time, people chime in, telling the guy that he needs to do things the “right” way (gather a team, then queue.) Clearly, he’s trying to get folks used to blind-faith LFG queueing, but it’s an uphill battle. I’ve tried to join his SBBs at times, but once you queue, you are stuck waiting and that blows, not knowing if critical mass will happen or not. I often give up and just do one of my missions, which is reliable.

I was legitimately starstruck when I saw Engineria in AE this morning (I won’t mention where, to keep the paparazzi away)

Yeah, I tend to see how dialogue tests, and if it fires off reasonably, that's good. Otherwise I push it into the completion text stage or rely on Clue Text (but I would prefer things to work the way the architect interface implies)

I don't think this is a problem specific to you. I feel like in-game, the unaware dialog and active dialog makes sense. The NPC tends to speak when you are near and when line of sight is hit, they fire off their active dialog. In AE missions, it seems like unaware and active fires off when you enter the map. Or when the NPC spawns in response to some condition, unaware and active fires off immediately. It is annoying. But I want to say that ive seen it work, depending on the map. I wish I could give better data for you.

Definitely go to the Mission Architect section of the forum. You’ll find story arcs being advertised, some being reviewed, some looking for feedback. There is a lot of charm to be found.

That’s weird! I have placed a Loremaster in more than one base, they’ve all worked.

By the way, if you are worried about having 250 prismatic aethers, next month is the Halloween event and each character (that hasn't already done so) can earn up to 10 prismatics by participating in Trick or Treat leagues. There are 5 elite bosses, and there are defeat badges for each boss that gets you 2 prismatics per badge, so 10 total. So if you have a bunch of characters who haven't already done this, you can get a bunch of prismatics.

If you are talking about mini-mode, yes. You redeem prismatic aether particles at the Hologram that’s found at any Vault or I believe in Pocket D.

I started playing on Virtue one month after launch and played until the sunset. My main tank, First of Equals, kept Faathim the Kind company during the last moments of the game. I've recreated most of my old favorites from Virtue here - First of Equals (invul/superstrong tank) Playboy Avenger (martial arts/super reflexes scrapper) Fantastic Foe (Fire Armor/Stone Melee tank) Most Likely to Slay (broadsword/regen scrapper) Amazing Faux Nemesis (Technically a peacebringer - humanoid form only. He's a reprogrammed Fake Nem with a captive Kheldian in the suit's boiler) I can't remember what my global was on Live. It *might* have been @Fantastic Foe but I'm not sure. I soloed A Lot on Live, except with a few friends duoing/trioing, and occasionally with larger teams from the Amazings SG, who would form up on Mondays for Amazing Monday. (Everyone had to have Amazing in their name ...) I recreated my first AE story arc that I made on Live - EXPLODING PLANET (currently arc 22784) and because Homecoming has prestige costs were zeroed out, my supergroup base on Homecoming looks so so so so so much better than what I could afford on Live (my SG base is open for tourism - the passcode is Solitude-784, designed to be reminiscent of someone's icy fortress (I used a lot of water textures and glass floors here and there to give as much of an icy look as I could...)) Should anyone remember me (I fully understand if you don't) my global here on Homecoming is @First of Equals

I’m looking forward to playing it - specifically because it seems like you were inspired in part to make it for your SG mates, and I respect that a lot.

This is excellent advice! I don't necessarily want to abandon the conversations with OMEGOD, but I also didn't want to have a lot of "Great Scott!" exclamations that is too Superman specific. I'll think this over, and I appreciate these reflections on character voice.

Zhym, thanks for running the arc and this feedback. I'm always interested in hearing about how easy or tough a character does against Despoticus, and I specifically asked about Ocelot violation feedback, so this is all good info for me to think about. (I agree with you that this is less successful than Allegedly, Your Death, which is think was more fun to read as well.)

Zhym, I totally respect your decision! Don't sweat it. And thanks for having this thread.

I’m Excelsior as well

I just ran it with my level 50 inv/ss tank (and I'm re-running it with my level 42 beam rifle/traps corrupter) I liked it, but I'm going to call out some typos and make some suggestions below. But I appreciated you making an arc, sharing it with us, and for using AE not just for Fire Farming or whatever. You've given us a quick arc to play, and I can see running a few different characters through it. Thanks again for sharing your arc id and wanting to get some mission architect adventuring going

My buddy has been playing a bunch of your arcs recently. THEY ARE GOOD ONES.

Darmian gave me great feedback on The Clash of the Communist Kaiju (arc 25408) when I posted it here a few years ago, and I was happy that several people here ran through Allegedly, Your Death (arc 65297) last year - the feedback taught me what the Ocelot Rule is. Just letting you know if you want to include these along with my Despoticus. This way, there will be arcs with a Superman-ish vibe, a Fantastic Four-ish vibe, and a Batman-ish vibe (all non-infringing-ish vibes...) represented.

@blackbird4329 , I respect you wanting to organize this. In the AE terminal, you’ll find my current 8 arcs under @First of Equals - I’ll hold off suggesting any arc ids at the moment, since I’ve previously advertised most of my arcs in this forum thread and received solid feedback. (6 of my arcs are intended to give a certain comics vibe, 2 exist for certain game mechanics and aren’t really story-driven. Well, one of them has a story, I guess.) I’ll keep an eye on this post for the calling-out of the arc ID to play in a given month. I tend to play roughly 25% of my characters per month so if an arc is fun, I might run it multiple times for comparisons of how characters do. I’ll be happy to broadcast the arc ID getting attention in-game. I think it is good to remind people that the mission architect exists outside of a farming context as well.

Thanks!

It all depends! Hamis allow you to boost several attributes per hami per slot with SO values, but IOs tend to eventually give better bonuses than SOs but just in one area per slot, and there's the benefit of the set bonuses. If you have a bunch of hamis, you can slot them, but only if you think it's good. You don't have to be The Most Useful, and no one can really tell you how to be the most useful. I've slotted Hamis on powers where I don't have that many slots, and put IO sets in powers where I have lots of slots, to get the most bonuses, but again, it's kind of an art and not a science.

Captain Sherman the Nemesis defector is the love child of General Aarons and Thunderhead

I just think there should be a suggestion forum like we have here, rather than having suggestions spread throughout the forums. The other day, a suggestion post provided me game-changing information for my level 50 Praetorian - that the Belladonna Vetrano arc was available in the Crystal of Ice and Fire mission list, since blueside and redside content is offered to goldsiders even if they can't get to the mission door, but BV's are all in Night Ward. I wouldn't have discovered that if I hadn't visited a suggestion thread asking for pie-in-the-sky likely-unimplementable suggestions for goldside content.

your advice was very helpful! Since these are civilians, I have the boss flee the moment they take damage, and I can include helpful dialogue.

Your problem is relatable! I don’t know of any way to randomize or simplify this. The process you describe is pretty much the process I’ve followed in the past.