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As a rather prolific AE writer back on live, one of my more frequent frustrations was that I constantly had to rotate out arcs that I made - losing all their reviews and whatnot in the process - in order to have room to post new adventures. Is there a way to submit arcs for dev review more frequently, or requisition more AE slots? Because I would love the chance to introduce a trilogy I made without having to use up all three of my "published AE" slots!

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Completely agree to the idea of finding a way to unlock more arc slots.  I don't have access to any of my old arcs, but am looking forward to writing all new ones.  However, three arc slots doesn't work if I decide I want to do an extended, nine-arc epic (done that), or have a series of holiday-themed arcs available for play (done that) for fun.  Rotating them in and out is inefficient, and holding extra accounts just for extra AE slots is even more inefficient if I want to be able to respond to feedback. 

 

I realize the server is in its infancy and this is probably not something that can be granted instantly, but think it should be something that gets looked into.

 

 

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So exciting to have access to CoH and the MA again!!! Just signed on today for the first time.

 

I have been sitting on these old missions, with ideas to tweak them, for years!

 

I'm re-posting some now, and of course am already out of slots. How do you contact a GM to get more?

 

Several of mine received some community recognition back in the day - would love to somehow submit for Devs choice now, is that possible?

Try my AE Arcs: Search for @Ankylosaur for the below and more...

  • Dev's Choice:   Adventures in Wonderland - 25-54  Rularularian - 41-54 | The Serpent Beyond the Horizon - 46-52  | Robolution - 25-34  | The Genesis & Geneticists of The Coming Hamiggedon -  41-54 | All That Glows 4.1: Nictus Evictus - 40-54 
  • Post-Praetoria Campaign:  Explores the effects on Prime Earth of The Fall of Praetoria. Intro 1-20, Others fork off it in the 20's-ish to 54

All That Glitters: Intro (3 Arcs) 

Glitters: Gold Brickers (9 Arcs)Glimmers: First Warders (9 Arcs) |  Glints: The Awakened (3 Arcs) | Glows: Nictus (3 Arcs)

All That Gleams: Finale (1 Arc)

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Good idea - thanks for the link! Request sent...

Try my AE Arcs: Search for @Ankylosaur for the below and more...

  • Dev's Choice:   Adventures in Wonderland - 25-54  Rularularian - 41-54 | The Serpent Beyond the Horizon - 46-52  | Robolution - 25-34  | The Genesis & Geneticists of The Coming Hamiggedon -  41-54 | All That Glows 4.1: Nictus Evictus - 40-54 
  • Post-Praetoria Campaign:  Explores the effects on Prime Earth of The Fall of Praetoria. Intro 1-20, Others fork off it in the 20's-ish to 54

All That Glitters: Intro (3 Arcs) 

Glitters: Gold Brickers (9 Arcs)Glimmers: First Warders (9 Arcs) |  Glints: The Awakened (3 Arcs) | Glows: Nictus (3 Arcs)

All That Gleams: Finale (1 Arc)

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Just bumping this to ask the question again - a kind GM sent me a tell but we never connected or really uncovered a way to get more slots. You used to be able to buy some through the ticket system I believe.

 

Is there a way to get a few more slots? I have these old missions I would love to load and one or two I would love to work on...

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Try my AE Arcs: Search for @Ankylosaur for the below and more...

  • Dev's Choice:   Adventures in Wonderland - 25-54  Rularularian - 41-54 | The Serpent Beyond the Horizon - 46-52  | Robolution - 25-34  | The Genesis & Geneticists of The Coming Hamiggedon -  41-54 | All That Glows 4.1: Nictus Evictus - 40-54 
  • Post-Praetoria Campaign:  Explores the effects on Prime Earth of The Fall of Praetoria. Intro 1-20, Others fork off it in the 20's-ish to 54

All That Glitters: Intro (3 Arcs) 

Glitters: Gold Brickers (9 Arcs)Glimmers: First Warders (9 Arcs) |  Glints: The Awakened (3 Arcs) | Glows: Nictus (3 Arcs)

All That Gleams: Finale (1 Arc)

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+1 for more slots - still just at 3 here. 

Try my AE Arcs: Search for @Ankylosaur for the below and more...

  • Dev's Choice:   Adventures in Wonderland - 25-54  Rularularian - 41-54 | The Serpent Beyond the Horizon - 46-52  | Robolution - 25-34  | The Genesis & Geneticists of The Coming Hamiggedon -  41-54 | All That Glows 4.1: Nictus Evictus - 40-54 
  • Post-Praetoria Campaign:  Explores the effects on Prime Earth of The Fall of Praetoria. Intro 1-20, Others fork off it in the 20's-ish to 54

All That Glitters: Intro (3 Arcs) 

Glitters: Gold Brickers (9 Arcs)Glimmers: First Warders (9 Arcs) |  Glints: The Awakened (3 Arcs) | Glows: Nictus (3 Arcs)

All That Gleams: Finale (1 Arc)

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I am going to make a second and possibly a third account just to get more AE slots.

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Heraclea, you're right - I just finally accepted that. 🙂

Try my AE Arcs: Search for @Ankylosaur for the below and more...

  • Dev's Choice:   Adventures in Wonderland - 25-54  Rularularian - 41-54 | The Serpent Beyond the Horizon - 46-52  | Robolution - 25-34  | The Genesis & Geneticists of The Coming Hamiggedon -  41-54 | All That Glows 4.1: Nictus Evictus - 40-54 
  • Post-Praetoria Campaign:  Explores the effects on Prime Earth of The Fall of Praetoria. Intro 1-20, Others fork off it in the 20's-ish to 54

All That Glitters: Intro (3 Arcs) 

Glitters: Gold Brickers (9 Arcs)Glimmers: First Warders (9 Arcs) |  Glints: The Awakened (3 Arcs) | Glows: Nictus (3 Arcs)

All That Gleams: Finale (1 Arc)

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What's the point of limiting Arcs to 3 per account, when you can easily make new account and put missing AE content there, although this's clearly uncomfortable? AE tickets aren't hell of a valuable either, to justify such a limitation.

 

Likely restriction to 3 Arcs is some artifact from times when City of Heroes was a paid game, back then in order to keep account functioning you had to pay real money...

 

But right now this restrikshun just doesn't make any sense at all. This could be some very easy solution for this. In "\COH\missionserver\db_users.txt" (serverside) there are variables "Publish Slots", they may be edited with premature removing two strings with CRC at start of the file. But also default number of these slots for newly created account might be upped somewhat (to 1000 for instance) as well.

 

Edit: for the latter thing this worked: in "\COH\bin\missionserver.exe" (32-bit version, serverside) filding following bytes:

05 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 03 00 00 00

and replacing them to

05 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 E8 03 00 00

May work as needed. But l can't be sure about consequences (hopefully they're absent). This changed default value of AE slots for newly signed up to AE accounts (from 3 to 1000).

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