aethereal Posted May 3, 2020 Posted May 3, 2020 I would really like to have a group of three Archvillains spawn together. Is there any way to do this? I know I make an enemy group that only has AVs in it spawn around a "defeat a boss" detail, but that results in like... 11 AVs at large group sizes. Which might be a bit much. I want a number of AVs > 1 but < 11. What's the closest I can get to this? 1
aethereal Posted May 4, 2020 Author Posted May 4, 2020 I wish there were some response to this, even if it's just someone saying, "I confirm that this is known to be impossible." Some things I've tried that don't work: 1. You can't have ambushes happen that are named characters, just groups, so I can't place one AV and then have other AVs ambush once the battle is joined. 2. If your custom enemy group includes any non-AV characters, (even just a single minion), then the entire group of adds around the placed AV will be non-AV members of the custom group. 3. Changing the "difficulty" of the group surrounding the boss does not scale down much -- easy leads to 11 adds (all of them AVs if any of them are AVs, as far as I can tell), hard leads to 20, at x8.
Ankylosaur Posted May 5, 2020 Posted May 5, 2020 Well, I certainly can't think of a way to do it. The best I can think of is to find a map with a small location that has spawns near one another. 1 AE Arcs: Search for @Ankylosaur * denotes Dev's Choice Adventures in Lit: Adventures in Wonderland - 25-54* | Adventures in Oz - 40-54 | Adventures in Neverland - 45-54 Notable One-offs: Rularularian - 41-54* | The Serpent Beyond the Horizon - 46-52* | Robolution - 25-34* | The Genesis & Geneticists of The Coming Hamiggedon - 41-54* | Spycraft and Spidermen - 40-47 | Return to Faultline - 40-54 Post-Praetoria Series: All That Glitters: Gold Brickers, Mooks, & Praetorian tech proliferation - 9 Arcs | All That Glimmers: First Warders relocation in Astoria, the Mu, & Praetorian magic - 9 Arcs | All That Glints: The Awakened, The Council, & psionics after Mr. G and Striga collapse - 3 Arcs | All That Glows: Nictus & 5th Column after the Nictus schism/Striga collapse - 3 Arcs* | All That Gleams: Epilogue (Neo Tokyo) - 1 Arc | Neo Praetoria: Parallel Goldside escape from Night Ward post Diabolique - 3 arcs | Monkey Fight Club: Takes place after Glitters - 2 arcs
cranebump Posted May 11, 2020 Posted May 11, 2020 (edited) Haven’t tried this yet. I am currently testing a mish where I wanted 3 members of a villain team to spawn together. I designed them as 1 boss and 2 LTs, made one of their sets “hard,” the other pretty sparse. In the test run, they spawned as 3 LTs and just kicked my rear. The grav boss slapped a mez on me, while the pay assault and savage melee took me down. It was brutal. My initial attack nearly dropped 1 of them, and significantly damaged them all (was running DP baster who has a few toggle defenses). Had no breakfrees though, so that was that. The arc capped at 25, and I was running a L27, exemplared. i don’t know that you can get 3 AVs, but you can make lower levels tough by selecting higher levels on their power, say a Boss or LT with Extreme setting to primary and secondary. That might allow the spawn, though it wouldn’t be a true AV. Edited May 11, 2020 by cranebump I have done a TON of AE work, both long form and single arc. Just search the AE mish list for my sig @cranebump. For more information on my stories, head to the AE forum sub-heading and look for “Crane’s World.” Support your AE authors! We ARE the new content.
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