Jiro Ito Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I'm writing a mission arc where you start out in low esteem with your contact and they ask you to shadow an NPC hero they trust. Mission-wise, I was hoping to require the player to escort this hero to a terminal, and once done, it completes the requirement, as the hero does the downloading and retrieves the clue. I cannot make this work however, as in testing I still have to click the terminal myself in order to complete it. If I make the terminal an inessential task, it gives me an error. Is there a way to accomplish what I want? I know there are in-game missions that have this mechanic. Yes the player is able to gain the trust of the contact through the story 🙂 Play my AE Adventures, listed under @Jiro Ito, including award winners: "The Headless Huntsman of Salamanca" #43870 **Scrapbot AE Contest Winner May 2022** "On the Claw-Tipped Wings of Betrayal" #43524 **November 2021 Dev's Choice** "The Defenders of Talos" #44578 **Mission Architect Competition Winner for October 2021: REBIRTH** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cranebump Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) As far as I know, the only AE mission ending escort target is the entrance. With anything else, you have to click it yourself. Not sure why this is so, but it is. Edited January 11, 2022 by cranebump Looking for SFMA content over multiple arcs? Search for the following under "cranebump." LONG FORM: Ordinary People [3 parts] Investigation of a series of thefts leads you deep into a vengeful plot that threatens all of Paragon City. Will you and Kings Row's "ordinary" heroes be able to stop it? Leviathan [5 parts] The assassination of a local politician with national aspirations sets off a media frenzy among everyone's favorite reactionary network, NewsAnon. Among their targets? You. Mobius [5 Parts]: Visions of past, present, and possibility collide, as you and the Autumn Wards unravel the mystery of the 7-year time gap. Fallout (3 Parts) When your initial investigation into a theft at a local S&L reveals a connection to its stolen tech, the drawn-down Autumn Wards bring you in to investigate. The Cage Series [3 parts]: The Iron Widow is back! Or...is she? Your vigilante philosophy is put to the test in this tale of shifting loyalties and outright deceit. The Bleed [3 parts]: Your investigation of arcane fissures in IP leads you to uncover a 100-year old secret shrouded in magic, blood, and betrayal. Noble Mettle [2 parts]: A Sky Raider raid on the Paragon Commodities Commission turns from simple kidnapping to a complicated scheme involving mercenaries, "Communists," economics, and chemistry.. One Shots: Of Guns and Asa Ronan; The Tenuous State of Grace; Garden of the Will; Gravity; The Book of Bond's; The Lost Girls; Injustice Systems; Wednesday’s Wyverns; Of ‘Dine and Men; Dark Legacy; Shadow and Silver, The Re-education of Westin Phipps, Potter's Field; Magnjficence; Squalls and the Comet, Turf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darmian Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Right now this annoyance remains an annoyance. I've listed it on the Discord as something for the Devs to poke at in the future. AE SFMA Arcs: The Meteors (Arc id 42079) | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part One. (Arc id 26756) X | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part Two. (Arc id 26952) | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part Three. (Arc id 27233) Darker Deeds: Part One (Arc id 28374) | Darker Deeds: Part Two. (Arc id 28536) | Darker Deeds: Part Three. (Arc id 29252) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part One (Arc id 29891) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part Two (Arc id 30210) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part Three (Arc id 30560) | Bridge of Forever ( Arc id 36642) | The Cassini Division (Arc id 37104) X | The House of Gaunt Saints (Arc id 37489) X | The Spark of the Blind (Arc id 40403) | Damnatio Memoriae (Arc id 41140) X | The Eve of War (Arc id 41583) X | Spirals: Part One. (Arc id 55109) | Spirals: Part Two. (Arc id 55358) | Spirals: Part Three. (Arc id 57197) I Sing of Arms and the Man (Arc id 42617) | Three Sisters (Arc id 43013) (Pre War Praetorian Loyalist. Pre War Praetorian Resistance. Pre ITF Cimerora. Post ITF Cimerora. X = Dev Choice/Hall of Fame ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Burn Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Correct, you can escort an NPC to a clickable object by setting the "Destination" to the object. However, yes, YOU (the player) still has to click the object after the escort. So perhaps story-wise, you can have the NPC "instruct" the player how to download the info -- this is kind of stronger choice for your story anyway, as it helps the NPC start to "trust" and gain some "rep" for the player by having you do it instead of them. Maybe the NPC can be like..."Let's see how well you can follow instructions on how to enter this complicated sequence to download this info. Good! You're not useless after all." 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defeat All Snakes Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 This kind of objective is especially irritating, because people can (and will) breeze past the escort, compulsively click the glowie, and then find themselves with no idea how to complete the mission. That said, I use this gimmick all the time. You just have to accept that it, like everything else about the AE that isn't applicable to fire farms, is fundamentally broken and you have to stretch a little to make it work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankylosaur Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Yeah, usually you just have to shoehorn in a solution with creative writing... Make the terminal dual control, or hacked to be unlockable by you even though the escort does the downloading, or some other conceit to the mechanics. 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 - 9 Arcs | All That Glimmers: First Warders & Mu - 9 Arcs | All That Glints: The Awakened & Council - 3 Arcs | All That Glows: Nictus & 5th Column - 3 Arcs* | All That Gleams: Epilogue - 1 Arc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiro Ito Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 Well that's a bummer, guess I'll have to work it into the story. Thanks for the responses though! Play my AE Adventures, listed under @Jiro Ito, including award winners: "The Headless Huntsman of Salamanca" #43870 **Scrapbot AE Contest Winner May 2022** "On the Claw-Tipped Wings of Betrayal" #43524 **November 2021 Dev's Choice** "The Defenders of Talos" #44578 **Mission Architect Competition Winner for October 2021: REBIRTH** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjrasmussen Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 On 1/11/2022 at 10:53 AM, Jiro Ito said: I'm writing a mission arc where you start out in low esteem with your contact and they ask you to shadow an NPC hero they trust. Mission-wise, I was hoping to require the player to escort this hero to a terminal, and once done, it completes the requirement, as the hero does the downloading and retrieves the clue. I cannot make this work however, as in testing I still have to click the terminal myself in order to complete it. If I make the terminal an inessential task, it gives me an error. Is there a way to accomplish what I want? I know there are in-game missions that have this mechanic. Yes the player is able to gain the trust of the contact through the story 🙂 Am I the only one who thought of GTA when see escort? I went to Ouroboros all i got was this lousy secret! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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