How many characters in an AE??

[Starhawk32]

for some reason I never thought of this.  I have over 500 characters each with 6 unique costumes.....they all sit in my "closet".  I do rotate and play these everyday and it takes 3 months before a character gets played in my rotation.

 

today I thought of making an AE to get them out of my "closet".  go in stealthed to see them.  not really for anyone other than me and my wife.

I have....3000+ unique non-copywrite costumes

Anyone know the limits to how many I can get in one mission arc?

[Darmian]

Individually?  Actually not that many. you can only have a few allies per mission depending on a particular map.  I've maxed that out at 7 I think!  Though you MIGHT manage 10. You'd run out of AE missions before you managed to have them all appear, I mean really fast.  Even allowing for you having three Arc slots with 5 missions each.

 

 

[Starhawk32]

Actually I was thinking of enemies.  could go in there stealthed  a lot more then right?

[MistressOhm]

You might be able to create a villain group with multiple costumes, and populate the map with that group.  But I doubt it would put a copy of each one in the map.  There's also a practical limit of how many different mobs you can put into an AE instance, and having a lot of custom characters drives up the server 'cost' of spawning the map in the first place.

 

 

[Darmian]

Well, it's not interacting, just sort of setting up a group photo sort of thing, BUT if you created a base room, i.e. a room in a base (in case I was confusing you!) and filled it with NPCS all at attention (or whatever but attention is better for groups) maybe with a sort of bleacher effect with them standing on them and THEN take a demorecord of that group.  Then you open the demorecord file and look for the NPC named in the file when you open it.  (Search for Demorecord on the forum  to see what the hell I'm talking about!) Then Cut & Paste your costume into the spot currently held by that NPC.  You can play the file back and see the NPC is now your custom character.  Rinse and repeat and oh god it's long and tedious and I wish there was a faster way of doing it but as far as I know there isn't.

 

And you'd have to take a screenshot of the demorecord as it plays.  It's not actually a recording, it's just the code telling the game engine exactly what to show. As I say, it's long and tedious but it would work.  But for your volume of characters?  Sheesh.  Up to you.

 

 

Edited November 21, 2022 by Darmian

[Jiro Ito]

  

On 4/12/2022 at 8:38 PM, GM Impervium said:

FYI, the max mob size is 17, so you'd probably want 18+ critters to make sure you don't get duplicates. For instance, The "Comic Con" farm maps have nearly a HUNDRED different characters to make sure there's no duplication within the mobs!

 

I don't know if this is helpful information, but if you have a large map, you'll have a chance to see a lot of them, just like the Comic Con farms.