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An attempt to further the story in an SFMA for Team Play


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Just did a little experiment with my Spirals series. It's a thing I can't do on all my AEs though, due to how some of them play out.

 

In team play only the leader sees the Mission Success Dialog. As an experiment I copied that entire section into a Mission Complete Clue at the end of each mission in the Spirals series, calling it Return Transcript 1, 2, 3 and so on. Just so the rest of a potential team can see what happens.

 

They may miss the final one if they log off or the leader clicks the Contact too fast, but nothing I can do about that. Players will get a notification to check the clue once they exit the mission as part of the Exit Pop Up.

 

Like I say, some missions use that clue space already so I can't do anything with those. And I don't think I can do anything about a mission that has a Fail option, since you don't want the Success Transcript clashing with the Fail Transcript and vice versa. But just an experiment.

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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) | 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 )

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I'm posting screenshots of how this looks from Spirals: Part One, mission 1.  Hidden because someone may not want it spoilered. Oh, the ego!

 

Firstly the Exit Pop Up.

 

Spoiler

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And then the clue side by side with what the Team Lead sees.

 

Spoiler

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So maybe that will help with Team Play. Maybe no one will ever bother to read them at all, but I've seen enough AEs run where the Team Lead does a chunk of cutting and pasting into Team Chat so that everyone else has an idea of what's happening.

 

Again caveated with the proviso that a mission that has a dedicated Fail or Succeed option can't have one of these, sometimes you really need to use that Mission Complete Clue for something else and finally, if the Team Lead exits the last mission and just clicks on the contact then all the clues vanish.

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) | 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 )

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