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

[Darmian]

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.

Edited April 3 by Darmian

[ZamuelNow]

Sounds good.  I forget the exact set of what teammates could and could not see in AE.  I do remember team leaders copy/pasting a lot to chat.

[Darmian]

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

 

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

 

Spoiler

 

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.