Is it possible to delete published stories?

[GATE-keeper]

If so, how?

 

If not, is there a way around the 3 published stories limit?  Other than creating other accounts?

[PeregrineFalcon]

Yes. If you open a support ticket you can ask for more Mission Architect slots.

 

My understanding is that if you're making actual story missions, and not farm missions, they'll give you more slots.

[GATE-keeper]

On 5/3/2024 at 6:50 PM, PeregrineFalcon said:

Yes. If you open a support ticket you can ask for more Mission Architect slots.

 

My understanding is that if you're making actual story missions, and not farm missions, they'll give you more slots.

 

Thanks very much for your reply.  I'll follow your advice to submit a ticket requesting more slots.

 

If they're going to limit us to 3 published missions, it would be nice if they would allow us to save over older published missions.

I published a mission, then played it, made minor changes and published it again. 

Then played it, made more minor changes and published it again one more time.

So now I have all 3 of my allowed missions that are just minor deviations from one another.

My OCD demands some way to delete, or save over the two missions I don't really want to keep.

[Snakebit]

You can unpublish and then delete. I did this a few nights ago, but I can't remember exactly what buttons. Look around, it is doable. 

[Purrfekshawn]

1 hour ago, GATE-keeper said:

If they're going to limit us to 3 published missions, it would be nice if they would allow us to save over older published missions.

 

What is the point of limiting the account to 3 stories anyway? l can remember enabling on Private Server 1000 slots for stories onto the account, but it took replacing 03 00 00 00 to E8 03 00 00 on mission server somewhere in its code, as well as rewriting special serverside TXT file that functions as mission server database (replacing # from 3 to 1000). It seems like anotha untidiness of Ouroboros team (issues 24-25), when they extended character slots to 1000, but didn't extend mission stories slots (just didn't think about these).

[PeregrineFalcon]

2 hours ago, GATE-keeper said:

If they're going to limit us to 3 published missions, it would be nice if they would allow us to save over older published missions.

There is a way that you can update and then save over the old mission without having to use up multiple slots, but it's been so long since I've made missions in the MA I don't remember how to do it.

 

1 hour ago, Purrfekshawn said:

What is the point of limiting the account to 3 stories anyway?

So that people don't fill up the MA database with a zillion farm and/or junk missions.

[GATE-keeper]

3 hours ago, Snakebit said:

You can unpublish and then delete. I did this a few nights ago, but I can't remember exactly what buttons. Look around, it is doable. 

 

Doy!!

 

You're right.  All you have to do is click on the mission title and the "unpublish" button appears.

 

Thanks so much everyone!

[Purrfekshawn]

8 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

So that people don't fill up the MA database with a zillion farm and/or junk missions.

 

But people don't fill database with zillion of junk characters somehow?

[PeregrineFalcon]

47 minutes ago, Purrfekshawn said:

But people don't fill database with zillion of junk characters somehow?

Do you spend your time searching through other people's characters? Of course not so it doesn't really make a difference. However, it is difficult to search for the kind of mission you want to play if it's drowned in a zillion junk missions. The devs have said that's the reason that they limit the number of MA slots.

 

I'm not a dev though so there's no point in trying to argue with me about it. I'm just the messenger.

[Purrfekshawn]

6 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

Do you spend your time searching through other people's characters? Of course not so it doesn't really make a difference. However, it is difficult to search for the kind of mission you want to play if it's drowned in a zillion junk missions. The devs have said that's the reason that they limit the number of MA slots.

 

I'm not a dev though so there's no point in trying to argue with me about it. I'm just the messenger.

 

1. And junk characters may sit on useful names, which's sad, does that mean # of characters created must be limited?

2. If a player wants to do this junk stuff, they can easily create zillion of accounts for that to fulfill the described bozo job.

3. Don't all arcs have respective IDs, so they don't have to be searched for every time? 

4. What devs? Exactly Homecoming devs, or old (pre-shutdown) City of Heroes commerial company stuff? If it's pre-shutdown CoH company (paragon, cryptic etc.) l'm pretty sure they were limiting that just to force players pay for extra slots, much like everything else in every other commercial MMO?

[Seed22]

5 hours ago, Purrfekshawn said:

 

1. And junk characters may sit on useful names, which's sad, does that mean # of characters created must be limited?

2. If a player wants to do this junk stuff, they can easily create zillion of accounts for that to fulfill the described bozo job.

3. Don't all arcs have respective IDs, so they don't have to be searched for every time? 

4. What devs? Exactly Homecoming devs, or old (pre-shutdown) City of Heroes commerial company stuff? If it's pre-shutdown CoH company (paragon, cryptic etc.) l'm pretty sure they were limiting that just to force players pay for extra slots, much like everything else in every other commercial MMO?

Peregrine doesnt play AE and doesn’t post very helpful information usually  so its best to have them on ignore ASAP.

 

Anyone who does uses the search function at all times and inputs an ID, its why everyone who post an arc they want played list their ID alongside a brief summary. Call it storyteller etiquette. 

Edited May 6 by Seed22

[ZamuelNow]

All considered, there are reasons to search outside of just the arc ID.  Some situations, especially with the more prolific writers, you might search for a player's global instead of the arc ID.  And just a few weeks ago, someone was here requesting comedy arcs since they were in a SG that enjoys them.  They had to ask here since for some since Comedy is flooded with farms for some random reason but they did do a search.

[UltraAlt]

On 5/5/2024 at 11:44 AM, GATE-keeper said:

If they're going to limit us to 3 published missions, it would be nice if they would allow us to save over older published missions.

 

You can pull down a mission and re-publish it as many times as you like.

All your missions should be in your saved mission files regardless if it is published, unpublished, or re-pubished.

In fact, loaded all my AE missions from before the Sunset and into my Homecoming install ... because all those missions that I worked on were saved.

 

Of course, you can't save someone else's AE missions. But I assume you already know that.