Quick coh_ma Digest

Seems like Xany is having real life kick his ass, so here is a quick update of the latest arcs posted at coh_ma since the last update:

Created by LJ:

166017: Welcome to the Apocalypse! (aka Super Busy Zombie Fun Time!)
218172: Ratta Ptooie
220139: Rikti, Rikti, You're so Fine!
225813: Destiny Denied: Circle of Thorns
232081: Heavy Metal Candy Bar
238778: Destiny Discovered: Circle of Thorns
247372: Death by Snoo-Snoo!
248027: Space Otters
253742: Building A Better Tomorrow
259738: The First Rikti Invasion
261176: A Contract forged in Ink Part 1
261179: A Contract forged in Ink Part 2
262739: The Superadine Revolution

Recommended by LJ:

32223: Weasel Words
169260: Eagor to Please

As always, check out coh_ma for all the details on these great arcs!

(I know this is technically against the rules, but this is a limited time mission that will be unpublished when the bug is fixed. If you don't know the bug I'm referring to, play the mission and be entertained.)

Mission ID: #243388
Published by: @SpaceNut

Short, 1 Mission

Destroy the set of Michael Bay's next movie: EXPLOSIONS!

Current Mood: amused

Weekly coh_ma Digest

Once again, Real Life has gotten in the way of my posting this in a timely (weekly) fashion. My apologies.

Here are the newest missions posted in coh_ma since the last digest, two weeks ago.

( Community-Created Arcs )

A comment last week about a desire for more 25-34 content got me thinking: why not just add some of my own? So I made a simple arc on the AE called Greener Pastures. First arc I've made, so will probably not be as posished as it should, but feel free to check it out.

Weekly coh_ma Digest

Here are the newest missions posted in coh_ma since the last digest. I was out of town last week, so this week's is a double feature!

Of course, if you really want to know what's current, you can always go check out the community itself. :-)

( Community-Created Arcs )

( Player Recommendations )

I've got 3 great missions that I've made in Architect, but can;t seem to get many people to play.

I'm so close to my 100 players have played your missions badge and really want to hit it.

Other then coh_ma what other ways would folks suggest to promote their missions?

If you want to check them out, they are under @satyr69

Weekly coh_ma Digest

Here are the newest missions posted in coh_ma since the last digest.

( Community-Created Arcs )

( Player Recommendations )

Weekly coh_ma Digest

Here are the newest missions posted in coh_ma since the last digest.

( Community-Created Arcs )

( Player Recommendations )

Weekly coh_ma Digest

Here are the newest missions posted in coh_ma since the last digest.

( Community-Created Arcs )

( Player Recommendations )

Go. Hunt. Kil Arcs.

Weekly coh_ma Digest

Here are the newest missions posted in coh_ma since the last digest.

( Community Creations )

( Player Recommendations )

Enjoy!

I got a desperately-needed laugh running this one.  And I was the first one to rate it!  How this gem got missed I have no idea...

Arc #39392: Intellectual Property Theft - Save the Secrets of the Architect System

It's a Very Short, Heroic mission.  And I laughed so hard at one point I got myself killed.  Great fun.

Michelle
aka
Samurai_ko

Current Mood: amused

Just a reminder: coh_ma is the place to post all things Mission Architect related, to avoid spamming the main communies. Every week, in time for the weekend, I will post a recap of missions posted to coh_ma (usually on Thursday night/Friday morning). These will include both Player Creations (arcs created by members of the community) and Player Recommendations (arcs recommended by community members, but not created by them).

This one's only two days and only consists of Player Creations. Expect next week's to be longer!

Missions posted to coh_ma during the week of 4/8/09 - 4/9/09:

( Mission descriptions and links behind cut )

Based on the very good feedback I got from members of the LJ community here, I've edited and re-published my story arc. It can now be found under Arc # 19438. Monty Python jokes notwithstanding, the name is still "Inherent in the System." The search system is once again fully functional...

I invite you all to partake at your leisure. Those who were scared/irritated off by the first mission's Malta/Artemis combo should be pleased to find some more common, less annoying enemies present instead. I've also tweaked other options to provide a more balanced experience and additional flavor. The final mission still features 2 EBs and 1 AV depending on your party makeup and difficulties, so be forewarned.

Nevertheless, I invite more feedback if you have it to provide. Oh, and for the sake of spam, I won't be making any more post topics about this arc any longer. (If anyone has issues and wants to know if a major update is made later, let me know and I can contact directly...)

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I must say that I'm having fun creating a story arc and creating an enemy group. It was easier than I thought it would be. And since you can drag around the mission orders it is easy to test only the current mission you are working on.

My arc is called To Save A Cousin Darkly and is Arc ID 8313. In it, one of my characters, Dark Rod asks you to rescue his cousin Uber Rod from the clutches of the Dark Fae. Both these characters gained their powers by accidentally swallowing dark fairies. Now it's time for some retribution on the part of the Fae.

There are 4 missions. In the first you beat up on some Red Caps to get some information. In the second you beat up more Red Caps to find the location of the Dark Fae and you get to fight a Dark Fae boss. The third and fourth missions are all Dark Fae. In the third you find the specific location of Uber Rod and in the fourth you save him from being sacrificed and take on the elite boss. He is also an ally.

It was tough finding enough outdoor natural looking areas that fit the story. I'm not entirely happy with the map used for the last mission. It is the outdoor one next to the water with lots of hills/rocky outcroppings. What I wanted was the big outdoor map you use in Scirrocco's patron arc where you disrupt some ritual. The only Nerva map close to what I wanted wasn't big enough. That was the one where you go in by the water and in the back there's a pyramid structure in the middle of a small lake. And I had aleady used a Croatoa map in the first mission and really couldn't use any of those again.

I thought it was really cool how you could really explore a story just using the mission briefing dialog, plus being able to drop clues from NPC speech during missions.

And creating an enemy group from scratch was a hell of a lot of fun. Making blaster types with scrapper and tank armor sets was neat. As well as Mastermind types also with tanker armor. Needless to say this group is rather tough, at least the bosses and the elite boss are. The elite boss managed to one shot my DM/Regen scrapper. I was actually running the missions with Uber Rod and it was weird saving myself in the last mission.

I was wondering, is there a spell checker built in to the mission creator? If not, then that would be a great feature.

Overall, I have to say that the Mission Architect is a great idea and lots of fun.

Current Mood: happy

So, as everyone knows, people are all off creating their own missions, I thought it would be a good idea to give people a place to put their missions, by ID number, so other people on LJ can look them up and try them, and maybe give feedback here that would be better than what we can give in-game.