{"id":1085,"date":"2009-03-12T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2009\/03\/so-about-all-that-i14-mission-architect-stuff\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T12:48:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:48:38","slug":"so-about-all-that-i14-mission-architect-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/03\/so-about-all-that-i14-mission-architect-stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"So, about all that I14 Mission Architect stuff &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been woefully remiss in keeping up on CoX board reading. So &#8230; a quick update!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofheroes.com.webdev.ncaustin.com\/news\/news_archive\/new_issue_14_mission_architect.html\">Official<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13119948\" target=\"_blank\">announcements<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofheroes.com.webdev.ncaustin.com\/news\/news_archive\/issue_14_mission_architect_in.html\" target=\"_blank\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmorpg.com\/gamelist.cfm?view=reviews&amp;load=73&amp;game=3&amp;bhcp=1\" target=\"_blank\">mentions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> You can include AVs in MA missions, but they&#8217;ll follow the normal difficulty level&nbsp;spawn rules (<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13119180\" target=\"_blank\">dropping to down to Elite Bosses<\/a> when appropriate). There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120827\" target=\"_blank\">other mission scaling logic<\/a> involved as well.<\/li>\n<li> You&#8217;re limited to three published arcs, but if an arc gets a &#8220;Dev&#8217;s Choice&#8221; or &#8220;Hall of Fame,&#8221; it becomes a &#8220;permanent&#8221;<br \/> &nbsp;part of the MA missions and <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13119275\" target=\"_blank\">no longer counts<\/a> against that limit. Villains defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120907\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t count against Defeat badges<\/a>, alas.<\/li>\n<li> I don&#8217;t want to go on <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13119614\" target=\"_blank\">this mission<\/a>. Or a mission where <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120414\" target=\"_blank\">warwolves shoot energy beams out of their shoulders<\/a>. Fortunately you can <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13123979\" target=\"_blank\">drop MA missions<\/a> without harm, and <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13128439\" target=\"_blank\">rate things without finishing them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> Some fun <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120595\" target=\"_blank\">custom dialog options<\/a>. As well as <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13124026\" target=\"_blank\">enemy power set combos<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13175118\" target=\"_blank\">these missions sound fun<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> The <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120862\" target=\"_blank\">metaphysics (and metagame) aspects<\/a> of how this is implemented are a bit odd, since MA missions aren&#8217;t (as framed) &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120894\" target=\"_blank\">real<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> Future ideas: <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120912\" target=\"_blank\">story forks and temp powers<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13124046\" target=\"_blank\">lighting effects<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13178630\" target=\"_blank\">giant monsters<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li> Aw, we get souvenirs but <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13124095\" target=\"_blank\">not citizenry gossip<\/a>? Rats.<\/li>\n<li> No, this is not a sneaky way to <a href=\"http:\/\/coh.nofuture.org.uk\/digest\/index.php?european=1&amp;post=1325186\" target=\"_blank\">fire all the Devs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13128736\" target=\"_blank\">How<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13128736\" target=\"_blank\">tickets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13135330\" target=\"_blank\">work<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13128513\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13128627\" target=\"_blank\">by<\/a> Posi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120369\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120455\" target=\"_blank\">red<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120425\" target=\"_blank\">name<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120468\" target=\"_blank\">info<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120656\" target=\"_blank\">for<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120664\" target=\"_blank\">you<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120698\" target=\"_blank\">to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120774\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120849\" target=\"_blank\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13120879\" target=\"_blank\">muse<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13122200\" target=\"_blank\">upon<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13123968\" target=\"_blank\">as<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13123970\" target=\"_blank\">you<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13123986\" target=\"_blank\">await<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13124055\" target=\"_blank\">I14<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13124085\" target=\"_blank\">coming<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showthreaded.php?Number=13128442\" target=\"_blank\">out<\/a> not very long from now.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Okay, yeah, I&#8217;ll have to do some of that thing. If nothing else, it will engender an understanding of the powers and limits of the overall COX system.<\/li>\n<li> The virtual reality of it bothers me, too. From a story-telling standpoint, it feels kind of cheesy. Unless there&#8217;s more to this than we know.<\/li>\n<li> Brilliant way to create more generic (though quirky) content (as in the police band \/ newspaper missions) while the Devs work on (one hopes) some new whiz-bang content.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been woefully remiss in keeping up on CoX board reading. So &#8230; a quick update! Official announcements and media mentions. You can include AVs in MA missions, but they&#8217;ll follow the normal difficulty level&nbsp;spawn rules (dropping to down to Elite Bosses when appropriate). There&#8217;s other mission scaling logic involved as well. You&#8217;re limited to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/03\/so-about-all-that-i14-mission-architect-stuff.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So, about all that I14 Mission Architect stuff &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}