An AE mission in particular that you really miss?

[Super Firebug]

A friend and I were reminiscing about CoH, and we got to AE missions that we had enjoyed. (Boy, I hate having to say that in past tense.) Toward the end of the game, I had a few "Venture Bros." tributes that I enjoyed running, and I was happy to find that someone had made a few "Venture Bros." AE missions. I think I ran all of my tributes through the mission to rescue Brock, Hank, Dean, and finally, Dr. Venture from The Monarch and his butterfly-themed minions. (It was the mission where, at the end, The Monarch asked something like, "Same time next week, then, Brock?") It was a blast to have my character, Dr. Butterfly (Dr. Girlfriend in her Dr. Mrs. the Monarch costume, which got no small amount of player attention), fighting against her husband. For lack of any other more-obvious power set, I made her a martial-arts stalker, because of her fighting in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills". I also very much enjoyed running Briana Morpheus in general (my Triana Orpheus tribute, and a Mind/Psionic dominator), and her having a hero mission to herself, and rescuing the Ventures, was great fun.

(Rounding out the list of my Venture tributes, for the curious: Dr. Venture became Dr. Dusty Ventura, a robot/FF MM [he stole the robot and FF-projector designs from his brother]; The Monarch became The Mighty Viceroy, an Arachnos widow for the wrist-mounted dart-shooters; and Dr. Myron Orpheus - my favorite character - became Dr. Byron Morpheus, a Psychic/Mental blaster. I tried making Brock as Brick Simson, but they offered no curly mullet, and Brock was more distinctive vocally, rather than physically.)

I so greatly miss doing that mission with those toons. Is there an AE mission, in particular, that you're homesick for?

(It occurs to me that this topic may already have been done in some form. If it has, please excuse the redundancy; currently, I'm not up to looking through 35 pages for it in this topic alone.)

[Kederren]

I didn't get to play as much AE as i would have liked. There was too much dev content that I had not gotten to run yet(Fourth Ward and Night Ward). Plus, it was hard to weed out the PL/farming chaff from the better written stuff.

That said "Astoria in D Minor" kind of stuck with me.

[Golden Girl]

That said "Astoria in D Minor" kind of stuck with me.

That's the one that I was going to say too - it had a very unique atmosphere.

[Minotaur]

I liked "Two tickets to Westerly" - which was a very low level adventure that I used as an alternative to the 1-10 content on occasions about a skull girlfriend trying to extricate her man from the gang.

[GamingGlen]

Not a single one.

[Kuriositys Kat]

I have to mention Turgenev's work "The Ghost in the Machine", followed by the the two mentioned above.  There was one that absolutely  had my husband and I  rolling in the aisles though.  It was the "Fashion Police" very witty but it did make your eyes bleed. Another that I liked was "Who Killed Snowglobe?"

To get hints about the  ones to try I read the AE critique threads.  We had some great writers there and they had to know how to write tightly because they were limited in the beginning to three story arc slots.

[Minotaur]

Oh and I forgot, but there was a hilarious one about somebody stealing the chest slider from Icon which REALLY made me laugh.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Mynx did it because she was pissed off at how little she got

[healix]

I LOVED 'Animal Farm'. It was so clever and hilarious. My favorite characters were the machine gun-wielding pigs!

[Tacitala]

The one I never finished writing.  :P

[Eoraptor]

I only played a few of them because I preferred to be out in public playing the game.. but I enjoyed the Fashion Police missions.

[TriNitroToluene]

I enjoyed "Who Killed Snow Globe?" very much also.  That may have been partially because it starred many Triumph regulars, but the missions were pretty darned good too.

[MaidMercury]

AE was interesting..It was funny to see all the players jam packed inside when it was new.

I liked it but I hated it soon because some AE's were ran to death just so folks could level up, get XP.

Later when that ran it's course, I liked custom AE's because some were so funny, clever...'Save Colonal Sanders', Evil McDonalds villains, lol.....I  created one with a half dozen CoH trainers, so I could see them actually do something....Got tired of seeing them just 'stand' in Atlas, Galaxy, Kings Row, etc.

It was nice to have an alternative shopping place, but perhaps that's just me.....  :roll:

[MWRuger]

I always like Bill Willingham's Arc. Can't recall the title but it was well written and fun to play.

[Little David]

That said "Astoria in D Minor" kind of stuck with me.

Pretty much all of the ones that @TheCheshireCat put out (like Astoria in G Minor) I loved. Signal: Noise, The Beating Heart of Astoria: A Play in Five Acts ...

... That last one became retroactively poignant for me, given the "souvenir" you're given at the end.

I only really played AE for the story-driven custom arcs, none of the "fire/kin troller clears map and clicks on a bomb" powerleveling stuff. Some of the other ones I liked include the ones that won Developer's Choice (The Most Important Thing by @Aisynia, Internship in the Fine Art of Revenge by @Twoflower, Who Dares Wins by @Zaphir) ...

I saved lots of screenshots of them, as I did with the regular arcs and the like.

[Kederren]

I couldn't play while at work, but I had/have internet access that I can use after I send all of the boys and girls home. I would check the forums routinely. Many of the AE authors would have their stories listed in their signatures. I wrote a lot of them down, expecting that there would be time to get to them later.

But, alas.....

That is my greatest disappointment with the shutdown.

[Angel Phoenix77]

Not to sound selfish but I miss my own Ae arcs. All of them took me 1 year to finish, the only thing that was bad is the lack of other people playing them. I had to talk to my global friends to play through them.

[Little David]

Remember the trailer/promotional videos for AE arcs that Bubbawheat put up on YouTube?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Bubbawheat

He got me to try a lot of AE arcs he covered there.

[Wulfen]

Hehe, all mine were on Virtue:

The Bride of Vahzilok.   The doc is takin the plunge!

Hillbilly Cannibal Mayhem!  Git er done!

[Felderburg]

I didn't play it, but I found a cool write up of Astoria in D Minor: http://lparchive.org/City-of-Heroes/Update%2022/