So looks like I'll have to change the name of my story "Too Many Meows!" because of those silly stupid freakin lame 'meow' farms. I still have no idea why rikti officer farms came to be known as meow farms, makes no sense at all, but it sure made things crappy for me, my arc was made way before the meow farms were 'invented' but now I got complaints that my arc is a blatant farming mission :o despite the fact that it consists of only custom critters and I got zero starred to boot which made my average rating drop to 3 stars :angry: and if that was not bad enough I got feedback from a freaking dumb farmer telling me my story is not a farm as advertised :huh: and they would low rate me (oh and that feedback came after I added 'This is NOT a meow farm' to my descrition).
Not sure what to do now, I'm thinking of unpublishing "Too Many Meows!" because even if I just change the name I'm keeping the low ratings, but it would kinda suck to lose the low under 10k arc ID. :(
Why? Oh Why? Did they have to label the rikti officer farms as 'meow' ?!? :angry: :thumbdown:
That really is a pain, Marm. I feel for you. I suppose you could try renaming it to "Too Many Miaows," in the hopes that most ignorant searchers looking for "meow" just wouldn't find it, but still...
The farming community certainly seems to come up with some odd terms. First were the Rikti "doll" farms, and then the "meow" farms. If I had to put out some wild guesses as to how those terms evolved, they would be:
"Doll" farms: Sort of a contraction of "Defeat All" farms. "D'All" sounds like "Doll," and there you are.
"Meow" farms: I've heard one random broadcaster refer to them as a Meow Mix farm. Which put me in mind of the Meow Mix commercials, which involved the musical cat repeatedly singing, "Meow meow meow meow, Meow meow meow meow..." Given that certain farms involve blasting through lots of identical enemies, someone might have had the idea of equating that to identical meows, or something like that.
This (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Dev&Number=13427300&bodyprev=#Post13427300) was posted today- I suggest you read it. I also suggest you contact Customer Service- even though your arc hasn't actually been banned as yet, they may be able to help sort out the problem.
I love your arc, by the way- although, it probably wouldn't be as much fun for people outside our community.
Quote from: Alaric on May 05, 2009, 09:31:11 PM
This (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Dev&Number=13427300&bodyprev=#Post13427300) was posted today- I suggest you read it. I also suggest you contact Customer Service- even though your arc hasn't actually been banned as yet, they may be able to help sort out the problem.
I love your arc, by the way- although, it probably wouldn't be as much fun for people outside our community.
ok, curious now. arc synopsis please?
Quote from: bearded on May 06, 2009, 08:59:38 AM
Quote from: Alaric on May 05, 2009, 09:31:11 PM
This (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Dev&Number=13427300&bodyprev=#Post13427300) was posted today- I suggest you read it. I also suggest you contact Customer Service- even though your arc hasn't actually been banned as yet, they may be able to help sort out the problem.
I love your arc, by the way- although, it probably wouldn't be as much fun for people outside our community.
ok, curious now. arc synopsis please?
My arc is about introducing folks to the 'Marmaverse' as I refer to it in my head (hehe), basically Marmeille has been kidnapped by a mad scientist that wants to clone himself an army of Marmalots, so you get to shut down a cloning lab and fight many meowing clones of Marm, then you learn more about what's really going on and fight the Dominion Eternal faction and go face to face with evil versions of Marmeille.
I'm aware that outsiders might not enjoy it as much, but I don't really care, I really made this arc for myself anyway, always wanted to see a bunch of Marmalots go crazy and stuff.
I renamed my arc btw, it's called "Attack of the Copycats" now.
that sounds like fun. wished i still played coh. it would make a good level for :ff: . did you ever skin marmeille on the valandar cat?