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new for i17 non-player created content!

Ever wanted to make missions for a game you never played?

Now's your chance with CoX's new Non-player mission creator. First we paid people to make missions for our game, but that didn't seem to go to well, then we had the people paying us to play the game make their own missions and boy that was a can of worms! So now it is your turn the other billion people on the planet not playing our game, We somehow doubt you'll do any worse!

Dang I missed it ... now I'll die wondering.

hey now, careful with the real and helpful advice there. keep that up and people may figure out they don't have to bid the same as what the last one went for!

He is often the voice of reason, but not near as fun at parties.

I agree,

The conspiracy theorist in me now wonders if virtual teams is a ploy to hamstring farmers. The general population will be less willing to anchor/fill/pad teams because that isn't needed any more. even tho the drop rate is much lower with virtual teaming.


The developer in me thinks this is a bug no different that ticket drop bug when AE shipped (the one where not only were ticket drops split with the team but the number of tickets where split too ( ie: solo you would get say 10 tickets with 2 you would get 5, but only half the time))

I have to disagree here, more changeling badges is exactly what the badging mini-game needs. especially now that there are fewer challenges left.

your friend quitting for 2 years because the eliminator badge was un-fun; that what his choice he could have easily chosen not to attempt to get the badge at all. Nobody has to get all the badges, but if you want them then yes you have to go get them. and almost all of them are gettable (There are a few notable exceptions now like passport, power liberator etc)

To use a personal example, Bug hunter, it's a badge and it is earnable, but I have no interest in working for free. QA in a gaming company is a job that should be respected and paid IMO, not something that you let your players pay you to do. (but I don't want to go off on a tagent here) So I won't be getting Bug Hunter. I don't bemoan the system for my choice.


I am glad you'll be able to take advantage of the new lower goals for the badges.

I fully admit I AFK'ed a few of the badges, but that was my choice, If I chose not to I could have gotten most of the badges anyway. For me most all of my game play revolves around efficiency, including badges.

I agree the Ouro badges were a fun set to get, and glad they didn't get nerfed too,

Challenge rewards are sometimes in the journey, sometimes in the destination.

I can only speak for myself and not for all of "they"

Time did go into testing and figuring out the best way to get the sought reward, that is no different than playing the game when really you break it down and look at it. People have figured out the best ways to achieve all sorts of things, from from fast task force runs, to quicker ways around the city ( really was Ouroborus primary design to be an express route to Atlas or PI?) even more efficient use of mission selections. That min/max spirit is seen in pretty much every aspect of the game, not just in the bading mini-game

The whole point of the game is to achieve goals and have fun doing it. For some that means running the ITF in 22 minutes; for others it is earning 100 million a day on the market; for a few it is having the highest badge count they can get. If I choose to get those badges by means that you don't approve of that doesn't invalidate either of our points of view. Really your opinion is no more valuable than mine.

you seem to take every argument around to the healing badges why is that? What about leader. The one badge you got through "normal game play" Or back from the future? I personally earned that when there was no team credit or deadman swapping. I feel you would be hard pressed to say I got that badge through any fringe or exploitative methods and they nerfed that one too, even though it was earnable if you wanted, and hell after they allowed team credit it was 8x easier to earn

And now I read that they lowered the SG badges too, as if to say entire groups can't earn these badges? sheesh! To me it looks like the devs seem to feel we are just that bad at playing their game.

I am not upset that they lowered the goal post for a great many badges. I am upset that this and in conjunction with the AE badge nerf seems to state that the devs no longer want a badge mini-game. I enjoyed that game and I will miss playing it.

At this point in the life cycle of the game when they should be making things more of a challenge to us as players they are doing the opposite. In some desperate attempt to create a challenge they are now letting us be our own virtual teams. How about some content that is hard, or badges that are challenge? and I mean more than these two new MotX Cause really go slow and and bring a bubbler and a cold/ isn't really a challenge.

I am not /ragequit-ing or anything, hard to do so when your account is paid in advance. Actually I hope that I'll find some new aspects of the game to enjoy.

disastrous concurrence ?

Based in the report of the inf differences I am thinking the that the "Virtual" teammates are getting a slice of the inf and drops.

I guess the next test would be to compare a team of 8 Vs. a team of 1 set to 8 Vs. a team of 8 with 7 off map.

I am guessing test 1 and 2 will offer the same results, with test 3 being significantly higher.

This is the test I was looking for.

I am betting this will be what others will see as well. I'll try to get toons copied over to test and try this out myself tomorrow.

My question with the team of 8 were the other 6 off map but on team the whole time, or just on team to paint the map?

I have been less active, I hope to change that soon.

stupid working weekends job :/

really? I think I have 5 and a 1/4 left to get, or only have 3-4 months left on these as they stand now.

6. where's my 50 button?

well now I want to know what map you are running, as it may be then next anti-farming step follow timing the drek map, lowering the inf of the family map, if they are now lowering the drop rate on the demon map ... sigh ... tho I guess now you can just run radios set for 8 and do almost as well (and get a mission complete too)

I hope this isn't directed towards me, I have never left rep nor have I ever laced courage to admit I am wrong, in fact I did it earlier in this thread.

You are right, lowering the goals and making the mini-game of badge hunting pointless ...err I mean more reasonable is the best thing for the game overall.

I think you missed my point all together.

"Yay we all win!"

I won, I got the badge ... you win when they finally lower the requirements and you get the badge. We'll have the same badge we both win!

This has nothing to do with my e-peen whatever that is, I have to assume you mean my *****, which has never won a me a badge (in CoH at least)

Many of the goals were difficult I don't argue that, possibly even unintentionally so. Unachievablely so? not at all as several have achieved them.