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I just don't think it's fair to have badges that rely on certain powers to get.

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So do you lie awake nights fretting the various healing badges?

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Not at all, I can easily take a healing power, even if I'm a scrapper. Not only that, but that healing power will benefit me and my team by preventing us from dying and it will get put to good use.


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You can easily take sj or ss.

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Yes indeedy!

You can easily burn a respec and throw your character concept out the window just to enable you to have a decent chance (not a guarantee, just a chance) at a single badge.

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THIS is just craziness here. Can you just imagine the result of a policy like this??

dood...

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I can imagine it and it scares me to be honest. I don't think it's impossible that some badger would become violent. But that's all the more reason, IMO.

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<.<.

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*em hides knife*

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*whistle toonlessly*

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Serious reply (I'm looking at you Snow Globe). I think they should just retire the epic badges. If you have one, you have it, if you don't you never will.

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Jesus Christ, Gecko...

You and I have been in a lot of discussions throughout the last couple of years, and I've never really had any problems with you or your point of view. I've perhaps disagreed with you a few times, but still...

THIS is just craziness here. Can you just imagine the result of a policy like this??

dood...

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and an SG known for griefing hami raids has already set up 'blockers' in key gates

Hurricane, lightning storms - you name it to create lag and distraction.

Any chance there could be an out and out statement about this LH, ie being an actionable /suspension offense. (suspension on the account at least for the duration of the event)

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Petition, petition, petition.

And could we at least get a redname to weigh in here about whether or not the devs would officially consider this griefing, please?

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I dont think that NON-HEALERS SHOULD be able to get the epic heal badge via "normal" game play! Not even extraordinary play! <---- Example

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Then where is my epic 100,000,000,000 damage dealt badge? The one that favors blasters over healers?

The healing badges in general were a bad idea. Anyone can get mezzed or payback debt or acquire influence or sidekick someone or take damage as a part of nornmal game play. Every. Single. Character. But for the healing badges, you must have one power out of a very specific and limited group. And those characters who are not defenders or controllers must take Aid Other, which is a very very poor substitute for the AoE no-limit healing spam that defenders and trollers get.

In fact, the vast difference between the potential healing power of Radiant Aura vs. Aid Other (both fully slotted) makes the difference between defender and blaster damage pale into insignificance. Even seen a healer in a Hami Raid?

And in any event... not even HEALERS will ever be able to get the epic healing badge through normal game play.

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Badges have had their requirements altered in the past and it's caused no problem.
People with the original Reformed didn't throw a huge fit when everyone else had a better (even dare I say "more legitimate") way to earn it. Zookeeper was reduced and no one wanted Legacy Zookeeper to show they killed 9000 more Monkeys than someone else. I haven't seen one person complain about Isolator being even easier with Flashback.
So if they did the same thing for Epic Healing, what would the problem be?

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I am unhappy with all three of your examples. Zookeeper probably more than the others. But I also know that [censored]-ing about done deals isn't particularly useful.

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<-- still working on the epic cookie eating badge.

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Farming with your avitar! Haxx0rzz!!

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I think you had him at "tied to a chair."

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We took it to PMs after that.

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Transcript or it didn't happen.

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*ties Manticore to a chair*

And now, Meeester Fish, you will tell us all!

... about the story bible and the fifth column and the butt kicking reichsman and the evil kheldians and who ms. liberty's father is and what incarnates actually are and what happened to Weaver One and what you and Recluse were up to in Bogota and who the Coming Storm are and whether there'll ever be a sighting of the Battalion and and and

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I think you had him at "tied to a chair."

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Hmm... anyone can use implies level 1.

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What does a lvl 1 need with a respec?

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in croatoa and cant find who I turn the salvage into

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As you step off the tram walk all the way down to the bottom of the steps.

Turn right.

Walk through the gap in the wall and onto the grassy area.

Turn right.

You should see a witch reading a giant scroll.

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There was quite an uproar during the winter event when the special temp powers (five gold rings and self rez) were suddenly changed to a real time duration from a game time duration. This was done without announcement after many people had logged in each and every one of their characters and run the missions specifically to get the two temp powers.

So it would probably be in the best interests of player good will if there is a clear announcement before hand.

Will the temp costume powers work by charges, in game time, or until the event is over?


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This question has been asked and answered several times in other threads, actually. The temp costume powers last for two weeks of REAL TIME. (I may be wrong about the 2 weeks, but the real time part is a solid given.)

So even if you get a costume temp power on the very last day of the event, by Thanksgiving all of them will be gone, for every character in the game, logged in or not. (This makes perfect sense, actually. Who shows up for Thanksgiving Dinner in a trick-or-treat outfit?)

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Why cant the event start the 20th for those of us who work during the weekdays and can not access the game during the week?

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Because it's not all about you?

Because you'll still get two full weekends anyway?

Because no matter what schedule they use, someone will complain regardless?

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Also, just my 2 inf: I think I'd rather get a rercipe to make the costume temp power. This way it would be easier to collect them all and to sell off the duplicate costumes one might get.

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This has been discussed. And at this point, there's no way the devs would make major changes to the event. There just isn't time.

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As much as I hate to be the one to say this, but I am very disappointed in the choice of the new powers. Before anyone goes on rampage i'll explain. Out of all the choices for new powers, Dual blades!! Come on guys! More swords that's what we needed! I am glad to see the variety of weapons coming up! They are awesome to see! Ah, poor everyone else. What am I talking about is there will be nothing but dual wielding toons out there. Correction. Toons out there that received some sort of upgrade with this issue. Why not give blasters, defender, controllers a choice of colors for their powers? That would at least separate them from each other. Listen don't get me wrong CoH, CoV, Tabula Rasa and anything NCSoft touches turns to gold! I was just hoping to see something alot differnet this time. Flashback is a great idea!

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The answer to that is explained here.

Making a bit of new artwork for rifles, blades, and maces is trivial compared to what you're asking for.

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Bug Hunter is that a badge?

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Yes. According to that link, it's been awarded twice, ever. One bug, I know, was found on the live servers.

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Actually the number is a bit over 10 now, with the majority of the new ones since issue 8 coming from the closed betas.

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Now THAT sucks, if true!

As the Number 1 Badge Pimp on Champion, I very, very much want the Bug Hunter Badge. But if my best chance is in closed beta, and I'm not invited to closed beta, then what the hell?

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Pick me

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Wow. That only took 4 minutes.

Much longer than last time.

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Give us the MOONBASE!!!!

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How I'm reading her answer is "We were going to, but we decided to do the 2nd Rikti War instead, so now the rocket launch sites are on hold until we decide to do some space-based expansion, which isn't on the schedule. So they'll just sit like this until we do, or until we give up and delete them."

Again, I wish she'd actually said what she meant instead of dancing around it.

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I would too.

I was HUGELY disappointed to learn that i10 wouldn't have the Lunar Zone. But I thought, "Meh, I guess i11 will be fine." So now no Lunar Zone in i11 either. i12? Nothing said yet.

I understand wanting to move the game's plot forward and all, but I thought the Lunar Zone was the most popular choice when they had the player base vote on possible new content. That and the fact that they started dropping a lot of the least subtle hints ever that a Lunar Zone was on the way.

I'm a Sad Panda.

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I thought the answer about the rocket launch site construction areas was a little too evasive, though. If what she wanted to say was, "We changed our mind about doing what we were going to use them for, we're just going to leave them the way they are until we think up a new use for them," which is how I interpreted her answer, then I wish she'd just said it that plainly. That being said, I was disappointed that the last issue hadn't changed those two construction sites at all. (It was, literally, the first thing I checked for when the issue hit public beta, before I even headed to the RWZ.) If you're not going to use them soon, fine. But as much hype as there is in the radio/newspaper missions about rocket construction, and as blatant as those two construction sites are, shouldn't there be at least some progress visible from one issue to another? A few art tweaks, if nothing else?

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Give

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MOONBASE!!!!

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Guess NCsoft is related to the Telephone Companies, and got wise to SIR CHARGE.... Will nickle and dime you to death.... $10 charge... No Way.

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'said it before and I'll say it again.

The WoW servers are that way: ---------->

Don't let the door hit you in the [censored].

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Zube, from all descriptions all flashback is doing is auto exemplaring you. That would be the least code intensive way to do things, so I doubt that they would put something special like what you are describing.

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Yeah, you're probably right.

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Zube is 50, and received most of his accolades after reaching 50. But when flashback is introduced, if a new accolade is made possible at a lower level, Zube could flashback and get it at an artificially lower level and have it when exemplaring in the future. But the accolades that were created after he reached 50 but before flashback was created will always be stuck at level 50 only.

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Sadly, I think I already know the answer to this question:
Any accolade earned while you are (trained or untrained) level 50, even if you are exemplaring at the time, will only be usable at level 50. This is how things work now. Any accolade will only record your natural level, I am guessing .

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I'm not sure if you really understood what I was saying.

Yes, what you describe is how things work now. But what if the Flashback System works a bit differently?

Let's say a new accolade is introduced that requires getting all the exploration badges on the Moon (Moonzone introduced in i12, maybe?) as well as running all the Lunar Story Arcs. And let's say the Moonzone is set for lvls 35-45. So Zube Flashbacks down to level 35. He grabs the exploration badges and runs the story arcs and gets the "Lunatic" Accolade (whatever the hell it would do is irrelevant).

Of course, we don't know how flashback will work, but it's possible that Zube would be able to use the Lunatic Accolade at any level between 35 and 50, since he got it while he was "level 35." But the accolades he earned at 50 will still be level 50 only. Even though he got them before getting Lunatic.

This is what I'm getting at. It would mess up the accolade situation even more than it is now.


so again, I'm /signing the suggestion of level-free accolades.

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I swear to you, when I wrote all this up I had completely forgotten that I11 was supposed to include Flashback. Considering the information revealed today, I11 would seem to make this issue a lot more important now than it ever has been. (Not to mention some impact on the chaos that is the IO Exemping Rules, but that's for another thread.)
Guess it's good that we got a head start on this, huh?

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So how will flashback affect accolades then?

Zube is 50, and received most of his accolades after reaching 50. But when flashback is introduced, if a new accolade is made possible at a lower level, Zube could flashback and get it at an artificially lower level and have it when exemplaring in the future. But the accolades that were created after he reached 50 but before flashback was created will always be stuck at level 50 only.

Yikes.

Just /sign me on the idea of accolades being useful at all levels. For the reasons already stated, and also for the new complications they create.

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I really hate that you arent letting us get the ability to rename a character through IN GAME means. Making us pay for something that should just be a rare feature in the game just makes it an obvious "do what makes most money" instead of "do whats best for the players".

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The WoW servers are that way: ------>

Don't let the door hit you in the [censored].



Seriously, THANK YOU very much for this, devs. I doubt that I'll personally use it, but it's nice to know it's there.

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I dunno. $10 per rename or transfer sounds a tad on the expensive side to me. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with NCSoft making some money. But the marginal cost of using an automated rename or transfer system is incredibly close to 0. It's true the system itself cost them some money to develop, but it can't have been much.

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Not to sound snarky here, but I seriously doubt you personally have any real evidence to back up the above statement. Unless you work for Cryptic, or at least have worked as a programmer in the MMO industry, you really don't know how much this cost to develop and/or operate.

That, and the fact that it has been pointed out many times in other threads that this fee is the lowest in the entire MMOG industry.