DarkGob

We did, however, get dev-triggered invasions prior to the release of Issue 19. There's a story reason for this, which is revealed in the Incarnate TFs.

Dr. Forrester in Grandville and Big McLargehuge in The TV Invasion.

Oh yeah, well MY uncle works for Nintendo.

Look, I clearly misunderstood your meaning based on how others interpreted it, but no, one dude's "eyewitness account" doesn't really hold a lot of meaning for me. Sorry. Sounds like you got some cool SWAG though.

EDIT: Want to clarify that I'm not calling you a liar.

Success on Takedown Artist, but only because I was using my secondary powers 1. way more than I usually do, and 2. way more than was necessary. (And just to clarify, I did have all my pets out and attacking, although I did make a point to use my debuffs first before directing them to attack. Bots/Dark, for the record)

I'm not really pleased with how this is working, but the fact that it's at least possible to get the badges solo is good to know.

EDIT: Protester achieved, although this time it was without pets. This is mostly because my pets stopped following me after I zoned in Nova from Imperial, and wouldn't resummon after dismissal (I tried twice, then gave up).

EDIT x2: Further weirdness: Upon taking the train from Nova to Neutropolis for that zone's event, my Bots summoned right next to me when I arrived. Previously in Nova my pet list had been empty after I supposedly "dismissed" them. Followed me up the train station steps and outside, then refused to follow again. /releasepets allowed me to resummon.

Got Laureate. I teamed with a Kinetic Melee/Willpower Scrapper (much lower than my level 50). Bots out, hitting the debuffs frequently. I got the badge, Scrapper did not.

Conclusion: Use your secondary more than you usually do, even if you could easily solo the event without using it that much, and you should get the badge.

Oh man, I had totally forgotten about the "Evil [character name]" rationale. That was really the silliest thing. Did anybody ever actually do this?

Castle sez:

I remember seeing a picture on the forums of a Granite Brute doing Eviscerate that someone took during the Issue-whichever Beta. It looked pretty silly.

I have to wonder, with Power Customization, if it would be possible to develop an alternate set of animations which would only be unlocked for Stone Armor (or hell, give them to all Brute secondaries, but Stone Armor Brutes would be locked into them). Unless there were other issues with the combo that I'm not recalling, this would pretty much solve the problem (insert standard coding rant here).

Your suggestion is heavily predicated on the idea that people actually read any of the text in this game. Which, lol.

I see folks are gonna go full steam ahead on the whole "Posi hates Masterminds" thing without asking for proof that he ever actually made this statement, never mind the equally ridiculous conclusion that Mastermind pet damage isn't counting for Praetorian events because of this supposed fact.

EDIT: Look at how much he hates Masterminds! He hates them so much he doesn't want their pets to dismiss when zoning. Oh wait, but there's that bug with zoning, that's probably Posi's fault too.

Devil's advocate: "Why should I have to risk my character's existence to experience this content? This is unfair to less skilled players who might die more often than more skilled players."

People are already complaining about the Alpha Slot for similar reasons (it takes more time for a casual player to craft for it, which you would think would be okay with a casual player, but apparently not).