DarkGob

Unfortunately the "troops" are about as useful as a bunch of kindergarteners, and you don't see people paying attention to them.

That was a glitch in the Zombie Invasion code that was causing the Elite Boss-class zombies to spawn at those ridiculous sizes (which really makes one wonder what other code might have seeped in to cause the glitch...). Sadly, they fixed it a while ago.

There's only one hope for us now...

? You don't unlock the toga through the ITF, it's part of the Valentine's Day event.

The devs didn't pull the badges to "save" anyone, they pulled them because the badges encouraged what they consider to be aberrant behavior.

Also, I'm aware that some people get badges like this done in a matter of weeks, but not everybody has that kind of time, energy or focus.

Simply put, I don't believe we should continue to have (new) badges which can be "brute forced" by barricading yourself inside for a couple hours (or worse yet, AFK farmed). We have enough stature badges as it is.

If you're having that much difficulty with it, try turning your difficulty down to -1, pop a few purples, oranges and reds and go to town on the EBs. And I may be mistaken but isn't it the case that you only need to defeat one of the EBs? I seem to recall the mission ending when one of them is defeating but the other still stands.

He's still in the Cimerora that we visit as a zone.

Couldn't do it without removing zone events from Independence Port (phasing breaks zone events), and phasing wouldn't change their appearances in story arcs anyway.

Also, *should have. Not "should of".

The badge isn't even currently meant to be obtainable. The fact that it has been obtained surprised the devs as much as anyone. It'll require much less league-tweaking with future Incarnate slots.

Two of those are time travelers, and the other was, shall we say, "altered".

The amount of crafting badges they added was a mistake, IMO (I'm still working on Fabricator). Remember when they took all those ultra-grind AE badges out?

I did say it was part of the reason, not the entire reason. And if cable companies would pull their heads out of...let's say "the sand" and look at what online music stores have done, they'd realize there IS money to be made in a la carte sales.

You're right, the filesharing genie isn't going back into its bottle. Instead, companies must learn to leverage the technology behind it while giving consumers what they want instead of shoving what they think consumers should have down their throats. This is already happening, but way too slowly in my opinion.

And that's part of why television show piracy is so rampant.

No badges are mandatory (except Knowledgable, I suppose). What's your point?

I don't just do badges that I'm interested in. I do all badges eventually, I'm not sure why you'd call yourself a badger if you didn't. That's why I'm not interested in a badge that is just going to be pointless grinding of arcs I've already done on other characters (or worse, arcs I've specifically avoided because they're tedious legacy content from Issue 0 that nobody ever plays for a very good reason). The original Flashback badges were grindy enough, thanks.

By the way, I actually have tried to do what you propose, completing every story arc in Flashback. I think it was on my villain main (who is also my villain badger) before side-switching. I'm pretty sure I finished it for the story arcs that were available at the time; it was tedious and not fun at all, and I sure as hell don't want to do it 3 more times (blue and redside for my hero badger, blueside for the aforementioned villain badger).

There will always be more badges to challenge you. Right now The Really Hard Way is the top one, and future iTrials will have their own Master badges. There's also the WST assist badges, the PvP zone badges, and plenty of other nice grindy stuff to keep you busy.

You're totally missing the point of what MisterD was trying to say. If you're into badges, you're probably already working on a bunch of the more tedious badge groups (the current set of Ouro badges, the Invention badges, iTrial Master runs). This would just add fuel to the flames. Add to that the requirement to do a bunch of the game's less interesting content (most of the interesting arcs already have badges associated with them so a badger has already done them), and it's just going to be a tedious slog. Between badging and a terminal case of alt-itis, I have enough stuff to do in the game, thanks.

EDIT: Also, many badgers have one hero and one villain badger, dating back to the days before side-switching. Crossing over to get the other side's badges was annoying enough, I'm not doing every single damn arc on both sides twice.

/unsigned like the fist of an angry Incarnate

WhY sO sErIoUs?

How do you know they're never active?

To be honest, the only part of it I remember is that awful dual-AV fight at the end. That alone makes it not worth the price of admission.

So you temporarily turn into Reichsman?