Noobian_Prince

IIRC there's a TIMED mission where you have to zip through the zone going through glowing trash. Don't remember contact or if it gave a badge (probably not).

After reading the original (unedited) version several times, I eventually figured out that this was what it meant to say.

*muttermutter "Get my hopes up, whydoncha ?" mutter*

If Celebrant ISN'T awarded for switching alignments from hero to villain [which applies to at least two of my current toons], wouldn't the hero ALREADY have it?

If this IS real, I have to say two things:

• It doesn't seem fair to award to re-aligned heroes but not villains who have "reformed" .
• It's not WAI. I currently have two heroes converted to full villain (to run patron arcs) that don't have badge.

IDK, it's a little late for an April Fool's prank. . .

I'd forgotten about this but I agree. The original system with hazard zones was you couldn't ENTER until you were a certain level; therefore you couldn't EARN credits you would have to wait to redeem.

Now that the entrance requirement is gone, the badge restriction should be as well. All of my lowbies have earned Intern in PI (except the Praetorians, natch!) because there's no entrance requirement, unlike, say, Dark Astoria (for Mortician badge).

Congratz to all of you who have finished with Day Jobs. Most of my toons have all the blueside or redside DJs but not both. With i19 and Winter Event on the heels of GR, it'll be awhile before I'm finished with day job badges but anyway: gratz!

You DO realize that Day Job badges are for non-secret-identity activities (what you do when you're NOT wearing a costume) ? Otherwise, how do you propose earning, say, the Mortician badge -- spend a couple hours digging? Or Smuggler: riding around and around on ferries? Then repeat for every toon?

If you have multiple toons you want to earn DJs on, it might be a little complicated. (I have mine on a table to keep track of who's earned what and when to move little-played toons).

If you think it's tedious, that's your perogative but frankly it's a LOT less time-consuming that earning Invention badges and less boring (to me anyway) than Irradiated / Siren's Song, etc. As others have pointed out, you have to log out at some point. Earning badges for next-to-no-effort? Thanks, devs!

Seconded. The original timeframe was too short and occured when a lot of folks were busy with holiday stuff.

The problem is the Big Group badges. There is a rush the first week or so but not everyone has alt-itis. I was having a hard time getting groups for Winter Lord / Lord of Winter the last couple of days. Extending the event isn't going to change that.

*shrugs* Guess I'll work on Toy Collector for my lowbie toons.

You can always lead them to the nearest police drone. (Well, sometimes you can)

Point taken.

Not really. The opposite of being loyal to a cause or person would be to subvert their followers away.

I see what you're saying. The other way to handle the hero/villain dichotomy, IMO, is instead of going for the opposite term (as I did with the two you just cited), is to take the term to an extreme, making a vice out of a virtue, so to speak. Thus, instead of Fickle and Unreliable, you could have Mulish or Pigheaded.

I know most PEOPLE would not appreciate being called Fickle, Mulish, Treacherous, etc. but these titles are for their toons, not them. (Besides, take a look at the existing Vet titles. Would YOU like to be referred to as Zealous, Fervant or Addicted? )

If awhile back, someone had noted that none of the following were appropriate for their female toon:

Button Man Gunner
Longbow Rifleman
Wiseguy
Serpent Red Ink Man
Steel Strongman
Alumnus
Sorceror
Backwoodsman
Knight Errant
Web Master
Mystic King
Newsman
Web Master
Weatherman
Mr. Big
Hangman
Master of the Airwaves
Rocketman
Pumpkin King
Hitman
Lord of War

THAT would have been your response: Don't use the ones that aren't appropriate and get over it?

Thanks a lot. Obviously the devs disagreed and many of the above titles were given a female equivalent in i7.

You mean like the account-wide VIP / Destined One badge?

No kidding. How many toons would the "Doc Whedon" badge be an appropriate title for? (Hmmm. Maybe I could roll a scrapper and call her "Buffy the Slayer" ? )

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However, just as I'm sure many players with female toons were annoyed that so many badges weren't usable to them, I get annoyed when I'm looking for a badge title for my villains and so many of the early Vet badges make no sense at all for ANY of them. (Especially since, when you roll a new toon, all you have to start with are Vet badges and a couple of nearby Exporation badges.)

(I didn't know about "Treacherous" already being in use. Okay, substitute "Renegade" for that one.)