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  1. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Asantesana View Post
    so i can just beat on stuff to get them to drop tips?
    As long as both your character and the enemy are level 20 or over, yes. Not including the AE critters, of course.

    I've gotten tips on my level 50 character by defeating level 20 enemies.
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    info window bind

    POST-ACTION

    Yep, that works better.
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    I think you did it just by taking the mission in the first place.
  4. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kojirodensetsu View Post
    If you choose resistance and switch do loyalist do you get the loyalist badge?
    Yes you get the Loyalist badge for choosing a Loyalist option. You get the Resistance badge for choosing the Resistance option.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kojirodensetsu View Post
    I assume so, but I'm mainly wondering because I'm also wondering if you get a badge for never switching sides. Like being resistance the whole time.
    There is no such badge.
  5. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA View Post
    So when I a have a Hero who wants to be a Rogue, I would have to go Hero-Vigilante-Villain-Rogue.

    If I have a Villain who wants to go Vigilante, I would have to go Villain-Rogue-Hero-Vigilante.

    It would be nice, to have a choice instead of going Hero or Villain in the process to have an alternate choice of Vigilante or Rogue accordingly.

    Thus Villain-Rogue-Vigilante could be a path, as well as Hero-Vigilante-Rogue another.
    As I told another player that suggested this: The developers are not likely to let players bypass a whole alignment. It would throw out balance entirely.

    The alignment system is balanced so that you have to spend a few days at each alignment stop. What you are asking is that Players could start out being a hero, turn vigilante, bypass being a villain going straight to rogue but still get all the villain perks, and quickly becoming a hero again when things become too inconvenient. In other words, you get all the benefits without most of the downsides.

    I'll add this suggestion: Don't define your characters with game mechanic labels.
  6. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fusion_7 View Post
    Yeah, after I got back on with my red side toon, I ran a couple more radio mish'es and sure enough, the tips started coming and the tip info guy showed up on the bottom of the tip tab section.

    So, this morning I was able to fully run the final Morality Mission with Ghost Widow with one of my heros. When I exited the mish, it put me right back in PI where I started blue side. I then went to Pocket D and got to the vator, a prompt came up saying I am about to venture to the Rogue Isles and I would lose any Hero Merrits that I have accumulated while on blue side. I went through and bam! there I was red side! Felt kinda weird. Heh, heh.

    Now the next question I have is it now showed three bars in my Tip Window.
    Hero
    Vigilante
    Villain
    I am currently considered a Vigilante which was my middle bar. So, to be come a "full" villain, I assume you need to run more tip mish'es red side and you will get not two choice now but three, would that sound correct? Being that now I have three moral choice to make on my path. The thing that I am still a bit confused about is when I think of "Rogue" I think of "Villain".
    Read the guide linked to in my sig. Really, it explains everything you've asked. Guide to Going Rogue's Morality System - In plain English.

    You should be saying Vigilante, not Rogue at this point as the terms are not really interchangeable, unless there is a translation issue with the game. Vigilantes are still sort-of heroes, while rogues are sort-of villains.

    Rogues will see these alignment bars:


    Here is the progression between alignments:

    Hero <-> Vigilante -> Villain

    Villain <-> Rogue -> Hero

    Now to answer your question:
    Paragon City Tips (blue side zones)
    Hero or Vigilante:
    • Hero option.
    • Vigilante option.
    Rogue:
    • Hero/Rogue option.
    • You will not be offered the vigilante option.
    • Some tips are labelled Rogue, but they are heroic tips.
    Rogue Isles Tips (red side zones)
    Villain or Rogue:
    • Villain option.
    • Rogue option.
    Vigilante:
    • Villain/Vigilante option.
    • You will not be offered the rogue option.
    • Some tips are labelled vigilante, but they are villainous tips.
  7. Snow Globe
    http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Task_F...bandoner_Badge
    Quote:
    Your perks for serving the Freedom Phalanx have been stripped due to your descent into villainy. You can keep the epaulets, though.
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    Yes.
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    info window bind

    POST-ACTION

    Try this:
    /bind shift+numpad5 "window_hide Info"

    This will turn off the info window. You can't toggle it open.

    You could make a couple of bind files:

    myinfo.txt
    Code: 
    numpad5 "info_self$$bindloadfilesilent myinfo1.txt"
    myinfo1.txt
    Code:
    numpad5 "window_hide Info$$bindloadfilesilent myinfo.txt"
    Put both the files into the "/city of heroes/data" directory for easy loading.
  10. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by NordBlast View Post
    Television: Video Games Made Me Do It
    I'd choose this one myself. It gives the Couch Potato badge and is available via villain flashback.

    There are also missions in the Patron Arcs and the VEAT arcs with PPD.
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    Cathedral of Pain

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SolSlayer View Post
    Well, weather it is earned legitimately or by wasting 100 hours, does anyone know what this badge is?
    Improved Energy Beam. SG only badge.
  12. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Asantesana View Post
    Ok I have a question about "normal missions".
    My 35 scrapper is vigilante cruising the isles. I did paper missions all the way up to mayhem, got the bonus, and was introduced to the new contact. I did the the mission for that and turned it in, got a tip, and did that, but after that no tips, and no missions from contacts! Does that mean I can only go do paper missions up to get an introduction to get normal missions?

    I know I can join other morality missions and they will count, just wondering why I cant get any normal missions to get tips. In the guide it does not list normal missions from contacts!

    Thanks
    A vigilante in the isles can:
    • Do villain/vigilante (vigilante tips in the isles count for villain alignment) tip missions.
    • Do rogue missions but not get credit for them.
    • Do paper missions.
    • Do mayhem missions.
    • Start or participate in any Strike Force.
    • Join villains doing their contact missions.
    • Street hunt.
    A rogue in Paragon can:
    • Do hero/rogue (rogue tips in paragon count for hero alignment) tip missions.
    • Do vigilante missions but not get credit for them.
    • Do police band missions.
    • Do safeguard missions.
    • Start or participate in any Task Force.
    • Join heroes doing their contact missions.
    • Street hunt.
    My favorite tip hunting ground is in the Agincourt area of Nerva as the longbow bosses there are easy to pick out. It doesn't matter if the critters defeated are conning grey, they will still drop tips as long as the defeated enemy is level 20+ and not in the AE.
  13. Snow Globe
    Summary:
    I know this was reported in the beta test, and I know this was an problem a few years ago. The Fog of War for the minimaps keep resetting after a certain point. It used to only happen in the shadow shards, the hive, of PVP zones as those were usually the last zones visited. With the [Reveal] vet power, the zones will not clear the fog of war. The power actually will reset these zones to faded or black status. Now with Going Rogue, characters are able to visit more zones and now can hit the new upper limit just by switching sides, and not including starting from Praetoria.

    Bug details:
    The bug stems from the fact that each character has a buffer that can hold X amount of non-mission zones. The problem stems from the fact that there are more non-mission zones than this buffer allows. I'm guessing that there are some buffer overruns related to this as the clear data is not saved.

    On my controller that I've had since 2005, I've visited or been to the following non-mission zones:
    Hero Tutorial (map data is persistent between logins.)
    1. Atlas Park
    2. Brickstown
    3. Founders' Falls
    4. Galaxy City
    5. Independence Port
    6. Kings Row
    7. Overbrook "Faultline"
    8. Peregrine Island
    9. Salamanca "Croatoa"
    10. Skyway City
    11. Steel Canyon
    12. Talos Island
    13. Sewer Network
    14. Paragon Dance Party
    15. Abandoned Sewer Network
    16. Astoria "Dark Astoria"
    17. Baumton "Boomtown"
    18. Eastgate "The Hollows"
    19. Eastgate Tunnels "The Tunnels of the Trolls"
    20. Perez Park
    21. Striga Isle
    22. Terra Volta
    23. "The Hive"
    24. Venice "Crey's Folly"
    25. White Plains "(The) Rikti War Zone"
    26. Woodvale "Eden"
    27. Fire Base Zulu
    28. Cascade Archipelago
    29. The Chantry
    30. The Storm Palace
    31. Pocket D
    32. Bloody Bay
    33. Siren's Call
    34. Warburg
    35. Overbrook "Faultline" revamp
    36. Recluse's Victory
    37. Sharkhead Isle
    38. Grandville
    39. Nerva Archipelago
    40. St. Martial
    41. Port Oakes
    42. Mercy Island
    43. Cap au Diable
    44. The Abyss
    45. Monster Island
    It is at number 41 where the fog of war starts resetting and the [reveal] vet power stops working in outside zones for this character. On the test server I changed the order I visited and had different blackout zones. I still had the same amount of blackout zones however.

    What this means:
    With the addition of the 7 Praetorian maps (Praetorian Tutorial, NP, IC, Neu, and the 3 underground maps) that Praetorians that start blue side might not be able to clear any of the CoV zone's fog of war, and even have CoH zones "stuck". Given that more Praetorian zones will likely be added in future issues, the maximum amount of zones that can be buffered should be increased.

    Edit:
    As a note I looked for a similar thread to this before making my own and couldn't get results from the search engine.
  14. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
    Yeah but...
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
    Without GR you can't enter the Loyalty Lounges. If you can't enter the LLs, you can neither convert nor spend Alignment Merits.
    You lose.
    Wrong due to reading failure on your part:
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    I know because of the whole Gamestop fiasco and not getting GR until the 25th. I was able to buy 2 alignment merits and I was able to use those alignment merits to get a LOTG +Recharge.
    I was able to buy a LOTG with alignment merits without owning Going Rogue.

    Edit:
    Fort Trident only checks to see if you are a hero. The Crucible only checks to see if you are a villain. If you are a vigilante or rogue, you can't enter either.
  15. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    Another question: if I have 3 alignment tips, can I get more to drop, or is that a cap? Is the morality tip dropping part of the same cap, assuming there is one?

    I am carrying 3 alignment tips and so far no morality tip has dropped. But I am possibly misunderstanding something.
    You can have 3 alignment tips or 5-Public Fame in tips. The morality mission is not a part of the 5 counting tips in a day, but they do count towards the 3 max you can have on your character at one time.

    You can only get a morality mission if you have reached 10/10 on an alignment bar, and only if you own Going Rogue. If you get a morality mission drop while not having Going Rogue, you will get an annoying popup message asking you if you want to buy Going Rogue:

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    I've been under the possibly mistaken impression that I could do morality missions and accumulate Alignment merits and trade them in for IO recipes without GR, just that I could not actually choose a different alignment.

    Is that possible?
    Everyone that posted above me is wrong. You can buy Alignment merits for 20 million inf + 50 reward merits from the hero or villain lounges. I know because of the whole Gamestop fiasco and not getting GR until the 25th. I was able to buy 2 alignment merits and I was able to use those alignment merits to get a LOTG +Recharge.
  17. Snow Globe
    By the way for all readers of this thread:

    The game reads LSHIFT+Button/key or RSHIFT+Button/key as SHIFT+Button/key.

    The game reads LCTRL+Button/key, RCTRL+Button/key, LCONTROL+Button/key, or RCONTROL+Button/key as CONTROL+Button/key

    The game reads LALT+Button/key or RALT+Button/key as ALT+Button/key.

    The "L" or "R" before the control key (Shift, Control, ALT) do not work as chords (modifiers) for other keys.
  18. Snow Globe

    Just curious...

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Abraxxus View Post
    is anyone else that uses Badge-Hunter.com not able to get to the website? I havent been able to get to the website in almost 2 days now. Its like the browser isnt even attempting to load it, just immediately gives me the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"

    Tracert and ping commands cant find anything either.

    Just curious is anyone else is having this problem.
    http://www.badge-hunter.com/

    Just tested it, works fine. I suspect you are having a DNS issue.
  19. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SpyderNoir View Post
    I couldn't remember where I read about this non-existent badge, but now I remember that it was there.

    Thank you all for the help!
    That info (that has been corrected) was from Jan 23, 2010. In other words, well before GR Beta even started.
  20. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Largo View Post
    Well, I bugged it. But its really not hurting anything. When Im autoexemped in TF mode, I cannot access the Tips missions anyway. I have to quit the TF, then the Tips give missions at lvl 50. So it must be ok by the PTB. I agree though, their wording of the patch notes says something completely different than what is actually happening.

    Maybe they thought everyone would just play in Praetoria until lvl 20, then come to Paragon or Rogue Islands and the tips would start falling then. If you think of the player starting off in Praetoria, the patch notes make perfect sense.
    Near the beginning of beta they level bumped players to level 20 so that they could test the alignment system. The tips system is designed for level 20-50 play.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Largo View Post
    Should tips be falling from lvl 15 Calibans? I thought they had to be lvl 20 and higher?
    That is a bug and every time the developers found a hole like that in beta they tried to plug it.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    I believe tips check against your security level, not your combat level or the level of the opponent you're fighting. As far as I understand the system, that's WAI.
    No, it is not working as intended. Both the player and the defeated enemy has to be level 20 or above to generate a tip drop. You have to be trained to level 20 for the alignment tab to even appear. Just being a combat level 20 character will not get tip drops.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JJDrakken View Post
    Im up to 45 mins right now
    Longest: 14 hours from /petition to email saying they finally got around to responding. On the other hand that was five years ago.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    That appears to be INTENDED, but exemped people are getting them from lower level enemies.
    Any time the developers heard about enemies below level 20 dropping tips they have plugged the hole in beta. I'd expect the same thing to happen soon for this too.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    You can get an unlimited number (you might be dismissing tips where the mission doesn't sound fun) but you can only do 5 for alignment progress. That will fill up your... um.... alignment slots? I don't know what they're called.
    Public Fame.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    It's 20 hours and it tracks for each slot separately. When you fill a lot, it starts a 20 hour timer for that specific slot. It does not matter whether you are logged in or not during that time.
    Yes, it is 20 hours of real time.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Sounds like bad luck. I've gone multiple missions with zero tips. Last night I got 3 tips in under 5 minutes in the same mission.
    If you are trying to be a hero or vigilante (or stay either):
    Go to Terra Volta, Dark Astoria, or Striga. Defeat bosses and get tips quickly.

    If you are trying to be a villain or rogue (or stay either):
    Go to Sharkhead Isles, Nerva, or St. Martial. Defeat bosses and get tips quickly.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    It probably doesn't help that it says there is such a badge right on the ParagonWiki page for Alignment.
    Well, that has been corrected.
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    The vault, IoP base, and the dimensional anchors only serve as decorative rooms/items.