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Depends, if the person was getting constantly attacked by the same attacker despite the PVP timer (more than once per 5 minutes), they might have a claim of harassment.

I've learned to selectively ignore @Cancer.

If you put your character (and its badges) into City Info Terminal, there is an option for a personalized badge list for that character.

Nope, those only count for one or the other (either vanguard, the sg portal, or the hospital).

Patrol always counts unless you have a full ring of patrol xp.

As an added bonus all new characters will have the same chat set up. This is likely why you keep joining the channels.

Set how you want your channels to display then use the following command:

/chatsave

On your other characters use the following command:

/chatload

This way your chat channels will be the same on all your characters.

There is also a bug if you delete a tab with only one channel you leave the channel.

I hate to compare other games, but Champions Online had this feature (iTunes controls) from the start. There is a reason why: convenience for the users. This is why it is a Quality of Life feature. Quality of life features have to be looked at in a different light than other requested features. This one has no downside for regular users in that if you don't use it you don't see it. Zero bandwidth is needed. Nothing is being touched over the Internet.

It doesn't need to be a full-blown media player.

iTunes has a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to control iTunes with other programs. This would allow Paragon Studios to send and receive information to iTunes. The iTunes SDK "allows programmatic control of iTunes from languages like JScript, Visual Basic, C#, and C++" or Applescript. The function calls are exactly the same as any other internal function calls. The SDK has all the references needed to call the functions requested above (track listing, play, pause, stop, next track, previous track, volume).

Apple has made a library of routines to access iTunes. This is similar to what nVidia and ATI do with their graphics cards. What the developers at Paragon Studio have to do is hook into this library (Apple provides the specs and documentation, and would work with Paragon Studios to get it set up) and call the related functions. This is basic object oriented programming. In fact, they could assign this to a new programming hire as a means to get them up to speed on how the game works (it is that simple).

Winamp has Multimedia keyboard functionality built in for keyboards using the standard signals. So does Windows Media Player and iTunes. CoH can send those signals. Winamp also has an SDK, same with Windows Media Player.

I still crash occasionally when I alt-tab. Maybe the specific circumstances you've experienced have been fixed, but alt-tabbing still has problems for others.

A Troll isn't a person that disagrees with you. Likewise when someone politely shows where you are wrong, they are not trolling.

Personally I wish there was a badge for each of the Praetorian AVs. It would be crystal clear which one wasn't defeated.

This is something that I (and others) have fought long for: progress meters for the gladiator badges that are defeat based.

You are referring to outright typos (Empath) and goals that missed design (5 years of play) by a large margin. So what if the requirements were reduced to 1/10th or more? The fact remains that the developers guessed wrong when they set the goals. They overestimated the goals by a factor of 10-100. That kind of gross miscalculation demands corrections. They correct errors that favor the players, they should correct errors that don't as well.

I'll also point out that the Leader badge was only corrected by 1/4 of its original value.

I disagree. Just like the Empath double correction, the damage badges need to be looked at to actually fit the design goals. If that means removing the restriction of the bonus HP not counting, lowering the values, or both something needs to be done about them.

The medicine pool might need looking at too for Characters that don't have heals in their primary/secondary.

Considering that at least one badge has possible artwork in the game files, I'm annoyed about the lack of artwork for them too.

No, wikia is a very bad site, it isn't updated by players anymore, and contains some very nasty stuff.

DO NOT USE WIKIA. It doesn't matter what your intent is, wikia is a pile of nastiness that doesn't need to be inflicted on anyone.

The true paragonwiki.com is no longer associated with wikia. Paragonwiki.com also has the original information, "The Immortal Badge formerly required enduring 1,000,000,000 points of damage. This was changed in Issue 16." More to the point, most of us in this thread were around for the change, and several of us were here for their introduction.

Yes, they did come as a pre-order. Not as a pack, each was for pre-ordering at a different store. Just like the prestige sprints. And yes, both sets are now Veteran Rewards (much to the disgust of at least one player that I know: LiquidX).

Depends on how long the "exclusive" period is.

To call a spade a spade, any marketer working for Paragon Studio prior to this should have known that Gamestop or other company would do this. Anyone new to the company and not realizing this should have done their homework.

This (and the controversy) is nothing new.

• EB Games: Crab Spider Battle Helmet (male)
• Gamestop: Helmet Of The Blood Widows (female)
• Best Buy: Arachnos Mystic Helm (male)
• All other U.S. retailers: Wolf Spider War Helmet (male)

Anyone claiming that this comes as a shock needs to be questioned.

Minor nitpick:

TWO tier 3 Inspirations (Righteous Rage, Resurgence), two level 1 damage enhancements.

There is literally no way for anyone to earn 100 million damage taken during the 6 years this game has been active without a damage farm. None. No amount of work would get you the badge. The stated design goal was 5 years on an active character. Well they overestimated the amount of damage needed to be taken for that time frame. That makes "earning" the badge with an AFK farm a bug. Bugs that are not fun for players should be fixed.

All the Issue 5 "Epic Badges" have had to be modified due to unrealistic goals. This is fact.

The mentoring series had to be reduced due to the players showing that those goals were impossible in 5 years of play. The top mentoring badge needed something like 32,000 hours of mentoring.

The debt badges were reduced when the debt caps were lowered.

The mez badges needed to be farmed to get them, and were reduced with the last major badge overhaul.

The healing badges were proven multiple times over to need around 30 years for a healing character to earn them through normal play.

The Inf badges could be earned, Beef Cake did earn it. The developers considered the what others had to do to get it "aberrant" though because the badges promoted Inf farming. In addition, when the developers closed many loopholes to inf farming (Rikti Comm Officers), they reduced the goal to keep the badges still possible to get.

The damage taken badge series is a problem in that they were required to get a villain accolade. It is noteworthy that 100 million damage was initially required for the Born in Battle accolade. Which is why there are plenty of people with Immortal now. People farmed it. So to prevent farming 100 million damage, the developers first reduced the accolades requirements to 10 million damage. This was still farmed, prompting a further lowering of the damage taken requirements for the accolade. To hopefully close the damage farming, the developers reduced the damage taken series with the last mass badge change. It didn't work, as the damage badges still need to be farmed to get.

The point is that if your are in an AFK farm, you are NOT playing. Simple logic dictates that if you are not present that you are not playing.

As a further point to this, the developers have clearly stated they do not want to promote farming for any badge. As such the damage badges still need to be looked at.

And you've progressed to making personal attacks (ad hominem) because I don't agree with you.

The same arguments were made for the healing badges. Like the healing badges, the damage badges are still AFK badge, not game play badges.

Likely because the max base HP for each Archetype was a stable metric to measure against. No matter what else, max base HP for each archetype is the same no matter what powers or boosts are available.

I think if could change, as the game does know what your current maximum HP is with bonuses (check the combat attributes). That is just as stable a value, and even easier to code for. Right now there are likely 12 different checks that could be replaced with one. As a programmer I would think that the developers would want to make the coding more efficient.

Just like inf earned, not all damage counts. Falling damage does not, by the way.

I laugh at your "hard". There is nothing hard about being AFK while soaking damage, except maybe on a person's computer. If nothing else the only thing getting the Immortal badge did for me was to prevent me from playing the game due to lack of interest. I will never get these stupidly retarded* badges again.

*Retard:

• retard - cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"
• retard - be delayed
• retard - check: slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
• retard - decelerate: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"

The "epic" badges certainly fit the term "retarded" as they slow and delay growth of a character.

I went from around 8.5 million damage taken to 100 million in about 30 days (lots of disconnects and such) resting in front of a CoT guide. I still don't think it is right. To me AFK farming should not be required for any badge. It literally is the only way to get the top three after playing a character for 5 years though.

I spent a LOT of time on my Empathy Controller, so much that after a few days of ITFs on a double xp weekend I was able to get the 500 million inf needed for the last badge.

Hmm, have you thought to try Corel Painter Sketchpad? (Free demo, $120 full, can't hurt.) Or Corel Painter 11? (Also free demo, but $320 price tag might be a bit much for you.)

Both are compatible with PSD, and both are made with tablets in mind. Their focus is closer to traditional art tools (Paints) as opposed to Photoshop.

But wouldn't running Dr. Q be a bit redundant?

I agree fully. I would also think that it would solve more problems than it would create.

After that the "better" re-roll system would be to make a new character.