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This page has all the information you need:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Villain_Merit_Rewards#Flashback_System

Everything I post, unless I back it up with quotes from a reliable source, is naturally my opinion. I've made no effort to say otherwise.

I've asked Silas this, now I'm asking you: People are saying that I'm glossing over and ignoring the good points, but can you in all seriousness say the reverse isn't true as well?

Okay, I'm not allowed to say it is community breaking, but the reverse can be true? Isn't that a bit of a double standard?

Edit:
In order to move this along, I will freely admit that because of past experiences I am biased against these badges.

Pros:

• It's a badge.
• Challenging in ways other tasks are not.

Cons:

• The slightest error nullifies the entire effort.
• Random happenstance can nullify the entire effort.
• Some of the AVs in question can literally 1-shot a Stone Armor Tank while in Granite Armor let alone any other character.
• Lag deaths.

Pro:

• When they succeed, people are happy.

Cons:

• When they fail: complaints, shunning, and name calling can happen.
• Some Archetypes are excluded from Master runs: Blasters, Peacebringers, and non-purpled Warshades on MSTF, Stalkers on LRSF.
• Some powersets are deemed "less worthy" to be on Master runs: Fire Tanks on MSTF, for instance.

As to someone having forgotten bad experiences, can people be sure they haven't? Really, 100% sure? People are saying that I'm glossing over and ignoring the good points, but can you in all seriousness say the reverse isn't true as well?

Is telling the people that have had bad experiences to "suck it up", "you are taking it too seriously", or that they are "too worked up" over the badges really helping the situation? From my perspective, it doesn't help.

From this thread we can determine that there are people that have had good experiences and bad experiences with these badges.

I'm glad that someone is experiencing fun with these badges, however it is NOT universal.

I'm happy for you if you haven't seen those actions, but I suspect that you might not be remembering fully. If your experience is one of more inclusion, then great. However I think you might have forgotten times when it did happen because it doesn't happen often to you.

I'm beginning to think that Triumph is either the smallest or one of the bottom in terms of population of the US servers. I have been on "good" failed Master runs, but overwhelmingly it is a bad experience. I have the blue side Master of badges on one character. It took about a month for 6 dedicated players + a couple pick ups meeting weekly to get the MoSTF badge.

I personally rarely die on these attempts, but it has happened.

Triumph has a Master of channel, it has under 30 people and it has been dead for 6 months, if not longer.

Just like you are dismissive of others witnessing the following:
I have. Multiple times. More times than I can count. Yet you seem perfectly ready to dismiss that because you haven't experienced it.

Who is being dismissive now?

Snubbing players because they don't have the "right build" isn't community breaking? Forming Master of teams saying that "No blasters allowed" isn't community breaking? Having a group saying "we have the badge but we're not willing to help you because you are a jynx" isn't community breaking? Name calling isn't community breaking?

Shunning isn't being inclusive by definition. I could bring out dozens more examples, but it seems that people don't want a discussion.

Yet it is okay to dismiss what I've seen in game as the result of Master runs gone bad?

Edit:
You call this thread an example of community building? People have given reasons why they don't like the badges, yet are being told "oh develop a thicker skin" or "I've never seen this".

You haven't tried enough "Master of" runs on a low pop server.

I'm just going to repeat what I've been saying for the last couple months.

From my point of view, they promote:

• IO snobbery. If you don't have a pile of set bonuses, you are deemed somehow less of a player and are less likely to find a Mo team.
  • Sub-category is lack of Purple or PVPIO slotting.
• Blaming people on the team for the least little mistakes.
• Hurt feelings from those that are either blamed or who doesn't have a right build.
• AT snobs (I've heard "we don't want any blasters on this attempt" and that is just one AT that suffers from shunning.)
• An "Us vs Them" mentality when it comes to badges. <-This is NOT good for the community as a whole.

I suspect that when the Incarnates system comes in that you'll be less likely to be admitted to a Mo team if you are not an Incarnate.

Then there is the problem of creating a team. Most people are interested in quick merits. This means speed runs of ITFs, LGTF (the irony here is thick), even speed Positrons (the flashback version is going to get its merit rewards nerfed to nothingness, as I know people are already saying that they'll do them under 90 minutes), and others

I was told by a mutual friend that one of my friends was so harassed on a public channel recently that they shut the game down and hid for a few days because of yet another failed Master of Statesman TF. Is this the behaviour that the developers want to promote?

These badges DO NOT promote community building. Fundamentally, if a badge breaks community in a Massively Multiplayer Game, then it is acting against the developers, not for them. The developers, in order to make money, need to do everything they can to build communities in the game.

I found at least a dozen blue side in Issue 17 Beta. It was fun.

While I don't like the fact that the badge was added to the game, I am sort of (ie not very) glad that it is now known that the badge actually exists.

However, I don't think that whoever neg-repped you took a glance at your picture. It clearly shows a full team...

Bah, who uses emotes...

Having the forward slash bound to start chat and include keypress does exactly that: starts the chat with "/". I have no idea why the semi-colon is also defaulted to this, but meh.

As far as helping the OP:
I ran into that around Issue 16, and spent a bit trying to work around the problem.

I actually have a single G-Key bound to the following actions:
/chatload[enter]
/wdwload[enter]
/bindload[enter]
/optionload[enter]

There is a 0.5 second delay after the "/" and a 1 second delay after each line. I call it my "settings loader".

I just tried it as I wrote it above and it worked. I also tried unselecting chat then pressing the "/" key, which started the chat line.

Have you redefined the slash key? Go to Options->Keymapping scroll down to the chat section, check the "Start Chat (Include Keypress)" has "Forward Slash" as one of the two keys bound to it.

Insert a 0.5 second pause after "/".

<event type="keydown" keyname="SLASH"/>
<event type="keyup" keyname="SLASH"/>
<event type="delay" delay="500"/>
<event type="keydown" keyname="S"/>
<event type="keyup" keyname="S"/>
<event type="keydown" keyname="E"/>
<event type="keyup" keyname="E"/>
<event type="keydown" keyname="N"/>
<event type="keyup" keyname="N"/>
<event type="keydown" keyname="D"/>
<event type="keyup" keyname="D"/>
<event type="keydown" keyname="SPACEBAR"/>
<event type="keyup" keyname="SPACEBAR"/>

And so on.

When? My Illusion/Emp Controller will need it. Let me know when and I'll try to make it.

Sad, isn't it?

I like choice and this new channel provides it.

Yes, and it is so bright that he has to wear shades. Either that or his weekend activities are forcing him to wear shades.

I see you don't play with a few of the late night regulars enough. They may not say it, just leave the rest of the team at the door while a few players are nearly at the end of the mission.

Oh joy

A single fix to a crash problem that happens during a common task...

I believe you are missing the word "not" before "Speed TFs." Also you might need to look again, so I quoted what I wrote. I said that I'm in the middle in terms of Speed vs Plow, but prefer plow TFs. I tend to die less on plow TFs.

The very last thing I want is to be a mod on another channel. Don't get me wrong, I look forward to participating in this new channel, I just don't want the responsibility to moderate it.

Yeah. And I don't think that is in any way wrong. If I thought it was wrong, I'd have never not run so many back to back plow ITFs during that last double XP weekend (ok, I was aiming for the last Inf badge, but still I think I ran it 10-12 times over 4 days on one character all plow).

I'm also wishing the new channel luck, because as we've all seen on TW 2.0 that Triumph likes its drama. I think that trying to build a community for this is a great idea.

Why don't you wait until either GR Open Beta or GR to go live to try features before you make suggestions for it?

Thus doubling the workload of the powers team. Which means less new things.

As others have suggested, you might want to try a different combination of power sets with one of the 10 existing Archetypes and Kheldians and Arachnos Widows/Soldiers.

Gangsta probably did and was blocked by the login server...

Actually according to PAX East attendees, the Friends and Family portion of GR Closed Beta should have already started in April...