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The good point was that people wouldn't "get their panties in a bunch" because they are not losing out on a nuke, shivan, or difficult AV badge.

In Siren's Call there is less distractions. Maybe there should be a new level 50 PVP zone that mirrors what happens in Siren's Call.

It is just luring you into a false sense of security before Tam ganks you.

Hmm. That is a good point.

They are not -totally- sorted by zone. They are sorted first by Issue. Take a look at the current exploration list. All the Atlas park explores are no longer all in one group, for instance.

We've been told that sorting the badge list would be risking some heavy-duty corruption of the player database.

Actually, not quite. I had a buddy code for Valentines 2005. The account was active for 2 weeks in February. The Buddy Code was considered the full game. Now fast forward to May 2005... The memorial weekend had a Free Activation Weekend... Celebrant (first year anniversary badge) was awarded during the whole month of May... I didn't actually start subscribing until June 12th, 2005, yet I have Celebrant on 4 characters.

You've lost. I didn't have a paid account for the Celebrant badge. Yes it was active due to NCsoft and Cryptic, but it wasn't a paid account at the time.

Oh, yeah... about that. The dev's hate OCD badge collectors... The only unfilled progress bar I have on my main badge collector is the 1,000 badges badge... Gah! I shouldn't think about it!

Check the link I made in the post you quoted. The patch notes they have on display on the main website did not list those badges.

So the patch notes aren't even consistent.

Kids these days.

Figure that anyone in GR is under an NDA and can't tell you anything. It is pointless to ask any questions about an Issue in a closed, or non-public beta (it is "friends & family" atm).

I guess that just because a Master of badge isn't listed in a patch note, that means the badge doesn't exist?

It is good to know that the following are figments of our collective imaginations:

Markets = PVP = Player apathy.

By the way, even if the command were functional, you got the syntax wrong. It is:

/chan_timeout <channel name> <days>

You cannot specify level, as level is meaningless for a global account...

Edit:
Further correction, channel name has to be in quotes if there is a space in it. So:

/chan_timeout "level 50" 30

If the channel name is "level 50".

Nope, EU only.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Disc_Releases

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

In all seriousness this Issue hasn't been either the worst (though it is up there) nor the best deployed. Most Issues had stability problems.

Here is a funny observation on the beta process by Scott Adams.

Tam, you know I respect you as a player. I was deliberately vague to protect who (and who told me). I didn't say when or with who.

I know I got a verbal talking to by that mutual friend for joking with you all a few nights later. Apparently the friend felt it was a bit much that night. Maybe they are stressed and is overreacting a tiny bit. I don't know as I wasn't there and, like I said above, I was told this by a mutual friend.

I have it from two different sources that there was name calling involved. Maybe the person was overreacting, but on the flip side I don't think either of you can say with certainty about the conduct of others.

Maybe, as others have said above, that is the problem. Maybe it is time to try a different way. I'm willing to run weekly attempts (we continue till the TF end even if the challenge fails).

Well, I like to think that I've made it quite clear that I do not PVP...

Ah. By the way, the RWZ has 14 explore badges, more than any other zone in the game. 15 if you include the explore in the AE building. I don't think that any more have been added to it.

My sources say there are 14 exploration badges for the RWZ. No more or less.

There is the x-ray in the medical area, and the morgue as well. However I've been told that they've existed since the zone revamp in Issue 10.

Ok, try this:

• Exit out of the game completely.
• Check if the test installation has the \data\ directory.
• If it doesn't proceed to next step, otherwise rename it to \data1\
• Run the mappack, but point it to the test installation (C:\Games\CoHtest)
• Copy the \data\texture_library\maps and \v_maps folders to your regular CoH directory (C:\Games\City of Heroes)
• Run your regular CoH shortcut.

This should work. Test it.

Now, exit the game completely. Go to your test directory (C:\Games\CoHtest). Remove the \data\ directory. Try running your regular game again. If it still works, bonus! Ignore the next step.

If, as I suspect, your shortcut's properties isn't configured right, the map patch should be "gone". Go to the shortcut that you use to launch the game. Make sure that the Target and Start in fields point to your live game folder (C:\Games\City of Heroes).

Funny, that is almost what I thought. Except I would have said the whole works would have been done in 5 minutes. If you look at the villain badges, they are pretty much the same, only red.

So change layer styles, import a new background, add new number layers, and then export. Ok, maybe 10 minutes.

The people in question have had a lot of conduct petitions against them (I've filed several myself), but nothing seems to be done about them. On the other hand some of them moved to Freedom... Something about PVP being better there.

Actually that is one of the reasons I don't PVP.

I posted this in closed & open beta: