Snow Globe

I think I need a translation of this sentence. It doesn't make sense.

I've had good teams, I've had lousy teams, and teams in the middle. I know at least one player that went from "I want to help" to "I am never running another Master STF again". Rather heatedly, I might add.

Well, we agree on something at least.

I didn't say it was a universal issue. I seldom make absolute comments because I'm old enough to know better. The exceptions tend to be against very foolish ideas or when I've observed the behaviour in question. I did say that the system as designed "from my point of view, they promote..." the bad behaviour.

I might take you up on the offer sometime, I do have characters spread out over all the US servers. But I am unlikely to do server transfers due to several factors (cash, SG commitments, the ability to keep a character's name, etc.).

Well, it is nice to know that how much I feel about that subject was crystal clear.

I've tried that.

Maybe, but they are also not as rosy as you make them out to be either. The truth is likely that the master runs are in between and depend on several factors that neither of us have control over.

It literally has gotten to the point that this friend in question is being called names and publicly at that because the person has been on so many attempts in the last few months. I'm not being silly about this. The level of poor sportsmanship that these badges bring out is just wrong for the game.

Yeah, you shouldn't play with jerks. On the flip side is that these badges are pretty much designed to bring out that kind of attitude.

I hope you had a great birthday, VexXxa! You truly deserve it!

Server transfers should NEVER be the solution to any problem the game has with teaming. To say it should be is completely wrong and is missing the point.

And I've heard (and witnessed) the exact opposite a few times I've been to every single server. While I agree that every server might have a group that is willing to help, I don't think you can say that the majority of the time. It really revolves around a lot of factors like time on, server in question, and random chance.

Ok, first you say that installing, uninstalling, and then reinstalling doesn't do anything.

When you responded to my question of where you had the game, you said:
Now you are saying that it is:
So which is it?

You know all the comments Nericus has been posting above? I've gotten worse in game for asking, and I really can't say that I blame anyone for the response.

Check if there is a C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\Data directory. I know it isn't in your CoH directory, but it might have got confused. If that directory does exist, copy it to your actual game folder.

What, there is a G.I. Joe MMO coming out?

Only two things I can think of is that you are installing the maps to the wrong directory or you are running Vista/Windows 7 and need to run the program (map pack) as an admin.

Which directory do you have City of Heroes in?

From another post of mine:
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.

Corrected that for you. The only challenging Task Forces are the 45-50 range, and the Shards aren't particularly challenging, just long, drawn out, and boring.

And this:
Mirror my opinions. I'd still try to get them, but I wouldn't consider it "fun".

I'm at 768, without the 1-9 times the Victor.

http://cit.cohtitan.com/character/727
http://www.badge-hunter.com/view_player.php?id=148

And when did I do that? All my talk about the subject was from speculation from War Witch's comments about something hidden, and her alluding to the RWZ. Well, that and a guess as to what the developers might do in terms of badges.

I see it as a player (out of character) action, so it should be global.

Only if you want it to. However the badge is awarded for out of character actions, in this case logging in during a specific time frame. This is different than the Vet Rewards which are given out just by continued subscription.

What they are tracking is what system was in place when the badge was introduced. The anniversary badges were meant to be a reward for the player participating in the game during the anniversary time. They didn't have the technology to have one character earn a badge then award the same badge globally to other characters. This created the player delusion that these badges were a sign of character creation. That is putting the cart well before the horse.

It has only been in the last year that the tech has arrived to award a badge globally from a single character's actions. The problem, it seems, is that they have to figure out a way to bridge the two awarding mechanisms (Anniversary badges award one way, Global AE badges award another).

So, throw the baby out with the bathwater?

Multiple threads of this topic have been eaten by the forum monster when it got hungry.

Did you see it on a player? Did you earn the badge by running the TF?

As stated, Positron has several badges that players cannot earn. Did you not notice in your picture that he also has the 1,250 badges badge? It is the one slightly under the MoLady Gray badge. He also has both both mayhem & safeguard badges in that picture.

And yeah, we've been discussing MoLG for a couple weeks now, even before open beta.

Delete the two following folders:
City of Heroes\data\texture_library\MAPS
City of Heroes\data\texture_library\V_MAPS

Yup, sadly.

Congrats, Kheld!

I agree with you.

While I did point out that it would be pretty hard to do, I also agree that whim should be taken completely out of the picture.




I've spent a lot of time and effort both in and out of closed betas. The exploit that I mention in the first post of this thread has been on the LIVE servers for over a year. Sometimes it is harder to do than others, but it is still there.

Besides, just like the Developer's Choice badges, getting rewarded for finding bugs in a closed beta smacks of having a reward (exclusive badge) on top of a reward (access to closed beta).

I can answer this question with a "yes, it is available through flashback and gives 40 reward merits."

Yeah, and usually they tell people before they do it. They usually restore it too. I hope that is the case this time, as I had 2 SGs from CoV beta with the 36 million prestige bases I was using for reference for my live base construction.

They also generally tell the players this so that they can test said procedure.

I should also note I was testing an arc with one of the test characters that is now gone.

They tend to form at random when there is enough interest. You could always ask on Triumph Watch 2.0 or other channel.

Actually I was referring to the Master of Statesman TF, which tend to run often just trying to get the <censored> badge. Two birds, one stone thing.