Snow Globe

That I could get behind.

Actually you are a little late. This should have been done much sooner.

Where, exactly, is the compromise there? #2 negates #1.

The Veteran Rewards system is equally fair to everyone. The system was explained clearly before it started. If you want a particular reward, play the game and look forward to it. Failing to do so will get you labelled as a Plantar Wart aka Veruca Salt singing "I want it NOW!":

Notice any similarities between the requests for having the vet rewards outside the program and this song? Good. Class dismissed.

The problem is that you are not proposing a new stand alone badge. You suggested a badge for wildly diverse goals.

You might as well ask for the developers to strip the last badge in each epic series and have the removed badge replaced with an accolade for that series.

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You know, that doesn't make any sense either.
So if you got all 6 damage taken badges but Immortal you'd get Immortal as an accolade. If you got all the healing badges but Empath, Empath would be the accolade for having the other 5.

One other point: I don't know if the command is retroactive.

So would 6 months be ok with everyone?

After 5 years of play, my Ill/Emp controller earned Empath after they reduced the requirements to 10 million. Given the original value was 1 billion, this should show just how far off the mark was...

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I ground the reduced requirement for Leader during 2x XP weekends and ITF. The last 2x XP weekend I repeated the ITF so often on one character that I got next to no merits for one of the runs.

I think this is the line that the developers must walk. Most of the time they succeed, but not always.

What you are asking for completely defeats the purpose of the system in question.

Veteran Rewards FAQ:
This information was available before launch of the program, and is still accessible from the main website.

Already there. You have to do the "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" flashback to get the mission.

Already there, in the 25-29 flashback range.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Villain_Merit_Rewards#Villain_Badge_Missions

I agree, and all the Safeguards should be added too.

Actually without farming I would play the game more. I'd be more interactive with my friends, and I'd team more. Which is the whole point of a massively multiplayer online role playing game.

An MMO shouldn't focus on the solo farmer, it should find more ways for people to interact.

Ok, let me put it to you another way: I highly doubt that the fix would be assign the badge according to creation date when the fix they told players they were looking at was to award the anniversary badges globally.

Since then they made the AE global badges, so they now have the tech. They just haven't got either the will or time to change the anniversary badges to global badges. Or they forgot. Any way you go about it though, for a game that has an emphasis on creating alts, making WORK out of what is supposed to be a fun event is counterproductive.

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Even if at this point they cannot use the AE Tech to globally award the previous badges yet, that is no reason why they had to persist using the old tech to award the new Anniversary badges. At a later point, they can go back and adjust the old anniversary badges.

I've put forth the argument that Vet Rewards should have an end point. However I've been told there is badge art to 99 months (over two years from now), and they could add more slack into the system at any time.

Kora fruit does the following:

As you can see the Kora fruit was great as tier 3s, and still good as tier 2s.

Incorrect. The stated reason was the ability to store Kora fruit in bases.

This matches my opinion of the anniversary badges.

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I'd be in favor of an alternate means of getting the 5th column gladiator though. Perhaps any 2 Anniversary badges? Seems easy enough to track.

I wouldn't mind a way for people to get the missing badges though.

A couple of friends and myself are trying to help her get the badge. I'm using the one character that already has the badge just to make sure there is another decent healer (as well as stealth/tp combo) on the team.

Characters don't need to have a badge to show when they are created. Put a line in the bio, and you'll have the exact date. Besides which, you can tell when a character was created often by the powersets that character has. You can reorder your characters by date on the loading screen if your are that bugged by which was created first.

Even without a badge, I can remember the exact date that each of the characters in my sig were created:
Snow Globe & White Succubus were created Feb 12, 2005.
Strobe was created December 12th, 2005.
Shi Otomi was created December 25th, 2005.

The killing point is that logging in to so many alts feels like a JOB, therefore NOT FUN.

Passport was a clear mistake, it was originally intended for server transfers (something that got shelved while they found the time to do it), and only available to EU servers, not the entire population.

12 severs times 12 characters is 144 logins in a short period of time for just one full account. Times that by the number of subscribers and you have the equal of a Denial of Service attack on the login servers. The potential of a single account having three times as many characters and it quickly becomes unmanageable.

Not a peep out of the developers that this is the reason.

I wouldn't mind in the least.

I would literally quit the game the instant it happened if the requirements are the same as they exist today. Enough of a "not a snowballs chance in heck" of getting my support for this idea for you?

Again, not a chance of support from me.

Effort? How about a wet napkin? I find it curious that you post this, when a lot of people are trying to celebrate Earth Day, and you want to encourage people to leave their computers on for weeks and months to get an electronic shiny. I speak from experience that would be the result in order to get this suggestion.

1. Whatever.

2. The developers and the players should by no means encourage badge farming. In fact it would be hypocritical for the developers to do so seeing that they've gone out of their way to (a) remove badges that were blatantly farmed in the AE and (b) all the nerfs to discourage farming in other aspects of the game.

3.Yes.

You know, I forgot a category: The fact that Anniversary badges have to be done on a per-character basis.

Haven't you gotten enough complaints for this over the last 5 years to know this is a BAD IDEA? Seriously?

One of the comments made by Positron before the official lead change was that you (Paragon Studios) were looking into awarding the anniversary badges on a global basis to eliminate the need for players to log onto each and every alt they have in order to get the anniversary badges. You have the tech to award badges globally now thanks in part to the Architect. So it isn't even a tech issue.

Exactly. I have several guides that will not ever go out of date, some that go out of date mid-Issue, some that are valid for several Issues, and one that is the combination of the above.

Yes because I know quite a few people that are looking forward to getting the 60 month reward, but are patient enough to wait for it. Your suggestion would force them to pay real money for something they will eventually get for free.

This is a bad idea.