Snow Globe

The RWZ was a hazard zone. It had a teleport beacon from the start. It was a hazard zone that the developers chose to give access to thanks to being very far off the normal path. The other hazard zones had the same restrictions before Issue 16. All they did was to keep some of the zones "off the grid" as it were.

A better question people should be asking is "Why should the zones that were blocked from having a beacon in the first place be given TP access?" Given that telepads have existed since fall of 2005 and were given regular zone access during Issue 7 (I think), there has been plenty of opportunity to include more teleporter access.

We know the developer's reasons for blocking the PVP zones: Players would abuse the rez and buffing stations to gain an advantage.

There are a bunch of zones that don't have teleporter access, for good reason.

The Hive, The Abyss
CoV's Monster Island
All the PVP zones.
The Shadow Shards
Cimerora
Midnigihter Club
Ouroboros

An almost consistent attribute for these zones is that they are level-locked. Only the Shards are not.

I see the lack of beacons for these zones as marking them as special.

I'm pretty sure it is reading memory, not logs as it can work without enabling logging.

As a programmer, I'd hate to see that algorithm. As it stands, NCsoft has given their definition of time played as well:
It is at the bottom of the Veteran Rewards FAQ page. The terms, as I've said before, are clear.

To further show what they mean by time
Emphasis, mine. See. Clearly stated what they mean. Time in this case equals having an active account. What you chose to do with that account is up to you.

Records are not kept on the server on how often your account is played as that would be a huge drain on resources. Not to mention that characters are deleted and created all the time. Then there is time spent on the Test Server, and participating on the forums. By setting the bar at an active, playable account, the program is fair.

There it is for all to see. It is to reward people for their time spent supporting and playing the game. It wouldn't be a reward for supporting and playing if the rewards could be purchased by people that let their accounts lapse.

It has nothing to do with feeling superior, it has to do with fairness. The veteran's rewards are completely fair. The criteria for these awards are absolutely clear. If people put the time & support into the game, they will get the goodies.

Thread necromancy doesn't really start to come into the picture until the thread has been dormant for 3+ months. Still the original post was a bad idea to begin with.

Oh and just as a punitive response to the idea: I would only agree with the idea that you could "back date" (something nearly impossible to tell, btw) specific veteran costume sets on a per character basis.

Otherwise anyone posting this idea should be directed towards the Veteran Rewards FAQ.
I am patiently waiting for my 60 & 63 month rewards, and I'd not like some idiot with more money than brains to queue-jump just because they quit before I started. I was here supporting both the community by being a player as well as the game in general. People who did not have an active account, yet now want all the rewards for building community, should go and examine their motives for this frequent request.

I'd agree with this, but what themes?

Summer could be water slides.

What could be done with Spring and Fall?

And this statement is why I dislike this idea. Telling people how to play the game means less people want to play the game.

If someone wants to click-target on a character to buff, they shouldn't have difficulty to do so.

Then there is PVP. Even though it is easy to tab-target an enemy, there are enough powers that require clicking near a target that this would be open to abuse. Then there is the hide without a hide power that could be achieved by this suggestion.

Even the original poster admits that is one of the reasons for the request when they say "I want a tiny scrapper who decimates mobs without being seen."

So, completely /unsigned.

Look back at your posts, you did not mention a single gladiator badge (villain, hero). You listed six regular defeat badges (villain, hero), some which I agreed with. You might want to get your facts in order (as I've been saying all along).

You seem to have the mistaken belief that because you can't street hunt something in multiple zones that it means that things are harder. If you want to make things harder on yourself than it needs to be, then you only have yourself to blame. I'm not here to convince you to take the "easy" way out, however the glaring inaccuracies do need to be addressed.

* Bladegrass Defeat 300 Devouring Earth tree-creatures
Normal hunting. All over the place in Nerva & St. Martial. Not as many as CoH, but still easy enough to find.

* Coralax Blue Hybrid Defeat 100 Coralax
Better CoV vs CoH as there is at least 2 more zones to hunt them.

* Crey Power Tank Defeat 100 Crey Tanks
Even. I actually got this one several times without trying villain-side. I teamed a lot with level 40+ groups.

* Ember Legacy of Flame Defeat 100 Legacy Chain Minions
Might as well be called exclusive to CoV as you cannot hunt these in CoH.

* Fortunata Seer Defeat 100 Fortunata Seers
Edge to CoV due to how many Arachnos missions are there.

* Hordeling Lasher Defeat 100 Hordelings
CoV by a long stretch. CoH for a week a year, in a single mission that has to be under a certain level.

* Ink Man Defeat 125 Blue Ink Men
CoV by a long stretch. Street hunting in St. Martial, also in Siren's Call, as well as a LOT of missions. CoH is only in the Talos Safeguard and street hunting Siren's Call.

* Lucent Legacy of Light Defeat 100 Legacy Chain Lieutenants (Villain Only)
* Mob Specialist Defeat 100 Prisoner Bosses (Hero Only)
A wash between CoH & CoV.

* Mu Guardian Defeat 100 Mu Guardians
Slight edge to CoV due to how many Arachnos missions are there.

* Raider Engineer Destroy 100 Force Field Generators summoned by Sky Raider Engineers
A wash between CoH & CoV. There are plenty of missions on both sides, and the best spot for street hunting either side is a narrow area in one zone (Sharkhead & Striga).

* Swift Steel Defeat 300 Ancestor Spirits
A wash between CoH & CoV. St. Martial vs Talos, and numerous missions on either side.

I could go on, but if you want to suggest which gladiators are more difficult to hunt for in CoV, be my guest.

There are 20 CoV only gladiators, 19 CoH only gladiators.

So you are agreeing with me that you incorrectly put the Kill Skuls badge in that list? That's nice. No, I didn't have to read that link for that information as I've seen them first hand. So your point is exactly what I said your point was: you want more zones for CoV. You might try to convince yourself that it isn't, but the core of your position is exactly that.

The problem is that it seems that you are complaining about how difficult things are based on wiki articles without exploring your options.

Well seeing it isn't the badge count, but rather zones, you truly seem to be after I think I'm justified in saying that it is unfounded.


Okay, now I know you are being unreasonable. CoH had four years more development time than CoV, so of course there will be more zones for heroes than villains.

The gladiators do have a normal amount of hunting: the counts and opportunity are about the same for gladiators, in fact it is a bit easier for many villain defeat gladiator badges than for heroes.

However that doesn't go after this list:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Weatherman_Badge
Discussed above. I agree there is a incredibly small amount in CoV. However they shouldn't have been in there in the first place according to Positron.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Regenerator_Badge
Also noted above. Trolls were added to the paper mission roster specifically to give more opportunity to get them. Initially only in the AP mayhem missions.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Visionary_Badge
Also noted above. 2 Missions do not present a great opportunity for hunting. On the other hand I've been talking about all three of the above (and all the ones mentioned in my previous post) in the Badge Issues list for the last two years, and most of those are hold-overs from MadScientist's list too.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Gravedigger_Badge
This one is fairly basic, there is good hunting in Cap au Diable near the tailor, and has a mission that is fairly packed with them (facemaker's chemicals). The only reason that CoH has more zones to hunt them in is that there is around a 6:1 ratio of similar level zones (8-20) hero:villain.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls_Badge
Mercy Island has plenty of regular Skulls. The ones people really have a problem with is the Bone Daddies. There are at least two missions that I am aware of with them in it.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Legionnaire_Badge
Paper missions from 20-30, and Siren's Call.


#1, #2, #5, no need to reduce the snakes and infected (ok, maybe a bit, but not much). Trolls would be better suited to Port Oakes though. A better idea would be to had Arachnos clear a previously hostile island for overflow from Mercy and Port Oakes.

#3 I'd just prefer a new zone if they could (possibly a duplicate -- but separate group -- of Shadow Shards), or revamp the Shadow Shards for Co-Op.

#4 it would make more sense to make new, higher level Vahz and put them in St. Martial near the tailor.

#6 I'd have them run turf wars in Port Oakes & Cap.

There is a way: Enter a mission door, then exit. At that point you are given a choice of instances.

So do I, but I don't see any developer hate specific to one side or the other.

I think 4 Issue difference (badges were introduced with Issue 2) might have something to do with it. Don't let something as silly as the fact that there was a year more development for blue side stop your unfounded rant however.

Hmm. Lets take a look:

2 defeat badges (Weed Whacker, Cold Blooded) are impossible outside of events blue side.

2 defeat badges (Cap Buster, Bane of Dannon) are impossible outside of events red side.

Parity achieved.

Bonecrusher (still available in the right level range in paper missions, plus one mid-30s mission red side), Weatherman, Regenerator (AP mayhem & paper missions) and Visionary (2 missions) are rare red side, I'll grant you. Unveiler and Infiltrator can be picked up with missions as well as street hunts. Longbow are confined to two missions available to blue side, and at one point it was blocked from being earned.

But let's expand this to gladiator hunt badges:
Mu Guardian, Toxics (which was more a pain blue than red), Blue Ink men (Siren's Call and the Talos Safeguard are the only 2 locations for blue side to get). Hordeling Lasher and Hellfrost are impossible blue side outside of the Valentines event.

Every gladiator that villains can achieve have a normal amount of hunting to do (in other words about the same effort red and blue side).

By the same token, a villain can side switch and get the "difficult" badges too. Or is one of us missing something?

How? Really, how would you have fixed it? We were told by Positron that the reason outcasts are in that one mission was because of a writer error (they shouldn't have been available at all).

I know the feeling. I still need Clubber (less than half needed), Fashion Designer, Shop Keeper, and Predator.

People got fixated on this part:
After that, their whole reasoning became "blah blah blah blah blah blah, show badge progress on log in" rather than the actual suggestion.

Well since "already" includes "now" I fail to understand why the need for the "fix". Yes, the costume display was introduced with Issue 16, but it has already been added to the game.

There is nothing to prevent the game from showing the day job location where you logged off at. The game shows which zone you logged off and (standard code rant aside) wouldn't be that complicated to show the day job as well. At that point, the player can mostly work out how much credit they have acquired by the last log on date.

I don't think that showing the day job location is an unreasonable QoL request. People seem to be making a big deal over minor QoL requests lately. This baffles me.

Only if we can walk through them. Otherwise I'd find them as annoying as meeting them in a mayhem/safeguard mission. Especially if I have a timed mission somewhere.

I think I have 70% female, 15% Male, and 15% of my characters that should be neuters (mostly robots, but a few aliens in the mix).

Why?

• Costume options.
• Male/Huge sounds.
• Male/Huge run.
• Better costume parts.
• Character concept (this plays a large part of male/female/huge choice).
• There is a bit of the "pixel staring", but this not the most important item.
• Lack of gender-neutral robotic body (I'd switch a number of characters to a "neuter" gender if given the choice).
• Role-playing something completely different than my real life. (No, I don't wear ladies underwear to improve my RP skills.)

Except that there is a little icon showing which day job location you are at BEFORE logging off. So there should be a smaller issue to display where you logged off than, say, the last costume you wore before logging off.

Oh wait, the game does that already.