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Official post on the subject:

The portion I highlighted shows that they have considered your questions.

I'm not going to transfer servers twice each issue.

Folks, I just wanted to stress this point. Far too often people start a panic at 10-15 minutes that "it isn't going to work". This includes being armchair quarterbacks distracting the leaders. If you are sending them a tell at a critical moment, they might NOT see the point they need to change strategy. Trust me, the trial leaders ARE paying attention. You don't need arguing with them at a critical moment. If you have advice, save it for after the trial finishes.

The way the trial leaders want to run the badge runs will work if people let it work.

The people doing these badge runs want the badge, the people leading these badge runs want to help YOU get the badges, and at this point as a trial leader myself I am so frustrated with the lack of cooperation that I don't want to run them very much.

So for everyone's sanity, please let us help you get the badges. If not, you might see even less Incarnate Trials than we've seen recently.

This tends to be a problem.

Another piece of advice I found to be extremely useful:

Thanks, and yup, it was my birthday yesterday.

I think it has less to do with Paragon Studios than it does with NCsoft Austin.

What I'm saying is that when Issue 21: Freedom launched Zwillinger was under the impression that by going from a VIP to Premium status freed up slot allocation choices (reverted server assigned slots to global slots) and he stated as much. However discussions with support staff and looking at how assigning slots work has shown that any slot assigned is firmly committed to a specific (possibly virtual) server. This is why your character can transfer over, but the the slot doesn't.

I don't think they have the tech to do the suggestion, even if they wanted to. Worse, in order to get the ability to unassign the character slot (the minimum needed to change a slot's server), any solution would likely need to involve NCsoft Austin. Given NCsoft's priorities (and how far down City of Heroes stands on that list), it seems highly doubtful that the suggestion will come to pass.

No such thing as recipe storage. The information regarding the others is still accurate on Paragonwiki.

Base raiding has been disabled since Issue 13, and before that it was strictly a voluntary thing.

Two to Four weeks before you say anything?

I highlighted the point you need to consider.

Yes, they are able to be stacked.

Using the /mypurchases command in game (guide here: A guide to finding out what you have unlocked from the market), you should see a line like this (Keep in mind that I have the "permanent" version thanks to vet rewards.):

Invention License (30 day) 800 0 5/29/77 12:21 PM COLIINVN

Which translates to:
Name : Invention License (30 day)
Purchased : 800
Used : (however many used already)
Expires : 5/29/2077 12:21 PM
Product : COLIINVN

In other words, getting the Paragon Rewards gave me 800 sets of 30 days.

I've also previously bought 4x Invention System Licence (at one time) on my premium account and it was good for 4 months.

Brief reply: No.

Detailed reply: Your version pretty much does the exact thing that Positron and Zwillinger rolled their eyes at -- gives players the anniversary badges they were not around for. My suggestion only turns the badges that a player has earned account-wide, not just give a player all of them.

Again, no.

While I can try, no promises. Those badges are a far greater problem than the anniversary badges.

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Reply to Risko_Vinsheen
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Well, my suggestion would give all your characters the badges, not just one. I don't see an easy way to target it.

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Reply to _Klaw_
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From all comments, I have serious doubts that the market can take that kind of initiative. Putting them on the market would force an honor system that both Zwillinger and Positron rolled their eyes at on yesterday's coffee talk. I would have to agree. Null would be acting as a broker vouching to the market that the player has the required badges.

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Reply to AquaJAWS
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I'm guessing that you'd think running such a script would take minutes. I'm fairly sure that you'd be wrong. I'm pretty sure that such a script would take hours (as in most of a day), if not days, to run. Even if they'd run it once a year, I doubt players would put up with that.

What you are asking for is at least the equivalent of the Global Server Access downtime which took 8 hours, and you want to run it on a regular basis for 9 badges? I don't think you could convince anyone of need for that.

Would it be preferable that the game isn't available for a couple days so people can get a few badges? I'm one of the more notable badge collectors out there and even I'm going to say that would be completely unacceptable. The result doesn't come close to meeting a cost/benefit ratio.

He exists. If you want to discuss why he exists, that isn't remotely related to this suggestion. May I suggest asking that in the General Discussions section?

They don't have an interface developer, and I know how much I've complained about that fact. I asked for commands to do what Null did, and that went unanswered. The ship has sailed on the time to remove the bird. The battle is over, so I figured "Why not add some functional aspects to him?" I'll probably post a few more suggestions concerning the bird in the future.

As Zwillinger has said:
Arcanaville lost a bet about Paragon Studios removing Null:
Given the complete lack of developer comments since, and even Arcanaville's guess turned out wrong, I doubt that you will get any satisfaction concerning the removal of the bird.

Given that Null is a permanent fixture at this point, why not add an extra benefit to talking to him?

Of course they can make a script, but that would require them to take down the servers for any length of time (as evidenced by the last time the name purge script was used, that took 2 days), and require more out of NCsoft Austin than can be expected for 9 badges. In other words, a script to scan every character on CoH for 9 badges is less likely than the base editor in CoH getting new stuff with each Issue. It simply isn't cost effective (which is likely why the name purge doesn't happen on a regular basis).

Going forward with a new anniversary badge? The process that grants the badge could also give the store code to the account, but that would be messy. Much better to have a single (limited) point of access. The seagull fits that bill (not sorry for the pun).

Except that this would require a single trip to the seagull (or at the most once a year). Are you seriously complaining that this will take about 5-10 minutes out of an entire year? If so, you don't have to use it. Do it every other year (or longer), or as you are passing through Pocket D.

I accounted that, the problem is that doing it as you suggest will cause the game to be unplayable and likely miss players. It would also be incredibly messy to program.