Q1. What's the status of Rocketman? Reports are that Rocketman Badge is bugged. The badge says launch the missile in Warburg 5 times. Reports are that it has to be 10 times and that zoning (but not logging) resets the counter. Other reports are that it has to be the same type of rocket (chem, bio, or nuke) 10 times. What's the scoop?
This is a multi-part question:
Q2.a. What's the possibility of having badge placeholders for *all* badges, even if they're marked with "???"? This way, we know what badges are still yet to be found?
Q2.b. What's the possibility of having not only placeholders for all "kill X number of Y" badges, but having them labeled and get rid of that "???"?
Q2.c. What's the possibiltiy of having placeholders for exploration badges with progress bars and giving us the text of the plaques to read when we're done (like all the souvenir texts)?
Q3. You seem to know that some badges are indeed bugged. Why isn't that info listed in "known issues" on the website or forums? (As well as all the other known bugs... but that's not a badge related question.)
Q4. Could you (or would you) ever create a mission with Contaminated (a portal mission to an alternate earth, perhaps at level 50) or a mission in the jail (a mission to quell a riot and/or save an unjustly condemned person at level 50, e.g.) so that the Isolator and Jailbird badges can be obtained?
Q5. Since it's very, very easy to outlevel Doc Buzzsaw before you get the Bling badge, would you consider switching Doc's badge requirement (like you did for Tarixus?).
Q6. Since hunting 200 Marcone Bosses is an exceptionally tedious task (we certainly do not have a lot of Marcone missions, and so, we have to street hunt for this elusive creature), would you consider bumping this down to 100 or 50? Or at least give us some Schemes that are loaded with Marcone Bosses that we could farm?
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Question for Positron - Certain badges on the Villains side are only achievable by farming (read: repeatedly resetting) one specific mission: for example the badges for BP Masks, Troll bosses, or Rularuu Overseers.
Will these badges ever be required for Accolades on the CoV side?
I just remembered a couple other ambiguous badges. I'm pretty sure I know how they work, but redname confirmation would be nice. Namely:
Debt badges. There's a popular rumor that there are three debt-repayment badges and thee badges tied to number of deaths. I'm certain that Deathless and the others are epic debt-repayment badges, but can we get this settled once and for all?
Also, the mentoring badges. This one I'm less sure about. Six sidekicking badges, or three SK badges, and three for exemplaring?
Thanks for taking the time out and actually answering all these questions!
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Not only do they spawn alot less than they used to but now that only a few people gain the badge for defeating these monsters, people are very close lipped about when they DO appear. Talk about Counter-Productive and Anti-Teaming!!!
It used to be a community effort to defeat a Monster.... now with the new rules and increased (post-ED) difficulty, a giant monster's arrival is met with secrecy, apathy or outright hostility from those you ask to help
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Where are you getting this from? It sounds like some paranoid rambling. ED could not possibly be responsible for people trying to keep other people from finding out that, say, Kraken had spawned.
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Would you consider reading what I wrote and keep your trolling down a bit? I said "and Post ED Difficulty <snip> a giant monster's arrival is met with <snip> outright hostility. Seems pretty clear to me and I re-read it 5 times trying to see how you could have misunderstood it. Do you go off flaming everytime you see an ED reference??
I have posted on the forum before about some of the reactions I get to requests to fight giant monsters. Apathy and Outright Hostility are the normal reaction. They can be found on broadcast if you care to try reading in the game.
Chill Out Dude! Read Cuppajo's post about Trolling.
Positron is there any plan to add more villian bosses to the outside areas?
Some villian classes have them but others do not and as it stands right now the only way to get lets say the Bone Daddy or Master Illusionist badges is to farm missions. Then theres the Tsoo Sorcerers badge which seems to stop counting after 25 or so. Just to name a few. BTW thank you for taking the time to answer these questions.
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Question for Positron - Certain badges on the Villains side are only achievable by farming (read: repeatedly resetting) one specific mission: for example the badges for BP Masks, Troll bosses, or Rularuu Overseers.
Will these badges ever be required for Accolades on the CoV side?
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Unless I misunderstood your comment, you do NOT need to farm missions to get these badges :
1) BP Masks can be found in Talos in the small city area outside DA at Night. They can also be found INSIDE DA at Night.
2) Troll Bosses are very easy to find in Skyway. All over Skyway.
3) Rularru Overlords can easily be found within the Shadow Shards
I wish they were in more missions so we could cut down the number of street hunts that are necessary but they certainly do not require that you farm a mission.
Simple question, although I know it'll probably be of little interest to many of you.
We know that there are a number of badges that are showing the wrong images presently. Any of the Shadow Shard TF badges (for CoH) and any of the Respecs (for CoV) to name the ones I remember off the top of my head.
Is there anything in the works to settle this, or are the Exploration badge images going to be the final image for these badges?
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Question for Positron - Certain badges on the Villains side are only achievable by farming (read: repeatedly resetting) one specific mission: for example the badges for BP Masks, Troll bosses, or Rularuu Overseers.
Will these badges ever be required for Accolades on the CoV side?
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Unless I misunderstood your comment, you do NOT need to farm missions to get these badges :
1) BP Masks can be found in Talos in the small city area outside DA at Night. They can also be found INSIDE DA at Night.
2) Troll Bosses are very easy to find in Skyway. All over Skyway.
3) Rularru Overlords can easily be found within the Shadow Shards
I wish they were in more missions so we could cut down the number of street hunts that are necessary but they certainly do not require that you farm a mission.
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You did misunderstand what he was asking.
He said "for the Villains", not the Heroes.
Followup:
* The PvP Patrol mission does not give the badge to teammates, this is a limitation of the Engine, sorry for misleading you on that. I honestly thought it worked the other way.
* That being said, there are supposed to be patrol missions for both sides for EVERY PvP zone, so characters of any level can get the badge on their own. We are investigating why players are not seeing the Patrol missions for Siren's Call or Warburg.
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Followup:
* The PvP Patrol mission does not give the badge to teammates, this is a limitation of the Engine, sorry for misleading you on that. I honestly thought it worked the other way.
* That being said, there are supposed to be patrol missions for both sides for EVERY PvP zone, so characters of any level can get the badge on their own. We are investigating why players are not seeing the Patrol missions for Siren's Call or Warburg.
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Characters of any level STILL can't get forward observer Posi. Currently PvP zones stop giving missions at 38, and you said you don't want PvP missions to go all the way to 50. So putting all this together, you are indicating that (not directly, but as a side effect) that the way you currently want it to work characters who were 50 before the patrol missions came out will not be able to get the badge?
If the engine is limited so that it can't be awarded when we exemp to someone doing it, and you don't want to let us do it ourselves, please give some alternate way for 50's to get the badge.
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Followup:
* The PvP Patrol mission does not give the badge to teammates, this is a limitation of the Engine, sorry for misleading you on that. I honestly thought it worked the other way.
* That being said, there are supposed to be patrol missions for both sides for EVERY PvP zone, so characters of any level can get the badge on their own. We are investigating why players are not seeing the Patrol missions for Siren's Call or Warburg.
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Characters of any level STILL can't get forward observer Posi. Currently PvP zones stop giving missions at 38, and you said you don't want PvP missions to go all the way to 50. So putting all this together, you are indicating that (not directly, but as a side effect) that the way you currently want it to work characters who were 50 before the patrol missions came out will not be able to get the badge?
If the engine is limited so that it can't be awarded when we exemp to someone doing it, and you don't want to let us do it ourselves, please give some alternate way for 50's to get the badge.
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Recluse's Victory will have patrol missions all the way to 50 that grant the badge.
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level 50 PvP zone coming in I7 ?
You think there might just be a patrol mission there ?
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Why can't everyone who gets in at least one hit get the monster badge?
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Risk vs. reward. Krakens badge is a desirable badge because hes very rare to find, even though he spawns in a lowbie zone. HOs are desirable because of their bonuses and because theyre extremely tough to get. A group of controllers could allow HUNDREDS of players of level 7+ to get the badge with zero risk to them by chain-mezzing Kraken. Thus, the badge is no longer very difficult to get. Would just cause the same pandemonium that happens when Hamis held (Everybody hit him once NOW!!!!), but without any risk to the lowbies.
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Not true at all. You misunderstand the way Giant Monsters work. They always con purple and are even level to each person. If a level 50 and a level 1 are both fighting the same Giant Monster together, it will be level 50 to the 50 and level 1 to the 1. The risk versus reward is equal.
Again, a team of 8 controllers versus a team of 8 scrappers of equal level all fighting a single giant monster. The scrappers are going to probably do 80-90% of the damage even though the controllers did an equal amount of work. The controllers get nothing and the scrappers get everything. They both took the same risk (actually, the controllers took a bigger risk because they are squishy) yet only the scrappers get rewarded.
What *exactly* does it take to get the 2nd and 3rd badges for the Steel Canyon Fire Events?
The first badge has popped up for many of my heroes on the VERY FIRST defeat of a Helion. I even tried taking out a fire first before a Helion, and did not get the badge. Defeating one Helion for the event got me that first badge 8 times now.
I've easily taken out 100 Helions on several heroes and an additional 12 - 30 fires on top of that for others. I haven't gotten past the first Fire Event badge
So is it some triple-digit number of Fire Event Helions? Or is it a combination of fires and Helions for the 2nd/3rd Badges?
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Too many pages to read, but has anybody touched on the fact that CoV has bars for badges without text saying what the heck the bar is for? CoH was an explaination why doesn't CoV?
To me this is completely worthless. I look at a list and see oh look here it seems I'm over halfway to something, sure wish I knew what that something was so I could continue doing it 
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Currently PvP zones stop giving missions at 38,
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thats untrue because my merc/ff is at level 39 and im getting missions in warburg still.
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Characters of any level STILL can't get forward observer Posi.
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I got Forward Observer last night. It's for 100 reputation.
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Exemplar/Malefactor to someone doing the mission and you will get the badge when they do.
We do not want to make the missions in the PvP zones go all the way to 50, because then a character could literally spend all his time in that zone, never needing to leave except to visit stores, and that is gameplay we dont want to encourage.
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Fair enough, but I would like to do the missions while auto-exemplared. If my level 50 soloer is in Bloody Bay and therefore is exemplared down to 25 (or is it 20?), I would like for him to be able to get the mission and do it at level 25 against level 25-29s (depending on my difficulty setting).
No xp, just the opportunity to experience the content and get the badge.
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Followup:
* The PvP Patrol mission does not give the badge to teammates, this is a limitation of the Engine, sorry for misleading you on that. I honestly thought it worked the other way.
* That being said, there are supposed to be patrol missions for both sides for EVERY PvP zone, so characters of any level can get the badge on their own. We are investigating why players are not seeing the Patrol missions for Siren's Call or Warburg.
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Just well thank you.
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Followup:
* The PvP Patrol mission does not give the badge to teammates, this is a limitation of the Engine, sorry for misleading you on that. I honestly thought it worked the other way.
* That being said, there are supposed to be patrol missions for both sides for EVERY PvP zone, so characters of any level can get the badge on their own. We are investigating why players are not seeing the Patrol missions for Siren's Call or Warburg.
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Just well thank you.
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Woot! Thanks for clearing that up Posi, glad to know we will all be able to get this badge eventually 
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Recluse's Victory will have patrol missions all the way to 50 that grant the badge.
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Thank you for restoring my faith and putting my mind at ease, Positron.
I checked out vidiots and coh guru and was wondering why you don't plan on using the damage dealt badge art displayed on CoH guru?
Also why don't you use the badge art for Moonfire and the SS TFs as shown on vidiots? Both of these sites have proven to be very reliable sources for badge info and images and have shown numerous times that they are accurate by posting images before the badges become known even on test server. This being said one can only assume they got these art examples from within the game code, which would mean they do exist already.
Passport, I have it on live ...
1) What is the true intention of this badge. [The Pigg hackers have theories but we deserve the truth]
2) Since this a bug can I trade it for Isolator
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Passport, I have it on live ...
1) What is the true intention of this badge. [The Pigg hackers have theories but we deserve the truth]
2) Since this a bug can I trade it for Isolator
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It's a bug that some players have Passport. They shouldn't expect to keep it.
It is a badge that was made in anticipation of Server Transfers. I don't know the schedule of when/if transfers are going to happen, and even if this badge will be given as part of the transfer anymore. Passport has been around a LONG time, and many things have changed in that time.
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Regarding the Risk Taker badge:
I've done Patrol missions in both Bloody Bay and Siren's Call (before it broke). I have both temp powers in my tray because I never ever used them and yet I don't have the Risk Taker badge.
I sent in a petition stating that I have completed the missions and have proof of it (assuming that a GM can see what Temp powers I have) and I was basically told I was sorely out of luck and sorry for the inconvience.
A minor setback, true, but an upsetting one nonetheless
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