Badges for leading a team... and for going solo
By
Bad_Wonka,
Posted on: 2009-04-30 10:29 in Suggestions and Ideas
Team leaders definitely deserve a badge. That is alot of thankless work. My only concern would be lamers begging for the star so they can "work on their badge" and then going afk or ignoring team chat. nothing kills a team like the star going to the wrong person.
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I think leading a team is its own reward and does not need a badge. Nor do I think soloing needs a badge. To me, both suggestions seem like badges for the sake of badges.
I suppose the other thing is, how does one measure leading a team? I've been on some real stinkers of teams. I've also been on some dynamite teams. And I've lead more teams than I've joined. Would we include AE missions for those badges? What about farms? What I'm getting at, 'leading' is subjective; I think it's possible to quantify time spent holding the star, but not actual leadership. If I'm on a team, I want the person with the star to want to lead a team, not just to earn the badge.
It would just lead to people not joining teams so they can work on their solo badge or quitting teams when you didnt give them the star. The very definition of a bad idea.
Good points brought up by everyone. Tnx for the feedback.
Regarding the badges for teams... what if there were team badges for everyone instead of specifically for leaders? What if, when the "Mission Complete!" text appears onscreen, a little window popped up for each player to rate each of their teammates (on the current team roster) on a scale of 0 - 5 stars... And when a player receives a total of X stars they would get "team player" type badges? If you don't want to deal with rating your fellow players after every mission, there can be an option to disable the window from appearing.
-MC
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badges for the sake of badges.
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That's pretty much 99% of the badges in the game.
Stay Gold, Paragon. Stay Gold.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
This is true.
It might be a good idea, actually. A lot of players seem to be inherently intimidated by the prospect of leading a team, and while providing good leadership can be its own reward, I see little harm in providing incentive to put themselves into the position where they can reach the same conclusion by themselves.
Strongly disagree. You already get enough unqualified people forming and trying to lead teams. Usually with bad results. On the flipside, there are enough teams where it is immaterial who has the star. Some people form teams to ease conversation between a small group while people go around and do other things.
I don't see any way this could have positive repercussions.
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Maybe the team wouldn't play hot potato with the star when everyone seems to not have enough courage in their leadership.
And the solo thing would be nice since I like to solo a lot.
I have an idea for a set of badges you acquire for spending X amount of time as the leader of a team. The badges could even require you to be the leader of a team of 8 and complete X number of missions. I'd just really like to see some rewards for the people who know what they're doing when it comes to organizing a team and keeping everyone on task.
And on the other side of that coin, I think it would also be cool to see a set of badges for completing X number of missions while NOT being on a team. Give a little something to all those lone wolves and anyone else out there who just can't seem to find a good team... but still play their missions as best they can.
-MC
Over 8 years of playing with more than 130 characters across 14 servers. Nineteen 50s with plenty more working their way up!
Find me in-game as @Super MC