Recent post on Paragon Wiki about AE badge....

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Pity this won't fix a thing.

Griefing wont stop, Steele. if you honestly think it will, no offense buddy, but you're full of [censored].

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Hmmm, Cav, I don't see your point, or need for a censored word. Steele is correct. I've never been griefed in my badge-hooring by another player. BUT the 'Star my Arc' and HoF badges were actively being griefed making them essentially unattainable. Virtual Ticket, Mob, etc badges were epic fail from the outset because they basically made those badges solo farms. Even I have better things to do than gather or join an 8 man team for only 1 perq: a virtual ticket badge.

I don't particularly mind them removing most of the AE badges that I earned eventhough I think it was a little shortsighted since MA farms are slowly dying down to a normal level as predictable. I am glad that once again I am secure in the ungriefability of my badging fun in game.

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My point is. even without the badges, people WILL grief.

Maybe not because of hall of fame. but just because its "unfair" that you have more rates than they do. or because they feel like it. or because it just amuses them to grief. Its Schadenfreude, the same reason people find the Jerry Springer Show enthralling. Some people simply get a charge out of seeing someone else have a bad day.

The thing with griefers you dont seem to understand here, is most griefers do not grief to attain some sort of reward. They do it simply because ruining other people's day and seeing the tangible anger and disappointent on their faces makes them happy.

ironically, this makes them just like a lot of the forum posters who are constantly taking the side of "right" and telling everyone else what bad bad players they are and how they deserve to be punished for not playing the game exactly as statesman/Posi/themselves intended

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Can we get this thread up to 50+ pages too please? The forums don't have enough I15 Badge Changes Rage yet.

Eco.

[/ QUOTE ] 50 pages is relative anyway. It depends how many posts per page somebody has in their forum settings. 50 pages for one person might be only 25 for another.

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For example, for me, this thread only had 1 page until I posted this reply.

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You should get a badge for viewing a post in 50 post view mode.
That is a lot harder to achieve than the remaining MA badges.
Combined!

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That's my default - 50 posts per page. It makes for less paging and more continuous reading. I like it that way. Try it!

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I have 5 level 50 toons that I have grinded for evey level I got. Grinding for badges is my enjoyment in this game and it is why I still pay for 2 accounts. Let me break it down If I lose one badge that I have grinded so hard for I will close both of my COH accounts. Look I don't want this to come off as a threat I am just stating a fact after 2 years paying for the game grinding for every badge I have, you will take my fun away and why should I pay for what is no longer fun

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NEWSFALSH: you are playing the game wrong, while I am sure the devs are sorry to see two subs laps, they would rather you play their game their way and have their fun.



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LOL

Definitely not the burger king of MMOGs

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To be fair, if BK really made a burger my way, it would not only not make me gain weigh or add to my cholesterol number, but it would help both of these areas instead, and it definitely wouldn't give me the green apple splatters.

Kinda puts a whole new perspective on how great it really is to not be the "BK of MMOG's".

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That being said, I don't see why they can't keep the virtual badges. Since those missions don't need to be published to be farmed, it doesn't hurt the system. And it's the ideal closed environment for people who LIKE farming for the sake of farming, since it has no regular rewards. I'd be happy with them keeping the virtual badges, and even adding a bunch more, though I'd really like them to reduce the virtual kills badges.

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I second this!

As for griefing, they should just drop the bottom 5-10% of rates for each arc for listing/searching purposes. The more rates something gets, the more low ratings will be dropped, and the more low ratings that are dropped, the less each griefer means. In a round-about way it would make it so that griefing in AE would actually defeat its own purpose-- by adding more rates, they make more space for their downvote to be dropped. Yes, it means bad arcs will lose some of their bad ratings, however, bad arcs shouldn't get high ratings to begin with, so for those arcs, even the ratings above that bottom 5-10% will still be low, and they'll still fall to the bottom.

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