It's 100 total stars. You are right, there is no way to see how close you are.
I wouldn't bother with worry about getting 100 stars now since apparently Recognized has the requirements of "Anyone rating your arc" on test. So you should get it when I15 goes live.
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Awesome. Way to go devs, lets make any authoring badges even more worthless.
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Awesome. Way to go devs, lets make any authoring badges even more worthless.
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Say what? I'd think that voting cartels got there first.
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Awesome. Way to go devs, lets make any authoring badges even more worthless.
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As Ian has said, the voting cartels were the ones who ruined it. Basically arcs were being voted on based on how popular the author was (or how many people they could get to vote) rather than quality.
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Say what? I'd think that voting cartels got there first.
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Not really. At least I could know i got the higher level voting badges legitly, even if not everyone had. That didnt really reduce my enjoyment of them because I knew I hadnt used a cartel to get them.
Now I have no badges at all to wear proudly and the only one left I could just have bribed a friend to 5 star me to get.
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I think the reason why the author badges were removed besides the obvious vote cartels is they were unobtainable for a ton of people. Some people can make really fun and interesting arcs while others are limited to their mediocre skills in creativity.
If the devs were just concerned about vote cartels, then they could have just reset the AE arcs that are the worst offenders, then make it so that a person needs to play through the whole thing before they can vote on it.
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I think the reason why the author badges were removed besides the obvious vote cartels is they were unobtainable for a ton of people. Some people can make really fun and interesting arcs while others are limited to their mediocre skills in creativity.
If the devs were just concerned about vote cartels, then they could have just reset the AE arcs that are the worst offenders, then make it so that a person needs to play through the whole thing before they can vote on it.
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So you're saying there shouldnt be awards for creative writers?
right. lemme call up a few book organizations. and tell the oscars to stop existing. Its not fair that johnny the homeless movie writer doesnt have as many awards as a top director or writer, after all.
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I think the reason why the author badges were removed besides the obvious vote cartels is they were unobtainable for a ton of people. Some people can make really fun and interesting arcs while others are limited to their mediocre skills in creativity.
If the devs were just concerned about vote cartels, then they could have just reset the AE arcs that are the worst offenders, then make it so that a person needs to play through the whole thing before they can vote on it.
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So you're saying there shouldnt be awards for creative writers?
right. lemme call up a few book organizations. and tell the oscars to stop existing. Its not fair that johnny the homeless movie writer doesnt have as many awards as a top director or writer, after all.
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Uhmmm....this is a game.
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I think the reason why the author badges were removed besides the obvious vote cartels is they were unobtainable for a ton of people. Some people can make really fun and interesting arcs while others are limited to their mediocre skills in creativity.
If the devs were just concerned about vote cartels, then they could have just reset the AE arcs that are the worst offenders, then make it so that a person needs to play through the whole thing before they can vote on it.
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So you're saying there shouldnt be awards for creative writers?
right. lemme call up a few book organizations. and tell the oscars to stop existing. Its not fair that johnny the homeless movie writer doesnt have as many awards as a top director or writer, after all.
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And? There are badges for PVP and for PVE achievements. Why not for in-game creative efforts? All of these are farmable, and all of these lend to a "he's great" or "he'll never get it without farming" judgment.
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Q: Why did the Dev Choice and Hall of Famer badges get removed?
A: We realize that a lot of players worked really hard for these badges and to create content worthy of these prestigious awards. However, we want badges to be something that everyone can obtain. We also want badges to be completely within a playerÂ’s grasp, so no outside influence should affect earning these badges. The Hall of Famer badge and the Builder line of badges are a perfect example of why these badges are being removed. We saw a lot of griefing done by certain players against players who had highly rated missions that would prevent them from ever getting into Hall of Fame and earning this badge. We wanted having missions flagged Dev Choice or Hall of Fame to be coveted by authors, not by badgers. Thus these badges are also being removed.
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While I do think that good creative writers deserve some recognition, badges are not the way to do it. Perhaps making their missions part of the official canon would be an acceptable reward. Dimensional Travel allows any mission arc to be official canon.
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I think the reason why the author badges were removed besides the obvious vote cartels is they were unobtainable for a ton of people. Some people can make really fun and interesting arcs while others are limited to their mediocre skills in creativity.
If the devs were just concerned about vote cartels, then they could have just reset the AE arcs that are the worst offenders, then make it so that a person needs to play through the whole thing before they can vote on it.
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So you're saying there shouldnt be awards for creative writers?
right. lemme call up a few book organizations. and tell the oscars to stop existing. Its not fair that johnny the homeless movie writer doesnt have as many awards as a top director or writer, after all.
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And? There are badges for PVP and for PVE achievements. Why not for in-game creative efforts? All of these are farmable, and all of these lend to a "he's great" or "he'll never get it without farming" judgment.
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PvP badges were put in when the Tyrant was in charge, Posi has taken his position now. They have the power to change the PvP badges, but it might make some of the people who worked their butts off getting them mad. Plus they do have better thing to attend to, AE badges needed a fix because they "promoted farming".
PvE badges are obtainable by everyone, everyone can die, thanks to pool powers everyone can heal, everyone can take damage, everyone can be held, everyone can gain influence, everyone can do the achievements without spending hours on end trying to make a mission that people want to play.
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I think the reason why the author badges were removed besides the obvious vote cartels is they were unobtainable for a ton of people. Some people can make really fun and interesting arcs while others are limited to their mediocre skills in creativity.
If the devs were just concerned about vote cartels, then they could have just reset the AE arcs that are the worst offenders, then make it so that a person needs to play through the whole thing before they can vote on it.
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So you're saying there shouldnt be awards for creative writers?
right. lemme call up a few book organizations. and tell the oscars to stop existing. Its not fair that johnny the homeless movie writer doesnt have as many awards as a top director or writer, after all.
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Uhmmm....this is a game.
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And? There are badges for PVP and for PVE achievements. Why not for in-game creative efforts? All of these are farmable, and all of these lend to a "he's great" or "he'll never get it without farming" judgment.
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PvP badges were put in when the Tyrant was in charge, Posi has taken his position now. They have the power to change the PvP badges, but it might make some of the people who worked their butts off getting them mad. Plus they do have better thing to attend to, AE badges needed a fix because they "promoted farming".
PvE badges are obtainable by everyone, everyone can die, thanks to pool powers everyone can heal, everyone can take damage, everyone can be held, everyone can gain influence, everyone can do the achievements without spending hours on end trying to make a mission that people want to play.
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Thje problem with that is, if everyone can EASILY do everything in this game. why bother?
Some of us play games because we L:IKE the sense of accomplishment when we achieve something difficult.
My first run through of neverwinter nights 2 is with a BARD for chrissakes. I enjoy challenging myself. I enjoy succeeding when I challenge myself. I do NOt enjoy having my accomplishments RIPPED from me because the guy who doesnt wanna do the work demands "equal" rights to those things
And by equal, I meant getting everything without the work I put in. The system is equal already. you do the work, you get rewarded. if you're too lazy to advertise your arc relentlessly, listen to criticisms, refine the storyline and dialogue to make it as good as it can possibly be and otherwise put your heart and soul into it, why on EARTH should you be rewarded?
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The problem is that a lot of those badges were partially based on luck more than anything.
The only way you could've got a dev choice badge was to be part of the voting cartels so your arc stayed near the top all the time. Same with the ratings. Face it, if you weren't in a cartel or part of a large group manipulating the system, your arc was buried.
And I don't think the devs want people spamming arc advertisements on the forums or in game.
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It also helped to have been closed beta with fewer competitors around.
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The problem is that a lot of those badges were partially based on luck more than anything.
The only way you could've got a dev choice badge was to be part of the voting cartels so your arc stayed near the top all the time.
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That's hilarious. My Dev Choice arc, published towards the end of Open Beta (I wasn't in Closed Beta), had very, very few plays on Test before Pohsyb gave it the DC and of course it got transferred over to Live with Issue 14. Even with the DC it has less than 30 plays on Test. No voting cartel was involved in my case, just like probably most of the DCs.
There were a lot less players on beta and a heck of a lot less arcs.
Most, if not all, of the DCs are transfers over from beta. The AE lists move too fast for DC arcs to really occur except by luck. The odds of even a quality arc being noticed by the devs is miniscule, even without the voting cartel nonsense.
And yours is one of the few DC arcs that deserve the place. Most of them are pretty terrible.
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That's hilarious. My Dev Choice arc, published towards the end of Open Beta (I wasn't in Closed Beta), had very, very few plays on Test before Pohsyb gave it the DC and of course it got transferred over to Live with Issue 14. Even with the DC it has less than 30 plays on Test. No voting cartel was involved in my case, just like probably most of the DCs.
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Same here. I think it still has 19 play runs on Test actually. I'd JUST published it (and intentionally made an arc with absolutely no unlocks, to prove a point about what MA was rolling out to any user) about six hours before a Dev walked into it (pohsyb) by recommendation on one of the global channels, saw it, and then stamped it. I think it had maybe SIX views when he'd seen it. This was about 10 days before Issue 14 went live, and I'd worked on the arc for about two weeks beforehand.
No voting cartel. No inside help. And from the chats with some of the other DC people (from Test and Live) on their experiences, their stories are pretty much the same.
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PvP badges were put in when the Tyrant was in charge, Posi has taken his position now. They have the power to change the PvP badges, but it might make some of the people who worked their butts off getting them mad. Plus they do have better thing to attend to, AE badges needed a fix because they "promoted farming".
PvE badges are obtainable by everyone, everyone can die, thanks to pool powers everyone can heal, everyone can take damage, everyone can be held, everyone can gain influence, everyone can do the achievements without spending hours on end trying to make a mission that people want to play.
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Everything in the game promotes farming. Inventions. PVP. Defeats. Accolades. Leveling. Base building. Events. EVERYTHING. How can I say this? Because when you give the player something they want, the question comes up, "How can I get this efficiently?" That train of thought leads to farming. EVERYTHING in the game is farmable.
The question is, does the fact that it's FARMABLE mean that the INTENT of the badge is flawed?
That's the blurred line here on the authorship badges that people refuse to discuss candidly. You take someone who earned their badges honestly, and then "take from them" those marks of effort because a section of the community was able to "farm" for the same reward. Some people took the time to earn the 400 reputation badge for PVP, and had a long, hard road about it. Others farmed it. Why should a Dev come along and remove that badge, because other people found a way to get it "faster"?
Which hurts more? A badge that some people can get honestly, but others have to farm? Or removing badges entirely because people learned to farm them so obscenely that they're punishing everyone by removing them, instead of punishing the malefactors? (Which, I know, is excruciatingly hard to do unless you go utter Gestapo from a CSR point of view, but it begs to be asked.)
I bring up the PVP badges because they represent a section of the community that prides itself on combat skill - a very easy thing to get into, but a very HARD thing to master, and I'm in awe of some of the PVPers I've had to dance around while working my other badges. 
The arguments made against MA can easily be made against them.
And I bring up the PVE badges because, seriously, they are most certainly NOT "obtainable by everyone". If you really need examples because you're incapable of seeing what's pretty obvious, say so and I'll rattle off a bunch that will nullify your argument completely. But the bottom line: Not everyone is created equally in this game. From AT to powersets to PVP to Architect, there is no one facet where we are all equally matched. Where some use skill, others resort to farming. It's been this way for half a decade.
Again, why make the distinction with the authorship badges being farmable, when everything ELSE in the game is equally farmable? Is it because, in MA, it's not JUST a numbers game, but rather a creative expression for everyone? And, when people's expressions are rejected, or others are artificially inflated, it's taken far more personally than, say, failing to get Empath or Fabricator?
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Just to Training 2. Training 1 still has the old DB.
...and get back to your TF, you. *whipcrack*
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Is that what happened? According to Avatea here , the MA arc database copy didn't happen at all.
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All I know is that on Training 1, I'm able to see the old Test arcs, instead of the newer ones. Now, I'm trying to login to Test again to verify, but I'm getting an odd CiceroUIWndFrame error...
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Just checked Test 2 and it still has the Test Server arcs too. Like I said, the MA arc copy from Live to Test did NOT happen as planned. Both Test Servers still have the original Test Server arc database.
How exactly does it work? Is it total stars rated or 100 ratings?
I ask because I currently have an arc (ID 188672, if you're wondering and it is a work in progress) that has a 4 star rating at 22 votes, yet no idea how close I actually am to getting the badge.