Global badges

Suggestion: Make badges attach to account rather than to a character.

I like my badges all the almost 500 my badge collector toon has but unfortunately I don't like that character anymore. The thought of start collecting those pesky badges with another toon makes me want to poke my eyes with a rusty nail instead.

Sure it would have some "whiny aspects" like getting all the day job badges too "easily" but the fun factor would definitely out weight the whiny ones. I could continue collecting the badges with my scrapper that I like more nowadays.

Certain badges make sense to be global, as it's the user's accolade rather than the toon. Veteran, expansion pack owner, creative genius, uber cool mission architect, forum poster, etc.

But for killing X enemies, exploring X locations, those should remain with the toon that earned them. Otherwise Outbreak and Breakout will see spawns of Rikti killers the like of which the world as never seen, and make the starting missions be completely irrelevant to the toon being played, who will have conquered worlds.

Event badges as global badges would be... Nice.

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Why?

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Because the rest would be lazy? And make getting a badge less of an achievement?

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Event badges as global badges would be... Nice.

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Because the rest would be lazy? And make getting a badge less of an achievement?

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Not to mention the problems that would arise when you have a hero and a villain... different versions of the same badge, which name do you keep? Badges that are faction-only, how are they handled?

Not really feeling this one.

Yes well... as soon as you have collected around 500 badges in villains or heroes and do it with a second toon you can start looking down to us "lazy" people.

And hat comes to the little technical problems I'm sure the intelligent people in NC would come up with a way to separate villain badges visible to the villain characters and vice versa.

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Yes well... as soon as you have collected around 500 badges in villains or heroes and do it with a second toon you can look down to the "lazy" people.

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So collecting 500 badges and then also getting them automatically on the rest of your characters is not...Lazy?

Be proud of your collection. If you had identical collection of badges on all characters... How much pride would you have in it?

Sorry just don't see the point really the largest percentage of the badges track your characters progression as a hero or villain recording there achievements.

why would a lvl 1 villain have the badge for defeating recluse a mission you cant get till your well into the 40s

then there's the accolades making badges global would effectively give a lvl 1 all the accolades you had collected

unlock able contacts would be unlocked even though you hadn't done the tasks that unlock that contact on the character

and finally unlock able weapons and costume pieces while i would love to see these awarded on a account wide doing so would remove some of the drive to get to the point where they can be unlocked.

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Yes well... as soon as you have collected around 500 badges in villains or heroes and do it with a second toon you can look down to the "lazy" people.

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So collecting 500 badges and then also getting them automatically on the rest of your characters is not...Lazy?

Be proud of your collection. If you had identical collection of badges on all characters... How much pride would you have in it?

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Not lazy. Reasonable. Getting than many badges is a huge task and I don't want to do it again partly because lot of it consist doing hours of mindless grind, logging off, spending time in one area etc.

Anyways... this is my opinion. I would like to start collecting those new MA badges but I don't want to play with my blaster anymore (main badger) and having badges spread to multiple toons just wont make me feel good or make any sense. Maybe it does to you but again not me.

Why cant badges mark MY progress trough the game and not the characters I choose to play?

Having been here long as I collecting badges is pretty much only thing worth doing (and I use word "worth" very lightly here).

Luckily CO is just around the corner and will offer me hopefully something meaningful to do again.

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Luckily CO is just around the corner and will offer me hopefully something meaningful to do again.

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Ahhh, here we are...

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

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Luckily CO is just around the corner and will offer me hopefully something meaningful to do again.

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Ahhh, here we are...

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Where? Does my anticipation of some other game somehow diminish the value of my suggestion?

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Luckily CO is just around the corner and will offer me hopefully something meaningful to do again.

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Ahhh, here we are...

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Where? Does my anticipation of some other game somehow diminish the value of my suggestion?

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Just gives a general vibe of... "Do this or I'm leaving".

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Luckily CO is just around the corner and will offer me hopefully something meaningful to do again.

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Ahhh, here we are...

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Where? Does my anticipation of some other game somehow diminish the value of my suggestion?

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Just gives a general vibe of... "Do this or I'm leaving".

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You have misunderstood and tried to read some meaning in my post that is not there. Common mistake enough in forums. I am not trying to threat anyone. Just saying what I think. I will most definitely leave as soon as something interesting like CO comes along but I will probably pop back in CoX every now and then regardless of what they do with my suggestion. It would just make my visit more pleasurable.

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Yes well... as soon as you have collected around 500 badges in villains or heroes and do it with a second toon you can start looking down to us "lazy" people.

And hat comes to the little technical problems I'm sure the intelligent people in NC would come up with a way to separate villain badges visible to the villain characters and vice versa.

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I do hope that wasn't directed at me... considering the badges on my toons. And no, they should not mark YOUR progress, there are specific badges for that, the Veteran ones. Anything else, as much as it may pain you is character related. Why should a toon who has never fought Carnies have the Illusionist badge? Or any of the other defeats? Or the PvP ones despite not ever having set foot in a PvP zone? Or the the Healing ones, Damage ones... on and on. It demeans their perceived "value" and cheapens them. If you really, really want them, go out and get them again. Heck, look at Salacious! He's crazy and I'd never do what he did/does, but that shows how much he likes and wants his badges.

If you think CO will do it any other way, well that path leads to delusion. Inside the time sink that are MMO, badges are another time sink that allows for the game owners to have players "waste" more time in collecting them thus assuring continued subscriptions. Yes, it's a though world. But I trust you're a grown up man and used to it by now?

Have fun on CO anywho.

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Yes well... as soon as you have collected around 500 badges in villains or heroes and do it with a second toon you can start looking down to us "lazy" people.

And hat comes to the little technical problems I'm sure the intelligent people in NC would come up with a way to separate villain badges visible to the villain characters and vice versa.

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I do hope that wasn't directed at me... considering the badges on my toons. And no, they should not mark YOUR progress, there are specific badges for that, the Veteran ones. Anything else, as much as it may pain you is character related. Why should a toon who has never fought Carnies have the Illusionist badge? Or any of the other defeats? Or the PvP ones despite not ever having set foot in a PvP zone? Or the the Healing ones, Damage ones... on and on. It demeans their perceived "value" and cheapens them. If you really, really want them, go out and get them again. Heck, look at Salacious! He's crazy and I'd never do what he did/does, but that shows how much he likes and wants his badges.

If you think CO will do it any other way, well that path leads to delusion. Inside the time sink that are MMO, badges are another time sink that allows for the game owners to have players "waste" more time in collecting them thus assuring continued subscriptions. Yes, it's a though world. But I trust you're a grown up man and used to it by now?

Have fun on CO anywho.

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You don't seem to get it. That is exactly what I am suggesting that should be changed. Shift the badges from characters to account. No point arguing how it would not make sense to blaster who cant heal if that is not the idea anymore. Get it? You are arguing besides the point.

We can agree to disagree. Nevertheless that is my suggestion and it does make sense to me... otherwise I wouldn't be suggesting it right?

CO will be another time/money sink of course but at least it is something new. And it will be fun for a while again until it gets boring. I think we can drop the CO subject since it has nothing to do with my suggestion and as a "person at some age" you can see that right?

If they were going to do that they should adjust the numbers required for defeats so on a basic account if you only play on one server 12 slots so i recon they should times all requirements by 12 if they were to make badges global.

So instead of needing 500 skuls for the "Kill Skuls Badge" you would need 6000

or to unlock the nictus sword and shield you would need to defeat romi 60 times

because as it is the required numbers are balanced per charichter so to make it global you would need to balance it for multiple characters.