Reduced Badge Requirements in I16

I'm not sure about reducing the requirements. It will greatly depend on which badges get reduced. If some of the top level epic badges get tweaked, I would love it. However, if it turns already fairly easy badges into Gimme Badges, then no. I want atleast some challenge.

I look at what they've already taken out and what they reduced previously and I just hope that reducing requirements doesnt mean we're losing badges too.

I am not overly concerned about the badge nerfing now that I think about it, I have most all of them except oddly for a few of the "just have to show up" badges. I am sure any new badges will be a joke as well.

So in closing to add to this I want them to nerf the anniversary badges and make them obtainable too, and as easily as any other to be nerfed badge.

There's an interesting attitude I see in some of the badgers. It reminds me of a discussion I had years ago with my brother, a medical doctor. He told me about the insanely long hours interns at his hospital had to pull. A shift of 30-40 hours straight was common. But what multiple studies had shown that being intensely sleep deprived has the same effect on your decision-making as being drunk, i.e. it's really bad news. So the logical conclusion would be to put interns on more normal shifts, right? These guys are quite literally making life and death decisions, after all (and screwing them up, costing lives). Nope! The attitude among the senior staff was "Hey, I had to go through that hell and there's no way these wimp young wanna-be's are gonna skip out on it."

This is a game we're talking about. It's supposed to be fun. Sure, it should have challenges, even some extremely difficult ones. But the challenges should be intentional and they should be part of a thoughtfully designed framework. Accolade requirements like having to get 10 million points of damage or defeat 500 summoned illusionists were designed without an understanding of what was reasonable in regular gameplay. It's the right decision to tone them down. I don't want to see them trivialized, but I'm confident Synapse won't do that. I think there's a happy medium that's possible between stupidly difficult and stupidly trivial.

As it stands now, You have to bring-up the "Powers" windows (generally at the bottom right) and find it in the "Temp Powers" section and right-click it there, then select Delete Power.

And what would seem to be the obvious way = Right-Clicking on the Temp Power up in the - uhm... 'Buff Bar'(?) - the string of buffs/active accolades/temp powers/etc. just below your HP/END/XP UI - and trying to delete them from there... Doesn't Work!

Which is annoying to say the least, you also can't see the time remaining on these without going down into the powers window and clicking for time left.

And unfortunately - this is also true with some other temp powers, and timed day job buffs = last time I checked...
I'm certain they tweaked some of these at some point not all that long ago. But, I don't believe they got around to "fixing" all of them yet... YMMV.

EDIT: To be clear I was referring to subject of deleting Empowerment Buffs, that was mentioned above, you CAN do it - but its a major PITA.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

A couple replies in one:

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat I don't care much about badges one way or the other, but it's stupid to degrade the achievement of people who got their the "hard way" by handing them out like candy now.

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Originally Posted by _23X_ If anything I would look forward to see what time difference is made over all; it took me 33 months of fairly regular game play to get the epic badges, wonder how much faster it will be doable after what ever changes take effect.

I think both of you both are missing the point: If you are complaining about the epic healing or damage badges and if they are being reduced, then you are complaining about the amount of time you deliberately "wasted" using an exploit to get a reward with out effort on your part. By AFK farming, you were not playing to get the badges. If you used the arena farms for the healing badges, then you knowingly used a bug in the game to get credit for heals on targets with full health.

I think that anyone who knowing uses an exploit loses all grounds for objections.

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Originally Posted by _23X_ I see your point, and to some extent even agree, as I stated above I no longer have an issue with them trivializing badges and by extension badge hunting. However based on recent statements and actions I do disagree that the changes made will be anything other than trivializing them.

I see that you feel that this thread needed more "DOOM".

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Originally Posted by _23X_ There are very few badges that require skill or effort to get, most are just a timesink. Which the game then becomes one of efficient use of time.

I think a better way to put your statement is the way people that share your opinion seem to want to use against those that want reasonable requirements: "You want teh badges NAO!"

People that want reasonable badge requirements do not want the badges now, they want to play the game and earn rewards for playing the game. That you and others have subverted that to mean get all the badges "as quick as possible" using whatever means needed to achieve that goal is the fault of the people doing this, not the developers or the regular users.

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The damage badge for the accolade is the only one I think needs drastic change. It should be a reasonable amount of damage that you can actually get from playing the game in a normal way, rather than leaving your character logged in overnight while taking damage....for many, many nights.

Were did that juicy list come from?

I really like those changes! Especially to the Red-Side accolade!

I thought this list would be shown in a Test Patch Note as they were posted yesterday by someone else I know from another site, hmm...wondering if I'm posting something I'm not supposed to >.>

Looks like.