Reduced Badge Requirements in I16

I'm not a badger, and I've only been playing for about 9 months, which is enough to get a sense of badges and that they are useful in getting accolades with additional powers and whatnot, and sometimes just the badge title for whatever reason.

It seems to me like if we equate the old requirements to, say, taxes, then people are complaining about their taxes going down. Yeah, you paid your taxes last year, but then you got to use the stop signs and schools those paid for all this while. Now they have lowered taxes but you are feeling slighted because people turning 18 now have to pay less taxes than you did and they get all your stop signs. That doesn't change that taxes have gone down and you have everything you had yesterday.

You are all republicans and I claim my five pounds.

Well, looks like it'll only be Popular and Leader for my badge toon now (and DJ and associated Accolades of course).

All badges look attainable now in my opinion, yet still need some grinding (keeping their epic feel, instead of the epic fail )

Thanks devs!

Being someone with all these badges on my villain, I'm not complaining or feel they've been cheapened in any way. I refused to do all of them again on my hero and with the lower requirements, I might actually give them a shot.

To be honest, there are enough people that have them now, that I don't find them to be a huge achievement. The badge I'm most proud of getting was Heatseeker. I was the one who spotted it and got the teams forming on Freedom when it was bugged and were the first ones to get that badge.

I don't care about the day jobs being 21 or 14 days. I am about a week from getting my next one, and have only 4 more to go after that(until GR), and 2 accolades to go with those 4.

I logged onto test server and got five badges. This rocks.

I agree with you on the point of having more challanges 23x.

(And raising my eyebrow on the reducing sg badges requirments aswell)

If there is no challanges, then it is not fun anymore. And we play to have fun.
For me the badge collecting game is one thing that keeps me playing the game. Because we have a good community for it, there are challanges, there is the fun and thrill of getting a badge that not "everybody" has... Well rephrase, which is too easy so that every Tom, D.. umm Richard and harry also has (but has the possibility of getting).
Call it e-peen or whatever. Some collect on getting fastest to lvl 50, or most lvl 50's, some want to be the best pvp'er, some wants to do every arc, some wants to roleplay, some wants to try every powerset there is, some want to play the marked, some want to run the same repeatable mission over and over again.

I just hope the game will not be too easy or watered down.
Yes we play the Dev's game and pay to play it. But when you pay for something over time you do get a feel of ownership of the game. Because you enjoy it or certain aspects of it.
(But that is a different discussion I think)..

right.. where was I?
Oh yes..
Love challanges, please don't water the game too far, some of us enjoy the badge-minigame (even if some of the Devs and many players might not).

I like the badge minigame too, I just don't think it should require or encourage unchallenging behavior (AFK badge farming) in order to be successful.

The Ouroboros badges are an example of a good set of badges. There's a lot of them, and they're tough to get (last night I slogged my way through a couple 1-14 arcs, it was torture), but the only way for you to get them is to work through them. That's a challenge I appreciate (even if I do start hurling obscenities at the screen...). Taking 10 million trillion damage? Defeating 10,000 Flying Dingus Minions? Not so much.

Still need to address the likes of Unveiler and Cap Buster redside.
Y'know, those horrible horrible, defeat X ones, which happen to be for unlockables....which are, sort of, nigh on impossible to achive?

Oh, and the ones for Rularuu weapons? Which are two arcs in the entirety of CoV?
Seriously, Heroes got enemy proliferation in the Hollows, and they have access to all the enemies they need. Villains? Fake Nems and Paragon Protectors in better numbers outside of missions, redcaps, Family bosses and Overseers in ANY numbers.

Please, kay, thanks.

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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.

Cap buster..
Talk to Dj zero (Provided you have him as a contact aka done the holliday event) and you get to do his missions as many times as you wish (and bust as many caps that you can. Or ask in a badgerchannel if someone can run that mission.

Family bosses?
Okay... for one of them underbosses/consigliares head to Nerva and street hunt.
For the other head head into Port Oakes. (Port oakes runs are nice soo many badges to be gained with an 8 man team).
But then yes any hunt X of any villain group is far easier the more players you have.

The rest of those you mentioned is harder to get yes, For PP's one needs to organize a team of like minded individuals and start scouring Grandville for them (Fab).

But the point of your post Techbot is very sound. There are far fewer chances or missions for villains to get several of them badges.
(Weatherman/Weathergirl... i'm looking at you)
Overseers, Outcasts, Paragon protectors (heroes have one mission with ONLY these) and hero side got more Fake Nemesis missions etc if my memory serves me right. Ofc its doing missions for nemesis, can't remember seeing many fakes spawn outdoors .