PvP Rep / Badge Questions

You lose no reputaion for being defeated.

I believe reputaion gained is dependant on several factors. The amount gained is higher if the person defeated has more reputation than you. Reputation gained is also spread between all the members of your team. I don't have actual numbers. Perhaps someone else can provide a more detailed answer here.

It's cumulative. But you lose reputaion at a rate of 2 points per day.

Hi,

I saw your post regarding dual boxing for these badges, and it inspired me

Thanks to you both for the info. I've been at this for hours, and still have a few more to go. Why it's set at 400 is beyond me

This is not entirely true. 400 rep is the cap, and you have to hit the cap to earn the badge.

You do lose rep every day, whether you log in to the game or not though.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

None.


It depends. Assuming they are SOLO, if the person doing the killing has 80 or less rep, they get SIX. Any time you defeat a target with a rep 20 or more points above yours, you get five bonus rep in addition to the one standard rep. If the targets rep is lower, it doesn't matter. Even if they have zero and you have 390, you still get one. If the killer is on a team, the rep is divided equally.


um, neither, sort of. Rep 'deteriorates'. You lose 1/10 point per hour, maximum of 2 points per day. So while the total is cumulative, the total is constantly declining.

Firstly, you didn't have 401. You can't get above 400.

There is not a 'scale' for rep award. You either get 1 or 6. In your case, the killer had zero. If they killed someone with a rep of 20 - 400, they would get the 6 pts.

Doesn't really make sense and unless I'm mistaken, doesn't answer the question. So, pretend I earn 398 rep in one day and then log in the next day (I will have lost two so my total is now 396). Do I need 4 more or 2 more to get the badge?

4 more means I need 400 "at one time".

2 more means I need 400 "over the course of my career". Which is it?

4 more.

As mentioned, the badge isn't really for earning 400 rep, but for reaching the cap of 400, which includes re-earning points that you have lost due to the decay.

It made perfect sense and I guess the original question wasn't entirely clear.
At any rate, the badge is for hitting a rep of 400 at that moment. Open the rep window and whatever number it displays is the number it's using - get that to hit 400 and you're done. So time is an issue. If you only work on it one day a week, you'll be down 14 when you get back to it the following week and have to earn 14 just to get back to where you were.

Hi,

Correct, I did not have 401 points of rep, I actually had 401.5 points when I left Bloody Bay.

However we are both right, with the only difference being that I can prove your statement. I took screenshots of my totals at 401.5 but.... continued later!

As is obvious from my queries in another thread on this badge quest, I have never done this activity before and with one main Badger it was always going to be one of those tedious tasks that I would not be repeating.

Because of this I like to keep detailed records and screenies of significant events ie the fallen body of my first soloed GM or the first team I ran with on the STF. That is why I know precisely what salvage I got and on what defeat it arrived.

Immediately after the award of Disrupter and Longbow Warden 2 badges I was showing a rep of 400.5 points.

I wanted to take screenies back in the Shards ( so I could get a decent composure) where I was going to park up for the day job. I also wanted to defeat this toon with one of the lowbies just to see what rep it got for defeating a high rep foe.

So in order to ensure I would have at least a 400 rep to photo, I defeated one more foe and had a visual rep of 401.5. I then took a quick screenie of the corpse with the rep showing (/screenshotui 1).

Off to the Shards via the hospital and onto the photo shoot. When I opened the gui I had 400 rep that immediately dropped to 399.9. I was confused and annoyed but had to log off so could not mess about trying to sort out what had happened.

The next morning I went to check my screenies in the Screenshot folder of my CoX root directory only to find it did not exist and I had no screenies at all of the last few days activities.

I upgraded this machine from Vista to Win 7 five days ago and I can only assume that the new system of "Libraries" it uses has messed up the print Screen system or how it saves them. I now can only get a screenie if I hit printscreen and go directly to "Paint", then paste and save as! This sucks and I am asking about it in the Tech Forum.

After your post as quoted I returned to Bloddy with a rep of 396.2 and ran a few more defeats. This time I hit 400 dead and it would not increase further. I also got the message "You received 0 rep" when I went from 399.2 to 400. Presumably because I earned less than 1?

So I can only assume that the first running of rep to 400 does not trigger the cutoff until you either leave the zone or the decay drops you below 400 for the first time. A bit like getting the time in zone badge awarded when you first leave the zone after qualifying for it.

So my experience will always be just anecdotal and I will never have the screenie I actually wanted but at least I discovered the problem I have with taking them.

I now wonder just how high I could have got the rep counter up to if I had kept defeating at the first run! I have no interest in repeating it all just to find out

Cheers

Damn. You had all kinds of weirdness going on.
In my experience, the counter would never go above 400. I guess the game 'remembered' that when you zoned.
Also, it has given messages for rep as low as .1 so I don't know what it was thinking when you got .8 and it said 0.

Anyway, congratulations on getting the badge. I'm glad that whatever wonkiness was going on didn't interfere with the badge awarding.

This has been my exact experience also (and the same experience as a fair number of other players, mostly badgers, who I've spoken to). Sounds like a number of glitches all happening around the same activity. How odd.

In any case, congrats on the 400 PvP rep badges, jacktar!

Congrats!!!

Please note:
1) For arena healing, heroes and villains can be on the same team.
2) More people on the team = more healing credit.
3) I do this 4-5 nights per week.
4) We're both on Infinity.

I am currently working on the healing badges for SG #25. If anyone has an SG on Infinity that you fear will never be able to have the Auto Doc or Robo Surgery, drop me a line.