no badges for the solo hero/villian?

i noticed that you get badges for nearly everything you do in the game, cept for solo efforts. i know team-play is encouraged but there are some players who enjoy doing things "lone wolf" <--there's an idea --> sometimes. i honestly cannot believe there isnt one or a few already, considering you get AE badges, which is like getting rewarded for being a good PLer or doorsitting. i have recently returned to this game after about 4 years of WoW. with my brute i went from 8 to 26 soloing paper missions to get the badges needed for the "force of nature" accolade...which is alot of paper missions...i got it tho i know a few other players out there enjoy solo play, some ppl even solo TFs and AVs...FFS you even get badges for NOT playing. so why not a badge or two for the hero who works alone?

Not for nothing, but most of the badges are already from "solo efforts". From all the exploration and history badges, to the market and invention badges... if badges is your game, solo is your game. And while defeat badges, mission badges, and Ouro stuff can all be done as a team, it's often done solo as well.

In what way would you measure a badge for somebody being solo? Wouldn't existing characters already be exempt?

PS - If you are solo, who are you going to show your badge to?

Just the opposite. The ONLY badges that need a team are the healing, TF/SF and related Master badges. Everything else can be done solo.

come on now I earned that doorsitting badge fair and square.

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I agree, any reason for a new shiny badge is a good one. They have exemplaring/sidekicking badges, so why not?

I would consider most ( if not all ) the Oroboros badges solo, because good luck trying to get a team to do about 30-40 mission arc runs lol.

I would say that depends on what character you're trying to get the badges on. Back when the Ouro badges were introduced, I duoed a great many of them because a friend with a mind/emp found it difficult to complete them with the serious gimp settings. Conveniently, my badge toon is a /regen scrapper.

OP, don't listen to the haters. A lot of the people on this board are your typical fanbois who cannot hear ANYTHING that changes THEIR idea of this game. I think it's a great idea. I especially like the idea of a badge for solo'ing EB's and so forth. Certainly one for those brave folks who solo AV's/GM's. That is truly worthy of a badge.

Ignore the (game destroying) fanboi sycophants and keep posting good ideas.

I spend a good deal of my time in the game soloing. Heck, I probably spend most of my time soloing. But there's just no real reason to add badges to say, "Hey, I did this solo."

Every character needs to have the ability to get any badge. A Claws/Regen Scrapper is going to have no problems taking down an EB solo, while an Empathy/Energy Defender is probably not going to be able to overcome their regen, period. And a "you spent 50 hours running solo" badge is just pointless fluff at this point, because there's so little challenge to it that it's unnecessary (kind of like how the SKing badges are all pointless now with Issue 16's Super Sidekicking--if you're a team leader, you rack up all the badges crazy fast, because it counts EVERYBODY in your team as a sidekick individually). It would also be crazy easy to farm; you'd earn credit for it every time you logged in to check the markets or just to chat with friends, as long as you weren't on a team.

To recap: Solo challenge badges are inaccessible to too many builds, and "running solo" badges are just plain pointless because you don't have to do anything to earn them.

Remember, this is a Massively Multiplayer Online game. If you want to be rewarded specifically for solo play, I suggest you check out one of the hundreds of decent single-player games released over the last 25 years.

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

ok ok, look. getting a badge for spending 50 or w/e hours solo online isnt rlly what i had in mind, that would be as stupid as getting badges for NOT playing a toon, correct? but wait! you get dayjob badges doing that! why???? because heroes/villains have alter-egos...yet another concept well-known and recognized in CoH/CoV. Badges CAN be designed around solo play, and if implemented, hardcore badgers of any AT will find a way to get them. remember back when heroes used to get villians to confuse them into killing longbow in siren's call when CoV was new? and when non-support ATs w/o a heal other power take the medicine pool just to get the healing badges?

awarding solo badges would benefit the game, give players something else to work towards, none of which should be as simple as getting a badge for staying logged ingame for X amount of hours/days. awarding a badge for defeating an EB is one good idea, yet another avenue for solo badges could be to utilize those now-defunct information thingies and bringing back street-sweeping. something as simple as picking a zone and going at the mobs,, measure in defeats that stop measuring as soon as you team. to solve the problem of high-lvls ****** low-lvl zones cap them off at a lvl appropriate to the zone in which they are working. each zone can give a badge, eventually leading up to accolade maybe. hell, you could design whole story arcs for solo adventure. the possibilities are there, they can be controlled, and eventually players that are willing to put forth effort, and effort it would take b/c you wouldnt be able to farm them in teams. its all already there, it could be easily done. all it takes is story now, and everyone is happy because we get more badges to grind for. this also benefits the low-pop servers as it gives players something to do while LFT.

since when do ppl NOT want more badges? and if you don't then don't bother doing the work. i think the only reason anyone would shoot down an opportunity to earn more badges is because the actual time and effort a player would have to put forth to get them. just an idea tho, and one that adds to the atmosphere of the game AND your badge count.