City tours?

Hello. This is but the beginning of an idea, one that would require a bit of coordination for a good many players. But here goes.

Issue 17 put into place 20 new accolades, 13 blue, 7 red, for exploring the city. They were fun to get for the first time, but it got a bit tedious for an altoholic such as I to grab them all, again and again on differing characters. Each one gives 5 merits and 8 badges, so it's still very worthwhile.

This got me thinking. If we had one tp'er at each of the 8 points, we could have them grab 7 people, drop them, and the next person at the next point could then join the 7 person team, teleport, and so on. A full team could go through a zone seamlessly in this way, swapping one slot to the next teleporter. The end result? Blueside we can earn 117 badges and 65 merits for the participating alts, and 63 badges/ 35 merits redside. Getting in smoothed out, we could get any number of teams in rotation, making it easy for everyone.

I'm thinking to make it smoothest we would have 9 people to teleport: 1 per location, one at the next zone entry. If any SG's need a teleport beacon, this is a good way to get those as well. Once the first badge tp'er had gotten however number of participants through, they could then go to the first location in the next zone. We could also do the blueside hazard zones; but I'd steer clear of the PvP zones, just to avoid any unnecessary conflicts.

With GR around the corner, this could be expanded to include cross-faction visitors, which could grant a whopping 180 badges, 100 merits. (provided they hadn't been found before.)

As we do this, it might be nice for those aboard to share zone tips. (X near here is a good day job spot you may not have seen, Y is a good shortcut to Zone B, the base/ouro portal are good for getting you to such-and such, hidden contact is over yonder, and so on.) If there are other local badges/monsters, coordinating to get those badges would sweeten this further.

While I don't have a blueside teleporter, I do have a redside one. (Though greyside after GR.) It would also help if there were 50's/highbies leading teams/teleporting to SSK any lower level participants out of danger in higher zones. If there aren't that many who'd be interested in this, then I'll let this slide. T'was just an idea. Who'd be up for it?

(...And yes, I'm aware that this is a very taxibot thing to do, I'm just not sure if they're doing anything around here anymore, and doing this with as many people as possible would make it more worth the time/trouble.)

I still need them on my main as soon as i reactivate my other account

I'd be willing to help out blueside. I've got Recall Friend and the Vet TP available on my main.

Just let me know when you plan to do it.

I'd be glad to do this on a Sunday afternoon.

I did this once a while ago, but surprisingly had little interest overall...at most the team had six or seven people, despite being advertised in various channels.

Always happy to help people get their explore badges or history plaques though, so let know if you need a hand there.