The "There should be a badge for that" Thread.
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Posted on: 2010-11-14 07:43 in Badges and Gladiators
Achieving the influence cap. That is, having 2bil influence on a character at once by any means (trades etc. are okay).
Jumping off of a skyscraper in Steel should also give one.
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Originally Posted by DSorrow
Achieving the influence cap. That is, having 2bil influence on a character at once by any means (trades etc. are okay).
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I always felt that there should be a badge for defeating the Longbow Ballista who constantly spawns in St. Martial.
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Technically that might be considered be too easy to get. There are already inf badges anyway... but to add to that idea, something that's not tradeable: how about for hitting the Merit Reward cap? |
Originally Posted by DSorrow
Achieving the influence cap. That is, having 2bil influence on a character at once by any means (trades etc. are okay).
Jumping off of a skyscraper in Steel should also give one. |
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Originally Posted by Smash_Zone
I always felt that there should be a badge for defeating the Longbow Ballista who constantly spawns in St. Martial.
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I want an accolade for completing all the Shard TFs.
There should be a badge for not collecting a single Exploration Badge. o.o
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Lol that could be quite tricky... my non-badge hunters run into them accidentally all the time, especially all the new ones scattered around. How would you measure it? Make it to 50 without getting one? Then do you lose it if you go out and get them? haha|
Originally Posted by Kheldarn
There should be a badge for not collecting a single Exploration Badge. o.o
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Well that's a good one, but the fact that it'd be impossible to go back and get later, I'm sure people are going to say no. lol
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we get badges for logging in on certain days, for walking past particular spots on the map, for all manner of profoundly un-challenging acts.
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Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Technically that might be considered be too easy to get.
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I guess you have a point there, but I guess I was just assuming we were trying to come up with something at least semi-challenging that already exists in-game that doesn't have a badge. I'm not necessarily saying no to the proposal.. just saying it would be easy/worthless to some people, and added to it by presenting the idea of badges for merits as well. That's certainly an achievement.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
we get badges for logging in on certain days, for walking past particular spots on the map, for all manner of profoundly un-challenging acts.
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badge for 100 void hunters
call it: "he's not an alien he's my brother" for non kelds, and maybe " stop bothering me kid" for Kelds
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Given what people have managed to build for, and the incarnate system, there should definately be badges for soloing Giant Monsters. Some people can do it already, and that number will only grow as more incarnate slots are unlocked.
For colliding with the edge of any zone map, here's an easter egg reference, and a "me too!" badge for everyone who couldn't quite get that troublesome OTHER War Wall blueside badge:
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Believe it or not, sitting on 2 billion is actually kinda hard for some people. Besides, we've got all those other inf badges.|
Originally Posted by Master-Blade
I guess you have a point there, but I guess I was just assuming we were trying to come up with something at least semi-challenging that already exists in-game that doesn't have a badge. I'm not necessarily saying no to the proposal.. just saying it would be easy/worthless to some people, and added to it by presenting the idea of badges for merits as well. That's certainly an achievement.
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Now DESTROYING 2 billion... Wait, you can destroy inf?
I'm currently working on titles and achievements in Guild Wars in order to get cool stuff in Guild Wars 2. It would be cool if I also got some badges in CoH for it. Cross-game promotion yay!
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We need a badge for destroying a Rikti Drop ship. I never understood why this GM size ship didn't gave a badge!
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I always wanted a KHTF style count badge for the number of times I defeated Frostfire, back when The Hollows was 'the thing'.
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Originally Posted by Emberly
I want an accolade for completing all the Shard TFs.
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Seriously, I'd like a badge for never having been defeated. It would go away upon any defeat for any reason. This would be useful for "hardcore" characters.
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Someone on Guardian walked from Ms Liberty to PI. Yes WALKED (using the Walk power). He deserves a badge but I really don't want to have to spend 90 minutes doing it for my badger but ... he does deserve one!
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Screw that, that guy needs a whole unlockable epic pool!|
Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
Someone on Guardian walked from Ms Liberty to PI. Yes WALKED (using the Walk power). He deserves a badge but I really don't want to have to spend 90 minutes doing it for my badger but ... he does deserve one!
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Enthusiastically /signed for the latter (would it be something along the lines of Money to Burn?). MUDflation is rampant these days around here, and the game is badly in need of inf. sinks.|
Originally Posted by Nethergoat
badge for hitting the inf cap, and another one for destroying 2b inf.
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In addition, how about badges for prestige exchange, e.g. in increments of 100M, 250M, 500M, and 1B? Maybe Donated to the Cause, Gave at the Office, and the like?
Edit: Curses, I hit "post" before "preview" and missed Commander's similar suggestion. (I'd still argue that smaller increments for multiple badges are better than a single one for the inf. cap in terms of a currency sink.)
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Perhaps a badge for distance travelled with the walk power toggled on?|
Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
Someone on Guardian walked from Ms Liberty to PI. Yes WALKED (using the Walk power). He deserves a badge but I really don't want to have to spend 90 minutes doing it for my badger but ... he does deserve one!
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And I would walk 500 miles...
I still think there should be a badge for completing all of the Ouroboros TFs (Lazarus, Silos, and Tesseract/Twilight's Son).
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The Devs (IIRC it was Positron specifically) said they didn't want to create a badge for the Rikti drop ships because they never intended those ships to be killable to begin with. Obviously it's generally known that with a good group of people working on it those ships can in fact be killed. I myself have been involved with bringing 6 or 7 of them down once they went Live (I don't count the ones I helped kill during the beta because they were much easier to kill during the beta).|
Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
We need a badge for destroying a Rikti Drop ship. I never understood why this GM size ship didn't gave a badge!
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While I usually like any idea for adding new badges to the game I can actually almost accept the Devs' reasoning on this one. It does take a serious effort from lots of people to take one down, more effort than is really reasonable. Then again once there are a bunch of Incarnates flying around taking down a Rikti drop ship might be seen to be more within the realm of "realistically doable" by the Devs.
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Originally Posted by Commander
Mr. Moneybags / Ms. Moneybags - You have put the needs of your super/villain group before the needs of your own. Earned by converting 2 Billion Inf. to prestige for your super/villain group. |
Besides based on how relatively easy it now is to earn (then burn) 2 billion INF I kind of think getting badges for that would be a bit of an overkill. I don't play the market as seriously as some people do, but if I made it a priority I could probably earn (then burn) 2 billion INF within a couple of weeks, if that long.
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Originally Posted by RosaQuartz
I still think there should be a badge for completing all of the Ouroboros TFs (Lazarus, Silos, and Tesseract/Twilight's Son).
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My main badging character has already done that.
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So, today I finally polished off my defeat badges and unlocked Viridian. I enjoyed his arc IMMENSELY. Now one of my favorite arcs. And hey, 13 merits for arc completion ain't too shabby either.
However, to get to the point of the thread:
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In the next to the last mission (Invite The Center) you're only required to defeat Burkholder, but you've got the option of either running for the door afterward to exit, death, or staying put and taking down a full gauntlet of council AVs.
Now, after the slick intro movie, and the fact that I simply never play blueside, I was thrilled that I had the opportunity to give Center the finger by sticking to my guns and beating the tar out of everything he threw at me (This was actually pretty difficult. They're auto-target ambushes.) By the time I took out Requiem I was severely pleased with myself.
Then I realized... I didn't really get anything out of it, and if I had died, I wouldn't have had a second chance.
There really should be a badge for that. Not only is it one hell of a task just to unlock Viridian, but the fact that the entire gauntlet is optional and doesn't leave room for failure just screams "shiny accomplishment badge"
So here's the thread. Tell me what else you've done that you SWEAR there should be a badge for!
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