Those are the "fame" bubbles. You can only have 5 of them filled at a time. They each last for 20 hours and they shrink in size as the countdown approaches the 20 hours mark for each one. This is how they keep us from switching alignments any faster than every 2 days.
You will not get any new tips as long as they are full and if say 3 are full you will not be able to get more than 2 tips.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
Thanks Swell Guy. When they disappear does a character lose any progress toward the goal (like switching alignments, affirming their alliance, etc). Or they simply are indicators of how many tips I can get atm?
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You do not lose progress when they run out. Just the opposite: they must run out before you can get more progress.
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They are merely indicators of when you will again get a) tips, and b) progress towards a morality mission again.
The fame points disappearing never reverse/remove progress.
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The filled-in shields are not meant as indicators of progress. They are actually cooldown timers; their purpose is to prevent you from running too many tips per day. |
Originally Posted by shaggy5
Thanks Swell Guy. When they disappear does a character lose any progress toward the goal (like switching alignments, affirming their alliance, etc). Or they simply are indicators of how many tips I can get atm?
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The little red bar is the progress indicator.
Thug--ok finally makes sense. I just wasn't getting. I thought they were indicators of progress so I didn't want to lose them. Just thinking of them as timers makes total sense.
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The in-game language about those things is confusing. In reality, the reason for the cooldown timer is because the dev's didn't want people to side-switch quickly or accumulate Alignment Merits too fast. It was rather difficult coming up with an in-story roleplay justification for that.
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Originally Posted by shaggy5
Thug--ok finally makes sense. I just wasn't getting. I thought they were indicators of progress so I didn't want to lose them. Just thinking of them as timers makes total sense.
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The actual progress bar is tiny and goes across the top. It's a mistake many people have been made. Of which I was one.
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I haven't had time to really delve into tip missions the way that others have. I have affirmed myself as a hero and villain on a few toons, but yesterday I experienced something I hadn't seen before. I logged into a scrapper who had been doing a team's tips the previous day. The alignment badges on the "contacts" screen were so small that I couldn't tell what they were (when I had ever seen them previously I could have between 0 and 5, but when I had one, it was full sized). When I put my pointer over them, it said it had been a certain amount of hours since I had proven myself to be a hero (or something like that).
So to my question, were these alignment icons shrinking and eventually going to disappear? If I do tip missions and get 4 icons but don't log in for a week (or whatever) will I start with zero again?
I hope this makes sense. Please advise.
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