New badge Idea for Alt'coholics
By
ClawsandEffect,
Posted on: 2011-03-23 09:46 in Suggestions and Ideas
People still pay for costume changes?
Anyway, seems like a pretty meaningless badge that could be obtained in about 5 minutes. /unsigned, give me something worth doing
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We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
So not only do you want a new set of badges that would be "farmed" just by instantly creating and deleting a bunch of temporary characters (as DarkGob mentioned) but you want them to be a "grindy" account based set of badges that have nothing to do with actually playing a specific character in this game? I don't want to be insulting but I really can't imagine a worse idea for a new type of badge for this game. Account-based badges are bad enough but account-based badges you have to grind to get? Thanks, but no thanks. 
I understand you'd like to come up with a way to recognize people who like to play a bunch of alts in the game but this is very much NOT the way to do that.
Loth 50 Fire/Rad Controller [1392 Badges] [300 non-AE Souvenirs]
Ryver 50 Ele� Blaster [1392 Badges]
Silandra 50 Peacebringer [1138 Badges] [No Redside Badges]
--{=====> Virtue ♀
/Unsigned for reasons mentioned above.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
I understand you'd like to come up with a way to recognize people who like to play a bunch of alts in the game but this is very much NOT the way to do that.
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Badges for playing alts? Sure.
This isn't a badge for playing them though. This is a badge for sitting in the character creation screen for a couple hours creating and deleting characters over and over. It doesn't have anything to do with actually playing the game, which is what badges are awarded for.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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Which is a ridiculous idea for a badge. That would be like the devs creating an entire series of badges for not even playing!|
Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
This.
Badges for playing alts? Sure. This isn't a badge for playing them though. This is a badge for sitting in the character creation screen for a couple hours creating and deleting characters over and over. It doesn't have anything to do with actually playing the game, which is what badges are awarded for. |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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At least Day Job badges are character-based badges and only require trivial amounts of effort to park your characters at certain locations to get them. I'm not saying they were the best idea for badges, but they are almost infinitely better than this metagamey alt-badge idea. *shrugs*
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Which is a ridiculous idea for a badge. That would be like the devs creating an entire series of badges for not even playing!
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Loth 50 Fire/Rad Controller [1392 Badges] [300 non-AE Souvenirs]
Ryver 50 Ele� Blaster [1392 Badges]
Silandra 50 Peacebringer [1138 Badges] [No Redside Badges]
--{=====> Virtue ♀
I have an idea on a couple (if not 6) new badges . 1st set for the number of characters created and the 2nd set for the number of characters deleted.
This could be an account badge/ accolade for those Altcoholics that exist and have exceeded the default number of available character slots and deleted characters just to make room for a new concept character. There could be 3 levels of each badge with an accolade for all 6 badges that grant to holder ½ price Icon costume changes for the account.
Im not sure what to call each badge or how many should be created/deleted to grant the badges but it would be nice to see the in game Altcoholics via a badge.
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