There's a thread over in the beta forums here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=294433
compiling the badges found so far.
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At this point, it is looking like it is going to be a badge-light issue. Mainly accomplishment badges.
And I still haven't found a group capable of doing the Hard Way badge, let alone the Really Hard Way. 
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Sorry for the gripe, but I don't feel like a "master of badges". I know it isn't solely my fault in this case though, but it doesn't matter.
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Seriously? I find that The Hard Way falls out of most (failed as I have yet to succeed) RHW attempts and even regular runs. The Hard Way isn't even really that hard.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
And I still haven't found a group capable of doing the Hard Way badge, let alone the Really Hard Way.
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I'm serious. Either I'm finding a new griefer every run, someone new that "wants to try the temp power" or just not get enough people bringing enough ability/DPS. I'm still seeing 2/3 the groups wiping out due to lightning strikes. Then again, I see the exact same thing with the MoM trials too.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Seriously? I find that The Hard Way falls out of most (failed as I have yet to succeed) RHW attempts and even regular runs. The Hard Way isn't even really that hard.
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It has got to the point that two of the leaders (myself and one other) have pretty much given up on the Really Hard/Hard Way badges. Some of the people that were supportive earlier have taken to refusing to do the trial at all.
So much for some players saying "oh well, people will get used to it". Kind of hard to do that when the trial has been pretty much abandoned. Yes, I (and the other trial leader) are keeping tabs on the trial situation and outside the two of us NO ONE is leading them on Triumph.
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And that is why, since the Magisterium appeared on Beta, that I've been so adamant about what is wrong with this trial. I knew, KNEW, exactly what would happen on Triumph with the trial as it stood. The Lore pet nerf pretty much eliminated any hope that Triumph will get the Hard Way badge any time soon.
Not only that, but people are leaving for other servers to do trials. I'm one of the few people that are willing to lead trials, and I'm so annoyed with what I can get to do trials at the moment that I've been playing another game instead. Yes, it has got this bad. I still remember other players offering to "come to Triumph" to "help out". Well, they stopped and so did the trials.
So for all the people that told me that "It would get better":
I told you so.
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I only called you "master" cause you are on the ball with getting issue badges n stuff up on forums ^^|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
At this point, it is looking like it is going to be a badge-light issue. Mainly accomplishment badges.
And I still haven't found a group capable of doing the Hard Way badge, let alone the Really Hard Way. Edit: Sorry for the gripe, but I don't feel like a "master of badges". I know it isn't solely my fault in this case though, but it doesn't matter. |
And also: Yeah I have only 2 badges still from Mag trial... 1 out of like 20 teams ive been got through it and have SHadow master and completion badge.... thats all :C and so many people farming 1st half is mostly done.
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Thank you for the compliment.|
Originally Posted by Blackleviathan
I only called you "master" cause you are on the ball with getting issue badges n stuff up on forums ^^
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PunchinJudy gave the link to the I24 badge consolidation thread, and I've just updated it in the last 30 minutes.
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Sounds more like a server community problem than a problem with the trial itself. The Hard Way is virtually guaranteed on Magi runs over on Pinnacle with some leagues getting it without even really trying (Tyrant goes down so quickly that nobody even bothers to use the temp). We haven't managed to get RHW yet but other servers have, so it's definitely possible. And it will get better as we get more Incarnate powers; remember, we're not even supposed to be able to get RHW yet.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I'm serious. Either I'm finding a new griefer every run, someone new that "wants to try the temp power" or just not get enough people bringing enough ability/DPS. I'm still seeing 2/3 the groups wiping out due to lightning strikes. Then again, I see the exact same thing with the MoM trials too.
*snip* So for all the people that told me that "It would get better": I told you so. |
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We have people transferring to Infinity to get the badge (RHW). I would think there are groups on other servers also running it regularly. Infinity currently does a couple of runs every Sunday evening after our mothership raid (which starts around 8EST).|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
It has got to the point that two of the leaders (myself and one other) have pretty much given up on the Really Hard/Hard Way badges. Some of the people that were supportive earlier have taken to refusing to do the trial at all.
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Basically, we have two teams (mostly corrs, for the extra scourge damage) of people who know the drill and are willing to run it repeatedly to get other people the badge. That allows a full team of just about any AT. We don't succeed on every run, but we're averaging.... I would guess around 75-80% success rate? I haven't been keeping stats. We certainly succeed more than we fail - and by a good margin.
After I got the badge on my badger toon, I got my fire/thermal corr to 50+3 just to help on this trial. Recently, the people who lead it have also starting doing a run or two on another night since Sunday doesn't work for everyone. I can't recall, though, whether it was Friday or Saturday.
Now, the potential obstacle is that many people (myself included) refuse to hop servers for a badge, no matter how many free transfers we have (I have 16 - I bought extra on sale). In my case, I run an SG and have a big prestige number next to my name and that's more important to me than a badge.
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Good point. I would expect a resurgence in people trying for the badge when we get another incarnate power that improves performance in the trial. Not to mention when we get the next level shift.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
And it will get better as we get more Incarnate powers; remember, we're not even supposed to be able to get RHW yet.
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Sorry, we're half way through the planned Incarnate Slots. Unless the ones we're missing are completely and game-breakingly overpowered, I'm going to say that even then it is going to be difficult/impossible to get on some servers. Why? It is because I sincerely doubt that that many people will still be doing the Incarnate stuff on Triumph. People aren't going to get 5-6 characters to Omega, much less having multiple abilities in many slots. And that is if there will be enough to fill out a league at that point because people have left for other servers.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
And it will get better as we get more Incarnate powers; remember, we're not even supposed to be able to get RHW yet.
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I don't think we'll get another level shift until Omega, if then. Even at that point, I doubt people will bother because they'll be after the Omega-level trial badges.
People don't bother running any of the trials at this point, especially MoM, DD, or Underground. There are still BAFs, Keyes, or TPNs, but even those aren't frequent. Lambda is somewhere closer to the first group. Also, completely forget about any badge runs.
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You got trial problems i feel bad for you, son/
I got 99 problems, but a badge ain't one!
...wait, i take it back. I still need the MoM and Keyes badges. D'oh =P
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I'll add that unless the Genesis through Omega slots allow players to to not get killed for not moving when the warnings appear (MoM, Green Stuff, and Lightnings), then they won't help.
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*shrug* Like I said, server community problem, not game problem.|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
People don't bother running any of the trials at this point, especially MoM, DD, or Underground. There are still BAFs, Keyes, or TPNs, but even those aren't frequent. Lambda is somewhere closer to the first group. Also, completely forget about any badge runs.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I'll add that unless the Genesis through Omega slots allow players to to not get killed for not moving when the warnings appear (MoM, Green Stuff, and Lightnings), then they won't help.
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One of the main problems Triumph has (beyond not being able to dodge), is that between other games and other servers, that the population has pretty much been decimated.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
*shrug* Like I said, server community problem, not game problem.
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It's true what Snow Globe says, Triumph is pretty much a ghost server these days.
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.
With the exception of 2 or 3 servers though... Aren't they all?
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I can't speak for the other non-Freedom/Virtue servers, but Pinnacle has zero problem with forming iTrials and just had its first successful RHW run last week with more to come. Sure, maybe you can't go to Atlas Broadcast and immediately get a full 8-person team like on Freedom, but I wouldn't consider that the definition of a "ghost server".
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
With the exception of 2 or 3 servers though... Aren't they all?
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To add to DarkGob's post, I play on both Champion and Infinity and haven't had a serious problem getting people together on either. On Champion I need to usually wait for the peak hours (but not always), Infinity it's going on all day. I've been on Exalted at times before, and that always seems to have stuff forming too. So I also disagree with the thought of all but 2-3 servers being ghost towns. Yes, Freedom and Virtue are the two biggest, but there's a decent population on several others.
Same here for Victory, far from a "ghost town".
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I can't speak for other servers, but with the exception of this last weekend, Triumph is almost a ghost town at this point.
More people are leaving the server than are coming to the server.
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I was on Triumph teaming with my brother and we had no trouble gathering people for a task force (PRIOR to 2XP weekend).
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That is disingenuous and you know it.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
I was on Triumph teaming with my brother and we had no trouble gathering people for a task force (PRIOR to 2XP weekend).
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1) We're talking about incarnate trials, not task forces.
2) For every player on a task force, there is one less player for a trial.
3) You could be talking about a year ago, not in the last month. You just said before a 2XP weekend.
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That's a load of bull, and you know it.|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
That is disingenuous and you know it.
1) We're talking about incarnate trials, not task forces. 2) For every player on a task force, there is one less player for a trial. 3) You could be talking about a year ago, not in the last month. You just said before a 2XP weekend. |
What you SAID is:
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I can't speak for other servers, but with the exception of this last weekend, Triumph is almost a ghost town at this point.
More people are leaving the server than are coming to the server. |
As for your point 3, don't be any more of a jerk than necessary. I don't pull that kind of nonsense. I was referring to the weekend before 2XP.
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anything yet for like zone events, arcs?
just wondering
hopefully the master of badges (snow globe) will have that info up