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It may be worth site-checking your setting icons after you kick it off. One of my Master crews had a similar experience when, after the first mish, we exited right into a zombie ambush (Halloween event), and one of us died - but didn't trigger a TF failure.

Upon closer investigation, it showed on our team icon status that we had the "no temp powers" icon enabled... but not the zero defeats, although the team master was virtually 100% sure he'd set it.

So, just make sure after you start the team that you have both sets of status icons active. Won't guarantee you'll get the badge next time, but it'll narrow down one avenue of failure at least.

Good point on the day/night cycle. I was thinking in macro (across years) vs micro (the in-game day/night graphics turn).

So, to get all the Day Jobs (which is what a lotta badgers are getting finished with now), what's the math on that for skillset learning, by your example?

Same here. The environment in Aion is just ridiculously gorgeous. Speeding through those areas detracts from the in-game experience.

Same with many parts of COH too, although the eye candy isn't as impressive as Aion. Hovering through the vertical concrete canyon of Steel is a great way to spend five minutes en route to the tailor.

Holy crap, that's awesome.

*looks to the left...*

...and in other news, I have a lot of work to get me a red bar now. ;(

The DJs typically reward you for time spent, logged off, in a given area. Patroller is the catch-all for all the non-DJ zones. Sorry, but you can't compare the act of "logging off" pretty much anywhere as being more difficult than getting an explore badge.

One is a positive action executed the game. The other is an action you take when leaving the game.

I was waiting for this argument. Yep, it's different, because you're bringing your character into the game during a time window. Again, it's a positive action, not a negative one. You're there to (supposedly) celebrate the game's anniversary, so they gave you a badge to say "yeah, you were there, here's your cookie".

Personally, I feel the anniversary badges should be tabulated differently, but it's still consistent with the "do in-game action X, get in-game reward Y".

Rational, within the confines of the design of the game. I don't expect to have to take my hero biannually for dental exams, or to pay taxes, or to eat regularly.

But there's a difference when you say "this person has FIFTEEN JOBS AT THE SAME TIME." Tell me that doesn't make you go "whuh?" a little bit when you hear it.

What you're not "getting" is that I have no problem with having a Day Job. What you're not "getting" is that I have a problem with having more than ONE day job at a time. My argument is to have each DJ overwrite the previous one. My method in no way restricts your creative desire to have a particular role. If anything, it CERTIFIES it and encourages consistency.

There is no reason why you shouldn't support my idea, unless you just want more badges. And that's what my suggested alternative addresses: Because the badges accrue for the score of DJs and accolades, the goal here is to "get them all" - which means you're regularly and actively electing to stay "logged out" of a toon to acquire them. My alternative ameliorates that significantly while still keeping the spirit of the intention alive and well.

Not really. Time as far as in-game references to events moves analogously to real time. They make distinctions for temp powers of "in game time" vs "real time" to denote how long a power lasts, but that doesn't infer that one moves faster or slower than the other.

Yeah, I was one of the REALLY close ones towards the end there; got too close to Reichs, got stunned, and he chewed through my maxed out resists and nearly made Warshade Pâté with me. Almost had a Bad Luck moment there. XD

(That should be an award for the Horde now...)

Good run from everyone!

Actually, I felt my breakdown was pretty simple and sensible. A "badge" for "doing nothing" is unprecedented in the Badge system previous to Day Jobs. For every badge before this, it was a "positive" experience in COH: You took down 200 Toxic Tarantulas; you healed a billion points of damage; you fought the AVs/Heroes in Recluse's Victory; you maintained your presence in-game for the anniversaries.

The Day Job badges reward you for not playing your character for X days. You can thematically argue any number of angles, but that's the gist of it. "Here's a reward for parking your toon for three weeks."

I get the point of them: When your character is "not being a hero/villain", they're doing something during the day, and there should be a return for that. Yay, I back that, rock on. Let's get the temp powers to indicate where you logged off. Let's earn a title if you log out for X days in that area.

But don't let the badges accrue. Have them replace one another. To contradict someone's defense of the system earlier, you're SERIOUSLY stretching the bounds of rational explanation to have someone who's a mortician, a day trader, a pilot, a caregiver, a professor, a fashion designer, AND a banker.

Yes: You can hop from one job to another. What I'm saying is, it shouldn't be as easy as by just clicking on a badge title. If you were a Mortician for a few months, and suddenly you felt like being a fashion designer, then when you log off, you do so at ICON for a few weeks. Boom, you get it, but in this case, it's a decision with a sense of consequence.

Allowing the badges to accrue, instead of having it as one of potential "day job" badges (like how the Patron badges work), just panders mindlessly to the "must have them all" crowd. I sympathize; I'm one of them, and I have the badges to prove it. But in this case, even I look at it and say, "wow, that system just doesn't work well thematically."

A better title could not have been assign'd.

Stonefyre team, not so lucky. Good run overall, however. One death. Stupid drogoh. It wasn't even an interesting death, he was drinking beer and got hit by an ambush while he was off on the side in mish 3.

I'm inclined to agree; when AE was in its heyday, I felt the "sweet spot" for just enough DB space w/o too much overhead was 125KB.

Agreed. I'm tickled pink by these prospects.

This, basically.

I hate the idea of a badge that rewards you for doing nothing. It's antithetical to all previous badges.

That, and the concept behind them is skewed wrong. "I can have fifteen day jobs? REALLY?" C'mon. The better, in-theme way to implement this would be to keep the original timer, 21 days, or heck, make it 30 or 60 days, and you pick one job at a time. It overwrites previous jobs like the Patron badges do. That way, you can't be a Mortician, Caregiver, City Official AND a Day Trader; you pick one job, and stay with it.

Accrue the side powers and let them stack normally, that's fine; but day jobs make for a crappy excuse for a badge that rewards you for time NOT spent in a game, alts or not.

We are the Horde. Resistance is fertile.

Ta-daaaa.

Paragon: ERP.

Then never play those arcs, and everyone will be happy.

Just wanted to comment on this: If you read my arc descriptions in the Architect search engine, I build my arcs to be played on "Heroic/Solo" for an effective challenge. Gin'zago, for mission 1, should have spawned as a "Boss" for you if so. I noticed you've submitted your vote, so I'm not challenging that, but if you'd care to give my arc set another go, read the notes I put in the arc description for recommended play level settings. Thanks. I don't know what sort of toon you brought to this, but I playtested this with a blaster, controller, scrapper and mastermind, and had a good fight but no stress in the fight. (Later on was a bit more challenging though, so be warned.)

Bubba: Thanks for the heads up. Best of luck to all the competitors! I haven't seen most of these arcs, so I'll abstain on voting (for myself even, cuz that's not fair if I don't know the other stories), but I'll be watching for the upcoming verdict.

Above all, tell good stories, people. I look forward to seeing the winner's circle.

*mwah* Heya, my favorite Infinitian.

And my AXE!





...toon TBA, but yeah, count me in.

EDIT: Okay, the choices for this run are, in order of my preference:

Blackest Light (Lvl 50 Warshade)
Cerulean Skie (Lvl 50 Elec/Nrg Blaster)
Ultima Ratio Regum (Lvl 50 BS/Shield Scrapper)

I'd prefer BL for badging purposes, but if we need more raw damage I could do the others.

It's the best reason to be writing: For the sake of the story. Kudos, bub.