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Home Badges: A New Type of Day Job

Blackavaar

By Blackavaar,
Posted on: 2009-06-08 10:13 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

Posted

Several of my heroes have adopted certain zones as their "home" zone. It's usually an RP idea that they are attached to a certain area and patrol that place most often.

I'd like to see a new form of a Day Job badge. By logging out in any area inside a zone that is not already occupied by a day job, you can work to earn that zone's Day Job Badge.

Title's can be something like:

"Steel Canyon Savior"
"Hero of King's Row"
"Menace of Mercy Isle"
etc, etc

This would allow anyone who has chosen to RP(oh no, arpeez!) a certain zone as their home to show it through an earned badge title and it expands the current Day Job system dramatically.

Unlike normal Day Job badges the Home Badges do not unlock any powers. They could possibly attach some sort of bonus for time spent inside your "home" zone. Example: 1 Day spent logged off in your home zone earns 1-in game hour of increased Recovery. This would work the same for all the Home badges, you'd just have to log off in your home zone to earn it.

[i]Edit 1: Added info regarding powers/bonuses for having the badge.[i]

 

Posted

Agreed, these badges should not offer any powers.

I forgot about the Trolls Task Force badge, the Day Job badges are all I could think of that was already in-game and similar to the idea.

I'll edit the original post to include this info.

 

Posted

Interesting idea, but couldn't you just use the Safeguard badges to denote your favored zone?

Badges like King's Righteousness, Freedom's Defender, Talos' Might and Founders' Protector seem like lovely monikers to represent such devotion.

And while your idea for Zone Day Jobs seems nice, wouldn't that kind of make the Patrol Day Job pointless?

And btw, Kings Row doesn't have an apostrophe.

 

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Badges like King's Righteousness, Freedom's Defender, Talos' Might and Founders' Protector seem like lovely monikers to represent such devotion.

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What zone does Freedom's Defender come from? That doesn't exactly scream Steel Canyon.

Also, this does nothing for villains, unless your villain used to live in Paragon City. And even then, badges like "King Maker" don't make very much sense anyway.

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Posted

The Safeguard/Mayhem badges "kind of" cover this Home Zone badge concept but not quite.
For one thing there are many other zones out there that aren't involved with Safeguards/Mayhems.

Maybe instead of making a new series of Day Job badges the Devs could provide each zone with a "spend X time in the zone" badge similar to the current PvP zone badges. If the Devs did this they could standardize all of these badges to the same reasonable time (say one hour). That way all of these new zone badges, the PvP zone badges and other existing badges (like Troll Task Force Member and Firebase Zulu Security Detail which currently only take a silly few minutes to earn) could all be standardized with the same one hour requirement and badge graphic.

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 ♀

 

Posted

These could probably be done as an accolade from other badges. Like, if you get all the badges related to that zone: so read all the plaques about it, get all the exploration badges in it, maybe some badges relating to any enemies directly related to it, maybe also completing all/some of the storyarcs related to it.

Always remember, we were Heroes.

 

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These could probably be done as an accolade from other badges. Like, if you get all the badges related to that zone: so read all the plaques about it, get all the exploration badges in it, maybe some badges relating to any enemies directly related to it, maybe also completing all/some of the storyarcs related to it.

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I really like this idea, much better than my original idea actually. That's why I posted it up for discussion!

 

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Trolls Task Force Member works fine, it's only FBZSD that's borked.

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Well according to Paragonwiki...

The PvP zone time badges take 5 hours to earn.
The Troll Task Force Member badge takes 1 hour to earn.
The Firebase Zulu Security Detail takes 3 minutes to earn.

Pretty weird range of times for similar badges if you ask me.

Regardless if the FBZSD badge is technically "broken" and the TTFM badge isn't I think all of these "time in zone" badges, as a class of badges, should be earned for the same amount of time in the given zone. I offered one hour as a suggested round number for all of them, but again I don't care as much about the period of time as long as it's standardized.

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 ♀

 

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These could probably be done as an accolade from other badges. Like, if you get all the badges related to that zone: so read all the plaques about it, get all the exploration badges in it, maybe some badges relating to any enemies directly related to it, maybe also completing all/some of the storyarcs related to it.

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The only real problem with "zone accolades" based on getting -all- the other zone specific badges/plaques is what happens if they change/add something to a zone? Just saying the requirements of preexisting badges shouldn't be forced variably change over time when something else in the game does.

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 ♀

 

Posted

They could do it like the Ouro badge, have a variety of potential requirements that you only need some of. So you need Badges X AND (Y1 OR Y2) AND (Z1 OR Z2 OR Z3)

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