New "paired" explore badges for other echo/standard zone pairs.

[Greycat]

So, if you get all the explore badges in Atlas and Echo:Atlas, you get an extra badge - The Constant.

 

At the *very* least, since it'd be a sort of end zone/end zone echo pair, it'd be nice to have one for the Rikti War Zone and Echo: Rikti Crash Site. Maybe "War never changes."  (Or throw a question mark at the end, since it certainly changed!)

 

Or we could go all out and do it for all of them that are paired - Faultline/Echo:Faultline and  DA/Echo:DA, as well. (Yes, I know Galaxy is technically "paired" as well, but I don't *believe* you can go back and do the GC tutorial if you missed it.) 

 

Heck, give a badge (or accolade, no power needs to be attached) for having all the pairs, too.

[Rudra]

Atlas Park: The Constant

Rikti (war zone/crash site): Alien Hunter or Stoic Defender

Faultline: Stilled Earth or Ruptured Past

Dark Astoria: The Sundered Veil or Oppressive Darkness

Galaxy City: Tutorial doesn't have an explore and is not accessible in Ouroboros even through the introduction arc.

 

... meh... I thought I had some clever ideas for names, then brain dumped them when I started writing this post. Sorry.

[weewoozesty]

I got some name ideas for badges...

 

Atlas Park: "Where it all started"

Rikti (war zone/crash site): Your Zone Are Belong To Us

Faultline: It Wasn't My Fault

Galaxy City: Atlas Park's Red Headed Step Child

 

[Rudra]

7 minutes ago, weewoozesty said:

I got some name ideas for badges...

 

Atlas Park: "Where it all started"

Rikti (war zone/crash site): Your Zone Are Belong To Us

Faultline: It Wasn't My Fault

Galaxy City: Atlas Park's Red Headed Step Child

 

There is no pairing for Galaxy City, so there is no pairing badge name. Aside from that? I really like your name ideas.

[weewoozesty]

30 minutes ago, Rudra said:

There is no pairing for Galaxy City, so there is no pairing badge name. Aside from that? I really like your name ideas.

They could make one for Galaxy easy.  Just stick it in the tutorial.   It'd give people a reason to do it.  Specially the badge hunters.

[Greycat]

Problem with that is that people can't go *back* to do it.

 

Though, if they took the tutorial zone, made a copy of it into... essentially a hazard zone, maybe put some rescue missions, Shivan fighting missions, etc. there through a contact... *shrug*

[Doc_Scorpion]

18 minutes ago, Greycat said:

Though, if they took the tutorial zone, made a copy of it into... essentially a hazard zone, maybe put some rescue missions, Shivan fighting missions, etc. there through a contact... *shrug*

Isn't that pretty much the last map of Twinshot's arc?

[Rudra]

Yeah, it's the last mission map in the 2nd arc for both the Shining Stars and Hearts of Darkness story lines. Except, it is only an instance map with 2 of the meteors and no explores. For this to work, Galaxy City as a zone map would have to be made for the explores to be added and have content run there.

 

A new incarnate zone, this time as a full-fledged hazard zone, would be rather interesting. Except that in those missions, the Neo-Shivans are apparently gone. There are in-mission comments that there is still an Arachnos presence in the area (to recover the meteors for some reason), and there are hints of a Longbow presence and possibly even unnamed heroes looking for missed survivors. So I'm not sure how to turn it into a real hazard zone at this time. And besides, I think a dev or GM already said that it could neither be confirmed nor denied that the devs are already working on something with Galaxy City, so I guess just sit tight and see what happens.