I was brainstorming ideas for challenges and came up with some weird ones.

[PartyKake]

idea number 1: The Sidekick Challenge

Lock your character at level 1. (turn off xp). See how many badges you can get without leveling up. LOTS of opportunities for sidekicking, but you're locked out of all the task forces and a bunch of other stuff.

 

idea number 2: The Ultimate Introvert Challenge

I'm pretty sure you have to livestream this one to be sure your count is correct. You probably need teleport, and the help of allies who can teleport you to places and get you inside without triggering dialogue.

Starting from character creation, level up as you might normally, with one heavy restriction. The challenge ends as soon as you see a single line of dialogue uttered by an NPC in the chat window. You know, the idle chatter that pops up. At that moment, count the number of badges you've earned. that's your final score. Objective is to get the highest score possible. The entire world is a massive minefield because nearly every npc has throwaway dialogue lines and the game tries its hardest to get you immersed by sharing them.

I don't even think the AE building is completely safe from this, but if you can get in, there might be a farm that can get you to 50, that's a start.

 

idea number 3: The Saving Ammunition Challenge

(this is based off of a character I have)

Pick a power set that's very distinct and then build your character to deliberately avoid that powerset's main appeal.

Examples:

Saving Ammunition is a character with beam rifle who took only the first beam rifle power (it was mandatory) and refuses to use any other beam rifle powers, because she's saving her ammunition.

You could also pick a mastermind and refuse to use their pets (so, pick just the whip powers from demon summoning, and then use your other pools)

You could grab something like mind control just for levitate and terrify and have a really bizarre character that throws people for a loop when they see you in action and can't figure out what you are

It's not as compelling a challenge probably because it's on the easier side

 

idea number 4: The Hetero Catboy Challenge

This one has been designated impossible.

 

idea number 5: The Day Job Speedrun

Only the sweatiest speedrunners need apply. 

Competition is fierce.

Objective: plot out a plan, get every day job badge as fast as possible.

Be sure to log back in exactly 4 days and 4 hours after each day job location is tagged. Make sure you don't encounter any maintenance windows when it comes time to log back in at any point in your route. Don't oversleep. (wow, when has anyone mentioned that as part of a speedrunning routine)

 

idea number 6: Pace Yourself

Go from 1 to 50 Street sweeping and mission arcing as a dark armor tanker or brute or whatever, all toggles up, without ever having your toggles drop due to lack of endurance.

If your endurance gets low, remember you can always scramble to the nearest hospital and pick up blues from the nurse on call.

 

idea number 7: (work in progress)

I'm currently brainstorming something that involves being outnumbered, but I'm not sure how to word it. I may create a custom AE mission for it to hammer out the details and figure out if something like it can work. The idea being there would be enemies chasing and harassing you the whole time, and you have to defeat OTHER enemies to win, without getting rid of the "parasite" enemies that are constantly attacking you.

No idea how to implement something like that in a mission though, or even build the thing.

Too early to really say what it would end up being.

Anyways, if you have ideas for that or for another challenge, I figured creating a thread on it might make for some interesting discussion.

[Triumphant]

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idea number 3: The Saving Ammunition Challenge

(this is based off of a character I have)

Pick a power set that's very distinct and then build your character to deliberately avoid that powerset's main appeal.

Examples:

Saving Ammunition is a character with beam rifle who took only the first beam rifle power (it was mandatory) and refuses to use any other beam rifle powers, because she's saving her ammunition.

You could also pick a mastermind and refuse to use their pets (so, pick just the whip powers from demon summoning, and then use your other pools)

You could grab something like mind control just for levitate and terrify and have a really bizarre character that throws people for a loop when they see you in action and can't figure out what you are

It's not as compelling a challenge probably because it's on the easier side

 

 

This is actually interesting to me:  Not so much as a challenge, but because I never considered trying to build a character and ignoring most of the attacks from your main powerset.  It could be an interesting, challenging, and (who knows?) even fun way to approach the game by trying to make a viable character that relies more on pool powers and epics.

 

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idea number 4: The Hetero Catboy Challenge

This one has been designated impossible.

 

 

LOL.  Okay, I see what you did there. 🤭

 

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idea number 6: Pace Yourself

Go from 1 to 50 Street sweeping and mission arcing as a dark armor tanker or brute or whatever, all toggles up, without ever having your toggles drop due to lack of endurance.

If your endurance gets low, remember you can always scramble to the nearest hospital and pick up blues from the nurse on call.

 

 

What are you, some kind of sadist? 😝

[PartyKake]

1 hour ago, Triumphant said:

 

This is actually interesting to me:  Not so much as a challenge, but because I never considered trying to build a character and ignoring most of the attacks from your main powerset.  It could be an interesting, challenging, and (who knows?) even fun way to approach the game by trying to make a viable character that relies more on pool powers and epics.

Yeah the whip-themed character was the first time I considered it because I was like "Why would they madke demon summoning the only powerset with these animations?"

And then later I was like, "what other powersets could I do this with?"

The other mastermind sets aren't as interesting for the concept though.

You got:

weak archery

weak gun

weak other gun

weak other guns

weak dark

when animals attack?

 

and yeah, that was starting to look more like a sadistic challenge so it was still bouncing around in the head.

[lemming]

16 hours ago, PartyKake said:

The challenge ends as soon as you see a single line of dialogue uttered by an NPC in the chat window

Can't do the tutorial and you'd have to avoid Atlas Park.  I think you'd have to start with someone having a SG portal waiting for you, and enter the base.  I think everyone in Echo Plaza is quiet, but I don't think there's a way there without picking up Long distance teleport and to get that, you either have to get 10 explore badges and there's an NPC near every portal that going to say something.

 

16 hours ago, PartyKake said:

idea number 5: The Day Job Speedrun

It's 3200 hours, so about 4.5 months.   I tend to pick all these up with chars, sometimes for ones I have parked with a name I want to use, but haven't gotten around to playing.   I think the longest I've gone is six months without picking them all up, and shortest was pretty close to optimal.   Helps I have a spreadsheet tracking the hours, so I tend to shift them around according to my schedule.   So, I usually am within an hour or two for their move.  When I'm lazy, I just check the login and see who is past four days parked, but since I don't have a ton of new chars at any one time, it's easy to track.  Currently seven not finished with dayjobs, but one of those is a Praetorian, so they'll be stuck at 18.   (That spreadsheet was started on live, and covers a lot of different things now)