Account wide accolade badges

[Troo]

Badges

Not the accolades themselves.

 

This is easily a slippery slope and as such careful consideration would need to be applied.

 

Question: If the Numina task force was no longer required for the accolade Task Force Commander (+5%hp) would it still be run as often?

Question: If it a task force is not run as often does that have an impact beyond an individual player?

 

There are some defeat all, exploration, history, achievement badges that, we hear you, after acquiring them a dozen times might feel like a grind.

 

 

Many of the defeat all badges can be completed doing content without trying to hunt them. (opinions on this may vary)

Unveiler: You have shown great endurance in tackling the Fake Nemesis robots time and time again in your search for the real Nemesis.

 

History badges, as a player how many times do we need to take the same history class...? 

 

Standard Suggestion Disclaimer: Someone who would actually have to do any work is welcome to comment on feasibility or level of effort, that is not something needed to be debate here or guessed at. There is no expectation of implementation. It is understood any suggestion may be taken in part or in whole and modified.

 

Suggestion: Reward continued play with easier access to parts of the stat boosting accolades.

 

Level of continued play to be determined. Which badges to be determined. 'Easier' to be determined.

 

[mistagoat]

Ultimately I'm not on board for account wide, free or purchasable badges or accolades. Maybe I'm a weirdo but I like that I have to earn them on each toon and learn the ins and outs of my toon to do so efficiently. I may discover that a badge or accolade is trivial to acquire on a Super Strength Brute but is much more difficult to acquire on a Mind Troller. I would never know that and I'd never have to develop a new strategy to be successful if the badge I got on the Brute counted for my other 120+ toons.

 

If pressed I could probably get on board with account wide History badges though even then, that particular toon hasn't read those plaques so they would be ignorant of the lore contained within unless I RP that all my toons are a Borg Collective with a shared consciousness.

 

If this came to fruition it wouldn't drive me out of the game but it would be somewhat diminished in my eyes. 

[lemming]

I think that the devs aren't keen on account wide badges of any sort.   (though that could change or is inaccurate)

 

Sometimes, people don't want certain accolades, etc... and this would impact that.   (I'm not one, but there are some players that are)

 

I wouldn't mind a different method of getting some badges since many can be tedious.

 

There is some content that people don't like playing, but it's different for a lot of people.   I happen to like the Numina TF, it's not really long and the hunt is easy enough if people know how to deal.   Quarterfield doesn't bug me either.   Synapse, I happen to avoid.   So I do Invader instead, but over time will do most of the other TFs that would be TFC.   Two redside accolades are easy and two of the blue are in terms of speed and being able to do via having alts in place.

 

The big complaint seems to be; "But people won't know anything if they don't do the tedium!" I think after the first couple times, there should be a less tedious way for other chars.  The trick is figuring out how to do that.   Get a token by handing out somewhere?   Get a token by doing the tedium that is account bound, so you can pass that to another char?  Universal token that can be used by other accolades, or just the one? (probably universal, because otherwise a token for each?)

 

Anyway, more of a thought  experiment since getting the balance on this would be difficult with how different people view stuff like this.

[Troo]

2 hours ago, mistagoat said:

Maybe I'm a weirdo but I like that I have to earn them on each toon

 

You are not a wierdo, at least not for having this opinion. 😛 

I also lean toward earning them for each character. I do however get that some folks have [insert reason(s) like limited time] and feel they have done them ad nauseum.

 

If defeating 200 fake nemesis is a badge do I need to do it 20,000 times for my 99 alts? Currently, YES if I want that badge and the accolade for each of them.. should I get credit at some point for defeating some excessive number of them across the account? Maybe. I am open to ideas/suggestions.

(I have likely many many more than 20K of them)

 

Note: We do already have account wide badges and at least one account wide accolade.

[Glorificus]

My suggestion was to create a new TF, maybe one that could be an alternate to Numina's and still count towards Task Force Commander, and have the missions in that TF be filled with Fake Nemesis... like maps of nothing but Fake Nemesis, kinda like the Moonfire TF's for getting the Slayer and Silver Bullet badges. 

 

[mistagoat]

7 minutes ago, Troo said:

 

You are not a wierdo, at least not for having this opinion. 😛 

I also lean toward earning them for each character. I do however get that some folks have [insert reason(s) like limited time] and feel they have done them ad nauseum.

 

If defeating 200 fake nemesis is a badge do I need to do it 20,000 times for my 99 alts? Currently, YES if I want that badge and the accolade for each of them.. should I get credit at some point for defeating some excessive number of them across the account? Maybe. I am open to ideas/suggestions.

(I have likely many many more than 20K of them)

 

Note: We do already have account wide badges and at least one account wide accolade.

Perhaps an account wide defeat badge after 10x the required number of defeats is achieved?

I still don't love that but it seems reasonable.

And as with all things, options are good so allow ppl to opt out should they desire.

[MsSmart]

I seen some rather interesting suggestions to alleviate the tedium of doing these over and over when you make a new alt.

 

I would love to see an alternate ways to do the defeat 200 or whatever rather than just a grind. For example, if I do PI missions which are fun, a side effect is I get the warwolves, vampyrs, and the illusionist defeat badges and it does not feel like a grind. In that vein, would be nice if the radio missions could include the groups such as nemesis to make the defeat badges more of a side effect or benefit for participating in radio missions and having lots of fun along the way.

 

But I do not support account wide accolade benefits, nor should they be bought either. Just make the kill defeats be more of a side benefit for doing stuff such as TFs and Radio Missions.

 

With regard to the Task Force Commander, I would ask for a much simplified Synapse, would love to see a synapse version be made of 4 missions such as Penelope which is very much fun to do. Numina is not too bad, besides the idiotic travel all over the place and at times large kill numbers for defeats, frankly I would rather 2 more real missions and do away with the tourist travel guide and feel more like the Penelope construct.

 

But this is just wishful thinking

 

 

[JKCarrier]

 

I like that the badges serve as a record of what that particular character has accomplished. It would feel very weird if my brand new level 1 toon came out of the tutorial sporting a chest-full of medals like some banana republic dictator. But that's just me.

For those of you who want this: Right now, anyone can click on your character and see which badges they've earned. Would a second screen showing the sum total of ALL the badges you've earned on ALL your alts scratch that itch for you? Or would you still want the actual badges on each individual alt?

[srmalloy]

9 hours ago, Troo said:

History badges, as a player how many times do we need to take the same history class...? 

You can make the same argument that, since you have already, say, recovered the Wheel of Destruction on an alt, there's no need for you to do it on another character, since it's already completed, and you should just get the arc reward and accomplishment badge. Or

 

The problem is that, regardless of headcanon that says otherwise, or your playing them as mutually supporting in game, each of your characters independently merges into Paragon City's history; when you arrive in the tutorial, or at the foot of the steps in front of Ms. Liberty, nothing any of your alts has done has happened -- your character hasn't found any of the history plaques, nor the exploration badges, nor cured the Lost, or any other thing that your alts have done to earn badges and accolades; your character has to collect them all from scratch.

[Skyhawke]