City Of Heroes: Positron Message Board Q&A

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I know Dev is working on a way for people to Exemplar to do old TFs, are they also working on a way to go back to old contacts?
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There is a system planned... I am trying to get it into the earliest Expansion possible for you guys.

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Are there any plans to implement more on a regular basis?
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Yes

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Will they ever be enhanceable?
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No

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Will there be archetype or origin specific ones?
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Very hard to do (requires special case coding)... you can probably guess that the Accolade powers are already "flavored" towards Archetypes already... I mean the Crey Freeze Pistol is like "meh" to any blaster, but Scrappers and Tankers should find it extremely useful.

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Will there be ones you can edit at the tailor?
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Probably not... again, would require special case stuff. There are some Accolades planned that give Costume Pieces instead of powers though.

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Will there ever be a way to KEEP the accolade powers when you reverse sidekick down to a lower level?
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I'd have to ask Poz, but right now the answer to that is no.

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Are any Accolades currently broken?
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Unfortunately the answer to this is yes... I am trying to fix them all asap.

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One question I would like confirmed is that there are no badges that are required for accolades that you can out level and not be able to SK or Ex to get. An example would be for taskforce commander. If all the task forces are required and you have out leveled them you cannot currently SK to do them.
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Currently, you can't Exemplar to a Task Force, but a fix for that is going up on Training Room very soon. Badges that are "one chance" deals (like Isolator) will never EVER be part of an Accolade set.

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To nip some future rants about their effectiveness in the bud, are they meant to be combat tools, or are they meant to be a novelty, or does it depend on the accolade?
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They are meant to be "situational powers". They are not combat tools, in that you have them at your disposal whenever you want, but they are more than a novelty in the fact that they really can enhance an area where an Archetype is considered "weakest" or make that Archetype vastly more powerful in an area, but not on a regular basis.

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Is it your intent to support reseting of missions to farm mobs? or do you plan to reduce the numbers required to get the badges to be something realistic. Or you do vision reseting missions to be something true to the comic book world?
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No. The point is NOT to reset missions. The number is where it is at so that you actively have to TRY to get the badge in order to do it. You won't just get the badge by killing stiff normally throughout the game. Since bosses appear only in Hazard and Trial zones normally, we can use badges to encourage players to visit those zones more often, in order to get the badge they desire.

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You mentioned in the chat that there were Accolades available to heroes of all levels. But is this really true? Don't all the Accolades require trips to zones that are level restricted?
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Yeah, that is true. We are looking at expanding the level limits of the restricted zones in the near future.

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Why dosen't badge missions stay unlocked at your contact until you have done them.
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That is special case coding that we simply didn't have time for.

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Well, I've answered my own question, there are NO accolades available for completion below level 30. I suppose the next question is are there any plans to add some?
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Yes, there are plans.

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I'm wondering if accolades are supposed to affect powers?
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No, Accolades work off the base numbers. Powers work off the base numbers. Accolades and Powers do not augment one another.

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I just wanna know why you implemented the earning of accolades as you did? What's the logic behind it? What are the pros and cons of having it any other way?
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Something for the Explorer-Bartle-type to find interesting in our game. This was implemented so that people who clamored for "more content" yet mean "different kinds of content" could get what they wanted in an earlier Expansion rather than a later one. The logic is really in the "what does an Explorer find appealing" mindset. If we did it a different way, then we start to move away from something that Explorers would find interesting and move into the Achiever category.

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My question is on the Statesman pal badge,I currently have the defeat Tyrant quest but have heard from many the badge is broken,will this badge be retro fixed or do I need to sit on it until it is fixed?
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This is fixed on Training Room right now.

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Will there someday be questable accolades?
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Someday. The real balancing act is making sure that the more readily available an Accolade is, the less it's overall effect has on normal gameplay.

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I'd just like to know if more badges and accolades are planned in the future. Plaques and exploration in the Hollows, Shadow Shard, and any other new zones that get added, for example.
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Yes. Those zones were implemented parallel to the Badges, so when designing the system, I couldn't be 100% sure

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As it is, you can only find them by accidentally bumping in to them (such as ones on random rooftops) or "cheating" and using a guide.
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Actually the initial players on Training Room who found them all did it the hard way... they simply explored the entire zones specifically for badges. You can do this too if you don't want to cheat.

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I'm curious as to if the 2 exploration badges that require you to enter missions to obtain will be retro-active for us max lvls who have already done those missions.
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Yes, I made a fix (going onto Training Room soon) to issue these badges upon Mission Complete for these missions. Because of this, they will Retro themselves onto any player who completed those missions.