{"id":250,"date":"2005-08-30T13:08:39","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T19:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/08\/badges-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badges\/"},"modified":"2005-08-30T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T19:08:39","slug":"badges-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/08\/badges-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badges.html","title":{"rendered":"Badges?  We don&#8217;t need no steenkin&#8217; badges!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy bitching about the devs as much as the &#8212; well, no, some folks like bitching about them way more than I do.  They even seem to make a hobby of it.<br \/>\nI do get a lot of amusement when you contrast a thread like <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=Dev&#038;Number=3590040&#038;bodyprev=#Post3590040\">this<\/a> <em>(wherein you learn that Badges are the only thing worthwhile and that not retroactively giving new badges to the folks who have accomplished TFs\/trials\/kills that will give badges as of I5 is tantamount to being screwed by the devs with an broken bottle)<\/em> to a thread like <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=Dev&#038;Number=3592033&#038;bodyprev=#Post3592033\">this<\/a> <em>(wherein you learn that Badges are worthless and that the devs having nerfed Phase Shift to prevent folks from stealthing missions with it and getting &#8220;unearned&#8221; Badges is also like being screwed with a broken bottle because Badges are worthless)<\/em>.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Important enough, evidently, for <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=Dev&#038;Number=3593971&#038;bodyprev=#Post3593971\">Positron to open a new thread on it<\/a> and respond a couple of times already.  The good news:  the Shard TF is likely going to get redesigned to be a bit less of a grind (so described by some).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy bitching about the devs as much as the &#8212; well, no, some folks like bitching about them way more than I do. They even seem to make a hobby of it. I do get a lot of amusement when you contrast a thread like this (wherein you learn that Badges are the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/08\/badges-we-dont-need-no-steenkin-badges.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Badges?  We don&#8217;t need no steenkin&#8217; badges!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}