I'm hoping that this idea will be taken serious and perhaps implemented. We should all have the option of being able to select "badging" as an option; where when we disable someone it will put on the comms of that player "badges, ty" or a custom message. IMHO There should be two options pertaining to this. *Receive "Badging"/Custom Message Auto Response AND *Auto Post Badging/Custom Message.

This way we can stop wasting energy on saying "badging" to cater to people who somehow expect/want and believe they are 100% entitled to be informed of the obvious no matter how absolutely uneducated/oblivious they are to simple observation. (The previous comment means that there are quite a few who are not quite honed to the obvios and would rather make a beef of things; not meant to be an insult simply a fact.).

Anyhows I'm hoping I don't sound too hateful but I've had my Comms cussed out because I didn't post "badging" because I wanted to conserve energy on more than one occasion. This here; would solve it all and totally take away the whole arguement for "omfg spam" especially if one could control if they received such a message.

I hate when people leave "badges" on my comm. I can assume that without the message, when they say legion alert that's the only time I really care.

-1 from me.

5 energy isn't really that much to spend but i do like the part about having a custom message ready to go so +0.5

Badges is most of the time put so people don't hit the same guy too many times in a week(can't we be a bit lazy and not keep a running list).

An auto message would be nice, but better yet wouldn't it be to have the Battle Tab have a selection to not display people you have disabled, hacked or raided for a set number of days?

Too many times in a week? what's that 15 times? I think by then you should recognize their name.

It is not the responsibility of the attacker to avoid those they hit. If they don't want to be killed then they should put on a halcyon. If they can't then they have been partaking in pvp and thus should be killed. The only time you see a person you have already hit in the last 12 hrs is for the higher ranks and those guys don't complain about it. So this is moot imo.

I cant agree with this idea enough granted i would rather someone have the manners themselves to comm badge i mean really disabling and raiding someone without comming badge is like walking into someones house uninvited stealing there dinner and then farting and then walking out the door.

But i will settle for someone being able to put a customized message when they do a normal BT disable just in order to at least make them look like they have manners, would save me alot of time having to counter attack someone for not showing manners.

+1

So, you want a free Comm post after breaking their ship?

-1 from me, if you want personalized badge posts, then type them out yourself and pay the 5 energy for them just like everyone else.

-1

Its not like i had intended to come to your ship for tea and accidentally blew it up and stole your cargo. If that happened i would comm you an apology.

I hate the notion of writing badging on a comm. If you have played the game for long enough to know what a badge is then you know what the person is doing.

And if I hit you multiple times in what you call as "too soon of a time frame" either complain to dan to rewrite the BT scripts, or maybe you need a stronger ship. or at least up your cloak.

So it would be okay then if I came over, said "Food", stole your dinner and then left? I AM SO COMING OVER!

why the hell is it 'acceptable' to disable me simply because you posted 'badges' I DONT CARE, im going to attack you and murder you if its possible. ill spam artis and do anything i have to to get my badges back. why you might ask, because you damaged my ship, costing me 200mil (its not a lot but its still MY credits that would have been saved otherwise)

I don't often agree with you icarium but here I will, I will spend 700+ energy to disable people double my rank if I have to, for ONE disable. Granted I don't use debuffs but it's the same principle. And I also find badge comming irritating. I mean for god's sake, I shoot you in the face and then say sorry, that was for my kill count? I don't think so. In fact people who comm me saying not comming badge is rude and bad manners, I will disable raid and hack them even if I don't get badges out of it.

I like the way you think Epic.


My take on this whole idea is that it's a waste. Everyone should be able to figure out what a badging is by...oh...rank 20. If you get disabled, raided and/or hacked once each and they disappear, that's a badge hit. If they hack/raid you multiple times, they've got some particular reason for doing so. I don't leave comms because (A) it's a waste of energy and (B) if you're too stupid to get it, I shouldn't have to explain it to you. I also prefer to NOT receive "badge" comms. If you're going to waste energy explaining to me something that I already know, at least show some originality. Yankee and Giggity are good about that. I always got a chuckle when Gig would badge me. Then I'd badge him back and leave a related message on HIS comm.

Now, some might say "I leave messages so I don't hit them again too early." Have you guys never heard of the "delete" button on the comm tab? As soon as I see a "badge" comm on my ship, it gets deleted. So your plan is screwed right there.

And "too many times" in x period of time?!? If their actions aren't 0/0/0 or in the negatives, you haven't hit them too many times.

Meh there still is a ground for comming something seeing as if you hit the same person to soon odds are you will get legion alerted.
That and its also handy to know that if your actively a pvper that someone didnt pull a #ick move and alert you for a single badge hit you did before.


@tinomony your welcome to come over but you cant complain if i poison your food deal?

I kinda never really understood leaving a message on the comm of someone saying "badge"
Maybe it makes sense a little bit of sense to remove any confusion if someone thought you were hitting them for another reason, but if they want to retaliate, they'll retaliate whether it was for a badge or not and if you hit someone more often than they would like they're going to respond regardless of whether you write badge or not.

As far as using it to keep track of your attacks, many people clean their comms. It's not like you can say to someone that it is their fault you hit them again because they deleted the message you wrote to them that you use to keep track of your own actions.

IMO, take the bit of extra time and keep track of what you do. Or don't and be ok with how people respond to it.
Please don't try to change the game to fit into what is convenient for you without adding any real value.

I have never in 600+ kills said badge, no one has come after me asking why I didn't say badge. The only time I leave a message is to apologize if they're on my newsfeed and I got them before 12 hrs is up looking for a quick medal. (Unless they were due a zeroing)

amen
only apologies I wrote were for not bumping hacked players off my bt.

because some people cant understand it otherwise- and the chances are those same people probably arent on the forums. Plus for legions that have rules against alerting over badge hits that post helps determine if their legionmate is in the wrong and people that are to lazy/ignorant to follow the rules of the legion their in are typically to lazy to delete the comm.

And asking people to take 'a little extra time' is more like asking them to waste time. I've tried that when taking a temporary level freeze and its more hassle than its worth. If they leave a message to avoiding hitting you too frequently then you delete the message then you really have no reason to complain if they do hit you again since its not like you were forced to delete the message. Though your not likely to be a problem in the first place since you understand what badging is without having to be told


Seems like this topic got off of the original post, but back on that specific topic seems like a good idea but it doesnt seem quite effective. Those that use it to keep a certain amount of time between badges could over hit a target just cause they dont want to receive the message , which could easily result in legion alerts over a 'badge hit' especially in a legion that doesn't allow it. I think a way to just hide them from your bt for two days would be better. Or possibly have a notification near the attack button saying if you attacked (or hacked) them within the last 2 days if they decide not to allow badging messages.
Sorry I can tell it may not be well worded the way I said it but I dont think I can make it clearer but I think the point is still made

I hardly even pay attention to my newsfeed at all. I'm pretty sure I've been zeroed in the past without noticing... frankly I could care less.

I do, however, check my comm. When I see a nice, original message I'll usually reply. If the person at least types it properly I won't mind but if I see "bdges ty" it looks lazy and almost cowardly.

The other thing is when people post "badges" when it's blatently a legion alert.

How is the game meant to know anyways? I could disable, hack, raid someone on my log. Game posts "Badges only, thank you" then come back and zero them later, what are they meant to think? Oh... I just lost 6 hours worth of RP, but ohwell... just a badge. Game even says so.

Sounds an interesting experiment.. randomly zero people then post badge. Hell, it's their fault for being weak enough for me to zero...

no if you are zeroing someone you say "medal"

The one time I ever posted "badge", was to annoy someone I was at war with.