One year award.

d3ath4u · 2004-07-06, 02:40 PM

There ya go:

TheN00b · 2004-07-06, 02:54 PM

Niftay! Nice find, Death!

HawkEye · 2004-07-06, 03:55 PM

so that is the one year award. i got that too.

EarlyDawn · 2004-07-06, 04:49 PM

I really have beef with this.

I started my time in Retail planetside as NC. I got tired of the outfits, the weapons, and having my outfit fall apart because of untrustworthy outfit officers, so I saw the Dragonwolves. I had since finally picked up a mic, so a TS based outfit appealed to me. On top of this, TR didn't have a high population (although the imbalance wasn't as big as today), so I went TR and joined CDL.

So basically, despite migrating to an underdog, to many population-based headaches with absolutely no incentives, the devs are telling me that my money, spent on over a year of play, isn't worth as much as everyone else's.

Highly suggest that this be made a general "veteran" account medal, and then implement a seperate one for empire loyalty.

321 · 2004-07-06, 05:22 PM

Yeah I'm not getting one either because my character isn't 1 year though my account is

.

Cauldron Borne · 2004-07-06, 05:49 PM

That kind of sucks. No wait, that REALLY sucks.

Rbstr · 2004-07-06, 05:55 PM

yeah i don't think i'm getting the 1year right away, i switched from Emerals to markov becasue the lag was too bad there(back when i had 56k)

BadAsh · 2004-07-06, 06:53 PM

I think longevity medals are about the most useless and meaningless thing I've ever heard of for a video game. Not getting bored and leaving for over a year is not an �achievement�.

I�ll only worry about and respect medals that actually represent an achievement.

Things that should get medals:

1. Even battle kills such as: MAX to MAX, Air to Air, Infantry to Infantry (sans standard kills), or Tank to Tank, etc. Your total kill count can still display your earned kills and your slaughter kills (spawn camping, Flail tower camping, Reaver pedestrian kills, etc.), but the medals should reflect actual achievements that have meaning other than pure kill whoring.

2. AMS destructions/deconstructs

3. Total base caps

4. Total base resecures

Things like this should be rewarded. In this way medals would actually mean something and encourage better game play. This is an opportunity for SOE to reward teamwork and good goal achievements rather than simply glorifying kill whores (Wow! I have 75k kills because I just Reaver infantry, Flail crowded base CY, and spawn camp) and CEP whores (Wow! CR0 to CR5 in 8 weeks because I was a jerk about always demanding to be SL and spammed invites all the time while mindlessly following the Zerg).

Nalar · 2004-07-06, 07:36 PM

Yeah, dont worry about it, I have a one year medal too but I dont really think the medal is an accomplishment. As soon as I get a medal that I can replace it with, I will keep the one year medal in my locker.

JetRaiden · 2004-07-06, 08:07 PM

where did you find that?

Meursault00 · 2004-07-06, 09:42 PM

Maybe it's supposed to award those "dedicated" to their empire or some other crap like that. I didn't get one, a lot of people didn't get one, everyone knows this award isn't a real achievement.

A real achievement is getting 10000 bolt driver kills.

or getting 1000 vehicle kills.

Yeknow, stuff like that.

Cauldron Borne · 2004-07-06, 11:35 PM

Hell getting 1k BD kills is good. If you can get that, you can get 10k. Most people aren't dedicated enough to the Sniper's Art to earn even that. It shows accomplishment that you made so many kills with that weapon of weapons.

But yeah, they should have accomplishment medals, not killwhore medals. Any idiot can spam camp infantry with a flail or reaver. How many people can drop 27 generators in the space of two hours? (ME

) (I think i got on a KoS list that night, there seemed to be an aweful lot of Vanu hunting me and sending me nasty tells.)

EarlyDawn · 2004-07-06, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by Cauldron Borne

But yeah, they should have accomplishment medals, not killwhore medals. Any idiot can spam camp infantry with a flail or reaver. How many people can drop 27 generators in the space of two hours? (ME

) (I think i got on a KoS list that night, there seemed to be an aweful lot of Vanu hunting me and sending me nasty tells.)

I think that'd be super cool, crazy tactical achievement medals.

Meursault00 · 2004-07-07, 12:24 AM

Well I'm pretty sure people will recieve medals for Flail or Reaver, but you will probably have to kill a lot more people to get the medals.

Perhaps medals isn't the right word, but I can't think of one at the moment

NinjaBob · 2004-07-07, 12:40 AM

dont your stats restart (total kills dont) but if u already had 1000 BD kills wouldnt u have to do it over to get the merit now that they r in place?