THE IDEA that will Save the Game - (Titles)

this is a good idea but it would seem like too much work for practically nuthing for us and a.net

I really like this idea. I think the selectable/toggled aspect would be absolutely awesome in terms of customization and the "names" that you can get would make good PVE rewards. I am all for it. Sounds like it has been in other games, and I would like to see it here too.

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Then will my MM be a garg slayer? :P

I bet i slayed 5000 of those bastards!

It would help add on to the replay-iblity and exploration aspect of the game, as well as give reconition to accomplish player, or simply give them something to grind on.

You could add it to some mission or quest, like how fast they could finish, if they kill all the eneimes, if it is done solo, if they did it with out killing any enemy, if done with out anyone dying once, etc. (Of couse all that would be depended to each differnt missions, and not apply to all) This would surely make people willing to play the mission again, getting more re-use value out of them (and not simply making them hard and have to play several time to finish) Other name can apply.

Also title would extend to PvP and GvG play as well. And imagin if it is possible to have sound bits associate with it (have NPC or other player call you by your title), which you might get your player to say (with vocie pack) "I am casting Healing on Dragon Slayer!" or local female NPC calling you "Hey you Handsom Pig Chaser". Would sound niffty

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Though instead of Hero for the beat all the missions how about Savior. And for winning HoH, Hero.

It boggles my mind the number of people who don't support -some version- of this because, gods forbid, a person might get excluded! Because let's face it, that never happens now! Not based on what armor you're wearing or weapons you use, what your profession combination is, what skills you have.. PUGs are easy and, above all super friendly places to be because everyone is equal, and everyone gets along.

Man, it's like we don't even need friends lists or guilds! Personal responsibility for who you play with is a prison! Fight the power!

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I'd rather not see visual titles simply because in any kind of moderately-populated area, my screen is too cluttered with stuff as it is.

Vagrant Story (best PSX game evarrrrrr) had a cool title/score setup that worked basically exactly like the OP's or City of Heroes thing does, but it was just a simple list off a menu. There were title-goals based on how long it took you to complete the game, how many enemies of what type you killed, what -weapon- you used to kill them, various time trials and bosses killed.. Lot of fun hours to spend trying to get that next title just because it's there. That's exactly what the OP is talking about, and while I doubt it would save the game (does the game -need- saving? did I miss something?) it'd be a welcome PVE addition.

You could even splice this into Guild Halls somehow: have a big board where you can read the title list of anyone in the guild. And extra PVP titles: number of Necromancers killed, number of /Mesmers (that's secondary, not primary) killed in Competitive Arenas, number of times you've been defeated in your Guild Hall.. all kinds of stuff. And, hell, they can have a huge contest for the actual titles used, like with the Furnace bosses.

I know, for sure, that if Anet dangled some title that involved killing 1000 Charr Flame Keepers, and I was at 153, I'd spend the next week of my time in their game, and telling other people how awesome the game was, as I slaughtered my way up the other 847.

Legend Mrs Maxiemonster..

Even though I already am a Legend, it would still be quite nice.

How about an info screen about the player, where you can see all his titles and some other info? this way kids would stop calling everybody a noob just because of ignorance, they could open their info window and check all their achievements.

Love the idea. imagine someone calling you a noob and you could just simply say "check my accomplisments b***h. yeah thats right. now grovel at my feet. you of all people calling me a noob." haha that would be funny.

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I sort agree with this idea, but it has some flaws

However, people would then be 'farming' titles, and then people would judge you by your title AND rank.

Make it so that you can (but aren't made to) show what your attributes are or what your skills are so that you really know what that person is using and that they following the build of the team in say GvGs or Tombs. Then rank might not matter so much if people can see that you know what you are doing but just dont do HoH constantly.

I like that. We should also have the following titles:
"griffon farmer", "droknar runner" and "group leaver" )

Yes, "Baring" people becasue of their titles (or not having certain titles) would be the biggest concern.

An alternative way of doing Titles and Medals might be:

Seperate such "title" reward into two type, Titles and Medal

-Titles are the more prestige, thus a bit harder to earn. You can choose to "wear" your titles (will be on top of you name in differnt color or brackets). Also with a option to turn off view all titles to avoid too much name clutter.

-Medals are somewhat easier to earn (maybe like from samplier quest, seeing a sight, killing X amount of mob.. etc) and have 3 type.. Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Other can not view your medals. However, if the option of adding a Player Info box were added, than it could be included in such box for other to view, which shows off your accomplishment.

- As an alternative way to show title or medals, in which you could "Shout" it. By doing a sort of emot, you shout out one of the select title tha you have. (maybe a /Announce "Title/Medal" emote). So you would get something like " I am a Slayer of 100 Griffon!" when do so. This will show up in the emote dialog box and word bubble above your head (but not in the main chat box). and possible some sort of Aura or Glowie effect with it as well.

In a personal level, I dont like the idea.
The reason is the same with most others, but since players that like to judge others are already doing it anyway(by armor, rank, so on so on). One more might not hurt=P

However, if they going to add this title system...a lot of players might want to change their charactor name=P

which title would you have, I would qualify for A LOT of titles there.

lame idea.
it would be a useless update.

It's like the title system in Super Smash Bros. too! Those tend to be a bit more hilarious though. It would seem to fit quite nicely, as both games are, after all, about killing stuff/each other. I wouldn't mind it a bit, and it doesn't seem like it would take too much effort to pull off.

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/signed (provided it is toggleable)

it would add great flavor to the game without that much effort...

one tweak on the idea might be to have to types, a prefix title with an adjective and a suffix title (epithet) with an adjective.

examples of prefix titles:
Knight, Mage, Lord, etc.

examples of prefix adjectives:
Red (for pyro mages / excessive kills), (other colors), Dark (necro), Bright (monk), etc.

examples of suffix titles:
-mancer (for elementalist), -slayer (warrior / ranger?), -weaver (mesmer?)

example of suffix adjectives:
Charr (or any other creature), Pyro-, Mirage (illusion)

So some examples might be:

Dark Lord Saberlin Foul the Wurmslayer (for a N/W who got most necro skills and manager to kill alot of wurms)

Red Mage Artemis Kal the Mirageweaver (for a E/Me who's got fire skills as well as illusion skills)

In otherwords, if we break the titles apart, you might allow for LOTS more permutations and kewl combinations...

how about having some perks related to the titels...thinks of Fallout...*crys over Van Buren...

I would like it if we could unlock new dyes for every million experience we get. It can't be found from drops, only bought from the dye trader or another NPC that just sells special dyes. I would like it because it would make it so everyone could look a little different, and it could show your experience. Some examples of the dye might be:
1 million xp- white dye (works for every armor type)-10k
2 million xp- shiny dye (all colors)15k
3 million xp- reflective dye (all colors)20k
4 million xp- color changing dye (different colors for light and dark areas)30k
5 million xp- glowing dye (all colors)40k

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I want Gravedigger and Childkiller!

Fallout2-pun

Sounds awfully like the karma system Fallout2 had, tho if anything like that would be implemented, there should be no way to see what titles other people have to prevent the 'team LF only people with title X'...

As a status tab on Hero screen or something it'd be cool

Woot, I meet all of those but arena legend and noob...

I would have a lot of titles! (and of course there would be one for unlocking all skills, which Ill get soon)

I like it.
Kinda like EQ II after killing 500 X you get to be called the slayer of X.

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Yes!!
And why not have an elite-ultra-freaking-pro title. It could be named: Game Legend.

You need to have 12 rank, 4000hours(or more) played, completed all the missions and quests and you need to have all the other titles.

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I like the idea if, as mentioned above, you have the choice of titles earned. I have three characters that have finished the game and one that's almost done, but each one is very different from the other. And each has evolved differently. For instace, my Necro was the first to finsih, but all the way through the game she was directionless (I can't imagine how I managed to finish with her). Now she's a kick-ass SS/SV necro, but she had to evolve into that role and I tried many different builds on her until I found the right fit. With my others, for the most part, I knew exactly what build I wanted to do. Though they had to evolve as well, they had more direction.

Sounds a little like BF 2 also, where you earn badges and so on.

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Two April Mornings
Title: Elite Simple Mesmer [Kill 100o people in arenas with just basic mesmer hexes (empathy, congure phantasm, backfire)]

/signed

And let me pick which one I want displayed form all the titles I have earned.

Very SWG...

So here would be an exmaple of multiple titles. A pre-title and a sub title.
(not sure if need the pre-title, but just throw it in fun fun)
Now, It would get very confusing and crowded in town, thus a option to the view title on and off is needed. Also a title window somewhere you can choose to display which earned title you want to display.

Now, if there is a Player Stats Widow (that shows the bio, your stats, and etc), would be great also to add a badge in there as well. They will be small things that you earn or accomplish.. like a badge for
- Beat Thunderhead keep on first try
- 1000 Charr slayer
- Saw the Fallen Statue of Orr (or some sight)
and such.

Yes, it is taken from the old SWG, but it is still a good thing to have. Add on some more incentive to playing.

I like this idea...you can right away see where the players skills are. You see Thor Hammerbane, 15k armor, perfect twin hammer, and you wonder...Did he earn it with his skills and did he donate all that time and effort? or.....did he buy it off ebay or did his daddy get him the money.....it shows who's who in the game

/signed by Thor Hammerbane, Slayer of Charrslayers

It's a nice idea, though some of the titles suggested are pretty dumb. Just keep it according to skill distribution, I'd say. And make it toggleable. That way people wont have to put up with unwanted titles, or get crap over the titles they have.

Also, how is this supposed to save the game? The game is hardly in any danger, by far.

Sure, titles are a nice idea, but they just seem too bland at this point. No offense, but "Superpyromancer" just sounds retarded.


Yea, it's nice to have something to work towards, but I'd much rather see some sort of list of accomplishments. This list could say that you beat a certain hard optional mission/quest (like the titan quests, or UW/FoW/SF quests), and then it says the date and time that you beat it. It could also mention your fastest times per mission. Stuff like that.

When Chapter 2 comes out, this list of accomplishments could also incorporate when your guild/alliance held which town/outpost and also give some more personal statistics like kills per "race" (Charr/White Mantle/Mursaat/Stone Summit/Losaru/etc...). But that might be a bit far-fetched. Maybe just incorporate the death count in it as well (yea, I'm well aware of the /death thing, but it would be nice to have it in a little window with other information).

Anyways, I think the idea of titles is a bit worn out, and since everyone's name is forced to be 2 or more words, I think something like "Superpyromancer ______ _______" is just a waste of space on-screen, and if any form of title was incorporated it should be only visable in your personal statistics/information window (which people can see, if they, for example, click the button, which could be on the opposite side of the trade button).


But yea, titles are interesting, but I'd much rather ANet work on some other form of increasing the replayability (like having multiple difficulties for missions). Or, for example, say in some Ascalon mission, you can either do the mission as normal, or when you're level 20, and everyone has to be level 20 in the group in order to not allow "power-leveling", you can do the mission again and fight level 24 charr and have other objectives that you need to accomplish in order to beat the mission. Then, if it was recorded that you beat the mission on this harder setting, that would increase the replayability.

One last time, titles ARE interesting and could be cool, but they are in no way "THE IDEA that will Save the Game"


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+1
definetely good idea.reminds me my master creature handler and tkm in Star Wars galaxies.but its difficult to see this happenss.

Well, I am very aware that this idea "Will NOT SAVE THE GAME", it is a catchie phase use to lure people into reading the post. But in any case, I would say it still would help the game alot.

I dislike the "Super Pyromancer ____ ______" lay out of title too. See the picutre above. I am envision more of you have a short pre-title (like grand, lord, super, lengendary etc) that would be harder to earn. The defining title (longer one like Mater Pyromancer, Undead Deathgiver, Dye Master, Arena Champion, etc) will be appear underneath your name. (again, a toggle view option)

Of all things.. title would be one of easier to add (since it would be lot like adding another "guild tag"). Of couse, what kind of title to give would be the harder part.

Taken from other's suggestion, I would say for now, Anet should give 3 simple titles. Hero for finishing all missions.... Grand Hero for finishing all sub missions and missions, and Champion for high rankers.

Hmmm....seems like a great new way for more people to discriminate against others....Great idea

Love the novice one, I'd just keep that on so ppl wouldn't bother me lol

"Signet of Approval"

Needs tweaking, but fun idea if we can find away around the prejudice it will create.

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Great old thread, I /signed this before, but, another comment from me...

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/guild...ml?sid=6148088

Looks like someone at Anet read this thread. Great!

'Tyrian Explorer'... I think I'll already have that

I whant a Tyrian scribe title thats all :P

A lot of guild web sites allocate titles to guild officers. I would like to be able to have those titles show in game (on the guild roster at least).