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"Ordinary love is selfish, deeply rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change."
You are all loved beyond measure.
I, like you, am a light-sound-vibration complex that resonates with others. I have hopes and dreams and ambitions, just like you! I AM, and so are you! Yes, we are one and the same, you and I.
Posted by: SS_Zag1
So no, a Member, Heroic Member, and Legendary member do not fall under the same category as Mythic. Otherwise they would be Mythic, I would imagine. :P And yes, it follows the same for all. Heroic members aren't Legendary, and Members aren't Heroic. Each one is a step of progression.
Yes, clearly. As for your implication that this progression is necessarily indicative of something other than the criteria by which they are chosen, I disagree. As a whole the system separates the wheat from the chaff -- but at the margin, is there a fundamental difference in trust that's exhibited by a Mythic member over Legendary, or Legendary over Heroic? Are Mythic members at a sufficiently high value, more so than Legendaries and Heroics, to be trusted with custom avatars? I don't necessarily think so -- but at the moment, yes, I am all for them getting new avatars. Realize that one of factors, evidently one of the most important, is time -- is the difference between 3 years and 4 (or whatever), which is not at all a conscious effort, enough to say that this group is trusted while that group is not? We don't have all the details on the trust system, and even if we did it would be difficult to pin any metric as having x amount of importance in trust, but I am all for the greatest amount of people possible being "rewarded" -- that is, not punished by default -- and I see no reason why the relatively sparse Mythics should have exclusive privileges.
What I am suggesting is the idea of established expectations and momentum -- most Heroics, I am sure, are on their way to Legendary, and so forth. Just because they do not have the requisite time in exhibiting the good behavior does not mean they will suddenly engage in all sorts of malefaction at the end of their third year. I would be interested in statistics on the number of Heroics and Legendaries who are there because of bans preventing them from being Legendaries and Mythics. I suspect, but I could be wrong, that this is actually low. I personally put little stock, when browsing the forums, in any difference between X Member and XX Member.
Exclusive privileges as a whole -- I certainly don't think it's a good idea to reward every group the same. But the thesis of this thread is that only Mythics should get any reward at all, which I disagree with. Mythics can have unique rewards but the basis for that should be in recognizing their tenure, not their trust becuase the latter is likely not that unique as far as we know. If Bungie were to say (only) you guys can have avatars because you've been here admirably long -- I'm all for that justification.
[Edited on 02.18.2008 2:30 PM PST]