Density

I do like the fact that Statesman has the right attitude about a MMOG community and game design changes. Here's to Statesman, he's a stand-up guy... and let's hope he finds a way to make his promises happen, too. The life of a developer who can't do that is a scary one indeed, at least on a message board.

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Pos, I think this one may be bugged. I spent about 2 hours under the influence of freeze-ray sleep yesterday and got no badge (or progress bar)

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Yeah, I've sat in front of various stunning/sleeping/holding mobs for a long time, that I've calculated at well over half an hour under the influence, and I haven't seen any progress bar or badge either.

The Alexander mission is bugged, just like how you described. Happened to my teammates too. Positron found the bug (see Dev Digest) and I'm gonna guess that there is probably a fix percolating towards or on the test server now.

It would be good to inform everyone not to do this in the meantime if you're trying to get your friends this particular badge, though...

I reported the bug with the Alexander mission earlier (and bugged it in-game too) so I'm glad to see it's being dealt with.

As for people who were affected by this bug -- is there any way for them to get the badge they missed, or do they have to run around looking for someone who has that mission again? I had a couple teammates who were very psyched to get that badge the other night, we had been trying to arrange a time to do the mission for days, and then the bug robbed them of their badge. (I was the mission owner, so I got it but nobody else did.)

Also, Positron if you have a chance PLEASE answer some of Grazel's questions, he's doing a really great job of tracking issues with badges. Especially, if you could confirm whether Babbage (not Psychic Babbage) is actually spawning outside of the Synapse TF or not, that would be GREAT.