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As far as your first response goes, if they datamined for TF's initially because there wasn't autoexemplar available or because you couldn't do them again, that's fine, but then why would they datamine prestige points for SG Bases? Why not start everyone off at ground zero like they're doing with these TF's badges? You're logic is off buddy, way off.


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My logic is off, 'buddy"?

I simply posted the reason I believe the Devs initially datamined for TFs.

You seem to believe the Devs will not datamine for TFs post I5 because they are lazy. I disagree.

_Synchrotron_ 's post,

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OK, I am not a developer, and I'd prefer they datamine for the badges as well, but let's not go overboard. There are several valid reasons why they might decide not do to it...

a) They don't keep records from all the way back in issue 2 - this would mean that some people wouldn't get the badges, and others would, so no go.

b) The people with the expertise to do the mining have better things to do - like get CoV out.

c) Something about the shard TFs makes it impractical to datamine for their completion.

I'm sure you can come up with others. Even if it is possible to do, it seems to me likely that going through every mission by every player since issue 2 came out could be prohibitively expensive.

So, dissapointing, yes. An insult from the developers? Please. If it were feasable, they'd have done it. That they haven't means it's not. If you did the TF you know it, and if the badge is of such overwhelming importance, well then it's worth doing it again. (although, man, some of those do take forever... sigh.)

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makes a few decent points.

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How can you datamine the game when badges first came out for all the TF's completed before the badges, but you cannot datamine for these new TF badges?


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Well, TFs could not be redone when they first datamined, we did not have auto-exemping then. That would be my guess.

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It's really assinine to put somebody through that Dr. Quarterfield's TF a second time for no good reason other than absolute laziness. Because let's get to the heart of the matter: datamine CAN be done; you just don't want to do it. That laziness in my mind and unacceptable to your paying customers.

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TFs CAN be redone, you just don't want to redo it. That laziness is unacceptable in my mind