Snow Globe

First off, it is supposed to be a secret from a character point of view... It says so on the badge.

Secondly you were given the complete list in the second post:
Additionally, since you were level 43 as of your original post, you could just go to Recluse's victory, snag any of the four exploration badges and get the Entrusted with the Secret badge without asking anyone for it.

From paragonwiki, with added level ranges:

Hero Souvenirs
Blue Clockwork piece for completing Tina Macintyre's Praetorian story arc (level range 40-45)
Letter from Requiem for completing the story arc of Ashwin Lannister or Laurie Pennington (level range 25-30)
The Magic Man for completing Mercedes Sheldon's second story arc (level range 20-24)
The PsychoChronoMetron for completing Agent G's story arc (level range 20-24)
The Real Faultline -by Dr. D. Stein for completing Doc Delilah's story arc (level range 20-24)
A shattered Shadow Seed for completing Shadowstar or Sunstorm's last Kheldian story arc (level range 45 - 50)

Hero Missions
Complete Holsten Armitage's mission: Rescue Senator Dybalski (level range 30 - 40)

Villain Souvenirs
An old drawing of you - Echo through the Ages from Marshal Brass (level range 15 - 20)
Lord Recluse's Helmet (Awarded with Usurper) (level range 45 - 50)

Villain Missions
The Path to Knowledge from Vincent Ross will earn the Entrusted with the Secret badge regardless of the player's choices during the mission.(level range 20 - 29)

Note that I didn't mention anything about data.

And basing the Vet year badges on account creation date as you suggested would be a coding fix that didn't touch the accounting situation (much).

Agreed.

Then the should be removed. The precedent exists with the Issue 7 and Issue 15 badge removals.

Well, that was their first mistake. They should have NEVER let any 3rd party determine how rewards are awarded in-game. Same goes for Paragon Points and Paragon Reward Tokens. At the very least, Paragon Studios should have dictated failure penalties in the contract with the 3rd party.

Speaking as a long time programmer, there is always ways to fix any code. It depends on how much willpower exists to fix the problem.

I get that they would be embarrassed about this, but Paragon Studios keeping silent on this issue is doing their reputation far more harm than saying "We're sorry, this isn't working out. So we'll remove the veteran year badges in the interest of fairness to all our loyal customers.", then following through and actually removing the badges (or setting them all to hidden/off/"." which wouldn't require any coding beyond a quick database change).

I'm sure that there is someone that knows how the badges are supposed to work, but that person might not be in the design group.

Heaven forbid that the developers want people to play the game rather than just repeating the same low-level content.

This reply is accurate:
After you got the Portal and you get to level 14, you can open the portal and get the Chrononaught badge (which will get you Entrusted with the Secret badge).

I said "nearly"...

Also, we both "forgot" to list most of the special event badges (anniversary, Halloween, Valentines, special server events, loyalty programs, Bug Hunter, Passport, etc.) but that is just being anal to the extreme.

It is a specific item chosen by Marketing or Business Management before Thursday. It then gets a special entry in the market, which you have to choose. It is not a random item (at least it wasn't this week, but it has the possibility eventually), unless that choice in the future will be a super pack.

Mythbusters has shown this to be possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI

Doesn't it though? On the other hand it doesn't explain why the store isn't available out of game.

I believe that someone let slip the name on Ustream (during the Player Summit) of the company that put out said market product: Playspan, which is apparently owned by Visa.

Sure enough, take a look at the top picture on this subpage:
http://corp.playspan.com/microtransactions

I picked up 15 packs with 3 reward tokens, here are the results:

Pack #1 (C) Experienced x1 - (C) Prestige Booster x1 - (U) Revival x2 - (R) Experienced x3 - (VR) Reward Merits x100

Pack #2 (C) Tactical Imbuement x1 - (C) Revival x1 - (U) Windfall x1 - (R) Enhancement Unslotter x3 - (R) XP Booster x2

Pack #3 (C) Tactical Imbuement x1 - (C) Keen Insight Imbuement x1 - (U) Enhancement Unslotter x2 - (R) XP Booster x2 - (VR) Elemental Order Backpack x1

Pack #4 (C) Elemental Order Belt x1 - (C) Enhancement Booster x2 - (C) Revival x1 - (R) Reward Merits x75 - (VR) Scrapper's Strike x1

Pack #5 (C) Elemental Order Sleeves x1 - (C) Reward Merits x25 - (U) Elemental Order Facemask x1 - (R) Reward Merits x75 - (VR) Stalker's Guile x1

Pack #6 (C) Reward Merits x25 - (C) Enhancement Unslotter x1 - (C) Revival x1 - (R) XP Booster x2 - (VR) Scrapper's Strike x1

Pack #7 (C) Restore x1 - (C) Enhancement Unslotter x1 - (C) Revival x1 - (U) Restore x2 - (VR) Brute's Fury x1

Pack #8 (C) Invigorate x1 - (C) Prestige Booster x1 - (U) Enhancement Unslotter x2 - (R) Enhancement Booster x8 - (R) Experienced x3

Pack #9 (C) Precise x1 - (C) Enhancement Unslotter x1 - (U) Enhancement Unslotter x2 - (R) Experienced x3 - (VR) Elemental Order Shard Cannon x1

Pack #10 (C) Reward Merits x25 - (C) Restore x1 - (U) Windfall x1 - (R) Reward Merits x75 - (VR) Scrapper's Strike x1

Pack #11 (C) Guarding Imbuement x1 - (C) Revival x1 - (U) Elemental Order Chest x1 - (U) Elemental Order Gloves x1 - (VR) Reward Merits x100

Pack #12 (C) Protecting Imbuement x1 - (C) Insight Imbuement x1 - (C) Guarded x1 - (R) Reward Merits x75 - (VR) Enhancement Catalyst x1

Pack #13 (C) Experienced x1 - (C) Protected x1 - (C) Invigorate x1 - (R) Elemental Order Pants x1 - (VR) Elemental Order Shoulders x1

Pack #14 (C) Reward Merits x25 - (C) Rejuvenate x1 - (U) Enhancement Booster x5 - (R) Elemental Order Helmet x1 - (VR) Reward Merits x100

Pack #15 (C) Reward Merits x25 - (C) Health Imbuement x1 - (U) Revival x2 - (R) XP Booster x2 - (VR) Blaster's Wrath x1

I have all the costume parts but 1, the Elemental Order Boots. This is a rare "card". I have an 85% chance to NOT get the Boots with any pack with a rare in it. Some packs have no rare cards (very rare instead), though a few have 2. This means that while I might have a 1 in 10 chance of getting the part, it might also mean I get the boots after 1, 10, or even 100 packs. I don't think that is acceptable.

There should be an upper limit of packs needed to get the account items. If a player exceeds that number, the remaining account item(s) should be awarded to the account. I would think that would be a nice goodwill gesture on the company's part. At that point the packs will still be an incentive item to get players to try the consumables, but would put an upper point limit for the account items.

I don't really care if it is "statistically unlikely" that this happened. The fact is that it DID happen. The truth of the matter is that the developers can't say how many packs a player has to get in order to collect all the costume parts. I doubt that they can say how many accounts got a complete set in the following pack amounts:

• 0-10 packs
• 10-15 packs
• 15-20 packs
• 20-25 packs
• 25-30 packs
• 30+ packs

At this point, they should be open with players as to how to get the costume items and pet without buying the packs. They've got the players that will buy the packs over the last 3-4 months, now they can focus on those players that just want nothing to do with them.

I will point out that I've used:

• Converted all the Reward Merits into Enhancement Converters.
• 4/6 ATOs
• 0/1 Catalyst (haven't collected enough to bother catalyzing anything)
• About 4 of the self-rezzes
• ZERO Ally-rezzes
• ZERO Unslotters
• ZERO Experienced powers
• ZERO Enhancement Boosters
• ZERO Inspirations
• ZERO Windfalls

Overall I'm glad I didn't spend one cent on these packs.

The 1 free character slot per year was discontinued with issue 21. However, the 1 extra Paragon Reward Token does seem to be working, even if the badges aren't.

I have the same local/global name on 2 servers... Just saying.

Edit:
And the reason I don't have it on other servers is that it was already taken.

The can also use either of the two inspiration vendor items (Tree of Wonders/Auto-Doc and Contemplation Charts/Combat Logs), provided the base has them.

It is likely because someone has to manually set the item (despite the store website saying that the company can set these up ahead of time) to appear in the store, then manually remove the item before they go home for the weekend.

The art is there, and has been there for a while now. The 9th year badge doesn't have artwork though.

For the answer to why it is as hard as it sounds, read the following thread: Cross server naming to allow teaming

If you can get past this hurdle, then you can work on the other 1/2 dozen issues with your suggestion.

You didn't mention:

• A place to sell recipes/salvage (in the arena stores)
• Tailors (War Witch and Trina)
• Cosmetic surgeon (Trina again)
• Base Portal access
• Vault access

Guests can use the IO crafting tables, the vault, and Teleporters.

Here is the thing: I'm not against interacting with others. On the other hand I am against forcing that interaction, as you clearly want to do.

We don't need to force players to congregate, especially not by taxing already earned upper-level rewards.

First off, #2 will not accomplish what you want: to force players into the market areas. All #2 will accomplish is to annoy players that have earned the /ah command.

As for #1, people hate banking fees in real life. Putting in something into the game that people hate, that the developers KNOW people will hate, and likely something that the developers would hate themselves will accomplish nothing good. To make it an effective Inf sink the developers would have to charge an amount far larger than you suggest. Fulmens does more to destroy Inf in a month (sometimes a week) than your suggestion would do in a year.

Bull. There have been plenty of complaints about the fee. There have also been several posters pointing out the suggested fee isn't going to serve the stated purpose at the levels you present. However I expect that you've low-balled the fee so that you wouldn't get even more complaints. Not that it matters much, as you are determined to push forward with this suggestion despite opposition to it.

At the end of the day, your suggestion is a solution looking for a problem. It doesn't accomplish either of your stated goals, as many posters in this thread have told you.

Oh, would adding a smily help? I'm sure Golden Girl could donate a few to the cause. Seriously though, what you are seeing is that the population is getting spread thinner as the amount of zones grow combined with people getting annoyed that some twit can't be bothered to turn off their toggles. After years of putting up with that, players demanded a way to AVOID the area you are so fond of. Now that a lot of players have that, you want to take that reward away because players aren't forced to be in your sight.

Well I'm not trying to annoy people by suggesting that the developers essentially take away an upper-tier reward from players that have earned that reward.

I think you'd better look at yourself about the holier than thou attitude, because you are saying that people are wrong to use a player requested reward that they have earned. Until you can come up with a compelling reason that the players should be charged to use an earned reward, expect a negative reaction. None of your reasons for this suggestion are compelling. Instead the reasons you have provided have been shown to be over-inflated and will only cause a negative player action if the developers actually introduce the suggestion.

Edit:
Adding a way to avoid going to the auction houses have been around since 2007 (I found a post from August 2007 asking for a base terminal for the auction houses), a few months after Issue 9 (May 2007) brought them to the game. Given the long-standing requests to not have to go to the auction houses, I don't think this suggestion has a chance of succeeding.

The auction houses were never social hotspots. They will never become social hotspots with your suggestion. Asking for players to have to pay for earned rewards is a complete non-starter.

It still wouldn't accomplish anything but ticking off long time vets that have earned the /ah command.

Your argument is flawed to start with.

Go to Virtue's Pocket D. I do my socializations on team channels, global channels, these forums, and Skype. Very rarely I interact via private tells. Beyond those I don't need to find a specific place in-game to find people. Maybe you should look into some of these alternatives to finding a random player in the game.

And the markets on servers like Triumph are devoid of players as well. So players adapt and use the global channels.

You can find them everywhere... They are called "NPCs".

The problem is that there are, in fact, too many places for players to be elsewhere. There are around 50 main zones across 15 servers, not including multiple instances of zones, and all mission content. Basically the population keeps getting spread thinner.

And a lot of people hated every second spent there. People hated it so much that the developers MADE the /ah command. Your suggestion is basically telling people that they shouldn't be able to choose how they spend their in-game time. As such, I fully reject your suggestion and your premise. I'll hope the developers will take a look at the reaction you are getting and file the suggestion properly in the circular file system.