Stran

I completely understand what you are saying, but I also don’t remember anyone having a problem with Zookeeper badge requirements being lowered from 1mil to 10,000 (don’t really know the numbers I just remember it was an insane amount and then it was lowered).
I honestly don’t care about this badge as long as the dev’s don’t require it for a power accolade; I would be a bit edgy about it if they did. I’m just here to add a suggestion that would help everyone to be happy. Since we “arrest” about 15 just to get out of the zone, they could have it as an informational part about badges, and they could add it to Coyote’s speech before sending us to Atlas and Galaxy. So if people want to complain about how they had to “arrest” 100 and will never have to “arrest” 100 contaminated again, so be it, but this is just a suggestion for those that wouldn’t mind a little compromise.
So in short, I’m not suggesting adding contaminated to a new/existing zone. I’m saying lower the requirements so that anyone who went through the tutorial would have the badge. All those who skipped it would be SoL.
So in some small way it would still be exclusive.

Why not just lower the requirements of the badge? Instead of 100 have it be 10. That way everyone who went through outbreak would have the badge. This way you wouldn’t have to make any changes to the text of the badge or add them into any existing zones. And it would be a nice introduction to badges to let people know what they are and how to use them.