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There is a badge for 200 presents.
There are NO badges for anything higher than that, so no need to try.
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Good to know you people aren't completely sadistic. 200 is a big enough waste of time.
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Nothing is a waste of time if it involves earning a badge.
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Some people in game have been saying that you get a badge for 500 presents collected.
Does anyone know if this is true?
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There is a badge for 200 presents.
There are NO badges for anything higher than that, so no need to try.
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Finally, this will put all the other hairbrained theories to rest .... for a little while anyway.
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I was expecting Positron to say weeeeee...................
*sigh* what a let down.
What would be nice is if they let the holiday badges have progress bars (where appropriate) and then at the end of the event, patch it away.
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Fastest time I got 'Toy Collector' on an Alt was 72 minutes. And that was delayed only because some others showed up during the run. 200 is nothing, gang. Yes, repetitious but stay focused on the goal.
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Took me 3 hours using super speed and I had figured out the spawn points in an unpopulated zone. Anyone using teleport, or no travel power would certainly take much longer.
Don't go saying "200 is nothing". 100 would serve just as well without dragging it out overly long. Being a holiday event, it should be fun, and beyond 50 or 100 it is just a chore instead of fun.
How about splitting the load with a team mate? It appears that you only get the badge for packages you personally open. Any idea on that?
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Of course, what Positron hasn't told you about is the super-secret badge that's available if you first kill 1000 Contaminated in Outbreak, then open 1000 presents.
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That's a joke, people. Please, god, don't try to do that...
Oh, what the hey. Do it if you like. ;p
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How about splitting the load with a team mate? It appears that you only get the badge for packages you personally open. Any idea on that?
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Doesn't work, but it SHOULD. It'd truly make putting a Present-hunting team together EXTREMELY fun. And that, should any of the Devs be reading, is a mjor freaking hint!!!
I think the problem is the glowie code - in a mission, if anyone gets XP from a glowie, it is JUST the person hitting it. So whatever tallying done involving glowies is just with the individual opening the glowie - unlike mobs were everyone gets something from the kill - even if just a check that ends in "Sorry, to high/low level to get XP from the kill"
It would be nice though if they could make it team friendly - I personally think that all special events should a) be soloable (I can see acceptions for GMs, but they should be kinda sparse) and b) fun to team on. Basically, like the experience of the Holloween event last year. It was soloable, but soooo very fun to team on.
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
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Some people in game have been saying that you get a badge for 500 presents collected.
Does anyone know if this is true?
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You're just trying to keep us from getting the 2000 present badge! It won't work, you know.
*goes to open more presents*
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Hey after opening over 400 Presents, I STILL haven't gotten the Snowball p[ower. I got the snowbeast power a couple times, but I can't have snowball fights still. 
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Yeah, they made it really hard to get snowball this year, for some reason.
As an odd note, on my peacebringer, I got snowball and snowbeast from the same present.
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Okay yet another stupid question from me.
Is it 200 Glowies? orrrrrr
200 actual presents opened??
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God, I hope there isn't a 500. I had a hard enough time just getting motivated to get Toy Collector with my 50's. (that's TWO toons).
So far as I know, it's 200 presents - and the presents are glowies, so I guess I don't really understand the distinction.
Neither do I, except the glowies are called presents and the gifts in your inspiration tray are also labeled presents.
BUT..
I CAN say....
It is for the Glowies.. I JUST got the Toy Collector and got it on opening a glowie who gave the naughty.
Sooo
200 Glowies folks
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<--- Yes, it is definitely 200 *glowies* not how many 'Nice' Inspirations you may receive from them.
Yes, 200 presents opened of any kind. I got my badge on the one character I wanted it when I opened up a "Naughty" present.
I really wish there wasn't a badge for 200 presents, it causing people to be jerks. Already I have had higher level heroes, heroes mind you, rush in on my lowbie fight, kill everything, grab the present and leave. And all you get to do is glare at the monitor real hard and mutter to yourself what a jerk they are.
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I really wish there wasn't a badge for 200 presents, it causing people to be jerks. Already I have had higher level heroes, heroes mind you, rush in on my lowbie fight, kill everything, grab the present and leave. And all you get to do is glare at the monitor real hard and mutter to yourself what a jerk they are.
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And then you get people like me, running around farming presents in a lower level zone than I am, seeing a a lowbie getting slammed, standing there healing them and holding the critters so that they can kill them (thus enabling *them* to get the badge for killing snowbeasts) and then running away so that they can get the present.
Or... am I the only person that does this? (I also ran around cleaning up abandoned messes that were left behind when the monsters took out the unsuspecting present opener and I wasn't in time to rez them. Silly me 
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Or... am I the only person that does this?
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Nope, you are not the only one. When I flew over and approached a lowbie below running after a glowie on the ground, he paused and then I saw a moment later in /Tell: "Hey I was here first!"
I stayed floating in place over the scene with my JP for a moment and then /R: "So are you going to open it or not? You've got plenty more to go to get that badge! I got mine hours ago."
A pause, and a moment later the present stopped glowing. No snowies showed up either, and I flew off. It was 15 minutes later when another /Tell came in: "I have my badge now!! Thanks!!"
Sometimes, you can simply feel when something works out just right. 
For those still trying to get the Toy Collector badge here is a helpfull hint. If you take out all the mobs that spawn from a naughty present except one Frostling ( minion ) and leave the next time you open a present at that spawn point and it says naughty you get no mob spawn ( unless someone has killed off the lone minion in the meantime ) and with stealth on you can get close enough to open a present even with a purple con minion there.
Obviously if you get purple spawns when you open a present you will need help to kill all but the one minion, but otherwise this works very well.
Is there anyway to check how many presents we have opened? I'm totall at loss of how many I have opened.
Nope. Just have to keep opening them.
And opening them.
AND OPENING THEm!
buwuwhahahhaha
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ROFL!! That made my day...
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500? That would be ridiculous. Getting those 200 was like a running a tf, on invincible, with 8-man spawns, by yourself, with the Vahz wasting disease and the Verizon guy following you around saying "Can you hear me now?", and there was a screaming kid behind you on the tram, and you forgot your keys when you left to fight crime, your kid 'borrowed' the cash from your wallet, and McDonalds won't let you fly through the drive through.
Ok, slight exaggeration, but that was one heck of a pain in the rear. So, uh, when's the next badge coming?
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o,o you understate good sir... and I'm just thinking on hero side... villain.. *shudders*
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