First of all, your question would probably be better addressed in the Player Questions forum.
Second of all, you're probably not going to get much of a positive response to a post titled "stupid badge." Why couldn't you have gone with something a little less trollish, like "is the lackey badge bugged?" or "problem getting lackey badge"? It is with some degree of reservation that I'm posting a response at all to your question, but since I'm just such a nice guy...
Third of all, admonishments aside, I think these badges are now rigged so that you have to actually be doing something to earn them. (How exactly the game defines doing something, I don't know, and it's highly unlikely the devs will ever say.) Simply standing around inside a mission instance won't cut it. I've gotten that badge without a problem after having several lackeys and working on missions. In fact, I got one as soon as a week or so ago.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
If you haven't done so yet, you may need to zone in order to receive it, similar to the "Spend 5 hours in a PvP zone" badges. Granted, they don't have progress bars like the Lackey'ing badge, but a number of badges are bugged at the moment, and it may be the issue with what you are trying to accomplish.
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Third of all, admonishments aside, I think these badges are now rigged so that you have to actually be doing something to earn them. (How exactly the game defines doing something, I don't know, and it's highly unlikely the devs will ever say.) Simply standing around inside a mission instance won't cut it. I've gotten that badge without a problem after having several lackeys and working on missions. In fact, I got one as soon as a week or so ago.
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Omg, I totally agree. basically he didn't get the badge because he didn't deserve it. The system seems to be working as intended. Some dev is laughing his silly head off right now because he uncovered a rather unsavory player.
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First of all, your question would probably be better addressed in the Player Questions forum.
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My bad. I thought was in the right place. Sorry.
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Second of all, you're probably not going to get much of a positive response to a post titled "stupid badge." Why couldn't you have gone with something a little less trollish, like "is the lackey badge bugged?" or "problem getting lackey badge"? It is with some degree of reservation that I'm posting a response at all to your question, but since I'm just such a nice guy...
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Sorry again - I didn't mean to sound "trollish" like "oh this is badge is so stupid" - I meant something more like "it's a silly thing to worry about really"
its a "tone" thing that I didn't communicate well - I'll give it more thought next time.
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Third of all, admonishments aside, I think these badges are now rigged so that you have to actually be doing something to earn them. (How exactly the game defines doing something, I don't know, and it's highly unlikely the devs will ever say.) Simply standing around inside a mission instance won't cut it. I've gotten that badge without a problem after having several lackeys and working on missions. In fact, I got one as soon as a week or so ago.
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ya - that's prolly true - again, it's no big deal - just a curiousity thing.
I think I have a total of like 11 badges or something. Collecting badges is really really not something that I care about for the most part.
And I really am not concerned to manipulate anyone or anything... I just happend to notice that we had nearly made it to the badge, and thought "what's to stop us from just hanging around for 2 more hours?" - well, now I have my answer.
I really don't care about it that much, seriously. It's just a stupid badge.
After LK'ing a friend of mine almost all day, I noticed that I'm 75% towards getting the "Drill Instructor" badge for helping other villains.
So, we decided to stay logged in for a few hours inside a mission once it was complete in order to finish the badge.
However, after coming back many hours later the badge progress hadn't moved even a little.
Is this a bug? Anyone wanna guess as to how this badge actually works?
I've heard other stories similar to this about other people who LK someone for 10 or more hours and get no badge.