I've spent some time on test. The timer seems to be random, anywhere from 40 minutes to a bit over an hour. It's really the same diffrence, though.
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Cuppa's been trying, but she has yet to be able to convince the devs to throw us a bone.
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IF we were to ever add a way to get Isolator post-Tutorial, it would most likely be incredibly hard to get. Annoyingly hard. Irritatingly hard. There-would-be-a-zillion-people-asking-to-make-it-easier hard.
But IF we were to add it, it would be available nonetheless.
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Blast that Positron!
His statement is so accurate!
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. --- Thomas Jefferson
Formerly known as YFNDBA
There is a Contaminated (Just 1) who is seen off and on walking throughout Reclus's Victory. If you find him and kill him he counts towards your Isolator Badge.
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There is a Contaminated (Just 1) who is seen off and on walking throughout Reclus's Victory. If you find him and kill him he counts towards your Isolator Badge.
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Well, i guess that counts for a a few weeks of end game content eh? 
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The count has been changed to 50 contaminated.
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It only was for a brief period of time, but has since been "corrected". Both changes without patch notes, by the way.
It is now back to 100.
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So, it was a bug and then fixed.
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Ah, gotcha- sorry.
"I'm not scared of anyone or anything Angie. Isn't that the way life should be?"
Jack Hawksmoor, The Authority.
Just a note, I was in RV on Test last night, and out of curiosity, I went to see if there was a Contaminated in the tram station. Sure enough, there he was, puking his poor little guts out. I totally forgot that I had a Heavy, set to aggressive. He ran in, saw the Contaminated, and killed the crap out of him. L54 Elite Boss >>>>> L1 Minion, surprise surprise.
Anyway, when this hits Live, if you do not intend to grief other people hunting for Isolator, remember to set your Heavy to Passive or Defensive mode. If you have a Heavy, anyway. Also, controller pets maybe not such a good idea.
Meh, I'm waiting for the 8-man stalker gank team that's going to be camping that spawn to kill the heroes that come to look for the contaminated. Then they'll kill it over said hero's dead body, of course.
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Yes, we are all well aware of your position on this.
You lost.
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Lost?? I disagreed with the decision to put Isolator back in the game. But I didn't consider it a win/lose decision. The devs decided differently. No big deal.
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Your posting history says otherwise.
"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter
29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
- The Stellar Wind Orbital Space Platform
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Yes, we are all well aware of your position on this.
You lost.
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Lost?? I disagreed with the decision to put Isolator back in the game. But I didn't consider it a win/lose decision. The devs decided differently. No big deal.
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Your posting history says otherwise.
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Thank you for providing me with the proper interpretation of my postings and my thoughts when posting them. All of a sudden my life is much clearer and easier to understand.
Now I had this dream with a groundhog, waterskies and a coconut.
What does it mean??
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Now I had this dream with a groundhog, waterskies and a coconut.
What does it mean??
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It means that I'm calling the FBI.
"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter
29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
- The Stellar Wind Orbital Space Platform
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Now I had this dream with a groundhog, waterskies and a coconut.
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It means that I'm calling the FBI.
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HAH!! I knew you couldn't read minds.
It should have been the SPCA that you called!!!
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 wouldnt 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.
Early: You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport, yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Simon: What'd he do?
Early: Who?
Simon: The midget.
Early: Arson. The little man loved fire.
Because if you lowered the requirement for the badge then it wouldn't be exclusive anymore. And that's why people are fighting so hard about it.
There are the people on one side that are saying "I spent all this time in Outbreak and I earned this badge and I had to reroll my main to get it."
Then there are the people on the other side that are saying "I didn't know you could get a badge in Outbreak" or "They put in the badge after my main was already level X so I couldn't get it"
I think lowering the requirement is a good idea. But it will never happen because the people that already have the badge will complain that they had to do all this work to get the badge, and now ANYONE can get it easily. Even though it doesn't affect them in anyway if everyone in the game has the badge.
I like badges and I would consider myself a badge hunter, but all badges are, are a way for players to say that they are better than another.
"I have 200 badges, I am really good" Then the next guy comes along and says "No you suck, I have 300 badges" and the next guy comes along and says, "No YOU suck I have 301 badges" and so on...
That's why everyone is so crazy about this.
I completely understand what you are saying, but I also dont remember anyone having a problem with Zookeeper badge requirements being lowered from 1mil to 10,000 (dont really know the numbers I just remember it was an insane amount and then it was lowered).
I honestly dont care about this badge as long as the devs dont require it for a power accolade; I would be a bit edgy about it if they did. Im 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 Coyotes 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 wouldnt mind a little compromise.
So in short, Im not suggesting adding contaminated to a new/existing zone. Im 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.
Early: You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport, yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Simon: What'd he do?
Early: Who?
Simon: The midget.
Early: Arson. The little man loved fire.
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I completely understand what you are saying, but I also dont remember anyone having a problem with Zookeeper badge requirements being lowered from 1mil to 10,000 (dont really know the numbers I just remember it was an insane amount and then it was lowered).
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Actually, there were a significant number of badge hunters who felt that lowering the number of monkies needed to get Zookeeper cheapened the work they did to get the badge.
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Now I had this dream with a groundhog, waterskies and a coconut.
What does it mean??
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It means that I'm calling the FBI.
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HAH!! I knew you couldn't read minds.
It should have been the SPCA that you called!!!
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Actually, the FBI has started a new Task Force to deal with your kind of prevert... 
"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter
29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
- The Stellar Wind Orbital Space Platform
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Now I had this dream with a groundhog, waterskies and a coconut.
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It means that I'm calling the FBI.
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HAH!! I knew you couldn't read minds.
It should have been the SPCA that you called!!!
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Actually, the FBI has started a new Task Force to deal with your kind of prevert...
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Cool!! Who do I go to see to start it?? What level ranges are we talking about?? Am I allowed to do it naked with a chicken and a plunger??
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I doubt those tankers and blasters still felt that way after I6. Mashing monkeys ain't so easy when you can't herd and/or nuke hundreds of them at once. 10,000 monkeys then was only about as much work as 1000 is now.
Arc #41077 - The Men of State
Arc #48845 - Operation: Dirty Snowball
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I doubt those tankers and blasters still felt that way after I6. Mashing monkeys ain't so easy when you can't herd and/or nuke hundreds of them at once. 10,000 monkeys then was only about as much work as 1000 is now.
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With this blaster anyway, you would be wrong. 
I play blasters almost exclusively and I got the zookeeper badge for Zube without herding back when it was 10k. Just last week my ice/ice blaster teamed with a controller and got 1k monkeys (and the badge) in Crey's Folly in about 1.5 hours. Multiplying that time by 10 does not seem excessive to me, as not every badge should be obtainable in one play session (IMHO).
If anything, a 10k requirement for Zookeeper helps slow the production of PL'ed PvP toons.
"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter
29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
- The Stellar Wind Orbital Space Platform
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I doubt those tankers and blasters still felt that way after I6. Mashing monkeys ain't so easy when you can't herd and/or nuke hundreds of them at once. 10,000 monkeys then was only about as much work as 1000 is now.
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i think that badge took me about 2 hours hunting mob to mob on monkey island in PI. And that was when it was the 10,000 count. So i dont think it was that hard to do, especially if you have others on your team.
As for the isolator badge. Imo i think they should have implemented an event mission that would only be available for a limited time either when i2 came out (to make up for the loss to veteran players, as well as keeping them from having to reroll a lvl 40+), or right now actually. I can see where a lot of people are coming from when it comes to "cheapening" the reward element, but it seems like people are mad at the lvl 40+ heroes that didnt want to be forced into re-rolling their toons. I could see event badges like the winter lord being special and never being introduced again, but the isolator badge is always there.
Lanori-Pher (50 Claw/regen)
Crimson Sin (50 Fire/FF)
Jurius (50 Fire/Energy)
Green Sun (50 Rad/Dark)
Pher-Lanori (50 Warshade)
December Ice (32 Ice/Device)
all Infinity
I think a great idea is to make a TF/SF that requires 4 Villains and 4 Heros. Each mission would give you a retro badge. Like the first mission could have all contaminated in it but they would be a lot tougher than the ones in tutorial. That would give you Isolator badge, than there could be another mission that has all the gifts inside but if you open the wrong gift there would be an AV/Hero or a large mob of the snowmen. Then another mission could be filled with Vamps/Witches/Firbolg/Zombies and an AV at the end of that or the giant monster the Pumpkin King. The whole TF/SF could allow you to get all the badges that you missed over the past 2 years during the holiday events. The S/TF could be as long as the Positron TF and be very challenging but the rewards would be given to those that are worthy and patient to go through a quest that intense. It could be the mother of all SF/TF. Just a thought and I would so do it cause I think it would be challenging and worth it.
Salith~Demon Summoning/Pain Domination
Now THATS thinking outside the box. A fun idea. Me likes.
I had a thought tonight, what if you found a way to get killed by the contaminated in RV?
It would be neat if you got sent back to the outbreak hospital....
"I'm not scared of anyone or anything Angie. Isn't that the way life should be?"
Jack Hawksmoor, The Authority.
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You lost.
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Lost?? I disagreed with the decision to put Isolator back in the game. But I didn't consider it a win/lose decision. The devs decided differently. No big deal.
In fact, I am rather amused by the way that it was put in.
1 spawn every 2 hours in a PvP zone.
Priceless