I wouldn't [censored] and moan for isolator.... BUT
I was already deep in the 30's when badges were implemented
never had a chance 
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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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Bring it on!
Im not one to complain, I would be happy to at least have the chance to get it.
Hard or not, its more of a chance then what we have now.
Many of us have been here pre-i1 and we never had the chance to get this as it was not datamined nor could we go back to get the badge. So I and many others would do anything to collect this badge on our main badge collectors.
So you could tell me I had to kill 1000 contaminated monsters that gave no xp, no reaward at all and with brawl I wouldn't care, I would do it
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I have been playing since beta, & I have 7 heros who do not have isolator because when it went live, no datamining. All 7 of my heros were already made & in the process of leveling up. At the time, deleting characters & rerolling was not a fair option.
No endgame content has left me with nothing to do but badgequest on all my alts. I am getting near 2,700 badges collected on my one & only account, a feat in itself considering I don't have a 2nd account to help farm the epic badges.
As a long time player/collector/paying customer, all I am asking for is the one badge on my characters that were never given a shot at earning this badge. My 8th hero doesn't need it as he is a Kheldian & already has it.
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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.
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Positron,
Please allow me to add my voice to those crying out for you to make this possible.
The circumstances surrounding THIS badge are truly unique. Those of us who have been here for the longest time are the ones who missed out, simply because the badge did not exist for us at the proper time. By NOT allowing us a means of obtaining this badge, it feels like we are being punished for being the most loyal, long-term subscribers.
Some have said, You could have re-rolled your toon and gotten the badge when it first came out. This is a completely unreasonable position, one which would have required the loss of weeks or months of play time and advancement. Others have said, Just start another character and get it on him. No big deal. But this ignores the fact that for many of us, our main characters hold special meaning and importance. Still others have said, If they do this for the pre-I2 characters with Isolator, they MUST do it for every special event badge as well. Unfortunately, this ignores the simple fact that some missed the Halloween event badges because they were not yet subscribers, while us old timers missed Isolator precisely because we were old timers. Another objection has been, I want the devs to spend time on new content, rather than messing around with this badge. But seriously, it would be extremely easy to accomplish this. Adding one or two contaminated villains, hidden off in a corner somewhere, to a special mission like Snaptooth, would be dead easy.
In short, I can see no good reasons to deny this badge to your best, most loyal customers. It would really, really please a lot of people. It would show us that you really do care about our play experience. Simply by looking at how quickly threads like this grow, you can see that the demand is there.
Make it as hard as you like. To those of us for whom it matters most, we will be grateful for it nonetheless.
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Perhaps have something like a single Contaminated show up in each zone once per hour. Kinda like something along the lines of Giant monster spawns. Heck, even make him "Rampage" across the city map he spawns in. It would be even funnier to have a global announcement like,"Contamination is getting out! everyone cover your noses!"
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That's the thing, though... The basis behind Isolator is to ultimetly be a reward for those who took the time and trouble to defeat contaminated. It's intended to be a suprise, or easter egg, of sorts. (Much like Jail Bird). Allowing people to get it later on defeats the whole purpouse of it.
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Most of the complaints are from people who have characters that were made before the badge was available. One of my characters is in the position of being capable of having every badge available in CoH, including ALL the holiday and special badges, but will NEVER be able to have Isolator because she was created before the badge was available.
At the very least, the devs should allow the pre-badge characters a chance to earn it... somehow.
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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.
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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.
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In that case, the way to do it is to have a single Contaminated Thug spawn from time to time in the alleys of Steel Canyon... an escapee from Outbreak, if you will.
Anyone truly demented enough to want Isolator can thus get it.
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So the way a Hero can get Isolator after the fact will be to reach level 50, do the go bad TF... get thrown to the zig, break out as a level 1 villain, work his way up to level 50, do the reformed task force, be granted level 1 security clearance and be sent to outbreak.
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If we get to keep all the other badges we earned, I would so do this.
/em drools over the thought of having all the hero AND villain badges...
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Yeah, Jailbird's been in since beta, and tons easier to get than isolater. No dice, pal.
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What if you weren't in beta, and didn't read anything about beta, and made your character ASAP on head start weekend? Truthfully though, people aren't so much asking for Jailbird that way because they missed the badge, but because it makes sense from a story point of view. Yeah in the meta sense, its a different map and not the same place, but in ingame sense, it's the same place with the same historical signifcance. Either edit the map so that cell is blasted to smithereens, or put the Jailbird marker in. I also think it would be cool to put mimics of Paragon city badges on the spots they would be when villains take instanced missions to those areas. Not all of them, but a few. It would be a nice piece of simisimilitude (if its not a word, I made it up so nyah).
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Here's an idea.Why don't you guys make a thing so that ONE TIME a player can transfer all of his/her badges to another toon but can only do this ONE TIME.If this could be done then all these players who already had badge toons before Isolator was created can stop griping about not being able to get the badge and make a new toon to get it along with all of their badges.
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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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If you really want to see them jump through hoops, just put Infected at the end of the Dr. Quaterfield taskforce.
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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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Hmmm. How about if you complete the Quarterfield Task Force in FBZ you get credit for 1 contaminated thug?
Hard like that or a easier?
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Here's an idea.Why don't you guys make a thing so that ONE TIME a player can transfer all of his/her badges to another toon but can only do this ONE TIME.If this could be done then all these players who already had badge toons before Isolator was created can stop griping about not being able to get the badge and make a new toon to get it along with all of their badges.
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Only problem with this is the accolades. Can you see a lvl 1 with all the accolades? 
My whole thing about Isolator is this: if they make it available to all players, then they need to make all previous badges available to all players as well.
Why? People are arguing that it is not fair that they, who've been around since Beta/I1 should have a chance to earn that badge. Well, is it fair that I had never heard of the game until November 2004, and got it for Christmas that year? I missed out on the opportunity to get the Halloween badges.
So, in fairness to all players, if you make a harder to get badge available to all players, then all badges should be treated the same way. We are all paying customers for the game, shouldn't we all have the same opportunities to get the same badges?
I find your lack of signature disturbing.
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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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And I hope you never ever make it easier!!!
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So the way a Hero can get Isolator after the fact will be to reach level 50, do the go bad TF... get thrown to the zig, break out as a level 1 villain, work his way up to level 50, do the reformed task force, be granted level 1 security clearance and be sent to outbreak.
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If we get to keep all the other badges we earned, I would so do this.
/em drools over the thought of having all the hero AND villain badges...
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It would definitely be cool. I would guess that you would lose all of your inf, XP, and contacts as well (Tina ain't gonna talk to you anymore after betraying her) so the only thing you carry to your new life as a villain and back to a hero are the badges (and many of the badges switch titles on the villain side) and souveniers.
This would definitely fit the "Annoyingly hard. Irritatingly hard. There-would-be-a-zillion-people-asking-to-make-it-easier hard.", as you would have to level a villain through 50 levels before being able to get back to Isolator.
And as far as Accolades, they are level triggered, so when you go back to level 1 they are suspended until you reach the original level you earned them. This mechanic is already in the game when you exemplar.
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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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Sort of like the initial version of Sally?
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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.
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Don't bother Poison, it's obvious that Positron doesn't have the GUTS to offer up the Isolator badge to those who weren't around to get it the first time. He's obviously TOO CHICKEN to make up some super-tough, incredibly hard mission set designed to just to let those who missed out to get this badge. Why, I bet he's worried that if he puts in what he thinks is a really hard mission, he'll find players soloing it on Invincible and his hardcore reputation will be shot. He'll be left crying in the corner while player after player show up having gotten the badge and hardly broken a sweat doing so. Positron's just SCARED, that's all.
(Heh, this will either work out really well or really badly... ;-)
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And as far as Accolades, they are level triggered, so when you go back to level 1 they are suspended until you reach the original level you earned them. This mechanic is already in the game when you exemplar.
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True, but he was talking about transferring your badges to another toon. This new toon would not have earned the badges at any lvl, so the exemplaring rule would not be in effect. AFAIK, there is no minimum level for the accolades, so the toon could, in theory, have the accolades at lvl 1 IF the badges were transferred to them.
I find your lack of signature disturbing.
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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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Ever get Zookeeper when it came out? We're grizzled veterans at this, Posi.
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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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Posi,
Alot of us have pre issue 1 characters. These characters never had the chance to get that badge, as badges didn't exist then. Please let them have a chance to get it.
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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.
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I got it. Here's how they'll make it happen. The contaminated will only spawn in a one time only TF open only to level 50's. They are turning to goo and combining into a big pile similiar to the Hamidon. You have to beat the pile of goo in 10 minutes with an 8-person team (max) or your character gets turned into a Conaminanted. If this happens you lose the character and a character slot. The up side is that there is a chance the "contaminated" version will show up as a lvl 1 NPC in the Outbreak. Oh plus on the TF, you are auto-exempted to lvl 1 and the goo is classified as a Giant Monster.
I'd be willing to reroll this character, as long as I keep the rest of my badges, just to get the isolator badge.
Also, imagine an arc where you go back in time to prevent your younger-hero self from being killed in where else but outbreak. There could be some nasty contaminated bosses off to one side of the map.
That or just having a 'bugged' mission that just happens to have one or 2 contaminated hiding somewhere in the map.
ok, to all you players who made toons before this badge was availaible. I say this oh snap you missed out on a badge... TOUGH!!
I missed out on 8 badges that the Devs will NEVER, I repeat NEVER allow new toons to attain, just because were made after the event, so quit you whining I'll never get Celebrant because I wasnt around, & you'll never get Isolator because you weren't around. plain & simple!!!
So my new toon has ONE badge that your old toon doesnt, so what, your old toon has 8 badges that I'll NEVER be able to get!
is this 'fair' to me, no.
is the dev's giving old toons the ability to acquire the one badge I have that they cant, without me being able to also acquire the badges they have that I dont - no
why is it all the old badgers cant stand the idea of 1 little timy badge they'll never get, when I'm stuck with 8 that I'll never get?
Fair is fair & I think that if Isolator is opened up to older players, then I should be able to get Celebrant & the Winter Lord badge!
repeating my main point again!
a badgin fool
I started my badge toon in the Tutorial & after alot of other badge events. So Isolator is the one thing I can say that I have that the older toon doesnt. (not that I think that this is right in any way, I think all badges should be available to all toons, even -heaven forbid- Bughunter)
If a lvl 50 toon can do some horribly hard mish to get the Isolator badge, then such a mish should be available for ALL out-dated or unattainable badges! (i.e. Holloween badges, Celebrant, winter lord etc..)
So as it stands - Old players 8 // New players 1
if you open up JUST contaminated spawns somewhere outside of Tutorial....
Old Players 8 // New players 0
Simply put - I want those 8 badges just as much as people that missed out want Isololator. & adding just cantaminated spawns takes away the only badge that my toon has that 'older toons' dont.
that one badge may not be much, but it's at least something.
Keep on badgin