What to do if you fail a buggy badge mission.

I posted this on my SG's forums, but others might find it helpful here too.
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After going through another buggy badge mission last night, I figured I'd pass along some tips on how to deal with buggy badge missions.

First off: Know that you are IN a badge mission. You might want to check out Nofuture's list of CoH misson badges and the Nofuture's list of CoV mission badges. Nofuture is missing the 40+ CoV badge info.

The 40+ CoV missions are: Party Crasher (40-45), Mage Hunter (40-45), Efficiency Expert (45-50), Couch Potato (45-50), and Usurper, the defeat Lord Recluse mission offered by your patron.

What to do if the mission fails due to a bug:
-Be calm, it isn't the end of the world.
-Send a /petition. Be sure to include in the subject line the [servername], mission failed due to bug. In the Description include the following: Mission Contact, Mission slot (Top, Middle, Bottom), Mission title (the brief description in the mission list), level, and the fact that you didn't go to contact (see below).
-Go do something else, either another mission, street hunt, or a teammate's mission. The chances of having all 3 of your mission slots eaten by buggy missions is really, really slim.
-Be polite to the GM, they are there to help you. That being said, they sometimes fail to read the petition description . Be prepared to repeat anything that you've put in your petition description.

What not to do if the mission fails due to a bug:
-Return to your contact. This is vitally important. The GMs cannot fix things if you return to the contact.
-Expect that the team will get the badge. The fix will only be for the mission holder.
-Expect an "instant response". Play, do other missions, go to sleep, whatever. Very rarely do I get a GM response in under an hour.

If you follow these simple guidelines, the GM will complete your mission, and you will have a shiny "Badge Earned" flash on your screen.

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Nice quide Snow_Globe. I can say that I've had only 1 bugged mission and basically did everything on your guide and it all worked out fine.

Thanks you for posting it.

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I have always had a GM response in minutes. Of course, my petitions have only been about enemies that have been blown through walls or doors that require defeat to push forward or complete a mission.

Just be sure that while you're waiting you pay attention to your screen. You won't want to miss them when they do show up.

Also, my experience with GM's is they're very polite.

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I'd just like to point out that in my experience, the mission owner will almost always get the badge, even upon mission failure, even if the mission holder is not on the team that ran the mission. Rather than instantly petitioning, try traveling to another zone or logging out and back in first, and then checking the badge menu to see if it has appeared.

The War Wall Defender badge is a good example of this. I have never been able to successfully complete this on live (1 success on test), but I've always gotten this badge after I zoned. Most recently on Sept 21st. I failed the mission in less than a minute and a half, but still received the badge when I changed zones.

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As I explain in this post this time I didn't. War Wall badge, insta-fail bug upon entering the mission. This was last weekend.

When the knockback bug was active on live, I didn't get Bad Luck badge for until the next day when a GM succeeded the mission for me (the KB bug was fixed June 2006).

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I'll point out to anyone updating the guides that this guide isn't for any specific issue ( it is listed as an Issue 7 guide ).

The original post has more to do with player and support actions, when the player encounters a bug in a badge mission.

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First off the GM's are almost always polite but usually grossly understaffed. you will have no idea of even roughly when they will show up.
Also the fact that the raid leader will get the badge is little comfort to the rest of the team that wont get the badge. The real long term solution is for the devs to fix the bugs and issues with the missions. I have had 2 now in the last few days where glowies were literaly on the wrong side of walls and doors so that the team could not get to them.. Thats an interesting one and Id like to know how that happens but its very inconvenient for the team that just spent an hour struggling through and invincible mish.

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