I don't want my personal beliefs on advertising to interfere with badge hunting, thanks.
I have them turned off. The same thing could have been done for 'COAL BURGER' and 'They are watching you...' ingame ads, but hasn't been done.
This is a gigantic /unsigned, from me. Novel idea, but the notion of it boils my blood
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the ads are not the same in each area so while UK players may get loads of ads, a player in say, belgium, might only see one or two. this would make the badge biased toward countries with more ads which would almost punish players for being in a region with less.
think how you would feel if NC announced that they were giving free character slots to players from germany but not anywhere else ? Or a new mission arc only playable by players on the american servers ?
or I13 is US content only!!!
there was enough trouble when the offline costume creator was korea only, this badge idea is for all intents and purposes simply a lesser version of the examples above. not a bad idea, just a little unfair for my liking.
Gosh... This will be harsh for badgers not living in a specific country...
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the ads are not the same in each area so while UK players may get loads of ads, a player in say, belgium, might only see one or two. this would make the badge biased toward countries with more ads which would almost punish players for being in a region with less.
think how you would feel if NC announced that they were giving free character slots to players from germany but not anywhere else ? Or a new mission arc only playable by players on the american servers ?
or I13 is US content only!!!
there was enough trouble when the offline costume creator was korea only, this badge idea is for all intents and purposes simply a lesser version of the examples above. not a bad idea, just a little unfair for my liking.
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Ok this is a fair comment and one I'd not considered. It wouldn't work if the ads weren't available to all, and yes if I was missing optional content simply because of location I would feel justifiably gypped and so maybe if it was to work, it would need to be universal.
Whether or not making the ads universal is doable I don't know but, if so I think it would still have an idea as legs because it helps drive revenue to the game.
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Another issue is that in game ads are supposed to be optional.
A player could argue that since they are a dedicated badger the ads aren't optional for them.
I really should do something about this signature.
then have the badge work on add places instead of the adds it self, might work.
This would be a little unfair for those of us not in Britain who don't see the ads 
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Ok I'm seeing a few of these ads, sometimes in quite unlikely places, and I'm wondering if NCNC aren't missing a trick here, by adding an element to CoX that gives their advertisers a guarantee they are being hit (and a metric that's traceable)
Put simply: A badge that counts every add you see of the same type.
The current ad is Babylon AD I believe (not seen any others as of yet) so as a player goes around hunting them down they get the Babylon AD badge with a number for each unique instance they've spotted. It adds to the badge who... hunters tally, and ensures that the ads are being seen by at least a few, and because they are temp, give a uniqueness to the badge hunting capability of those to whom such things are important.
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Yes, and for the people that don't have access to the ads because they don't live in the UK, what exactly do you propose? That they don't be given the choice on whether or not they want to try for the badge?
No to the suggestion.
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I too, hadn't considered that some countries don't see the ads, or will possibly in the future see different ads. Shame, as I'd have liked some of the Day Jobs places to have been real world advertisers, like making the cinemas Odeon or some of the shops Spar or Tesco or whatever. But yeah, it'd be a bit unfair for those who have Badge-related OCD.
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heh, if only i can see some AION adds, i would search specific for that.
I saw an ad for Aion in the Cascade Archipelago.
I really should do something about this signature.
Ok I'm seeing a few of these ads, sometimes in quite unlikely places, and I'm wondering if NCNC aren't missing a trick here, by adding an element to CoX that gives their advertisers a guarantee they are being hit (and a metric that's traceable)
Put simply: A badge that counts every add you see of the same type.
The current ad is Babylon AD I believe (not seen any others as of yet) so as a player goes around hunting them down they get the Babylon AD badge with a number for each unique instance they've spotted. It adds to the badge who... hunters tally, and ensures that the ads are being seen by at least a few, and because they are temp, give a uniqueness to the badge hunting capability of those to whom such things are important.
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