Joyful badge

Looks like you need to do Father Time's mission and select the "Golden Rings (12 day Single Target Hold Temporary Power) and the Joyful Badge" option as your reward.

Heh, I know the feeling. See my sig.

My worst moment like this was one character missing a single Halloween zombie from 2007. Then the progress bars came out with Issue 13 and I had to wait nearly a full year to get that 1 kill.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

I feel your pain. My oldest character, and first 50 is still stuck on the Firefighter badge since it never updated before. Has that been fixed?

Nope. You'll fill the bar up defeating 50 fire-event Hellions, but you won't know how many fires you put out.

If you're in that situation, all you need do is put out fires until the badge dings. Don't worry about saving the building or 'arresting' arsonists (some hero you are!), just 'defeat' fires.

Big thanks Zombie Man!

The case for giving us a new way to get the Power Liberator / Master Thief badge has never been stronger.

To begin with there is already the precedent of a badge whose had its requirements completely changed. The Fusion Generator Plans SG badge originally was earned for a set amount of time SG members spent in PvP zones. Now it’s earned by an SG getting 750 kills in PvP in SG mode. Then of course you have the Isolator/Jail Bird badges which have been "liberated" from being trapped in the tutorial zones and are now earnable by anyone who wants them. Last but certainly not least let's not forget all of the badges (Issue 16 anyone?) which had their requirements majorly altered to allow them to be more easily earned. Practically dozens of badges have either been significantly altered (or even removed) from the game so there's no longer any justification NOT to fix this one last problematic badge.

I hope that perhaps eventually the CoP Trial can be dusted off and reworked into something that can be salvaged. I have suggested for years to have that content reworked into something not PvP oriented so the Devs can side-step the original problems they had getting that to work. In any case now that we live with a game that's gone so far as to significantly alter huge numbers of badges which had been untouched for years there's no longer any excuse about maintaining the "status quo" of any badge in this game, especially a broken one like Power Liberator / Master Thief. The badge was never designed to be a "one time only" event badge yet through unfortunate events that's exactly what it became. It was only "legally" earnable for roughly one week back in 2006 and ironically many people who have it now got it by exploiting the fact that the Devs couldn't remove all of the IoPs from the game like they intended to and "server hopped" their characters around to other servers just to farm for it. That's an extremely sad legacy for any badge to have in this game.

P.S. And while they're at it the Devs could give the Rescuer, Clothes Horse, Fashionable and Ostentatious badges their own badge artwork too. It's only been -years- since they've been naked like that.

How can we bear the crushing burden of having to live with this terrible injustice?

You missed three: Disruptor, Forward Observer, and Reinforcement.

Yeah, they've been mentioned in every badge issues list.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

Not sure if I detected a faint whiff of sarcasm with this or not so I'll make it clear that there's of course plenty of other things in the world (and even this game) to worry about than a PvP badge that's effectively been broken for over 3 years now.

But in the narrow scope of "what badge in this game is most overdue to be worked on to make it better than the way it is now" I would easily rank Power Liberator / Master Thief at the top of the current list. I just wanted to re-stress the point that since late 2006 (when the badge was first introduced and quickly mishandled) there have been dozens of other badges completely removed or significantly altered. Why has Power Liberator / Master Thief been ignored? The whole CoP/IoP/base raiding situation was easily one of the most spectacular development failures our Devs have ever had with this game. It's unfortunate that our Devs have thus far continued to compound that failure by not adequately addressing leftover side-effects of it like this badge.

Power Liberator / Master Thief should have either been removed from the game or had its requirements altered YEARS ago.
Many people have it now only via an exploit because the Devs couldn't completely remove the broken unintended IoPs from the game.
Many people paid real money to server hop to get it and we all know how Posi hates the idea of "paying for badges".
It's just wrong on multiple levels.

Yes, this is not really -that- big of a deal in the greater scheme of things.
But it remains one of the ugliest warts on the overall badge system.
Maybe like other things that were lacking for years the Devs will eventually address this too.

I don't see that at all. What I see is that you personally are fixated on this one badge and, every so often, threadjack and post the same diatribe that we've seen many times.

As Darth Vader says to Princess Leia in the Robot Chicken Star Wars show: "Let it go." (Right before he shreds a biscuit and tosses crumbs all over to simulate the destruction of Alderaan. )