Anyone else losing SG explore badges?
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-01-12 14:06 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I'll try and remember to check this evening. Out of curiosity have you tried re-earning them?
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I went and got the Atlas one again to verify that this really was the issue.
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
I'll try and remember to check this evening. Out of curiosity have you tried re-earning them?
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IIRC, there was a bug a while back that issued EVERY badge to SGs. This allowed people to make and place items they really didn't earn (yet), and included items that are still not even unlocked even after having all currently available badges.
It may be possible your beacons were earned/placed during this time, which may have led to their eventual deletion when the problem was fixed, but the items you created still remained in the base.
I've had this happen in my VG before. The only thing that came to mind at that time was that a friend left the game (taking their character with them) and one of their characters was the one that had 'earned' that beacon exploration badge.
I realize that the beacon badges are SG-wide, and it doesn't matter who gets the exploration badges for a zone to get the beacon badge.
The game obviously keeps track of the badges, and knows who gained that last badge for the beacon.
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Weird. Well, I checked and my SG still has them all.
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Originally Posted by enrious2
I went and got the Atlas one again to verify that this really was the issue.
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If that's how they get lost, it's a transient bug. I know that I earned all of the beacons for my hero SG on my main. That hero was accidentally kicked by a twitchy-fingered SG leader sometime after and reinvited within a minute, and we didn't lose a single beacon. This was a couple of years ago, mind you, so things may have changed in the interim.
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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
I've had this happen in my VG before. The only thing that came to mind at that time was that a friend left the game (taking their character with them) and one of their characters was the one that had 'earned' that beacon exploration badge.
I realize that the beacon badges are SG-wide, and it doesn't matter who gets the exploration badges for a zone to get the beacon badge. The game obviously keeps track of the badges, and knows who gained that last badge for the beacon. |
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I don't think so - I had all explore badges earned over a year ago.
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Originally Posted by Master-Blade
IIRC, there was a bug a while back that issued EVERY badge to SGs. This allowed people to make and place items they really didn't earn (yet), and included items that are still not even unlocked even after having all currently available badges.
It may be possible your beacons were earned/placed during this time, which may have led to their eventual deletion when the problem was fixed, but the items you created still remained in the base. |
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It is a plausible theory, except in this case there was only one toon that earned the badges and he's still in the SG.|
Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
I've had this happen in my VG before. The only thing that came to mind at that time was that a friend left the game (taking their character with them) and one of their characters was the one that had 'earned' that beacon exploration badge.
I realize that the beacon badges are SG-wide, and it doesn't matter who gets the exploration badges for a zone to get the beacon badge. The game obviously keeps track of the badges, and knows who gained that last badge for the beacon. |
And I disagree with the last sentence but unfortunately can't elaborate.
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By that I meant the games knows when there is one exploration badge left before the zones beacon badge is awarded, and will award the beacon no matter who gets that last exploration marker.|
Originally Posted by enrious2
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And I disagree with the last sentence but unfortunately can't elaborate. |
I'm sure there are SG's out there that have had this issue, even if the same character gained all of the beacon badges.
It's what I thought might have caused it back when I lost one of my beacons.
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Ah, I could easily go along with this as I only needed to reacquire one badge in SG mode to get the Atlas sg badge.
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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
By that I meant the games knows when there is one exploration badge left before the zones beacon badge is awarded, and will award the beacon no matter who gets that last exploration marker.
I'm sure there are SG's out there that have had this issue, even if the same character gained all of the beacon badges. It's what I thought might have caused it back when I lost one of my beacons. |
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I just noticed this for my SG, where most of the Hazard zone badges were missing.
I *think* this may be related to the addition of more exploration badges in some zones.
IF you already had your beacons, you would not need to gather the new badges, they would become "grandfathered".
If you need NEW beacons, you would need to go gather the new badges, as they have become a part of the requirement for the beacons.
... I *think*
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The new badges were not required in beta to earn new beacons.
Just trying to see if anyone else has lost a SG Explore badge.
I deleted all of the beacons in my base, so I could reorder them and found that I could only add three and a quick check revealed that I only had 3 SG explore badges (previously I had all 21 blueside ones).
Asking around had people say they had lost one or two here and there, which makes me wonder if this really is something widespread or just a fluke.
Note: I'm not looking for advice on fixing the problem and yes, I have contacted CS (I will say no more on that, as very likely I'd be instabanned were I to voice my opinion on that experience).
Soooo....anyone lose a SG Explore badge? If you read this, mind checking and seeing if you still have the ones you should? I have no idea when this happened as I added the last beacon over a year ago.
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