Idea for 6th Anniversary Event

Since the 6th Anniversary of the game have been announced with all the details, I think it would be nice if they also add some kind of option that let us craft older anniversary badges. Similar in concept of the winter event were you can craft older badges that are no longer available. This will also let new people get the 5th Column Gladiator that was awarded if you got the first two anniversary badges.

I'd rather they go back and just make the anniversary badges global.

As both a player who has been around since day one and an avid badge collector, I highly support the suggestions that have been made to allow these badges to become available after the fact.

"Holiday crafting" is a good solution. Making them purchaseable for a small real money fee via the NCSoft store is a less-good-but-feasible option as well. Creating some sort of "shadow" badge that gives badge credit but shows that the recipient was not actually present to receive the official anniversary badge is another good one.

(As a sidenote, whatever happened to making the anniversary badges global, as was stated during the Mission Architect badge nerf?)

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I would prefer they just make them tied to an account, rather than the actual characters. Logging in a character just for the sake of logging in a character shouldn't be necessary. If you had an active account during the badge period and logged on at all, you've helped to celebrate.

I've been around for most, but not all anniversaries, so I've missed some in the middle. So I can accept not having it for being gone from the game. But because I didn't log in that character? Seems a little much. Maybe there were things I wanted to get done on other characters.

But it's just a badge, so I'm not worried about it one way or the other.

A thought I just had for these badges is actually rather simple(In thought, not implimentation). Ouroborus. Ouro the 'time' the badges were originally released, and then participate in the 'event' that happened at that time. If there wasn't an event, then link it to to an event, that has been taken out of the game. Like the Calvin Scott TF. Once completed you get the Anniversary badge. An option to be used at the Devs descretion would be to add an asterisk to the badge, showing that the badge was earned via Ouro, and not by actually being around that long.

This would allow the badges to be earned by those who both have been around since the start who might have missed it, or created characters after the fact, and late starters who weren't around then.

I'm a badger and I hate having all but the first anniversary badge on my hero badger -- but I still have to /unsign this. Making previous anniversary badges obtainable after the fact completely defeats the purpose of having anniversary badges. Annual events are different because the events themselves have changed over the years.

I do think they should be global, though.

I would like it if they were global. If you get the badge on one character, it flags your account - YOU were there for the anniversary, which is what counts, doesn't it?

Besides, I have over a hundred characters at this point and logging most of them in for the anni badge is TEDIOUS AS HELL.

edit: I don't support crafting or purchasing old anni badges. If you weren't there for it, YOU WEREN'T THERE.

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