Because some are Hazard zones, some are PvP zones and one is a special access zone. The intent was to limit the Accolades to vanilla zones only.
Also, for all the zones you listed only the Shadow Shards have no exploration badges. 
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Pst, the hallows got an accolade, and that is a hazard zone :P
I'd guess the other zones listed didn't get an accolade because that would require more exploration badges to be put in. Besides heroes already got way more then villains did. Yes, Going Rouge will make them both available, but that's not out yet :P
RWZ should have an accolade for it's 15 explorations... maybe leave out the one under the shield.
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Pst, the hallows got an accolade, and that is a hazard zone :P
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Yes, the Hollows is an exception.
However, Faultline is an exception to your second line. It *DID* get an exploration accolade but did *NOT* get new badges. Thus, a number of my characters got Faultline Finder upon login.
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Pst, the hallows got an accolade, and that is a hazard zone :P
I'd guess the other zones listed didn't get an accolade because that would require more exploration badges to be put in. Besides heroes already got way more then villains did. Yes, Going Rouge will make them both available, but that's not out yet :P RWZ should have an accolade for it's 15 explorations... maybe leave out the one under the shield. |
The Hollows ceased to be a proper Hazard zone when it got revamped, same as Faultline and the RWZ. Less foes per mob, repeatable missions contact, revised mission doors, scalable mob difficulty, a trainer and even an hospital; those are the staples of a vanilla zone, not a hazard zone.
Also: rogue dude, rogue. Not rouge, that's make-up.
Faultline didn't get any new exploration badges because it was decided that 8 would be the number of badges needed for the Accolade. Which Faultline already had. I'm thinking the RWZ didn't get its Accolade exactly because it exceeds this number with its whooping 14 exploration badges (plus the Architect one, but that one doesn't count anywhere).
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I must be misunderstanding something, what does that have to do with eden et all that did not get new badges? What I meant is they added a few badges to most zones, but didn't go thru the work of adding them to every zone in the game.
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Yes, the Hollows is an exception. However, Faultline is an exception to your second line. It *DID* get an exploration accolade but did *NOT* get new badges. Thus, a number of my characters got Faultline Finder upon login. |
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The only thing from that list I'd agree with is the smaller mob sizes, but The Hollows is still a Hazard Zone. It just got the Posi treatment. They sanded off all the rough edges because it's the first hazard zone available and prior to that was somewhat newbie unfriendly.
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Eden - Hazard Zone, and would have villains complaining that blue was even more favored than it was.
Perez Park - Hazard Zone, and would have villains complaining that blue was even more favored than it was.
Cimerora - Technically a Hazard Zone and level locked.
the Rwz - Maybe should have gotten an Accolade, but it already had 14 explores, one inside a Raid area.
the Shadow shard - Absolutely no explores, and would have villains complaining that blue was even more favored than it was.
the Hive - It is level locked still, ot only has 2 explore badges (one under a Raid area)
Boomtown - Hazard Zone, and would have villains complaining that blue was even more favored than it was.
Dark Astoria - Hazard Zone, and would have villains complaining that blue was even more favored than it was.
the pvp-zones - Because of the outcry that there are badges in a PVP zone, and they are level locked still.
The main reason for some of the zones not having explore accolades stem from one main fact: blue side has more zones than red side. Until that changes, expect a lot of these zones not to have explore accolades for them.
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the Hive - It is level locked still, ot only has 2 explore badges (one under a Raid area), and would have villains complaining that blue was even more favored than it was.
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Actually, Villains have The Abyss, which has 2 explore badges, too.
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I really like the idea of getting an accolade for collecting all exploration bagdes in one Zone, but why are there no accolades (and new exploration badges) for Eden, Perez Park, Cimerora, the Rwz, the Shadow shard, the Hive, Boomtown, Dark Astoria and the pvp-zones?