Architect XXV Counting Incorrectly

I reported this a long time ago when the bulk of AE badges were removed. In fact, it was actually no longer possible to earn XXV on new characters for 2 reasons.

First, there was only 26 remaining badges.. one was hero only, another villain only, making only 25 available to each side. The XXV badge itself was unobtainable because there was only 24 other badges to earn. Even if you earned all 24 of them, there was no way to get XXV to count as number 25.

(On a side note, I've always thought it was a better idea to decrease the requirement for those types of badges y one so it made more sense. For example the badges for earning 100 badges or 500 badges, award them at 99 and 499 so that the "100" actually means it's your 100th badge. Makes sense to me!) Anyway...

The second reason, and it's the reason you are seeing the discrepancy... The global AE badges that are awarded to you immediately upon character creation are not counting toward the X and XXV badges. The only time they seem to count is on the actual character that originally earned it. As far as I can tell, the only characters I've seen with XXV were mainly only the ones that had it before the changes to the AE badges.

I know some new badges were added, so it'll now be possible to get 25 badges again, but until they fix Reason #2 above, you might have to settle for sending a /bug report of your own and try to get their attention on it again.

Like I said, I've reported it back when the system originally changed.. I even sent another report at least a month or so ago again, just to kinda remind them that it's still not working correctly. I just get the usual "we'll forward this to the team" response, and nothing has changed yet.

I have several characters with XXV that don't have 25 of them. The easiest explanation is that your account was awarded XXV before the other badges were removed. When the total went below XXV, it wasn't taken away.

Yes, but like I said above, there can be an issue with the global badges... sometimes they are incorrectly not counted for credit, and you still wont get XXV. It appears to be fixed for new characters now, but some characters that were created after the AE badge changes still might not have the proper credit.

That's not what happened, though. The second character earned an AE badge, had far less than 25, and was also awarded Architect XXV at the same time. It's as though the XXV counter went up at some point before the old badges were removed and badges that the character earned towards XXV are gone now but still counted.

Either way, it's a bogus count.