Changing active badge: chat log text should include former badge
By
Lothic,
Posted on: 2011-02-28 11:20 in Suggestions and Ideas
The game already gives us "before-and-after" messages like this when people change their global names. From a coding point of view it would probably be relatively simple to do this for badge settitles. The information needed to populate the text string with both badge names is right there at the point this text string is currently generated at anyway.
Might as well suggest it officially in game and see what happens. I wouldn't give it a very high chance of happening because the Devs probably have 1,000 other things to do that are more important than this, but you never know. 
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Most definitely /signed - I've done this so many times.
It's easy to change the badge that shows up under your character's name. Just click on a new badge in the badge pulldown window.
In fact, it's SO easy, I manage to do it by accident every so often, while I am examining badge progress in the badge window. I slip a little too far to the left when trying to grab the slider, and accidentally select a badge.
This often happens when I am checking a long-parked alt for day job progress. The relevance of that is, it's a character I haven't played in a long time...and I may not remember what badge I had been showing.
The chat log helpfully says something to the effect of new badge selected is "Clumsy," to make up an example, but I sometimes have no idea what badge I used to have, just before the slip.
It seems like a simple change to have the chat log include the former badge you've changed from. Something like Active badge changed from "Agile" to "Clumsy," or however the Powers That Be want to word it. Then it wouldn't much matter if the mouse slipped and selected a new badge.
A small thing, I know, but it's been a source of frustration for me.
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