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Same, but for Pete's sakes, park I22 'til April. Ain't no way I can Master badge properly right now with a newborn. ;(

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

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I'll help ya, Turg. There is little chance I'll be able to have it on VK as well this week. And since I enjoy their MO format of badge collection, even if I do hate it on VK, I'll help on another -likely more useful - toon.

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Same here, on 1357 currently and 1358 in 6 or 7 days

Laugh it up Passport-boy...

As for me if I can get another MoITF, MoKuda and a Preservation Specialist (which'll get me a MoUG) I'll be done with my second badger.

Didn't they say that Passport was somehow going to become available again?

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Eh, there have been vague rumors about it all along. You have to remember the Passport badge has a weird history to begin with.

IIRC it was originally going to be used as a generic "server transfer" badge that you'd get if you moved a character from any one server to another. But for some reason they semi-announced that plan quite a long time before server transfers actually became possible. I tend to think that they thought server transfers were "just about to happen" but for some reason they got held up much longer than they had anticipated.

So as time progressed and we were still waiting for server transfers to work I think they decided on a "Plan B" which turned out to be the one involving giving Passport to people who transferred from the NA servers over to the (at the time) brand new EU servers.

But there's actually another little wrinkle to this saga: When they finally started giving Passport out to the newly transferred EU players there was a random bug that allowed a small number of NA players to get Passport "auto-magically" even when none of their characters were involved in any of the EU transfers. I actually saw a couple of NA people with the Passport badge so I can personally confirm this bug - lucky bastiages.

Ever since then there have been ongoing rumors (especially since the re-merge of the EU servers back to the US) that there would be yet another "new" way to get Passport. Frankly I'm not really holding my breath for that. It would probably be fair for those people who chose not to transfer to the EU servers to have some kind of badge (Passport or otherwise) that could "equal out" the totals for everyone, but I figure the chances of the Devs doing that is just about nil. At this point because of the bugs and the EU weirdness I'm content to semi-pretend Passport doesn't exist just like I try my best to forget about the Bug Hunter anomaly. Anyone who actually has it (like OV_ohms) will just have to deal with my light-hearted envy and get over it.

Well with server transfers now in abundance, perhaps Plan A for Passport should be enabled? Transfer alt = badge, but now comes the question: account wide badge or just for the alt that moved?

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I know most people would probably want it to be an account badge (just to make things cheap and easy) but I really can't see much justification for that. Why should a character I create next week get a badge related to server transfers just because I transferred a different character yesterday? If they ever go back to the idea of making Passport be a badge for any generic server transfer I would pretty much expect it to be character based.

But even if that happened it would still be semi-annoying for any badging character that's a member of a SG. My badging characters have been members of the same SGs for years now - it'd be sad to have to give up that seniority and Prestige total just to server hop for a badge. *shrugs*

Can't please everyone. Frankly I'd rather see the yearly vet badges fixed. Or if they cannot restore the auto rewarding of the badges, then set it up where we can visit one of the Ouro vendors to "claim" the vet badge.

Example: player logs in and gets in game message or email congratulating them on another year of VIP that instructs them to go to Ouro to speak to the vendor to claim their new Vet badge.

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Yeah there are certainly plenty of things that are more important to more people than this Passport issue - that's another reason why I'm not expecting much to happen with it regardless.

In a few weeks I'm fully expecting to join all those other lost souls who should have their latest Annual Vet badge but don't. They really need to get on the ball with that one because it's already been like six months since CoH:Freedom. Like you say they might be at the point where they'll just have to start doing something radically different with them just to get it working in some form or fashion.

In a few months I'll be down TWO vet badges if they don't do something. If they can't get them working again, then as much as some people will hate this idea I'm going to post it anyway: remove them from the game. As compensation for the removal of the yearly vet badges, offer either a choice of character slot/transfer per badge that was removed or else perhaps something like 500 or 1000 paragon points per badge removed.

I don't like the idea of badges being removed but something must be done.

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For what it's worth I actually wouldn't be all that opposed to a "solution" to this problem that involved something as drastic as removing them from the game. I have mentioned over the years that I was never really a huge fan of the way the original Vet badges worked anyway because of the way a newer player would never be able to "catch up" to the old-time Vets. These Annual Vet badges are the last remaining vestige of that short-sighted concept.

Like I said it's long past the time the Devs need to start looking "outside the box" for some kind of solution to this problem. Clearly they have some kind of convoluted account database problem that they've either been unable or unwilling to deal with. One really has to question whether it even makes sense to try to maintain that series of badges in their current form.

I'm not fond of badges being yanked, but it's been done before. While true that newer players will never catch up in terms of vet badges, the same can also be said of the Anniversary badges too. Still, if they can't fix them or come up with a way for us to manually claim them, then purge them.

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If I get the chance, I think I will ask about these badges during the Pummit next month. I REALLY would like to hear what their thoughts are about getting this issue finally addressed.

Figured I'd try support again for grins and got the usual "wait for the patch" response.

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