The Road to 1000.....x10!

Badges, there are a lot of em! So much it can be a bit overwhelming if one was to try to get 'most' of them. I am in the middle of attempting to get 10 of my fav characters (alt much?) to 1000 badges. It's not going to happen overnight, and I'll probably need to take some sort of medication throughout but I intend to get this done...eventually.

So I figure there is probably an ideal way to go about this, I have a mapped out plan but if you can think of a smoother path to 1000 by all means.

So here is the approach I am currently engaged in:
Step 1: I figure in order to get a badge count that high I'll need to go from Hero-Villain at one point or another and then back again. So I’ll either go vigilante right off the bat...or I’ll wait until it makes sense.
Step 2: Get those exploration badges; there are roughly 400, with an additional 40ish accompanying accolades that go with those. For me, this is taking a while but with each toon (currently on 4th) I’m getting very used to the locations. Most almost memorized!
Step 3: This can be done while doing step 2 and that is getting those History badges. There are 24 to be had
Step 4: Here is the part where I "think" is the most logical next step....Invention badges. I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my progress...rough numbers I'll need approximately $135million per toon to complete this (if I sell back onto the market I can recover much of this cost) I put this part early on so as to increase storage capacity on my toon going forward
Step 5: Ouroboros! Time to start my mission related badges. Ouroboros will give me missions specific to my toon’s alignment. I’ll go for the Ouroboros challenge badges while doing mission badges. This is kind of killing two birds with one stone
Step 6: Task force/trial time! With the introduction of the WST, this should be easier to either join existing Task Forces or form one myself.
Step 7: ‘Kill X’ badges, cool thing here is due to my previous work I'll probably have already unlocked quite a few of these from my Ouroboros and task force adventures. I’ll find a zone or special mission and complete a bunch of these.
Step 8: This could be started right at Step 1 but at the end of each day log off at a day job.

I know, most people probably get badges over time but I'm going to give this a shot. I’ve made a couple of spreadsheets to keep track of where I am with each toon.

I suspect that when I get to the 800 mark on each, my progress will sslllloooooww down a lot. At which point this might turn out to be the road to 800

When I get home I'll post current badge counts on the 10.

This is as much for my own records as it is for sharing with others. I'll look back on this to see how much time it took. Most of my toons have a good amount of badges so that helps with this quest.

Jareth - 645 badges
Celestial Might - 745 badges
Ultracold Burn - 640 badges
Spirit of Shiv - 456 badges
Arachnos Automaton - 616 badges
Chaotikus - 357 badges
Odinator - 529 badges
Diabolic Imp - 307 badges
PPD Bionics - 519 badges
Time Fracture - 243 badges

Lots to do! I'm off and runnin'!

Go go gadget badges! Good luck CM!

Alright, it's been almost 20 days. I've had to break from the grind and enjoy gameplay with friends but as it is I'm happy with the progress so far. As it stands I'm just beginning the IO badge phase (1 toon complete).
Updated badge count:
Jareth - 646 badges
Celestial Might - 746 badges
Ultracold Burn - 696 badges
Spirit of Shiv - 547 badges
Arachnos Automaton - 901 badges
Chaotikus - 606 badges
Odinator - 689 badges
Diabolic Imp - 655 badges
PPD Bionics - 639 badges
Time Fracture - 626 badges

Captains log: star date um...winter time 2012.
The spring fling has arrived providing a nice amount of badges for me to cultivate. I hadnt got any of the skiing badges either so this was welcomed. As it stands I'm almost done the IO badges for all toons except Time Fracture and Diabolic Imp. But anyway updated badge count:
Jareth - 709
Celestial Might - 768
Ultracold Burn - 711
Spirit of Shiv - 627
Arachnos Automaton - 921
Chaotikus - 678
Odinator - 753
Diabolic Imp - 721
PPD Bionics - 654
Time Fracture - 639