8-year vet badge?

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't a free character slot rewarded with the Vet Badge?

I know you got one per year when Freedom launched and I was under the impression you got one for every year. Not a problem for me since I'm VIP and have maxed out slots on my favorite server but it might be nice for some players.

Hunh, I'm surprised we've never had an official response to this issue (other than the aforementioned "canned" Support responses, which aren't much of a response at all).

I sat next to Posi during dinner at the Pummit, and asked him specifically about this exact issue. He said that the vet "year" badges are completely and irrevocably dead, kaput, and that's that. Apparently the figuring up of paid time and awarding of badges is somehow involved with a 3rd party (vendor) of theirs and he indicated that there's simply no way to fix the code involved (he was QUITE emphatic about this issue being dead, which is why I'd expect that they would just post up something about it at some point and be done with it).

I'm fairly shocked to hear that at least one person claims to have been awarded one recently, given Posi's black and white response to my question...guess they don't understand even how the code is broken.

I got the usual 8 year badge (Rhapsodic?) but not the literal "8 Year Veteran" badge. By all rights that should hit around the 28th of April.

I do use those badges on occasion while on new characters to punch home & Role playing, showing that I'm not a new player, and have been here a while.

i agree with lothic on this, either fix the badges to simply use account creation date, or remove them completely if they are broken

and as snow globe pointed out we have had several badge removals in the past (im still kind of annoyed at the i15 badge removal, THAT is actually what killed my interest in AE, so what if half of them were a little grindy it would have actually gotten me to play AE arcs more lol)

I've come up with some pseudo-code that should be able to make the annual Vet badges be solely based on players' account creation dates. Obviously I don't know the exact details as far as variable and function names go, but I suspect the Devs could understand what I've written here and translate it into something the game can work with:

 
int current_server_date; /* this would be the server date as an integer based date constant */ 
int game_launch_date; /* this would be April, 28 2004 as an integer based date constant */ 
 
int Process_Annual_Vet_Badges()
{
   int account_creation_date;
   int account_age_in_years;
 
   account_creation_date = Convert_Date_To_Int(Get_Creation_Date (player_id));
 
   if (account_creation_date < game_launch_date)
      account_creation_date = game_launch_date; /* this normalizes people who've been here since CoH beta */
 
   account_age_in_years = Calc_Account_Age_In_Years(current_server_date, account_creation_date);
 
   for (i=1, i <= account_age_in_years, i++)
      Award_Vet_Badge(i); /* this would award the i-year badge if not already awarded */
}

Do we or don't we want our eight year vet badges?

Do they or don't they want our yearly subscriptions?

Would they be happy to exist on FTP players alone?

Would the game survive on FTP players alone?

I want my 8 year vet badge simply because I've earned it. I've paid £100 subscriptions a year in advance for precisely these sort of rewards including game play of course. If I don't get the rewards I've paid for then; I'm the buyer I will simply take my £100 and go spend it somewhere else.

We shouldnt be having to do the devs work for them Lothic (though I wish I had half your brain and knowledge) this is what we (the consumer) pay them (the employee) to do - we pays the piper so we calls the tune.

Well if it is true and the vet badges are dead then they need to delete the badges from the game. I for one would not be happy with reaching 8 year vet status and to not get the badge while someone else has it. For me and many others that badge would be attainable but would never be granted. that's not fair....

I've been waiting for my 4 year badge since december. I've patitioned it with the same standard CS responce months ago and am still waiting. I even asked about it in last weeks Freedom Friday on face book with the responce that there were no plans to fix it in the near future.

Though I can see the logic in Lothic's suggested work around, and support it if it were implemented, I do notice that the accounts pages does still keep a record of 'paid time' as my account lists mine as '4 years, 1 months' which obviously discounts my 3 months from the boxed retail editions I have purchased with an account creation date of '19 Dec 2007'. So I'd even be willing to accept a system based on actual paid time.

Either way, yes, these badges either need some sort of fix or to be removed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project Then it's time for them to get off the cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and get over it.

this was posted on google+ on friday:

The yearly Vet badges (1 year vet, 2 year vet, etc.). These have been broken since the start of Freedom. Has any resolution been decided on with these - the only "official" answers I've heard have been "so and so said this at x event" and when these are petitioned, people get entirely different answers from support. If these are permanently broken, then maybe they should be removed from the game. It's a touchy subject having supposed to have gotten one of these last October, yet no resolution has been made, no badge awarded, no real answer has been given, and everything is rumour at this point.

City of heroes Freedom Response: I believe we've looked into this, but I don't believe we have an ETA for when it will get fixed. Sorry!