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Returning Vet Badges
A ton of new badges have been implemented since I last played, which is really nice. I'm wondering if my character accomplishments were supposed to update to reflect my current stats or if I'm supposed to start fresh where earning the new badges is concerned.
I sent a message off to the guys to double-check on how this currently works. But, I know in some cases we simply weren't tracking certain accomplishment statistics in the early days. In those cases, you'll be starting fresh.
However, in cases where it is an existing stat, where you had numbers/data, and we added more badge levels into that stat at levels you already have.. you may get those (checking). If you don't, we'll look at improving things so you do. However, this is a minority of cases.. the majority of badges that were added also had new statistics along with them (even if they seemed similar, they're often tracking stats in a different way to rule out cheating or give a more realistic/useful set of numbers).
So, it depends on the badge, but there will probably be some amount of starting-fresh involved.
[EDIT]: Update, all badges are given retroactively. So, if you were on and did something that we were statistically tracking, and later we added a new badge within whatever you accomplished, you will get that badge. (This still does not help the other case, where we weren't tracking a given stat at the time when you were on previously).
However, in cases where it is an existing stat, where you had numbers/data, and we added more badge levels into that stat at levels you already have.. you may get those (checking). If you don't, we'll look at improving things so you do. However, this is a minority of cases.. the majority of badges that were added also had new statistics along with them (even if they seemed similar, they're often tracking stats in a different way to rule out cheating or give a more realistic/useful set of numbers).
So, it depends on the badge, but there will probably be some amount of starting-fresh involved.
[EDIT]: Update, all badges are given retroactively. So, if you were on and did something that we were statistically tracking, and later we added a new badge within whatever you accomplished, you will get that badge. (This still does not help the other case, where we weren't tracking a given stat at the time when you were on previously).
Well, I only had the first PVP Veteran badge showing when I logged in again. It's been several years since I last played but I thought there were more metrics than that being tracked at the time. It's not a super big deal or anything, but getting the badges for some of those past accomplishments would be nice. I mainly wanted to make sure that the 'missing' badges wasn't a bug.
I have a vague recollection of earned retro badges appearing after any activity in the related stats. I'm not sure that is still the case, but see what happens after you have played a bit.
In the last couple days I've picked up a Hive Combat badge and a trading badge, and it didn't trigger any additional badge appearances.