Snow Globe

Head over to www.crucial.com run the memory utility there ("Scan my system"), and it will tell you all the various configurations your computer can handle.

Actually you can do attack chains and a log off prevention, but I'm not going there as I think botting is evil.

Here are three guides.
Kenja's G15 Master Guide by CuppaKenja [I10]
Multiple Character G15 Macro Setup by Duck LOrange
G15 Ignore Spammer Macro Creation by Snow Globe

Thankfully with all the spammer controls put into place since I wrote my guide on the keyboard, the guide has now pretty much been obsoleted. It still gives some insight on the workings of the Keyboard though.

I also have done silly things like programmed my password into one of the keys (I make sure that it is on a bank I don't use except for meta game stuff like loading VOIP and the ignore spammer, etc.)

Edit:
Oh, and another tip:
Great for remembering which key does what.

Ok, so there might be a handful of characters that are close or have it through play.

That still does not absolve the +hp problem. The game has not counted a huge portion of the damage taken by characters. I have two characters that are about half way to the ten million mark. Both characters are around 54 months old.

Actually, the damage taken series is the one holdout of the "farming is absolutely needed badges". I doubt that there is a single character that has earned 100 million hp worth of damage through non-farm play.

On the other hand, it would be less an issue if the following conditions were met:

• Hit points of damage above the normal level maximum should count. The infamous "working as designed or intended" is being used, but even some of the developers were in the dark about this until players tested it. There are far too many sources of +HP powers for the condition not to be widespread.
• Falling damage should count. It doesn't.

Falling damage is a drop in the bucket overall, but the +HP power issue is ongoing and avoidable. The 100 million needed for Immortal is about as ridiculous as Empath at 100 million.

A bit of reading goes a long way.

The poster I responded to suggested that if you are too low to get into Ouroborus, then you could be a part of the team (ie. not the team leader) to start the mission. I was pointing out that even if that happened, you still need to be at least level 10 for the team leader to select that mission.

Yes, and in that case you need to be level 10+.

Check these pages for unlocks (not all are badges, just most):
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Unlockable_Costume_Pieces
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Weapon_Customization
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Shield_Customization

I'm not sure how busy TonyV is (so I don't know how up to date they are), but he also has provided in-game maps at:

http://paragonmaps.com/index.php

Making things up? I'm actually looking at what is happening on the market. Your example, as others have pointed out, is completely absurd. The speculators are the ones putting in low-ball bids, and then selling at "regular" market value, rather than using whatever was bid on.

A quick glance at the market section of the forums brings up many threads illustrating this.

See it does work. - "I also used lvl 50 set IO's that resell for $10,000 and can be bought for $1,000 or less."

Discussion - investment scheme - "Obviously, farmers and established marketeers wouldn't benefit from this scheme - it's too much hassle for too little return. This would be for those players who aren't rich and don't have the inclination to play the market, but still want to profit from it."

I could go on, but ever since the market was introduced the problem has remained. The problem is that people don't use what they buy, they bid low and sell the item for a higher price. Hence, this is a Market problem. You will not solve this problem by shifting the burden to remove Inf until you get rid of the people that don't use what they buy.

For the record, in my 10k crafting run I probably spent around 100 million inf on consumables (salvage, actually crafting, deleting empowerment buffs, etc). At one point I had 100 million inf, and accidentally put a crafted IO for bid at 2 billion inf (and losing 100 million inf). I took that IO off and put it back at a normal price (at that time). So I've personally destroyed well over 200 million inf, not including all my sets that I've slotted.

If you remove the "buy low-sell high" mentality from the market, then you get people using the items bought. If people use the items bought, that inf is destroyed.

I've read all of Top Doc's articles for the Scoop, I've even played with him a few times. I know that his play style is more intense than the average player.

Yeah, I'm one of them. I checked that character last night. I have 153 million inf on that character and about 211 million to go to get the last badge.

Then, like I said, the problem is the market. People are NOT generating the "ten times" use of the Inf, the market is. Solution: Fix the market.

Funny, I should have a couple of billion Inf if that were the case. I don't. You are applying faulty reasoning to a situation. I destroy inf by actually slotting the IOs I buy. Perhaps if there were no speculators, you wouldn't have this rampant inflation.

I would say that the majority of people are not as effective as TopDoc, and not just on the market. If there were more people that were as effective, the situation would be far, far worse.

Unrealistic premise and it still completely side-steps the problem that you want to eliminate in the first place: the "ten-time" use for the Inf.

This whole thread shows how the original suggestion is a bad idea both for badge hunters AND the market. You need to stop looking outside the market to fix the market's problems.

I've never had it happen the way you have just described. The answer should be that the original poster should only need the 5.5 million prestige to upgrade.

Actually, the other points (the ones you didn't get) are my objections as a badge collector.

The on-going inf destruction was my attempt to clarify why the suggestion will not work in the long-term, which I presume that is the goal. The Inf destruction provided by this suggestion will amount to the same as the developers making a new set of IOs. Everyone will be after the new shinies for the first little while, but after that you are stuck with the same problem. You need an on-going drain, and making badges will not provide it.

And you are side-stepping my point: No one but marketers have that kind of Inf around.

To put it another way: I've got all the market badges, I got all the invention badges, I don't have the last Inf badge.

On my badge hunter I have around 200 million Inf because I sold a Miracle Unique and was selling to get the old 10,000 craft Fabricator badge. On my main character (without those badges), I have around 150 million Inf because I won a contest. My characters generally have sub 10 million inf, even the 50s.

It will not work the way you think. Read on for why.

This will still not accomplish what you intend. Will it destroy some Inf? Sure, but it will never destroy as much as you think. You want something that will be continuously be a drain on Inf. This will not do that.

Hate to tell you this, but most badge collectors will get badges like this on one (and only one) character. This is no where near the amount of Inf destruction that you are looking for. What you want is a steady stream of consumables to destroy Inf. I only bought the Payoff badge on one character, for instance.

Instead, what you will end up with is the same situation that we have with the more difficult Master badges, the flashback badges, the invention badges, and even the far less tedious Giant Monster badges. Until the developers added merits it was like pulling teeth to assemble a team to fight the monsters. Even with merits it is sometimes hard to do.

Again it will be farmed. For the average, non-market player it has to be farmed. That makes a bad badge.

The part you seem to be missing is that you are looking at one segment of the game (the market) which has been broken because of another area (lack of things to spend Inf on) and not realizing that those with billions of Inf are the extreme fringe of the player base. You have to deal with them, not the rest of the game.

Make some day long temp powers that costs a couple million inf that provides a great bonus (possibly along the lines of a Shivan in strength or the equal of a single purple proc). That you will get people destroying Inf for, not a one-time badge that is purchased.

And I've explained both in this thread and in the past just how much the idea that people have 2 billion Inf on their characters is so far out of the reality (beyond the people that have dedicated themselves to the market).

And it doesn't matter what he's posted elsewhere, I was referring to his initial post in this thread. I would suggest that you read it again.

Again, I know exactly why Fulmens is doing this. The problem is that the only people that have that kind of Inf are those that are using the market more than the average user.

Same thing, different way of saying it.

Actually there is another good spot in the NW corner of St. Martials near the Carnies as well (actually there are a few spots in the NE too).

That, exactly, is the goal to this suggestion. A similar suggestion was made in the base section a few months ago. (Then it was converting Inf to Prestige.)

The market section is desperate in seeking a way to destroy Inf to try to curb inflation. I find this somewhat ironic to have this discussion on a double XP weekend, but there it is.

No, I fully understand where the suggestion is coming from. Like I said, I've had this talk with Fulmens before.

As to the tracking of how much inf, take a closer look at the first post. Fulmens likens these badges to the inf, healing, defeat, and damage badges. So it appears that I am not mistaken.
That is exactly how the suggestion is coming across, and like I have said, it will not happen. See this post by Positron for the reasons why I say this.

The market is the only section of the community that seems to have a large amount of disposable income, therefore I stand by the "market-centric" statement. Everyone else that I know actually spends inf. Slotting IOs, buying respec recipes (ok, maybe not this so much).

Heck, why not have a place where people could pay 10-20 million inf to respec their characters if they are out of respec tokens? Actually I know the reason why: This would equate real cash (for buying respecs from the game store) to Inf.

Greater & Lesser Devoured are near the Hive entrance. However, there is no badge for them.

The eminators (Protectorate) are summoned by LTs and bosses and can be farmed outside of Terra Volta. If you are talking about the Bladegrass Gladiator, any of the "leafy" D.E.s count.

This sounds suspiciously familiar. The SG healing badges had the exact same issue. I would say that it is a display issue, and that the progress is likely still being tracked.