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Leandro has a few suggestions on this, I'll let him take the floor. Just remember, BH-grade bugs need to be game-changing issues, like bigtime XP exploits in AE, etc. "Hey, this wall is weird looking" won't cut it. 
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"Hey, this wall is weird looking" won't cut it.
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Ask for the badge and consistently using exploit are sure fire ways to remove your chances of getting the badge. Confirm the exploit exists, then bug it ingame and send PMs to the relevant devs with the proper information on how to activate the exploit. Then keep quiet about the exploit and you have a good chance of getting the badge.
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Originally Posted by Turgenev
Leandro has a few suggestions on this, I'll let him take the floor. Just remember, BH-grade bugs need to be game-changing issues, like bigtime XP exploits in AE, etc. "Hey, this wall is weird looking" won't cut it.
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Definitely do not ever ask for the badge at all and certainly do not mention any details about the bug/exploit publicly at all. Sadly the fact that you even asked about how to get this badge here may have already disqualified you. |
Originally Posted by pyrite
So, assuming you find a bug, who should you tell in order to have the best chance to get said badge?
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The Devs basically award this badge on their whims and their whims alone. We players could give you all the advice in the world we think might help you, but basically you have to be in the right place at the right time for the Devs to subjectively decide if your case is worthy or not. Good luck I guess.
Sadly many people have reasonably concluded the Bug Hunter badge is as much a popularity award badge from the Devs as it has anything to do with real bugs/exploits. *sigh*
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They can DQ me all they want. As long as this badge is handed out approximatly whenever the hell Positron feels like giving it out, and not even then, I could care less about their silly rules.
As far as I'm concerned, this badge does not exist. Badges should NEVER be handed out on a whim.
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Actually, about a year ago they said that they changed the "don't ask for it" policy. It can no longer hurt your chances to get it, but it won't really help anything either, except maybe to let them know that it's something you're actually intersted in.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
Sadly the fact that you even asked about how to get this badge here may have already disqualified you.
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Other than that, I still have to agree with Kheldarn... any in-game rewards given out on a human being's whim to some people and not others are kind of unfair.
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Positron has nothing to do with it. It's awarded by the QA department. So if they're too busy actually fixing bugs, awarding Bug Hunters is a low priority.|
Originally Posted by Kheldarn
They can DQ me all they want. As long as this badge is handed out approximatly whenever the hell Positron feels like giving it out, and not even then, I could care less about their silly rules.
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Positron offered me my first Bug Hunter, but because QA was swamped with bugs and problems in the mess that post-i14 was, several months passed until someone got around to awarding it to my character (it was Ghost Falcon, I believe, who did). TheOcho contacted me about my 2nd Bug Hunter (which was a great surprise, I didn't know a player could get it twice) the 20th of April, and my character had it the 23rd; the QA team probably wasn't neck-deep in bugs and thus had time to award it quickly.
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The devs have stated plainly, publicly and officially that asking for the badge has no effect on your odds of getting it. Furthermore, it was stated that this was a myth - it was NEVER official position.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Definitely do not ever ask for the badge at all and certainly do not mention any details about the bug/exploit publicly at all. Sadly the fact that you even asked about how to get this badge here may have already disqualified you.
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Actually, they said that was a mistaken impression. It was never the policy and the belief was based on a misunderstanding.|
Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Actually, about a year ago they said that they changed the "don't ask for it" policy.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
TheOcho contacted me about my 2nd Bug Hunter (which was a great surprise, I didn't know a player could get it twice)
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I've always been of the opinion that the entire badge is a myth.
14 issues I've been playing and I've yet to see a single person with it...
It's just a carrot dangled by the devs to get us to be vigilant when exploits are found.
Unless someone has pics. 
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I could have sworn I read a post by Positron on the old forums where Bug Hunter was being discuessed, and he mentioned that there had been a few times he was going to award someone Bug Hunter, until he got further in the missive, and saw they asked for it, and that made him change his mind...
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Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
I've always been of the opinion that the entire badge is a myth.
14 issues I've been playing and I've yet to see a single person with it... It's just a carrot dangled by the devs to get us to be vigilant when exploits are found. Unless someone has pics. |
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I think that's where the misunderstanding came from. It wasn't just because they asked for it, but because it was apparently the reason that person sent in the report to begin with.
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Originally Posted by Kheldarn
I could have sworn I read a post by Positron on the old forums where Bug Hunter was being discuessed, and he mentioned that there had been a few times he was going to award someone Bug Hunter, until he got further in the missive, and saw they asked for it, and that made him change his mind...
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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Actually, about a year ago they said that they changed the "don't ask for it" policy. It can no longer hurt your chances to get it, but it won't really help anything either, except maybe to let them know that it's something you're actually intersted in.
Other than that, I still have to agree with Kheldarn... any in-game rewards given out on a human being's whim to some people and not others are kind of unfair. |
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
The devs have stated plainly, publicly and officially that asking for the badge has no effect on your odds of getting it. Furthermore, it was stated that this was a myth - it was NEVER official position.
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I suppose we are free to choose to believe anything we want about what will improve or worsen our chances to get this badge. As long as there is fundamentally no objective requirement basis for it being awarded there's no real point in believing anything the Devs say on the matter one way or the other "official" or not.
Superstitions and voodoo hocus-pocus are as good as anything when it comes to how we should react to this joke of a badge as far as I'm concerned. The fact that I have always publicly criticized this badge is quite likely much of the reason I don't (and probably will never) have one. This is a consequence of free speech I'm quite prepared to live with.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Sadly many people have reasonably concluded the Bug Hunter badge is as much a popularity award badge from the Devs as it has anything to do with real bugs/exploits. *sigh*
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* and by "True story," I mean, "completely fabricated".
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I believe it was BAB who reported "I heard Positron say....", so it was second-hand and hearsay.|
Originally Posted by Kheldarn
I could have sworn I read a post by Positron on the old forums where Bug Hunter was being discuessed, and he mentioned that there had been a few times he was going to award someone Bug Hunter, until he got further in the missive, and saw they asked for it, and that made him change his mind...
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It was subsequently posted that it had been a misinterpretation.
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So, assuming you find a bug, who should you tell in order to have the best chance to get said badge?
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