Ok, so I've managed to whittle down the obtainable badges for my main toon to about 1020 at last ingame count. Give or take fighting Sentinal over wanting to update, I've managed to get CIT to agree with this count. I ran into something interesting that has already been partially discussed briefly (
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,3716.0.html) as a good chunk of the badges next on my list turned out to be (for now atleast) Praet-side only badges. Since I only have a hundred or so badges left I'm going to printout the current list and hand mark them out for tracking, but even when the finally upgrade Praet to a full Alignment (you know it's gonna happen) this could be an issue for a badge hunter starting out for the first time.
The following is in reference to the Badge Checklist function within CIT.
IE:
http://cit.cohtitan.com/checklist/85839Badge DualismThe main problem I've come across with the badge hunting (since returning in i19-ish) using CIT (and badge-hunter it seems) is that since the player can switch sides and badge names on many badges simply change, ALL badges are treated as dual nomatter where I look until I look at the details of a badge. For instance, if I had a brand new hero and didn't lookup the information on the
Accomplishment: Plague Carrier in a place other than the CIT character list, then I'd have no idea that it was a Red-Side badge. Yes I realize that the first thing to do is research your badges, but there needs to be some way (red/blue/gold text variations perhaps?) to differenciate between the badges or a way to filter based on which side you're currently running. I know that after coming back from two years it would have been nice to have a simple reminder that The Abyss was a Red-Side zone and to stop trying to find it in my Blue-Side maps :-p. After thinking about this part alone it feels to me like there could be an actual database entry required or something in the filters to be added before we start getting any more new badges added to the slowly growing list.
Praet-Only Badges (as of i20)
Since it is currently not possible for
every Praet badge to be acquired by a toon not originating in Praet (until an issue releases adding something Ouro-like Praet side), there needs to be a way to either hide or otherwise-mark badges in such a manner that someone looking at the CIT checklist for guidance can, at a glance, know whether to ignore the badge or not. I
think what I'm getting at is some sort of system (likely CIT created color-coding) that presents a Legend at the top of the printout and this Legend is followed throughout the remainder of the report. I'm not even close to familiar with the back-end coding used to for CIT so I'm not exactly sure how this would be accomplished, but it would make a difference in my view.
Just a Quick example of what I mean:
Hero - Badge is acquired within the boundaries of Paragon City
Villain - Badge is acquired within the boundaries of the Rogue Isles
Praet - Badge is acquired within the boundaries of Praet
PvP - Badge is acquired within the boundaries of a PvP Zone
Global - Badge is universally acquired and may be known by another name once the appropriate alignment shift has been performede. (I'd recomend putting AE, Arena, etc badges in this group)
Patron Arc BadgesSince the game only allows a toon (to my limited knowledge) one chance at choosing a Patron, then I would recomend finding a method/filter that would put a hidden condition on the printout in which once one Patron related badge has been acquired, all other Patron badges that don't follow that arc be hidden from that toon's printout. Again, this is a back-end sort of thing so I'm not sure how
easy it is to accomplish. I think this would further assist in minimizing clutter and excess/unobtainable badges in the list.
Side Notes:You're more than likely aware, but there are many badges without text that need attn. Granted, you're only so many bodies and rely on personal experience and that which is acquired by those that help out from time to time, but I'd put it up there with the above wish list. I'm sure others will bring up things like "do your homework" or "that's what (insert CoX assistance site) is for", but why not improve what we already have? Or better yet, put it all in one easy to reach place.