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Curious About the More Difficult Badges

Who's got them, if anyone? I'd like to hear some input. :)

Badges I'm most interested in hearing about would be ones like 'Teleported 10,000 Times', 'Make a Crab Happy', and 'Held the crown for 100,003 seconds'.

Anyone have those little gems of difficulty. :P?

Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • The crabs are never happy for me. Ever. *scowls at them* I'm so going to do a painting on this very subject soon.
    Posted 13 months ago by Garney Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, I'm finding I have quite the same problem!
    Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh man, what I wouldn't give to get my hands on some crab stats. Maybe...we should organise a crab train. With 52* or more people. Then we could visit two crabs and play our musicblocks in sequence to them and each get the badge... It'll take a while to organise, but I'm in.

    * Note: 52 = 2*(1+5*5) So each of the musicblocks (including GNG) gets played twice. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Prof. Woland Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OK. I've created the Crabstasy group for this sole purpose.
    Posted 13 months ago by Prof. Woland Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That's a really interesting idea with the Crab badge, but it'll be difficult for people to not mess it up xD
    Posted 13 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hm - the only issue I can think of is people not in on the heist coming by to play tunes out of order
    Posted 13 months ago by Prof. Woland Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That'd be quite likely actually. And with the one block per crab, per day limit, only one person would get the badge per crab? And one extra play my not actually change one way or the other how often the crab had heard it? I'm not 100% clear on crab-block mechanics.
    Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The crabs simply hate me......sobs......
    Posted 13 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It seems the most concern here is with crabs. :) Glad to hear I'm not the ONLY one who's had trouble with the choosy little crustaceans!
    Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Liza - Pleasing the crab involves playing the musicblock to him that he had heard least recently. That's why I suggested at least 52 people had to do it and that we needed to do it for two different crabs (there are 26 musicblocks in all) so each block would be played in order and then played again - on the first crab, the last 26 would all get badges. Then you would find a new crab, swap the order and have the first 26 go last and vice versa.

    The only problem is - the process is easily trolled.
    Posted 13 months ago by Prof. Woland Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had a hunch, based on a description I read somewhere, that you needed to play a range of boxes, ending with DG-2 (the "pincer-snapping beats") one. Just letting you guys know, it didn't work. I played the DB range from 1 to 5 over a period of two RL days, ended with the "crab's favourite tune", and left disappointed.

    My new hunch is that you'll need to play ALL the boxes. Fun...
    Posted 13 months ago by GimmeCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm pretty sure it depends what everyone else before you has played. So it's not player-specific.
    Posted 13 months ago by Prof. Woland Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Another (individualist) option is standing at a crab and keeping track of what each person plays to the crab. Then jumping in at just the right moment...

    Has...anyone here actually gotten the badge?
    Posted 13 months ago by Prof. Woland Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't know of anyone ANYWHERE who has the badge. :P I don't even think Marebito has it. And she has most everything. :P
    Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The game's designers intend for this to be a game that goes on for years.  I am happy that they've included some 'goals' that aren't achievable in less than that time.
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • (I'm also not working on that horror at the moment.  :P )  But yes, that badge is the one that tends to give a lot of headaches, and I'm not particularly looking forward to going at it or the cubimals one.  :/
    Posted 13 months ago by Marebito Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like collecting my cubimals. :) Only cost me multiple hundreds of thousands of currants so far. :P
    Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • .... There's a cubimals badge?!
    Posted 13 months ago by Klara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For collecting all 23 I believe.
    Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I got the Crab Happy badge!!! Totally randomly!! It was amazing! I think it was a BB 1, but I don't remember.

    I also got my Glitch-Beamer badge by accident, due to teleporting tons of people around for ghost tours. I'm also probably well on my way to getting my 41x 5+ teleport badge. :D
    Posted 13 months ago by Arya Underfoot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wait there are 26 music blocks? I thought there were 25... BB 1-5, DB 1-5, DG 1-5, DR 1-5 and XS 1-5.

    Anyway, that would mean that at any given play to a crab, you have a 1 in 25 (or 26) chance of playing the right tune. Those are also the same odds of playing him the tune he JUST heard most recently . Somehow, I have managed to play that wrong tune 3 separate times. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Onath Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I thought the crab badge was playing all the music blocks for the crabs and then replaying the one you played first.  I've been keeping a list.  Please don't tell me it has to be the same crab!
    Posted 13 months ago by Marla Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There is an older group that was formed and a forum post recently about this - search for their tips. If you get some of those going for the teleport badges as well, we can transport to crab locations :)
    Posted 13 months ago by snarkle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have the Crab Badge, totally random.
    Posted 13 months ago by ~Annie~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It may be useful to read through the Happy Crab group threads
    Posted 13 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think some of those achievements are even possible to attain!
    Posted 13 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i got glitch train. i will look for more later.
    Posted 13 months ago by GiaTori Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i prefer to think of the badges as by-broducts of playing the game.

    i guess this is a thread for people who consider badges AS the game.

    *shrug*
    Posted 13 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I got the crab badge with a BB-5 and was very excited! I just tried that one because it seemed to be the most rare. Good luck all!
    Posted 13 months ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think you first have to play the crabs all the blocks, then the random least played one.
    Posted 13 months ago by Xyrem Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had this badge during beta.  *You* don't have to play all of the blocks to the crab.  It is indeed pretty much random luck, though the process described near the start should work assuming no one comes by and interrupts it. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Magic Monkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Onath--there are the 25 you mention, plus the GNG musicblock that beta testers got from their Senor Funpickles
    Posted 13 months ago by chilirlw Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have the crab badge! I think I played a 1 or 2, don't know which group though. Just dumb luck!
    Posted 13 months ago by QueenKellee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There is also the SB musicblock which is given out ONLY by developers (afaik)
    Posted 13 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I doubt the GNG musicblock counts toward the crab badge (same goes for any special ones outside of the 5 sets); or at least it is not required for it, as if it were, it would render it an impossible badge for non-beta players that didn't buy a block or a funpickle from a beta player.
    Posted 13 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just got the badge for teleporting 5+ people 41 times! Woooo! That's a little...scary.
    Posted 13 months ago by Arya Underfoot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would just like to confirm that you will receive a unique message for Make a Crab Happy, as well as a reward of 2000 currants if you played the one the crab has heard the least, and that *any* music block can be used.
    Posted 13 months ago by Zu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just made a crab happy with a DG-4 I had picked up while harvesting. Colour me surprised!
    Posted 13 months ago by Spong Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have the crab badge.  You just have to get lucky.  It is a lottery badge.
    Posted 13 months ago by Knewnan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I got the make a crab happy badge with the GNG music block (in reply to theory that special blocks don't count) 
    Posted 13 months ago by Dandy Warhol Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I played all the blocks for each Crab.  I tried at different times of day and night.  I played last thing at night and first thing in the morning.  No luck at all though the Crabs almost always have liked the music and I have saved up a lot of Crabato Juice.

    ETA:  I also played GNG for them, more than once in some cases.
    Posted 13 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just made the crab happy with the DG-5 block, which is the coolest block there is. ;)
    Posted 13 months ago by Addlepated Subscriber! | Permalink