I have the badge for spending my first Emblem of Alpha, but I can't for the life of me remember how I got the Emblem. How does one get Emblems in general?
Emblems are given to you by a Giant whose "favor" you have earned in excess of 1000 favor points; favor can be earned by either contributing to new street projects, or by donating items directly to each Giant's shrine.
Each time your favor with each Giant reaches 1000, you get another emblem.
You also gain favor points towards emblems by levelling up and by performing skills. Each skill is associated with a particular giant. Oh, and gathering favor point (somewhat rare) quoins.
Is 1,000 right or is it 1,100? I know this is an old thread but maybe someone can help. I ask because the page where you check your favor shows me as having more than 1,000 (but less than 1,100) with five of the giants...but I don't have those emblems. I have 1,500-some with Cosma, and I DID get her emblem. Or.......my other wondering is, if you've spent some favor points to speed up skills, does that page forget to subtract those from your total favor points and show what they would be if you hadn't spent any? (That seems kind of weird but is the only explanation besides the 1,100 I can think of.) I do notice that nearly everything in the game goes by 11s...anyone? Thanks!
So it includes points you spent...okay, that is good to know. I wish there was some way to check current total...is there? (I mean while game is closed; and I know it'll be moot once game is up and running.)
If, for example, you have earned an emblem of Spriggan, you have to go to a Spriggan shrine to retrieve the emblem. It's a good idea to pick up the emblem as quickly as possible after you've earned it, because it doesn't seem that you can continue to earn favor points for Spriggan in the mean time. Once you pick it up, you can accrue Spriggan points again.
You may find yourself earning multiple emblems at the same time, especially if you've recently gained a level or performed some other action which gives you a lot of general favor points. When this happened to me before the reset, I either didn't receive or didn't see the notification messages, so it's a good idea to periodically check favor at all of the giants' shrines.
Okay, that is helpful, too! Thanks so much, glum. Still wondering how to view current favor as opposed to that total on leaderboard page (total minus favor points spent). Is there a way?
You get an emblem for every thousand points, I believe, so if you have 1445 Humbaba points on the leaderboard, you have one emblem, 445 points, and need 555 more points for a second emblem.
Also, a lot of badges seem to be awarded when you've hit a prime number of something, so eleven does show up frequently.
Not necessarily glum...I've got 1,551 with Pot but am nowhere close to having that emblem. I *could* have gotten it, but instead I used 900 of that to speed up skill learning. Pot is actually a great Giant to do that with, since the emblem unlocks Master Chef II (something I won't want to learn for a very, very long time).
And to answer the question... it's 1,000 even.
@ Tofu, yeah, was hoping you could check while game is down though. @ Trav, thanks that helps...that's what I meant. Mine show over 1,000 but I know I have spent some; so that explains the defecit.
Doesn't the amount of favor you need for the next emblem increase after each emblem received? For example, I got my first emblem of Pot, and then needed 1100 favor to get the second. Once I got the second, I notice I have to get 1200 to get the third. Only seems logical that it increases by 100 favor for each emblem you receive.
Broadcastic, you basically get 10% what the item is worth in currants in favor. So for a meat, for example, you get 1 favor (a meat is worth 10 currants). You can use fairly hallowed shrine powder to get 1.5x that donation amount, or extremely hallowed to triple it. I think the best is to use an extremely hallowed shrine powder and then donate a gnome or a walloping big diamond!