The Official badge thread

[FelicityShadow]

Just got the gold diving badge!!! I don't have to go diving anymore yes!!! Now it's time to work on catching bugs and fish. This is going to be fun.. Oh well at least now I don't have to sport a wetsuit all the time!

 

[Chocofruit]

Just got the gold diving badge!!! I don't have to go diving anymore yes!!! Now it's time to work on catching bugs and fish. This is going to be fun.. Oh well at least now I don't have to sport a wetsuit all the time!

Nice! Must be great to know that you don't need to dive anymore, I think diving was a great implementation in the game, but actually catching the stuff is really tedious! xD
Good luck gathering more of those easy-peasy lemon squeezy badges.

 

[FelicityShadow]

Nice! Must be great to know that you don't need to dive anymore, I think diving was a great implementation in the game, but actually catching the stuff is really tedious! xD
Good luck gathering more of those easy-peasy lemon squeezy badges.

Same here. Diving was a nice edition. I hope they do some more collecting type stuff because it's fun. The process is tedious though.

A tip for anyone doing the diving badge is to use the scallop as a limit for how long you go. I typically dive until I give the scallop to pascal or give up after 2-3 sessions, whichever one comes first. That way you're not going crazy diving the entire day.

Pssh easy badges? The next badges I need for gold are the dreamer, bug catching, fishing, traveling, hosting, and *shudders* the streetpass badge..

 

[stitchmaker]

Last night Player 2 ran into Mr. Badge Guy and got the gold dreaming badge. Last player to complete the dreaming badge.
The sky was very clear and she popped abunch of balloons. 40 more to go.

 

[FelicityShadow]

8/10/2015

12/22/15

Here is an updated look at my badges. I've come a long way from when I started.

I just realized that there are little things added to the badges when it goes from silver to gold: weeds grow from just three to many, diver badges has more splash, and the gardening badge goes from a sprout to a tree.

 

[Miii]

It's been my goal to get every badge since the beginning xD my town is almost 2 years old, and I have the gardening specialist badge, the happy homer gold, the town concierge, the master shopper, and villager of honor badges. I'm reaaaally close to having the gold bug and fish catching badges, and the ones for filling out the encyclopedia (1 bug, 2 ocean/river fish, and 2 sea creatures left!) but it takes a while since I'm letting everything happen naturally. One day I'll have them all!!!

 

[Chocofruit]

8/10/2015

12/22/15

Here is an updated look at my badges. I've come a long way from when I started.

I just realized that there are little things added to the badges when it goes from silver to gold: weeds grow from just three to many, diver badges has more splash, and the gardening badge goes from a sprout to a tree.

Awesome! Looks great! As you said yourself, you've come really far! Only a few left, and you only got one bronze badge, but it's the streetpass one. It will take long, but atleast you're getting some streetpasses.

Well, anyways, good luck gathering those, fantastically hard and some of them not that hard but still tedious, badges!

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It's been my goal to get every badge since the beginning xD my town is almost 2 years old, and I have the gardening specialist badge, the happy homer gold, the town concierge, the master shopper, and villager of honor badges. I'm reaaaally close to having the gold bug and fish catching badges, and the ones for filling out the encyclopedia (1 bug, 2 ocean/river fish, and 2 sea creatures left!) but it takes a while since I'm letting everything happen naturally. One day I'll have them all!!!

Nice, it would be awesome if you could supply with a picture of your badges, but still thank you for posting here!

And awesome collection of badges! And also, nice to see someone who doesn't TT, I now that many don't do it, but there are alot of people who do it.

Good luck gathering those badges!

 

[stitchmaker]

Yeah it finally happened. Player 2 popped her last balloon for a gold badge. Went into to retail to sale stuff and he was waiting outside. All main town players have gold now.

Player 2/3 need the silver/gold travel/host. Player 3 needs the playtime gold. Not counting the streetpass badge.

 

[FelicityShadow]

Yeah it finally happened. Player 2 popped her last balloon for a gold badge. Went into to retail to sale stuff and he was waiting outside. All main town players have gold now.

Player 2/3 need the silver/gold travel/host. Player 3 needs the playtime gold. Not counting the streetpass badge.

That's really impressive considering you're doing the badges for three different players! I can barely do the one town that I have. Good luck on the rest!

I'm working on the gold dream and probably the host/traveling badges through trades. That advice you gave Chocofruit works wonders. I now call every 5k spent "dream suite tens" and know that everytime I spend 5k I earned 10 dream visits. I need 16 more dream suite tens. It helps to put a number in 5s for your bells to keep track.

 

[Knopekin]

I'm trying to get at least silver in everything (I hate the Island Medals one most of all...) I was wondering, is there a best way to pop balloons? I've been playing for ages (got my 500 hour badge!) and have popped every balloon I've seen, and I've gotten the golden slingshot, but I've only got the bronze badge for balloons.

Any tips?

 

[FelicityShadow]

I'm trying to get at least silver in everything (I hate the Island Medals one most of all...) I was wondering, is there a best way to pop balloons? I've been playing for ages (got my 500 hour badge!) and have popped every balloon I've seen, and I've gotten the golden slingshot, but I've only got the bronze badge for balloons.

Any tips?

Here is what Chocofruit puts on the front page:

BALLOON SHOOTER BADGE : An easier way to get the Balloon Shooter Badge is when you see a ballon and you're only shooting it to get one count closer to getting the balloon badge, then try and shoot it over water, flowers, or tiles, in the middle of a 3x3 pattern, because then the present will disappear and you don't have to go and clean-up/pick-up/sell. Balloons usually float/appear by the far left or far right on the map, at these times XX:04, XX:14, XX:24, XX:34, XX:44, & XX:54.

This was one of those badges that there is no easy way out but to simply go after every single balloon. I don't think the balloon popping medal games count so don't do those for the balloon badge.

Here is a guide that I referenced as well:
Balloon Master Badge guide

 

[Muyho]

I'm trying to get the Silver Catalog badge, but jeez is it hard to know how many more items I need to pick up *-*

 

[FelicityShadow]

I'm trying to get the Silver Catalog badge, but jeez is it hard to know how many more items I need to pick up *-*

I know what you mean! It took so long to get gold, and even gold is just I think 80% of the catalog. I'm still working on getting the full catalog. One thing that really helped me was this website: cataloging website. While it is inaccurate in some parts and doesn't include everything in the game, it is a really good way to organize what you already have and see what you don't have. It makes it easier for people to reference and trade with you too. There are also other guides that offer checklists I think. Good luck with the cataloging! It's a long process but it's so worth it and you learn lots of trading stuff.

 

[thecheese103]

How have I never noticed this thread? Oh well, no time like the present.

Here are my current badges! http://i.imgur.com/wmyCGB8.jpg

I'm really really close to the Island Medals one, like, I think I'm at 4200 medals and I know I've spent quite a few... so hopefully my next trip or two there will turn something up. Visitors/Hosting will be taking a long time, that and Dreamer will definitely require some friends/people in the community to sit down and grind with. Catalog should happen any day now too, we'll see. No idea what my progress on the Fish/Bugs/Seafood ones are, but Bugs will no doubt get bumped up quite a fair bit if I use the Island more for moneymaking. Oh, and Weeding! My friends that don't play as often anymore tend to help me, when their build up a fair bit The day I get everything golden will be a happy one indeed. I'm sure there are a few complete badge sets somewhere in this thread, I'll have a look now!

 

[wordcutouts]

Wow, you're really close! I'm not even remotely close and I've had the same town for two years now. Ha.

 

[thecheese103]

I've had this file since I got the game, which I believe was just a few days after it came out? Sunday of? Can't remember. I really wanna say I've gotten the Catalog badge after a recent buying session but my town has been snowing for days, ugh. Phineas is having time off.

And keep at it! when I actually wanna go serious for a badge, I set a little time aside every day, after I've done my regular fun stuff/stuff with friends. Gonna be doing it for Dreamer soon, I'll see if that helps me or if I'll have to go for the long grind.

 

[Chocofruit]

I just gotta say that, I got really happy when I got here and checked! All these new posts! Fantastic to see!

 

[Knopekin]

Here is what Chocofruit puts on the front page:



This was one of those badges that there is no easy way out but to simply go after every single balloon. I don't think the balloon popping medal games count so don't do those for the balloon badge.

Here is a guide that I referenced as well:
Balloon Master Badge guide

Thank you, that's great

If anyone needs their weeding badge, I've started a thread here.

 

[Chocofruit]

Thank you, that's great

If anyone needs their weeding badge, I've started a thread here.

That's a really good idea for a thread! Seems like you got some traffic on there! Clearly, people seem like they wanted a thread like this. Awesome idea!

 

[stitchmaker]

Thank you, that's great

If anyone needs their weeding badge, I've started a thread here.

The silver balloons only count as one. After I got the silver badge I kept track of the balloons. Every time I hit a silver balloon I put one in the regular balloon total and one in the silver total. Mr. Badge Guy appeared when those two totals were added together. He didn't give the player the balloon badge. She received a different one.

The best time to look for them is on a clear day. Morning or afternoon is better. They are very easy to see.
Just before the 4 mark or a little after pinged me. After I was done talking a balloon was across the bridge or I could hear one.
Next to the cliff don't take off right away if you don't see one. It can take a little bit to make the noise and than show up.
I left to earlier and when I came back the balloon was coming from that area. Sometimes they like to blend in with the trees.

If you do everyday things and help the villager the balloons show up more often or can be very easy to find. If you just run around at the 4 mark they are harder to find. Player 2 got 3 balloons in a row and it slowed down for awhile. Save/quit and started back up again to get the balloons to appear. Winter make the balloons hard to see.