With the 8 patch, I held off on buying it at first. I recursed that weekend and soon after getting back to L8, I made the purchase. It gave me a sense of "earning" it. I'm thinking about maybe doing something similar with this one. Setting my own goal, challenging but attainable, to reach a certain stat and only then purchasing the medal as a "reward" for reaching the goal.
Following up on this. I set a goal of hitting 35,000 all-time control fields as a condition of purchasing the Hyperion medal. I called it the "Hyperion Fielding Challenge." I started here:
And with a little help of battle beacons and hits from the other faction, I just got there tonight:
I felt no regrets purchasing the medal after reaching my goal. It may not be "official" but now the medal has some meaning for me.
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With the 8 patch, I held off on buying it at first. I recursed that weekend and soon after getting back to L8, I made the purchase. It gave me a sense of "earning" it. I'm thinking about maybe doing something similar with this one. Setting my own goal, challenging but attainable, to reach a certain stat and only then purchasing the medal as a "reward" for reaching the goal.
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Following up on this. I set a goal of hitting 35,000 all-time control fields as a condition of purchasing the Hyperion medal. I called it the "Hyperion Fielding Challenge." I started here:
And with a little help of battle beacons and hits from the other faction, I just got there tonight:
I felt no regrets purchasing the medal after reaching my goal. It may not be "official" but now the medal has some meaning for me.