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The Gold Spender

The Gold Spender

Collect all Gold Global Events Badges

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How to unlock the The Gold Spender achievement in SSX - Definitive Guide

The badges for the achievement are:
Finish 10 events in Diamond Bracket
Finish 10 events in Platinum Bracket
Finish 10 events in Gold Bracket
Finish 10 events in Silver Bracket
Compete in 50 Race Events
Compete in 50 Trick Events
Compete in 50 Survive Events
Compete in 50 Custom Events
Compete in an event with 50,000+ players
Join an event with a 1,000,000 credit drop (Must be done after getting badges for 10,000 and 100,000)
Earn 1,000,000 credits through Global Events overall

For Diamond Bracket wins simply create a custom event that is 10 minutes long, race/trick/survive in it, then you will get diamond. The progress for the badge doesnt count until the event is over and you have dashboarded and came back into the game.

As for Platinum-Silver Brackets you need to earn these legitimately through Global Events already in place. You can just join events and do your best and see what you get. The more people there are, the less that times/points will be spread apart from each bracket. My advice is to do survive events that are close to ending and die right after you earn the badge you want. For example: If Bronze is at 100m and silver is at 200m, get to 201m and die to earn silver. (Assuming nobody joins after that)

For competing in Race/Trick/Survive/Custom events I suggest playing a lot of events for your Bracket Badges. You can, though, boost these by creating custom events that are only 10 minutes long. The progress will count as soon as you create the event. There is no need to start it up, or even choose a character. Just go to Custom Event and create a Race or Trick and as soon as you see the character selection screen it will have counted so you can just back out. Survives can be created but only on tracks that have a survive event at all. You can have 3 custom events up and running at a time, which is why you make each one 10 minutes, so you dont have to wait too long.

For competing in an event with 50,000+ players, I regret to inform you that if you don't have it already then you probably can not get it. In the first week of launch there was an event that was a week long that managed to accumlate only 58,000 or so players before the event ended. Since this event is no longer running (and there appears to be no event like it that could accumulate that many people) it would appear that you can't get this badge if you don't have it. There is talk of getting the badge lowered/redone (considering on the PS3 the event never made it 50,000 before it ended) so I will keep this updated if that is the case.

For joining an event with a 1,000,000 credit drop you need to join the event AFTER you already have the badges for joining an event with 10,000 and the badge for 100,000. Basically what im saying is you need to get them in order otherwise you will waste the million credits. As of right now there is an event in the Himalayas that has a 1,000,000 credit drop Survive Event. It seems to be reaccuring and has a week long time limit.

For earning 1,000,000 credits in Global Events accumulatively you will probably get this over time. The higher the drop cost is, the more money you receive if you do well. If you really don't have this by the time you join the 1,000,000 credit drop event then doing even slightly well will earn you over 1,000,000, but i'm sure you will have it long before then.

Update: Joining any Global Event will get you the 50,000+ players since EA has unlocked this badge!
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As "talkstogod" said, i had also the hardest time to get the platinum badges. And I used exactly the same strategy in addition, always look for global events with as less time left as possible. This allows you to see +/- what you could get, instead of waiting an hour or more till it finishes.
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By FoxA83 on 08 Mar 2012 12:06
For the Platinum medals, I simply joined events that had 1 rider and less than 5 minutes to go, and finished with a worse score/time than the other rider.

Most of the time, the event ended with just the two of us. I got all my Platinum medals before earning all the Silver ones I needed.
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By Ham Salad on 08 Mar 2012 16:29
Just for the record. You can't get the final bit, earning 1mil that is, without an Online Pass, thus you can't get any achievements for Global Events. Dick move from EA.
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By Jayowski on 08 Mar 2012 22:25
Any word on the 50,000 riders getting lowered or another event??? Any solution to that one?
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By Fighting Doofus on 09 Mar 2012 04:35
As of right now, there is still no word from EA about changing the 50,000 badge
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By Shand Alk3 on 09 Mar 2012 07:30
There's an event in Siberia, on the Boris peak called The Big Show Trick it that has 25,000 riders already, only 2 and a bit days to go though
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By Zpud on 10 Mar 2012 22:47
For earning 1,000,000 credits, simply create a custom event (I created a 10min custom race on Curnoe's Mustache), and assuming you already have 1,000,000 credits, set the drop cost to 1,000,000. Then compete in it, and wait until the event ends. You will win back your 1mill, and the Badge will pop up. This is how I did it :)
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By SBRaiders95 on 11 Mar 2012 20:02
Yeah, the big show never hit 50k people. It got really close, hopefully ea will pull through an figure something out.
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By Fighting Doofus on 13 Mar 2012 17:49
There's an event in the alps that has just started that has a 2 week time limit

Hopefully enough people will play it
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By Zpud on 13 Mar 2012 20:07
Just to bring this up to people renting it or buying it used you need the online pass to 1000 out the game if you dont have online pass EA hold on to your credits until you redeem one
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By keoskey on 20 Mar 2012 05:13
and magically this event shot over 50,000 in less than 24 hours after I posted this. nice boosting EA, I feel ya.
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By BobLoblawsBlogs on 23 Mar 2012 00:30
For the platinum badges.....I have a second account...couldn't I just create custom events with the second account and then go back on my main account and not beat the diamond score??
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By bmlx5867 on 25 Mar 2012 23:25
That should work!
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By Shand Alk3 on 26 Mar 2012 00:34
Annoyingly, competing in an event with 50k+ doesn't count if you were one of the first 49,999 riders! Having joined the two events for Beyond the Fall, I happily watched them shoot past the 50k mark and waited for the events to end. No badge, though as I didn't realise you have to go back and compete again
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By Conky UK on 29 Mar 2012 07:53
That must have been annoying Conky.
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By Benchem on 29 Mar 2012 15:37
if i make a custom survive it event, does it count twoards the survive it and custom counters? or just one?
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By koobz2142 on 29 Mar 2012 19:20
both
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By Shand Alk3 on 29 Mar 2012 19:25
hey conky i believe if you do another run after it hits 50k riders it pops, it what happened to me with 15k
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By GWebb77 on 03 Apr 2012 00:07
just a heads up there is a global event with around 28000 now with like 4 days left or so, so join up now
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By GWebb77 on 04 Apr 2012 23:56
Trickypedia is up to 43300 with 3 days to go!
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By Conky UK on 06 Apr 2012 21:33
Trickypedia is now on 47075 with exactly 1 day to go, only 3000 more people needed, come ln guys....this can be done!
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By the1mattyp on 08 Apr 2012 22:07
WTF, with less than an hour to go the rider count dropped to about 18900!
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By Conky UK on 09 Apr 2012 23:39
yeah the EA servers screwed me out of it too, they should just give us all the badge or extend the event at least
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By GWebb77 on 10 Apr 2012 00:10
Can anyone confirm if the second account method works for the platinums?
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By LightHordy on 11 Apr 2012 18:28
TA should host on the main page of the website if an event nears the 50,000 players ever again as Ive now completed everything but the global events...
:) :'( lol
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By That505Guy on 19 Apr 2012 04:36
CAUTION!!!
For: Compete in an event with 50,000+ players
Go to: Participate in The Hammer
When: From now till the next week

Source: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/615810-ssx/62570904
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By Banan Demon PL on 19 Apr 2012 15:59
That board is for Playstation? @Banan Demon PL
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By That505Guy on 20 Apr 2012 18:42
50000 EVENT IS UP EVERY 1 THAT NEEDS IT JOIN NOW. ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT YO!
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By JUNCTION ARISTO on 05 May 2012 11:41
There is a week-long trick-it event on Serenity going on for 5 more days that has already topped over 50k riders.
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By Los7 Dreamer on 10 May 2012 18:53
Correction. Both the trick-it and the race-it have over 50k
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By Los7 Dreamer on 10 May 2012 18:59
There seem to be some different opinions on whether or not the online pass is needed, can anyone confirm if they got this achievement without the online pass? I got the Bronze Spender without the online pass...
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By VfV Savior on 15 Nov 2012 07:29
I got this achievement without the online pass, so no need for that to get 1000 G. TA should remove the online pass symbol from this achievement :)
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By VfV Savior on 13 Dec 2012 10:16
50,000+ players
You will get it when join to any global event. Because EA unlocked it, and dont matter how many players compete in that event.
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By woodbear on 13 Feb 2013 09:25
It’s probably important to note that you’ll only receive credit towards 10 bracket placements at a time. This means when you leave and return to the game it only gives you your last 10 brackets. I learned this the hard way by boosting all 40 in one go, then quitting the game and returning to find out I had only received the 10 Diamond brackets. Just wanted to save some people the hassle, it was extremely frustrating. So make sure you leave the game after every 10.
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By Ethigy on 09 Feb 2018 21:05
Be sure to note that the servers must be up for this, if you can't upload your scores you can't receive the medals.
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By MClaeys on 17 Jul 2021 08:24
As Shand suggests, for the 50/50/50/50 badges just go back to Global Events every 20 minutes or so and create 3 events of whatever type you are working on between "real" runs. It's silly but not really grindy.

I disagree with his suggestion for Platinum, which was for me the hardest to get. If you can get Diamond in an event but you want Plat, you generally want to get as close to the current Diamond as possible. But the trick is whether to get above or below... if you think the current Diamond is solid, then get just below it, but if you think it's weak, get just above it in anticipation of getting knocked down.
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By talkstogod on 06 Mar 2012 18:20
As of March 22 at 1:02 am, the race it on Beyond the fall currently has 35,302 riders and the trick it has 29,801 riders. I will keep this figure updated if I can remember for those that are on the fence. If you asked me a couple of days ago, I would have said this wasn't gonna happen but the race it has come on strong in the last two days and raced ahead of the tricky in terms of riders.
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By BobLoblawsBlogs on 22 Mar 2012 06:04
At this point, I'm seeing at least one 0-drop-cost global event with over 50,000 riders running pretty much continuously. There's been at least one ever since I started playing over Memorial Day (last weekend in May, for those outside the US). Looks like more people got copies of the game. The global event main screen will point you right towards it as the global event with the most competitors.

I'd take advantage of it while it lasts before everyone gets tired of the game and 100%'s it and then stops playing.
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By Sindarin Eagle on 07 Jun 2012 06:18
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If you are having trouble with the one badge "Finish in a Diamond Bracket". One trick I used was to make a custom event set for 10 min (so you are not waiting around), play it and then you will automatically be put in diamond, wait for it to finish and receive your credits. Do this ten times and then dashboard and restart your game because the badge is awarded after the "while you were away screen". This also helps to complete the custom events badge.
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Gonna try this now and let you know but I gave you thumbs up anyway
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By Barad 007 on 05 Mar 2012 17:43
Exactly what I did, but you beat me to it. Good Solution!
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By extreme472000 on 05 Mar 2012 22:14
Yeah this, works annoying though how are we supposed to get platinum/gold/silver/bronze it's all just as hard.
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By Barad 007 on 06 Mar 2012 13:09
Found platinum the biggest pain to get, got a friend help in custom events, I set low score he beats it = guaranteed platinum. Gold ans Silver will come easy if you enter enough events.
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By Calex dEUS on 07 Mar 2012 00:23
you can make 3 custom events at once.
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By BigWorthless on 13 Mar 2012 16:40
This works for Diamond badges but you will have to get Golds and the rest through normal play. I'll give you a thumbs up but you don't need to dashboard, you will be given the badge when the timer expires.
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By Gregor Lenko on 05 Mar 2012 17:51
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You can do all of these yourself and get yourself a ridiculous amount of money and all/any of your characters up to level 15 (with access to all the fine equipment that allows).

You need either a XB1 (and create 3 silver accounts in addition to your main account) or a 360 and either 3 additional gold accounts or some 48 hour codes. This will be slightly faster if you have access to 2 360s or both a 360 and a XB1, as you won't need to swap accounts quite as much.

To get all the global badges you need to:
Finish 10 events in each bracket (Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond)
"Compete" in 50 events of each time (Race/Trick/Survive)
"Compete" in 50 Custom Events
Compete in an event with 50,000+ players (this one you get automatically now)
Join events with a 10k,100k, and 1mil credit drop
Earn 1,000,000 credits through Global Events overall

Brackets
To run through the diamond,platinum,gold, and silver (need 10 of each). Do a 10 min long survival run in patagonia->cerro torre. There are 3 survive events on this peak, so you can utilize all 3 if needed, since you can only have one event active at a time per account per peak (and a max of 3 per account overall).

For silver you need to have 4 accounts in the race and yours needs to be last. After you create the event (with whichever account), just make sure all 4 join and post a score (sometimes the servers are a little glitchy, I found that sometimes restarting the xbox or dashboarding would help when it just refused to upload the scores). Buy a
cheap wingsuit and clear the 1st drop with the other accounts and let your main fall in (so they lose).

For gold, exact same thing, but you only need 3 accounts. For platinum, same thing again, but 2 accounts. And finally for diamond it can just be you (but you may want to wait as you will finish those while getting rich).

Get Rich Quick
Next, lets get filthy rich (and take care of the 1,000,000 credit drop along the way). You will be running lots of survival drops with your main account and one other. Set it to the maximum drop cost that both accounts can afford, and 10 minute event timer. Win with whichever has the least money (fly them over the 1st crevasse) and then let whoever has more money fall into the 1st crevasse and die. You will need to wait for the event to end to get your money back (so this might be a good time to grind out some race/trick events, see below). Once you do, the loser will have broken even, and the winner will have gotten 175% of the drop cost back. After 15 rounds of this (30 total events, if you started with about 50k) you should be able to do events with a drop cost of 100 million (the maximum). At this point, to make money faster you will need to have multiple events running at the same time (you can have 6 going at the same time between the two accounts).

Race/Trick Events
You still need to do 50 race and 50 trick events. You don't need to actually finish them. If you create the event on your account you don't even need to start it. If you create it on one of the other accounts you are using, you need to start it, but can quit out as soon as it loads. With 4 accounts, you shouldn't need to do any waiting around, by the time you have run through 12 events,

Live the High (level) Life
What can you do with all this money? Would you like to be level 15 and make the single player and explore badges much easier? How do you turn your no-so-hard-earned cash into levels? Geotags! Every time you place a geotag you get a chunk of experience. The higher level the geotag, the greater the experience. It probably isn't worth bothering placing the plain geotags, instead, hold out for rare, epic, or legendary, as they are worth much more experience.
You have a couple of options to get these choice tags.
*You can check the store (which shows 4 items at a time), buy what you want, then go to another drop (which resets the items) and repeat.
*You can just buy all the generic ones to bring out addition items and then sell the ones you don't want to use.
*It will also show some new items if you go back to the screen where you select your character's loadout and then go back to the store, but only if you have made some purchases (it seems like one item will be replaced for each one you purchased, and it will be different from what replaced it before you exited the buy screen and came back).

What worked best for me was a hybrid of these. I would usually switch to another drop, buy any rare or better tags, then buy commons until I had bought 4, back out and go right back in and repeat (it's a lot quicker to just back out to the gear selection screen than to back out all the way and switch drops). After doing that for a minute or two I would sell all the commons off. Don't go too crazy stocking up, as the geotags get better as you level up your character, so there is no point getting dozens and dozens of level 8 geotags when you will be level 10 in a few minutes and can get better ones then.

Once you have your stash. start a drop (it doesn't really matter with) in explore mode (i found this to be less prone to freezing than global event mode). hold the LB as you fall from the plane and place a geotag as soon as it lets you. If you are high enough level to have multiple tags, let go of LB for a moment and then hold it again an place another one, repeat until you are out of tags (you need to go a little bit further each time or it won't let you place them). Once you are done placing them, quit, re-equip new tags, and do it again. You can get up to level 15 relatively quickly and have access to ridiculously better gear. FYI, the geotags are shared among characters, so that means once you get one up to level 15, all of your characters can use the lvl 15 tags and level up very very quickly. NB: if you level up by quitting out this way, it will not register as your characters having reached level 6 (for the one badge). To get it to register, you simply need to complete one drop with them. (Which can be as quick as falling in the very 1st pit on a survival run in explore mode.)

You also get XP for picking up geotags (and need to collect 200 snowflakes/geotags for a badge). So you can break out your 2nd account again and do exactly the same thing on exactly the same drop. You can only see/get one geotag from a given player per run, so you can drop 50 or so on your 2nd account, then switch back to your main and pick them up while you are dropping your own and leveling up.

One final random note, playing through the game this way, the very last things I needed were actually boost time (you need to spend 2 hours in boost) and racing 200kms total. A relatively painless way to grind these semi-idle is to go to Explore -> Alaska -> Foraker -> Invincible -> Race It. Get tricky ASAP, then you can rubber band down RT and the right thumbstick either left or right (or X or B, but the buttons can be hard to rubberband down). Your racer will generally be able to spend the next 90 seconds boosting all the way down the hill to the finish. Each run will get you maybe about 45 seconds worth of credit for boosting and a bit over 1km of racing. Rinse and repeat.
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Easily one of the most useful guides on the site! I was worried about finishing this game since hardly anyone seems to be playing anymore, but gave this a shot and got a bunch of gold medals in no time. Had a session tonight but with this method I'll get all my global golds tomorrow. Thank you for this! smile
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By Pra1s3Th3Sun on 03 May 2017 22:23

Get all 33 badges under the GLOBAL EVENTS category:

Finish in Diamond Bracket 1/5/10 times in a Global Event (awarded after While You Were Away earnings)
Rewards in Global Events are tiered. The Diamond Bracket has the fewest amount of people, while offering the highest rewards. Finish #1 in any event 10 times in order to earn these badges. You must quit and restart the game in order to earn the badge. You can boost this by looking for Events with less than ten minutes left with no contestants, there are quite a few of these, especially on Oxygen Tank levels.
Finish in Platinum Bracket 1/5/10 times in a Global Event (awarded after While You Were Away earnings)
Platinum Bracket can have more riders in it than Diamond Bracket, but offers less of the total rewards. Finish in the Platinum bracket 10 times and this badge will pop upon quitting and restarting the game.
Finish in Gold Bracket 1/5/10 times in a Global Event (awarded after While You Were Away earnings)
Gold Bracket can have more riders in it than Platinum Bracket, but offers even less of the total rewards. Finish in the Gold bracket 10 times and this badge will pop upon quitting and restarting the game.
Finish in Silver Bracket 1/5/10 times in a Global Event (awarded after While You Were Away earnings)
Silver Bracket can have yet more riders in it than Gold Bracket, but offers even less of the total rewards. Finish in the Silver bracket 10 times and this badge will pop upon quitting and restarting the game.
Compete in a Race Event 1/10/50 times
You must participate in any Race Event 50 separate times. Two different runs in the same Event will not count twice, they must be different Global or Custom Events.
Compete in a Trick Event 1/10/50 times
You must participate in any Trick Event 50 separate times. Two different runs in the same Event will not count twice, they must be different Global or Custom Events.
Compete in a Survive Event 1/10/50 times
You must participate in any Survive Event 50 separate times. Two different runs in the same Event will not count twice, they must be different Global or Custom Events.
Compete in a Custom Event 1/10/50 times
Custom Events are Global Events that have been created by Users as opposed to the servers.
Play in a Global Event with 1,000/15,000/50,000 or more Riders
Thanks to a recent patch, this trophy now auto-pops on starting the relevant event.
Join an Event with a 10,000/100,000/1,000,000 credit Drop Cost
Some Global Events may have drop costs, which are amounts of Credits you have to pay in order to participate in them. Once a drop cost is payed for a certain event, you may play it as many times as you wish until the event ends, and you will never have to pay the drop cost again. You cannot start a custom event with a 1,000,000 credit drop cost in order to earn this badge.
In Global Events, earn more than 25,000/100,000/1,000,000 SSX Credits lifetime
You must earn over one million credits just from Global Events. This should be easy and will come quickly when you play your 50 Trick/Race/Survive events, or when you spend 1,000,000 on a drop cost, if you place anywhere, you should earn at least the million credits you spent.

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1, 2, 3, 4. Finish in Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver bracket 10 times. There shouldn't be any problems with the first one. We just look for races where there is little time left and pass. Then you need to exit, because Badges will not be given if you are in the game when the competition closes. For 2-4 friends ikast events will help. We create a survival for 20 minutes, friends pass and try to make the score that you need. AND DON'T FORGET TO QUIT THE GAME!!!)))

5, 6, 7, 8. Compete in races, stunt competitions, survival and custom events 50 times. There is a bug in the game that allows you not to go through 50 races, 50 survivals, etc., but to pass the time))) select “create a global competition” for 10 minutes and select the type of competition you need. In the character selection menu, click and voila - the race is counted as completed))) we do three competitions for 10 minutes and go to drink tea, then we come again for 3 competitions, etc.

9. Play a global competition with over 50,000 participants. Previously, this badge was impossible, but now you just need to play any global competition and you will be given a badge. My friend and I lost our badge)))

10. Join the race with an entry cost of 1,000,000. We are looking for such a race, enter and get a badge, it’s simple)))

11. Earn more than 1,000,000 credits. Very simple, just come first once ))
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1, 2, 3, 4. Finish in Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver bracket 10 times.
There shouldn't be any problems with the first one. We just look for races where there is little time left and pass. Then you need to leave, because badges will not be given if you are in the game when the competition closes. For 2-4, friends and custom events will help. We create a survival for 20 minutes, friends pass by and you try to make the score that you need. AND DON'T FORGET TO QUIT THE GAME!!!!)))
5, 6, 7, 8. Compete in races, stunt competitions, survival and custom events 50 times.
There is a bug in the game that allows you not to go through 50 races, 50 survivals, etc., but to pass the time))) select “create a global competition”, do it for 10 minutes and select the type of competition you need. In the character selection menu, click and voila - the race is counted as completed))) we do three competitions for 10 minutes and go to drink tea, then we come and again 3 competitions, etc.
9. Play a global competition with over 50,000 participants.
Previously, this badge was impossible, but now it is enough to play any global competition and you will be given a badge. My friend and I both lost our badge)))
10. Join the race with an entry cost of 1,000,000.
We are looking for such a race, enter and get a badge, it’s simple)))
11. Earn more than 1,000,000 credits.
Very simple, just come first once ))
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