I'd never been anywhere outside of Al kharid and ended up dying. Moved back into Al and learnt my lesson never to venture anyplace kharid to farm a few out.
Every one of my 52 badges unlocked with no glitching. I need the breaker, though. Playing mostly on All Star.I did make two other characters simply to play MyPlayerNation and funnel extra VC to my chief. So that did include another 6000 or so weekly.