This has my interest
@edgeout You do realize that all medabots demonstrably have personalities in the show, right? Not just the ones with rare medals.
Additionally I was asking for clarification from @mattmanganon on whether this was the game setting or the anime setting. The two have several distinct differences.
@Prostagma I was planning for a Show-like setting.
Also, sorry for not posting last night, got side-tracked, then dogged by a friend into playing LoL until 1AM. I realize that that is a shit excuse, as such, I do not ask forgiveness. I will try to get it done today.
Okay so let me get this straight. You want a special medal that the Medabot Company, for some completely unexplainable reason, gifts to everyone working on it even though that would be counterproductive in keeping their new product both rare and hidden. A new and improved version of the thing the world revolves around is definitely not the same as a grandfather clock. This rare medal of yours would also not be the actual rare medals that are already part of the anime setting, and exist entirely to make your character special and different.
You say you can patch up any plot hole about having this medal when your ideas thus far have been deemed cheap even by your partner and amount to "his dad gave it to him somehow because he works there". Ikki found his after it was stolen by a plot device character that's a master thief and also the best medafighter with one of the best medabots. Ikki also found it because he's the protagonist of a story designed around telling his and Metabee's journeys, while this is a collaborative writing exercise.
As Prostagma and I have said, other medabots have personalities. Off the top of my head, Krosserdog ran away from home and Peppercat shows romantic attraction and they're about as dirt normal medabots as you get. If the setting doesn't have rare medals, then there's absolutely no reason why you should get a new type of unique medal you made up and can't justify. If the setting has the anime rare medals, then there's also no reason to have one except to bump your powerlevel over others who don't because that's the lone difference.
@edgeout I'm pretty sure that independence stemmed less from the rare medal and more Metabee being kind of a giant asshole. Most of the other characters were best friends with their medabots, so it's understandable why they'd be more loyal and willing to take orders. I mean, Warbandit had a rare medal and he had pretty much zero personality and just followed orders to the letter.