Higher LVL of steam is more important or Good Badges?

Nope.

Nope.

Cheapest ones.

Nah.

Steam Level increases your rate of receiving a booster pack drop:
•Level 10: +20% increase in your drop rate
•Level 20: +40% increase in your drop rate
•Level 30: +60% increase in your drop rate
•Level 40: +80% increase in your drop rate
•Level 50: +100% increase in your drop rate (i.e. the rate has doubled)

I'm trying to reach level 30 , got some cheap cards to craft badges .

1. Not really. I craft certain ones to support my favorite games, but most of my badges are cheap ones. I also craft for profit if I can find something.
2. I don't spend my own money directly on badges. I use a website to earn CS:GO keys and use them on level up bots. Only paying with my time.
   But to answer for the purpose of this question; I wouldn't drop like $20 to get 5 more levels or whatever. If I was patient I'd just trade cards forever.
3. Not going through 3,500+ cards, but why not just craft them all? I'd say go for the cheap ones and those with expensive emoticon/backgrounds.
4. I doubt they'd ever implement that. It would make them a lot more profit, but it would probably mess too much with the data and such things.

Yes/No/The ones you find beautiful/No

I only craft badges I find beautiful (I spend around 10 bucks at most before the sale if I'm missing a few cards from sets I really want) or badges I never wanted but won booster pack and got enough cards to complete the set (aka most of my badges these days).
I spent too much on my first year of steam buying cards. Learned my lesson on the second year. I rather buy games now.

Noone cares about your badges other than visible on your profile page. Who would ever waste their time opening someones badge list just to see if those badges are all good or not.

1. I like to make badges but not to raise my Steam level. I like seeing the art and names of various badges, and they just look pretty (Also, emoticons).
2. Nope
3. If you just want to level up, obviously the cheapest ones. Otherwise, go with the ones you'd like to display.
4. Nope

1. Not really. I tried it on last sale but not for the future sale.
2. No
3. I don't know, it's up to you. In my case I'm only collecting badge with bear theme. Like "Hungry Bear" from The District, or "BEAR" from ANIMALITY
4. I think no

I make badges for games that I have full sets of. Mostly from boosters, some from trading. Using money to raise your level isn't that worth. Just get more games with cards and farm them.
Just make badges from games you like. The pretty ones are nice too. There's no way to delete badges but why would you even want to?

To me badges are just a means to an end. I craft more badges to get a higher level so I can access more functions, but at this point I'm just doing it to get more slots in my friends list.
I couldn't care less about the badges themselves since the only one I use is the one that says how many games I have, I do like getting new backgrounds and emotes but the badges are kinda irrelevant to me.

I need badges to level.
I need levels to have friend slots.
I need friend slots because I add everyone who wins a game from me, and I'm too lazy to remove them. (Actually, I just like collecting them. I have a collection of winners. Other people collect stamps.)

I have spent a few cents on leveling, but I'm not proud of it. I try to finance it entirely from cards.

1. Previously, but I don't want to go out of my way and spend money on level, so not anymore.
2. Yes, but from selling card.
3. (Skip)
4. Nope

1- Sometimes
2- No. I usually stack up points on steam card exchange and then I try to make some badge.
4- No

1-no
2-no

1. Nah i don't care about that.
2. I did spend some but not much it was kinda "make a badge sell the stuff and make another badge with that income". It was like a game back then now i don't really enjoy it.
3. I don't know about what you think but i used to make badges for games that enjoy.

1-No
2-No

I like to craft badges of the games I like. I usually trade cards of the games that I'm not interested for the cards I need. Sometimes I sell boosters and cards I'm not interested to buy the cards I need. Using this method the economical cost of crafting badges is minimum.

1 i create the badges only if i like the game & cards are cheap
2 nope
3 nope
4 nope

Kind of.
Yeah.
I like the badges from Shivah, Killer is Dead, & Way of the Samurai series.
No.

Don't really care about badges anymore since I reached lv.50.
I just craft a few of my leftovers whenever Summer/Winter Sale starts.

If you want to showcase any badge, look for some good ones. Other than that, if you wanna level up, look for cheap ones and craft .. I love some skyrim badges and some batman ones, there's a thread on steamgifts about some nice looking badges, feel free to use the search option.

1. No
2. No
3. I dont care
4. No

I am at a level where leveling doesn't get me anything, so I don't bother anymore. I do some events for fun nothing more.
I sell all the cards I get to buy games, I never spent any of my outside-of-steam money for cards/badges..