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A request for more medals

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It's a silly feature request, but how about medals for 10,000 points and 20,000 points and 50,000 points (staffa will get there eventually).

The current medals are 5 wins for 1000 and 10 wins for 3000. It seems a bit easy to achieve those. I'm not suggesting they get removed. In my opinion the more little trinkets to obtain the better (Ok it could get out of hand, but a few more would be cool.) After 3000, of which there are some 170+ people (not all of them have 10 games yet but I'm too lazy to count them all), there are no point goals except for top 25 and top 3.

Obviously this would be low priority, but it also (I think) wouldn't be that much work. Other medals would be cool too, like 5 masochistic wins.

Maybe I just like shiny trinkets, even virtual ones.
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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top
I've been thinking about what Solitaire said, and I am wondering if maybe medals shouldn't be permanent, period. After all, they don't say, "Your injury is just about healed. Please give your Purple Heart back."
Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top
Reread Solitaire's email.

Yeah, a former No 1,2,3 and 25 medals would be nice.

Difference is that those medals are currently given for "who you are" rather than "what you have done".

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Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top
I love the more medals idea. These are probably the best to have IMHO:

10,000 points
20,000 points
50,000 points
100,000 points
Former #1 player
Former #2 player
Former #3 player
Former Top #25 player
5 Maso wins
Maso wins for all map sizes.
Top #1 Empire
Top #2 Empire
Top #3 Empire
Most Evil/Neutral/Good Player
Most Evil/Neutral/Good Empire
best/top25 tiny player
best/top25 gigantic player
best/top25 evil player
best single game score (current version)

These could easily be calculated by the Metaverse. Maybe we could due the Maso scoring like regular scoring (5 Maso wins, 5 Maso wins with 3000, 10 Maso wins with 5000, etc.)
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Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top
I like the idea of lots of medals but you would need to do something to reduce the size of the space required. I think only display the highest rank medal of each type. For example, If I deserve medals for former top 25, former 3 and former 2, then I obviously only see the medal for former 2nd place player. Likewise, If I deserve medals for 10000 points, 20000 points, 30000 points, then I only see the medal for 30000 points.

Some further comments,

I don't agree with medals for most evil / good, because someone who plays a single game is more likely to get these than a regular player. They are also a bit abstract. Medals for best scores / positions within a moral class though are fine.

Some of the medal suggsts could also be nicely implemented as further metaverse sorting (sort by moral / highest single scores)

I would prefer not to award indivuals seperate medals for the position of their empires. That individual may have nothing to do with the empires success. If they do then they probably already have lots of medals for score, etc. It would encourage people to join the top 3 empires to get an extra medal. Half the fun of the metaverse is looking at new upcoming empires knocking the older empires off the top. Perhaps sitting a gold, silver or bronze crown over the empire symbol would work just as well.


Paul.


~SDC~
Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top
Agree on all points but one paul. Medals for empire
success is a good idea imo. Empires are about community
and even the lowest member of an empire should feel
included in the success of the empire as a whole.

Reply #31 from Stardock Forums Top
We think most of you have passed over one of the best ideas presented in this thread. You keep talking about medals for "former" this or that, when one person said (though not too clearly) it would be good to have a medal for the highest rank you had achieved.

If you think about it, having the first medal on your row have a number on it showing that would cover all those "formers" quite nicely.
Reply #32 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, I think its a style thing, someone who is a
former number one should have a more impressive medal :)

Reply #33 from Stardock Forums Top
I like the idea of lots of medals but you would need to do something to reduce the size of the space required. I think only display the highest rank medal of each type. For example, If I deserve medals for former top 25, former 3 and former 2, then I obviously only see the medal for former 2nd place player. Likewise, If I deserve medals for 10000 points, 20000 points, 30000 points, then I only see the medal for 30000 points.
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GRRRRRReat ideas! Is it actually being considered? :D

I would prefer not to award indivuals seperate medals for the position of their empires. That individual may have nothing to do with the empires success. If they do then they probably already have lots of medals for score, etc. It would encourage people to join the top 3 empires to get an extra medal. Half the fun of the metaverse is looking at new upcoming empires knocking the older empires off the top. Perhaps sitting a gold, silver or bronze crown over the empire symbol would work just as well.
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Speaking from experience, whenever I arrived to a new unit and pinned their unit awards on my uniform, I felt kinda stupid. I didn't fight in WWI. Why was I wearing a French forg...whatchamacallit? I know I was representing my new unit by wearing those awards, but I still felt silly. I agree with Solitair about that idea leading to more recruits for the top three empires.
Reply #34 from Stardock Forums Top
Ahhh, I found it.

#28 by Avatar Frogboy - 5/26/2003 12:36:39 PM

There are plenty of updates to the metaverse in progress right now that have to do with enhancing it for most players as opposed to focusing on counteracting the tiny percent of people who are..really into it.

New features include:

1) Different high score lists based on map
2) Different high score lists based on difficulty
3) More ranks and medals
4) Non-admins being able to see the technology tree choices players made.
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1 & 2 have been implemented. Hopefully we will see 3 & 4 after the Xpack is done.
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Reply #35 from Stardock Forums Top
Hm, I know I have few medals, but perhaps the 'former' medals should be called "Achieved" rather than former...sounds a bit better :D

And what about a medal for empire position? Perhaps the top 3 members of our empires should be acknoledged? It may not mean much for smaller empires, but it's certainly prestigious if you're in the top 10 of the White Council or GROSS or one of the larger empires...

~SDC~
Reply #36 from Stardock Forums Top
I started a thread a while back stating a desire for empire medals. I understand the arguments against it however.

How about if the empire medals did not appear at the bottom of each individual post, but rather only appeared on the empire ranking page? They could appear as "Battle Banners" or some such thing and would help give the empires some individuality and prestige. (Things like former #1, most evil, highest average member ranking, etc., etc.)
Reply #37 from Stardock Forums Top
On the subject of empires, Not that this is necessarily a medal issue, I'd like to see an 'average player score' with regards to the empire. Ideally this would be a separate ranking page, but some form of medal/ribbon/banner item may work also.

And yes, you can call me a homer, but I belive FTR is more impressive with 21 folks at our rank than the Europeans are at 78 folks with theirs.
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Reply #38 from Stardock Forums Top
I live in Australian and its Friday! And you know what that means?

It's Res-'Erection' Friday time!

I picked this one because in the fellowship we've started a kitti to try and perswaid (sp?) the powers that be to give us just one neud feature . . . a rank update in the Metaverse!

We're up to $40 bucks (of cold hard US cash already!) . . .

We've tried flattery! We've tried throwing tantrums! We've even tried cuting and pasting things into our profiles on our actual monitors!

(note- Don't try this one especialy if you have a LCD screen it gets a bit sticky!)

Any pledges are appeciated . . . :)