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 #2 from Stardock Forums Top
You know, was kinda being silly about the idea, but
actually a former number 1 medal would be a really
good thing to have. Its a rather high achievement
that can never be taken away from you. Also it would
increase the compitition for the number 1 spot as
people will realize they dont have to actually keep
it to be rewarded for it. Just merely having it
briefly would be a great honor :)

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Problem would be when small hiccups occur with the scoring due to upgrades! I'd rather see a medal remain permanent for maintaining a position for 1 month (whether 1st, 2nd, 3rd or top 25).

Paul.

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I'd like to see more medals, a whole lot more:

-top 100, top 250, top 1000, etc. (give the folks on the bottom of the ladder something reasonable to work towards)
-some medals based on what method you won most of your games
-some quirky awards given for specific achievements in games (Altarian nemesis - for singlemindedly annihilating the goodie goodies at the first available opportunity in most games, Backstabber - for attacking allies when they least expect it, etc.)

In a way, adding more medals should drop the level of complaining about the scoring system in the Metaverse. As it is, everyone is drving like mad to the get to the top 25 and feels wronged when their scoring methods are not the most rewarded.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Definitely need more medals, but to avoid too much clutter, I think a lot of them should be heirarchal similar to the bar ranks and games submitted. Instead of giving me one medal for 3K, & another for 10K, just have the total score medals replace the previous. Do the same for games won. Then make sure that there's lots of them to climb through to keep us pressing the food pellet lever.

Do this and then you have room to play with the fun ones: stayed in top 25 for more than one month, was a number one player, beaten 'foo' difficulty, etc.

The scoring is problematic (and will decay) but our medals (excepting the top slot medals) should be permanent. So when Staffa gives up on this game in a few months, some guy who browses through the metaverse a year from now won't see an impressive score, but like looking at the chest of some grey haired military guy, you'll see that he was once a force to be reckoned with :)
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, I like the idea. :)
Maybe the old medals could be scaled down or made darker or something like that so the difference is obvious.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
How about a highest rank medal?

The medal icons are just big enough that you could fit a 31 or a 29 or whatever inside.

(Okay, make it a highest rank patch).

Some of us don't ever expect to be #1.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Now about different medals for each map size?

Now that there are different ways to sort the metaverse, there may as well be a medal for each sorting.

- best/top25 tiny player
- best/top25 gigantic player
- best/top25 evil player
- best single game score (current version)

The nice thing about multiple medal categories, is that most people probably could get at least one.
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
me three, i like the former number 1 medal thing, i remember i thinking of that after i seen someone post a message of how the made it to number 1 spot, and when i checked the metaverse, they no longer was #1 anymore, and that he should get some sort of recognition that he once made it to first place.

schools out in 2 days?! some of these scores are just going to climb way high. maybe they should make all students work during their summers full time in a crappy packaging plant :D ...oh well, just 11 more weeks till im outa there :CONGRAT:
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't think the school's out thing is going to mean beans to this game. The average player age was something like 32 in the poll on this site. Since the posters to this site are the most common metaverse submissions, any students are likely to be grad students who don't get summers off anyhow.
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
And I suggested medals for the members of the top 3 Empires: Empire Medals just like the glorious old days (ie the British Empire). I love the idea for having the number on a medal which shows one's highest placing. As well as the top 3 medal for each map size. Indeed, one's row of medals and awards could take up more room than one's message.
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
I know I don't have any medals...but lemme contribute anyway:

First, I think that those little faces showing if you play mostly evil, good, or neutral should be turned into similarly colored medals.

Second, I think that medals showing the TYPE of win that you mostly go after would be cool. In other words, alliance, beyond human, military, cultural, etc. would all have their own medal as well, and will change when you change your play style.
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
My internet is down at home...or I would have joined an empire by now...

DAMN YOU COMCAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top
I would really like a medal for "beaten all size galaxies at this difficulty level" (ie crippling or maso) and "beaten all difficulty levels for this size galaxy" (ie. small or medium).

This lets you be visibly a super-expert at either a level of difficulty or at a map size... (And everyone who wants to can earn one.)

Anyone else think these would be cool?
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Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top
Yea, huge and medium to go :)

Btw, huge filter still not working, i know this has
been pointed out about 3 dozen times, but still not
working.
Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top
Where were all you guys when Frogboy mentioned that there are going to be more medals sometime back? I was the only one back then to start rambling about some of the medals I was hoping for.

My suggestions then were a medal for 5 maso wins and wins on maso for all map sizes.

I would love having that former #1 medal. Medals for the most evil/neutral/good would be cool. Empire medals would defintely add more spice to the Empire wars.

We could also have medals for players who don't really play for score or on higher difficulties. Maybe the "Hitchhiker" medal - 5 wins on all map sizes, etc.
Reply #19 from Stardock Forums Top
I think I vaguely remember some mention of more medals at some point in the past.

Well there seems to be plenty of participation now. Maybe people just didn't see it.
Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top
Btw, about the school out thing, I meant my school
being out. Giving me more time to play, making it
harder for others(cept sergey) to try and make a run
for #1.

Reply #21 from Stardock Forums Top
If they set up some challenge games, there could make a medal for anyone who beat them on maso. Heck, we could be just a real army, with "i woz there" medals, above-and-beyond medals, and the victoria cross / medal of honor for the things that just make you go "wow".
Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top
the average age on here is 32?! really? thats interesting. im 24 right now, i wasnt expecting that!

im finding it very difficult to get some good game time in this game while working full time, so i was kinda thinking that the players on here with huge scores would be more younger people who dont work full time yet.
Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top
so i was kinda thinking that the players on here with huge scores would be more younger people who dont work full time yet
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Nah, just people who aren't sleeping much :)