Author Topic: Random idea concerning "Awards" (Read 59842 times)

Magnezone · « **on:** June 10, 2007, 09:08:31 pm »

So, a quick look at anyones profile shows a tab at the top named "Awards," but it doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't seem to be doing anything. A quick search of the forum shows that it was meant to be:

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- Awards: little trophy icons for various random accomplishments

A quick look at the forum shows one called "Emerald Challenges."

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Put two & two together?

Thorn · « **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2007, 09:13:18 pm »

That is the smartest thing I have heard anyone say about anything ever.
Srsly.

Gets rid of that stupid Storage Topic. "Zomg nobody's looking at my emeralds because nobody wants to read a topic for storage." >_>

You deserve an award icon just for that idea.

CosmicFalcon · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2007, 04:10:17 am »

Yeah I vote that we make an award for awesome site suggestions. X)

Anyway, that is pretty wise. I should envisage that challenge icons could be put up as awards as a bit of filler before the actual awards come into effect... or maybe it is better to wait until the actual awards and then move the challenges over?

P.P.A. · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2007, 10:04:56 am »

Excellent idea. That would be awesome.

Marth · « **Reply #4 on:** June 15, 2007, 06:56:22 pm »

Quote from: CosmicFalcon on June 11, 2007, 04:10:17 am

Yeah I vote that we make an award for awesome site suggestions. X)

Anyway, that is pretty wise. I should envisage that challenge icons could be put up as awards as a bit of filler before the actual awards come into effect... or maybe it is better to wait until the actual awards and then move the challenges over?

The challenge awards are better than nothing. Except for me, since I haven't done those challenges. :(
But yeah, maybe those could be done first, and then the other awards could come later.
But it's important that the other awards do come at some time. And in the reasonably near future.

Still, either way, it's a good idea.

X-5 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 15, 2007, 07:02:56 pm »

im not too fond of the emerald challenges, but it would still be nice for the awards thing to be used for SOMETHING, hopefully EC's and more. Right now its a waste of space and creates confusion for newcomers who notice not a single one of the best of the best have any awards.

Rick_242 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2007, 03:10:42 pm »

I'm coming in late here as I am on vacation but, um... can someone explain in detail how one is to add awards if this goes through? Do we do it ourselves or does a another person add them?

Magnezone · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2007, 06:55:14 pm »

I'm guessing the system would work something like this, assuming we're just using Emerald Challenges for the time being.

-TSC would have a bank of award icons, with no name attatched, along with a convenient data structure pointing to aforementioned award icons.
-People go on completing challenges in the normal fashion, attatching .giz files to their posts, ect.
-When a person is successful at a challenge, the grader goes to some secret page and inputs the name and award they recieved. Since nobody completes emeralds in order (is there even an order?), the awards input would probably have to resemble some kind of boolean array. I dunno. Checkboxes? :[
-Once this information is processed by whatever, the Awards page would show the amazing awards player x has recieved by displaying an award according to the boolean array.

Though that's all just theoretical and based off of my logic.

Thorn · « **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2007, 07:57:41 pm »

^That sounds pretty much like how it'd be done.
Lemme touch up with a few of my thoughts:

- Your word, "grader"... that's pretty much been synonymous with Thorn for several months now :P

- There is one "order" requirement: you cannot get a high-level emerald of a color before the lower one. Therefore, the way I see it, you'd assign a 0 or 1 to each challenge for each player depending on it they finish it, and the awards displayed would be based on two things. If a zero appears in a color, it'd have to display the emerald lesser than it, even if you completed a later challenge in that color. And if the sum of the values is greater than or equal to 8, 16, or 24, the extra pics need to show.

- The Awards have to be connected to the forum somehow. Otherwise,t he Awards page just becomes another Storage Topic: you earn it, but nobody looks at it.

Rick_242 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 20, 2007, 04:56:54 pm »

To Thorn (spelled it "Thor" one time <_<):

Obviously grader = Thorn. Something needs to be done about RPG (and SM). RPG solution = replacement anyone :o? SM solution = allow someone else to grade and award Cough Drops.

As for relating the awards to the forum, um how about instead of linking to the users forum profile you just change it to the users profile since we pretty much see what's in your forum profile on the forum by looking:

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Magnezone · « **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:30:49 pm »

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- The Awards have to be connected to the forum somehow. Otherwise, the Awards page just becomes another Storage Topic: you earn it, but nobody looks at it.

I think that's the wrong approach to look at it for the moment seeing as the Emerald Challenges are already connected to the forum (they're based on them) and the Awards page wouldn't actually be on the forum, instead the actual site connected to the profiles. It is true however that it will probably continue to be overlooked as something that is useless, not very valuable at all, and simply a waste of time. So to change that, I say add value to them. It doesn't seem like awesomeness points are good enough for some reason, so how about... site points? <_< >_>

Thorn · « **Reply #11 on:** June 20, 2007, 10:44:07 pm »

^I'm torn over your last statement there. On one hand, it'd definitely revive the challenges, and I personally would benefit the most. X) On the other hand, Rolk probably wouldn't want value attached, nor would anti-ROM people, and I'd be swamped with files to grade.

I'd be up for giving them value for a trial period, and going from there.

Violet · « **Reply #12 on:** June 22, 2007, 11:21:14 am »

I swear I posted xD.

Anyway, what I said originally was that I wouldn't have the awards too big. Loads of awards + largeness = load load load why would people bother. ;-;

CosmicFalcon · « **Reply #13 on:** June 22, 2007, 12:04:17 pm »

Also, to be honest, I would rather see the actual Awards finally implemented rather than some re-glorifying of the ECs.

But that would involve admins doing work on the site. :o for shock.

Bilan · « **Reply #14 on:** June 22, 2007, 12:20:18 pm »

Quote from: CosmicFalcon on June 22, 2007, 12:04:17 pm

But that would involve admins doing work on the site. :o for shock.

And that would cause the Universe to implode

Violet · « **Reply #15 on:** June 22, 2007, 05:14:44 pm »

Don't you guys have awards for the speedruns you do? Or is just the mentioning of it an e-penis enlargener?

Combo · « **Reply #16 on:** June 22, 2007, 07:11:41 pm »

Quote from: Violet on June 22, 2007, 05:14:44 pm

Don't you guys have awards for the speedruns you do?

Yeah that sounds like a good idea.

Crowbar · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2007, 03:45:56 am »

By speedruns do you mean things like TAS (which isn't covered by this site) or the kinds of runs that are submitted to SDA? In that case isn't having your run up on SDA enough of an accolade?

Combo · « **Reply #18 on:** June 23, 2007, 02:26:10 pm »

Hmmmm how bout the awards from those Top Ten thingy or something like that?

Taco · « **Reply #19 on:** June 24, 2007, 11:28:56 am »

I don't see why not.

After all, it is an Awards section

so perhaps there can be a small section on that page as well for any honors one has recieved in the past from previous top ten topics

and I say this mainly because I would have nothing else to show in my awards section, since I never really got into the emerald challenges :(

Magnezone · « **Reply #20 on:** June 24, 2007, 12:37:54 pm »

And to throw another idea into the awards page mix, how about one for championships maintained, or number of championships at one time? I'm not sure if actually getting a championship should be given some kind of award because then the people that submit first for some new game and then ended up at like 20% in two days would get the recognition. It would be kind of a "blah" award.

For getting an award for maintaining a championship, I think it should start off at a week, because chances are you're probably battling competition if you've newly obtained a championship, and if you've kept it away from #2 for a week then that's pretty good. From there, I think awards would go on like this:

-2 Weeks holding ____ championship
-1 Month
-2 Months
-3 Months
-6 Months
-1 Year
-2 Years
-3 Years

ect. I think number of championships at once is pretty self-explainatory, so I'll leave it at that.

CosmicFalcon · « **Reply #21 on:** June 24, 2007, 02:46:33 pm »

You guys do all know the original idea of the Awards right? They were to be for things like "Held a championship for x time." or "Held over 500 records at one time." et cetera. Like Xbox 360 achievements (as we told Rolk many times after he threw the idea into the idea pool).

I went back and looked at some old updates (yeah, there's an idea, bet none of you actually checked old forum posts to see what these Awards are about), and in one Rolk said the functionality for Awards was fully laid out. He just didn't have many images for them, nor enough gimmicks.

*shrug*

Magnezone · « **Reply #22 on:** June 24, 2007, 02:56:32 pm »

Well it's summer and I'm bored out of my mind, so I'd be happy to sprite some awards myself if that's a problem. Just list whichever ones are needed.

GerbilSoft · « **Reply #23 on:** December 03, 2007, 12:39:51 am »

And now it seems that the idea of "Awards" has come up again - but this time, it'll actually happen. :D

Some ideas for awards:
- New Championship
- New Leadership
- 0p'ing a category (customized per-division, e.g. "Speed Demon" for times)
- Getting into the Top 5 (or 10, or 20) Sitewide
- Getting (Platinum|Red|Orange) in (5|10|15) games
- Most Records
- Most AntiRecords
- Most Rings, Sitewide (we could also implement a chart for this)

I have a basic idea of how to implement the awards system, but right now I'm working on cleaning up the rest of TSC. Hopefully I'll be able to start implementing it later this week.

Ring Rush · « **Reply #24 on:** December 03, 2007, 12:55:06 am »

- Some award for submission to 75% of all charts, without an antirecord (in those 75%, not no antirecord at all)
- Miserable Failure: Submit, yet do not have the record on Final Zone in S1.

Magnezone · « **Reply #25 on:** December 03, 2007, 02:56:46 am »

Inducer of AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - Beating more than 10|20|50 records by a second or less, each.

Crowbar · « **Reply #26 on:** December 03, 2007, 05:02:19 pm »

Quote from: Ring Rush on December 03, 2007, 12:55:06 am

- Miserable Failure: Submit, yet do not have the record on Final Zone in S1.

Hey, fuck you. :(

Quote from: Magnezone on December 03, 2007, 02:56:46 am

Inducer of AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - Beating more than 10|20|50 records by a second or less, each.

That's you on Rush, lol.

Magnezone · « **Reply #27 on:** December 03, 2007, 05:18:05 pm »

lol :(

and SSR and SRA for that matter

Combo · « **Reply #28 on:** December 03, 2007, 05:52:16 pm »

Id like to know who has the most records in the site. I am looking forward to what the Awards section is going to
be like.

Spinballwizard · « **Reply #29 on:** December 03, 2007, 08:02:19 pm »

No, Miserable Failure would be one of two things:

1. B& from submissions.

2. No submissions period.

Also it should be called Miserable FAILure for lol purposes. >_>

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