New Awards

[nvrspk4]

Suggestions for new types of awards.

1) Arcade Highscore Award - Awarded to any who hold an arcade high score. Must be at least 1 week from a score reset and must hold the record for at least 48 hours.

2) Referrals Award - Make this graduated like posting. 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 (or perhaps 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100)

Arcade highscores should not be retroactive, referrals should be.

Pretty simple :)

[gangstaagent1]

I like the arcade high score one, but if the user got a name change, it doesn't change in the arcade for the high score, so it might get confusing.

[nvrspk4]

Well, the arcade high score thing wouldn't be taken away if you don't have a high score anymore, that'd be too high maintenance. You'd just get it if you ever held a high score for 48 hours more than 7 days after scores are reset.

The name only needs to be the same to prove the accomplishment when requesting the award, after that you have the award.

[Tintinnabulate]

I am not a fan of resetting scores.

However, I am in support of the referral award suggestion.

[Dinosaurawrr]

Don't see why not, it wont take long to create them.
Plus may help make others invite to the forum more :)

[Amberr]

I really like both of those ideas, especially the referrals one which may encourage people to get other people to sign up to the forum.

[nvrspk4]

I am not a fan of resetting scores.

However, I am in support of the referral award suggestion.

I know what you mean, I'm not really either. My suggestion is made with the understanding that Forum Management planned to reset scores anyway, if they don't then the part about 7 days from a score reset isn't necessary.

[Slowpoke]

I love the referral idea. :)

[Special]

i like both of those ideas, however the amount should be lowered drastically. like 1, 5, 8, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50

[nvrspk4]

Maybe forum management can give us the best idea for what numbers would be best, as there's a list in ACP of all the referrals so they can tell what would be the best numbers to make the highest two hard to get while making the first 2-3 reachable.

[Sharon]

I like the idea of resetting high scores. Gives others a chance tbh

[Phil]

I like these both ideas alot but I'm not a fan of resetting the scores. I only have one so I'm not losing much but some people are gonna lose loads.

[nvrspk4]

Err I should clarify that I'm not suggesting resetting scores. After coming back from a while away from the forum and finding scores had been reset I thought it was a normal management policy. This thread is just about the awards. If people are fans of resetting scores I'd start a new thread simply on the issue of whether or not to reset scores. Discussing that in conjunction with the new awards would be a little confusing. This thread is just about the new awards :)

[Nixt]

I'll talk to Oli about the possibility of these new awards when he comes online, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't have them though :).

[Hecktix]

I'm always looking for new award ideas and here I think we have two very good examples which I will add to my list and look into, thanks nvr :)

In terms of resetting scores, just to clarify that when this happened it was because the forum had gone a large amount of time without the arcade after the vB4 therefore when we introduced it again we reset the scores, this was only a few months ago so it won't happen again for a good while.