Medal System for FL CF

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    Ahoy everyone,


    I had in mind to develop kinda medal system for the players on crossfire. I see most clans use already medals or badges for their members - and well that should remain.


    But would it not be nice to have a kind of possibility to differ between the clans based on how much experienced the players are. So well before i start to much blabla i think i am going to tell what i think and how it could be solved:


    We have the FLstat Tool that determines the stats about each player (also of the other servers who run this tool). Based on this we have the following information that can be used.

    • Number of Kills
    • Current Rank
    • Money
    • Time Online
    • Missions Completed
    • Systems Visited
    • Bases Visited
    • Jumpholes Found


    So my idea is that we take these stats and make a kind of medal system. Example: If one player has 1000 kills he gets a shooting star medal, if he has 2500 kills another advanced one and if 5000 another advanced till 10000 expert medal. Thats how it should work also for the other stats. We can decide what steps we have for a medal assignment.


    I have not tried it yet but i think i can write a script to parse the stats for the players here. That would be solvable and feasible.


    What is the more problematic part is: We have to assign the player names with the names of the forum users. We have to have a kind of list - but somehow this should be solvable as well (but not sure how for now) ;(


    Apart from the work for coding for this we or I would need help with medal designers and maybe some other help as well.


    I think if we can assign this to the forums somehow (signatures of the users for example) then we would have a nice overview. It hopefully will keep players interesting to earn their medals by doing missions, exploring, kills etc... And we would have it unique for crossfire (based on the stats that we have nevertheless).


    So what are you all think of this? Any feedback or improvements are welcome. It is still an idea ;)


    PS: I would make it this way that everyone can see what medals could be earned and yet if the scores for the appropriate medal is earned the player will get this medal for him.

    I like it and the best Medal Designer i know is MaxBur from DC :=)


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    A great idea m8 :) Will give the people within the community a chance to try and achive new goals and introduce some friendly competion amoung players. :D


    As Daywalker said, M@xbur is easily the best at graphic designs. He has just introduced medal awards within the DC and are already proving to be highly popular among our ranks.

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    Yep,, Max is the best! :D
    and nice idea btw ;)

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    Why do you think "What is the more problematic part is: We have to assign the player names with the names of the forum users. We have to have a kind of list - but somehow this should be solvable as well (but not sure how for now)"?


    Is it finding out which forun user uses what player name? because forum users who want to be included will give you their player names.

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    Perhaps in the SQL database (the one the forum uses), add 5 (since max chars for 1 account is 5) more fields for each user: CFNAME1, CFNAME2, CFNAME3, CFNAME4, CFNAME5, and put the char names in. But this won't work for ppl who have infinite number of interchangeable chars.

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    I like the concept, but something I see as potentially being a problem is the number of characters each player goes through. People here use, to my knowledge, anywhere between one and five accounts. Though only having one account at the moment, I've personally been through nearly 75 characters on CF (that being said, there are people who have been here for much longer). Medals would be great, but would not truly represent a player's achievements by only looking at a single character, or only their present ones. :)

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    yep thats true - i already had this in mind. I would calculate the mean value of the stats for this user by all his known in game alter egos...

    Drak!!! you've been through 75chars!!!! holy mutha!!!! i've been here since CF1.2........ and im still using the same MP account from the day i started!! lol. Mind you though, there has been several player wipes since that time.
    If i medal system were to be introduced then it would be best to start it once CF.1.8 arrives and only if OP is planning a new player char wipe.

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    Will go to work...
    I have in mind a CF logo on some of them...donno yet.
    You`ll see.

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    Originally posted by Spiky-
    can you make a pink medal for the sexiest male on CF? thx


    I thought it must be a blue, rofl...
    But, ok, special Spiky`s "Big spike" award :D


    Update- some of new medals:



    I didn`t create a description for them, maybe someone else.
    Still some types in work...

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    Last part of done work.

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