gomezkilla

"Player" Medal = no reward is not necessarily true since the implementation of the PRIDE skill !!!

 

PRIDE = +0.5 seconds per point multiplied by the number of medals you have increase in duration of any potions taken while this skill is active. (Note the multiplier increases based on the quality of the medal. Bronze +1, Silver +1.2, Gold +1.4, Crystal +1.6, Ruby +1.8 and Diamond +2)

 

since the implementation of the PRIDE skill I started working on getting NEW MEDALS (Treasure Hunter Medal, Fragmenter Medal, ....) + increasing the "tier" of my current Medals so that PRIDE will have a greater "effect" !!!

 

I got many messages from members & friends to help them get a MEDAL even though they were not interested in playing that game style at all !!!

 

while I was on the PvP ladder I encountered many players who only joined to get their PvP medal, some of them had a deep "grudge" towards PvP but nevertheless participated in the game aspect they would otherwise "never" have played !!!

 

I am sure I am not the only one who had this kinda encounter

 

so yes, I strongly believe that MEDALS will lead to a higher activity / encourage players to participate in "different" game aspects, in some cases even game aspects those players would have otherwise not joined !!!

 

I really do understand you & your viewpoint on achievements but from my personal experience I think MEDALS will have a greater "impact" / encouragement than the achievements !!!

There is something that I can work with. I would agree with having these medals added if they didn't give the reward structure you stated in your opening post. These medals could then be included somehow with the Pride skill and to add on we could have a Pride guild structure that also boosted that skill or the stats from guild medals or whatever. Just as long as there is no other reward added.

Achievement = reward.

Medal = no reward.

If you want rewards for playing aspects of the game, make these suggestions into achievements where there is a large objective for the guild to work together towards. If you want to give medals to guilds, by all means do suggest it, but leave rewards out of it because if we give rewards to medals there, I can guarantee you that someone is going to demand that rewards be allocated to the medals that we achieve personally.

Regarding this ridiculous equation: K.I.S.S! Have one target and one reward per achievement per guild.

I do not think it is complicated at all

K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) is an acronym that fits in perfectly here. Sure, this idea has merit, but we could easily fit this into the achievements sector with a good target to reach for each of them with a one-time reward for achieving it.

Formulas that have factors change every time a member leaves? NO. This would be much simpler to have a goal reached, an achievement achieved, and a nice little reward for each member. A + B = C, don't make it some complicated calculus formula!

Guild Achievements should be expanded to probably 10 or 15 things we can work as a group to achieve. I do like some of the suggestions in the OP but they should be achievements not medals.

As stated here, we should have 10-15 achievements to work toward as a guild rather than 4 achievements here, 6 medals there, and whatever else comes along the road that could also easily be added to the achievements category.

The idea has merit, but like the idea of having rotating periods of Titans to help bring up the price of them was rejected, I believe this one will follow the same path.

Add in an option to mass message everyone in the game while we're at it, I really want everyone to read what I have to say and I don't think everyone reads all of the FSBox messages.