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ӝspot

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Hey everyone! As you have probably already noticed, we launched the first and foundation phase of the new Achievement/Ranking System.

More or less here is how it works: For almost every piece of content you post (e.g. comment / screenshot / blog / etc), you earn a certain amount of Achievement Points.

As you gain more and more Achievement Points, you will begin to gain levels. Your levels impact several things, most which we will talk about at a later date, but the one primary thing is they promote your rank. Each rank gets more and more difficult as you climb the later to fame. Your rank will affect several things as well, all of which we will discuss another time.

Again I will point out that this is Phase 1, meaning more to follow. We simply wanted to get the base structure in place and in use, so now we can start on the more advanced features of the system.

If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to leave them here, or note us directly.

Also, would like to deeply thank ʊchalkley3 for a very rushed and quality polish up on the rank insignia. Thanks man.

Everyone please let us know what you think of the Achievement stuff.

Thanks a lot!
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    ɤcrazycycoclown (#19417)

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    i love you spot... i love you chalkley3... even though your name is a bit odd...

    everyone who thinks this is dumb is rubbish... a peice of dumb saliva soaked rubbish
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    05.26.08 2:08 am
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      ӝspot (#19596)

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      Haha! Glad you like it.

      Going to be adding a lot more to it soon.
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      05.28.08 2:16 pm
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    ¤Annath (#19419)

    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    haha, i just made a post about this in the userpages section, my bad. anyhoo, im glad to see it, even if I am only at recruit level right now.
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    05.26.08 2:53 am
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      ¤Annath (#19420)

      Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

      also, am i to understand there is a relationship between level and rank? or are they entirely seperate?
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      05.26.08 2:54 am
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        ӝNirach (#19434)

        Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

        Yes, there is.

        Every certain number of levels you rank up, so to speak.

        However, I'm not gonna tell you how often that happens, or how many there are! Best get posting, eh? :p
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        05.26.08 8:21 am
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          ¤Annath (#19442)

          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

          indeed I shall. too bad posts already made do not apply, course if they did, you would be untouchable rank wise
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          05.26.08 12:26 pm
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            ӝNirach (#19479)

            Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

            Yeah, it would be a shade on the side of unfair :p
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            05.26.08 10:14 pm
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            ӝspot (#19597)

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            Actually when we made the decision to not make it retroactive... ӝnirach was definitely what we were thinking about. :P
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            05.28.08 2:17 pm
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    ɤFyrel (#19423)

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    Whoo, this is awesome. I've been wanting something like this for a while now. :D

    One problem I can see with it though is that some people might meaninglessly post or chain post in order to get their rank up. Perhaps posts won't increase your rank very much?

    It'd be really awesome if you can implement some sort of system where the community can rank a person on their personality, so that when meeting a new person, you can know what to expect, or that newbies will know who will help them and who might not be so accommodating.

    It would also be really cool if you managed to make the rating system based on how much help you are in the community. Dunno how that'd work, but eh, it's an idea....
    05.26.08 3:57 am
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      ӝNirach (#19435)

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Don't worry - We saw that being a potential problem and we are working on the best way to keep that in check.
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      05.26.08 8:23 am
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        ɤswordhorder (#19602)

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        its still against the law to shoot people!!!!!
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        05.28.08 2:48 pm
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          ӝNirach (#19612)

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Still?

          Damnit :(
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          05.28.08 3:02 pm
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          ɤSilentkey (#20379)

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          i like this guys idea!
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        ɤmonchee (#19678)

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        till the solution, i wanna spread the word:
        POST, NR PPL, POST!!! as much as you can. rank yourself up :giggle:
        05.29.08 4:47 pm
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          ӝNirach (#19686)

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          Posting is the way forwards!
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          05.29.08 5:55 pm
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    ѻFuzzyLovePanda (#19424)

    Tried A Real Guitar After Guitar Hero

    Hahaha... I know for a while now you've been telling me I'd enjoy this now. Well it's here and just like xbox360 I'm going to be working my butt off to get achievements XD
    05.26.08 4:13 am
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      ӝNirach (#19436)

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Achievement whoring time!

      Although, without flooding :B
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      05.26.08 8:23 am
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        ѻFuzzyLovePanda (#19439)

        Tried A Real Guitar After Guitar Hero

        reviews give lots of points... Time to write a few :)
        05.26.08 12:05 pm
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          ӝNirach (#19440)

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          So long as it's good content!
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          05.26.08 12:12 pm
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            ѻFuzzyLovePanda (#19441)

            Tried A Real Guitar After Guitar Hero

            I'll try... But most likely I'll just play through games now and review them. :)... Constant flow of sexy achievement points :P
            05.26.08 12:13 pm
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              ӝNirach (#19480)

              Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

              I'm not going to argue with that!
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              05.26.08 10:15 pm
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                ѻFuzzyLovePanda (#19523)

                Tried A Real Guitar After Guitar Hero

                Yeah I've been looking at what each thing you do on NapalmRiot gives you in terms of gamerpoints, and reviews are the big hitters.
                05.27.08 12:50 pm
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          ӝspot (#19598)

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          Careful...... trending is watching! :P
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          05.28.08 2:18 pm
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            ѻFuzzyLovePanda (#19626)

            Tried A Real Guitar After Guitar Hero

            Lol... Well so long as I pump out quality reviews eh? I'm not going to review something I played 2 years ago in an attempt to make more reviews or something. At this point only those 4 games I've reviewed were fresh in my mind, and I'll just make it a habit it review games after I've completely beaten them now... Helps the community and me all at once! :p
            05.28.08 8:56 pm
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    ʊchillinvillain (#19429)

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    very cool
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    05.26.08 4:40 am
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      ӝspot (#19599)

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      Oh do not act so laid back! I KNOW you're hot for this! It's so sexy you can hardly contain yourself! :D
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      05.28.08 2:19 pm
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        ʊchillinvillain (#19631)

        Is In Your Base, Killing Your Pokemans

        you know it =p
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        05.28.08 10:53 pm
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        ѻzionwingmaster (#19673)

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        Who isn't hot for this?
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    ʊOnom (#19433)

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    Pretty neat. Level 0? D:
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    05.26.08 7:04 am
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      ӝNirach (#19437)

      Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

      Yep, everyone started at the same point.

      You'll have to get more active, huh? :B
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      05.26.08 8:24 am
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        ʊOnom (#19448)

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        D:<

        Guess so.
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        05.26.08 3:22 pm
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          ӝspot (#19603)

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          MORE ACTIVE! MORE! :P
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    ɤSpitfire221 (#19444)

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    Very nice job guys!, so this is the thing you told me was cool on the IRC ;P
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      ӝspot (#19604)

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      Yeah, one of the things. :)
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    ɤphotofroggy (#19445)

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    Oh man, it's CoD4 all over again! Lol. Looks interesting, I'll be waiting to see what "perks" we get =p
    05.26.08 3:13 pm
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      ӝspot (#19605)

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      What would you LIKE to see as perks?
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        ɤphotofroggy (#19625)

        Remembers What Arcades Are

        I have absolutely no idea... possibly stuff like font formatting, and higher levels hey blog CSS? I dunno, I don't tend to think about what perks would be desirable when a new system is created.

        But the thing is, what would be useful on a gaming community? I would suggest mini web apps on userpages but that would just be weird... and could end up making the userpages look bad etc.

        You could probably offer some of the already present subscription features to people with very high ranks, but I really have no idea.

        Oh, and being able to change the layout of your userpage would be a fun thing to play with =p
        05.28.08 8:40 pm
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    ѻmick-mick (#19454)

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    So thats what that is.. and its not retroactive.
    Good to see the site continuing to grow.
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    05.26.08 4:20 pm
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      ӝspot (#19606)

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      Do you really want to see ӝnirach THAT far ahead of everyone else?

      Retroactive would have been bad! :)
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        ѻmick-mick (#19649)

        All Your Base Are Belong To Me

        More power to him really.
        He'll be that far ahead soon enough, retor or not I'm pretty sure.
        But hey, does that rank even mean anything to the ӝ people?
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        05.29.08 3:01 am
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          ӝNirach (#19776)

          Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

          I can't speak for everyone, but for myself and Spot, it's making us more active than before, if only because of the fun little insignia we get :B

          Not sure if it's all that noticable how active I am now as oppose to pre-rank system, but hey :B
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            ѻmick-mick (#21661)

            All Your Base Are Belong To Me

            Have you guys considered inflation?
            Like.. do comments on myself count towards my count?
            Like.. I create a blog and comment 50 times in a row "." just to get credit.

            If not activated yet or considered, plz feel free to delete this comment before it gives others ideas.
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              ӝNirach (#21682)

              Worrying is about as effective as chewing gum to solve algebra

              Don't worry - We've thought about that, and we're setting things up to deal with it ;)
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    ɤXplayer (#19482)

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    wow, didn't know about the achievement point thing until today
    i applaud the people at napalm riot for making this possible

    WOOT!
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      ӝspot (#19607)

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      Well don't feel bad. You found out about it the same day as everyone else! :P
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    ɤ6od53nt (#19491)

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    !! This surprised me for a few seconds... I saw the "last 30 active" and found that the first person's name who came up had a symbol next to it. I was like "ha, that's pretty cool, they stuck some random symbol in their name." Then I discovered I had a similar symbol, "WUTTHACRAP?! Why is that in my name??!!? ... oh. hhaah update!!"

    excellent job guys!
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      ӝspot (#19608)

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      Oh... the symbols next to usernames are the user type symbols. Those do not actually have anything to do with the Achievements. In order to see someone's Achievement Rank, just look at the insignia. :)
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    ɤMangaPunkSai (#19507)

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    Woo! Level 6, bitches!
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    ӝTheHalcyon (#19538)

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    *cough* At one point, it should be "ladder" not "later." :P

    :mine:

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    05.27.08 6:08 pm
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      ӝspot (#19610)

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        ӝTheHalcyon (#19622)

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        Third paragraph: "Each rank gets more and more difficult as you climb the later to fame."

        I was going to ask how in the world you're getting by without me...but clearly you're not! :dieslaughing:

        :cuddle:

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