Award Designs

To put the new awards system to use, I'm calling on the community to make award designs for us to use.

I've made two award templates for photoshop and attached them. Using them is pretty straightforward. If you want to change the color of the ribbon, use a color or gradient overlay on the ribbon folder and set it to multiply. Change the contents of the emblem layer in the big award if you want to change the emblem icon. Change the color of the Medal shape if you want to change the medal color. Make sure you make one of each for a given award, one for the showcase and one for the postbit icon. If you make an award, please try not to deviate too much from these templates so that we can keep everything looking consistent.
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Examples: https://i.imgur.com/Kr0HQYR.png https://i.imgur.com/Xd6oSTL.png

I made an award for people who contribute artwork to the site. If you make an award image and we end up using it, you'll receive said award. I gave it to myself, so you guys can see what it looks like

Also, PLEASE upload the .psd file and not just the png file. This is so that we can edit existing awards if we change the style or whatever. Thanks.

Here are some examples of designs we need. Of course, you can make a design for anything you feel that deserves an award, and we'll consider making it into one.

Most active Keeper
Staff member of the month
Retired staff
Outstanding achievement/contribution
FM/MFM/SFM winners/MVP awards as needed
Content Creator
Site Veteran (Be on the site for longer than a year)
FM Master (Play more than 10 FMs)
Ladder Climber Award: Placed between 1st-3rd place in at least one season of S-FM Ladder
S-FM Host Award: Host/Cohost an S-FM
M-FM Host Award: Host/Cohost an M-FM
FM Host Award: Host/Cohost an FM
Achievement hunter - upload a replay with all in game achievements

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Sorry no .psd I accidentally deleted it.

Friendship Award
Make 25? friends
https://i.imgur.com/lZIbT5l.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/ajznaCg.png

Says I can't upload psd, but I attempted to attach.

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Friendship Award
Make 25? friends
https://i.imgur.com/lZIbT5l.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/ajznaCg.png

Says I can't upload psd, but I attempted to attach.

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Friendship? More like friendSHIT.

I DID BETTER

Forum Mafia Blue Ribbon - For someone who did something good at mafia, TBD
https://i.imgur.com/zxRHmJO.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/pP5PE2M.png


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I feel bad for whoever is going to pass out the Veteran awards. Sooooooo many people to tag.

Should be able to set it up to give that out automatically, maybe

Triforce Badge
Used for mumble mumble idk

https://i.imgur.com/WFBcHA8.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/UQjjuta.png



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Originally Posted by Cryptonic

Should be able to set it up to give that out automatically, maybe

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If its not then moderators will finally have to work. Lol. That shit would suck


I would think a 'reference' badge could be a good idea to motivate people to draw their friends to the site. It would be kinda painful to really keep track of that and prevent people from exploiting it though.

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Originally Posted by Helz

If its not then moderators will finally have to work. Lol. That shit would suck


I would think a 'reference' badge could be a good idea to motivate people to draw their friends to the site. It would be kinda painful to really keep track of that and prevent people from exploiting it though.

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Yea, it would be difficult. So many people screw with referral system for anon accounts, smurfs, ect lol. Although, it's not like an award is so important that it really matters that we look into it so deeply.

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Yea, it would be difficult. So many people screw with referral system for anon accounts, smurfs, ect lol. Although, it's not like an award is so important that it really matters that we look into it so deeply.

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I agree. Hopefully we could pull some new blood to the site from it

OK i'm not gonna lie, I'm just choosing random symbols.

https://i.imgur.com/XzanNEs.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/XyJ3r0G.png

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Yea, it would be difficult. So many people screw with referral system for anon accounts, smurfs, ect lol. Although, it's not like an award is so important that it really matters that we look into it so deeply.

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Yeah... the referral system needs some work honestly and is prone to manipulation right now. Quality over quantity for sure, and the people actually need to stay vs. being used to up one's count. It's definitely something that we should incentivize, but we've had problems in the past with how to avoid loopholes in terms of whatever contest / prize is established. Obviously, there can be a bright line rule against referring one's own smurf, but it's not helpful if the referred person makes an account here, never to return, just so the referrer gets another point toward a prize or award.

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Originally Posted by DarknessB

Yeah... the referral system needs some work honestly and is prone to manipulation right now. Quality over quantity for sure, and the people actually need to stay vs. being used to up one's count. It's definitely something that we should incentivize, but we've had problems in the past with how to avoid loopholes in terms of whatever contest / prize is established. Obviously, there can be a bright line rule against referring one's own smurf, but it's not helpful if the referred person makes an account here, never to return, just so the referrer gets another point toward a prize or award.

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We can just implement a rule against abuse of referral system if we decide to add an award for it.

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Originally Posted by DarknessB

Yeah... the referral system needs some work honestly and is prone to manipulation right now. Quality over quantity for sure, and the people actually need to stay vs. being used to up one's count. It's definitely something that we should incentivize, but we've had problems in the past with how to avoid loopholes in terms of whatever contest / prize is established. Obviously, there can be a bright line rule against referring one's own smurf, but it's not helpful if the referred person makes an account here, never to return, just so the referrer gets another point toward a prize or award.

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$250 if the person stays active in the forum for 3 months. Another $250 if they stay active for six.

awards are redundant wrt badges. Literally give everyone unique rewards for personalization. GG.

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Originally Posted by Frog

awards are redundant wrt badges. Literally give everyone unique rewards for personalization. GG.

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You're right, we should remove most badges

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You're right, we should remove most badges

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awesome - shoot me the moderator, keeper, FM, 2X M-fm, and count them on all fingers S-FM MVP awards I'm due - legit - thanks for undertaking this process. :-D

Next up is gameplay and leaning theory!!! Can't wait to see who spearheads that! :-D

While we're talking redesign, you should add a way to hide the random statistics section. It really clutters game pages, and in many cases it serves no purpose at all (noone cares about the location or mentions of a FM account, for example).

Sexy version:
https://i.imgur.com/0mRTyeB.png

Current 'OMG, do we really need half a screen for a one-liner' version:
https://i.imgur.com/XQZ0y5G.png

You mean the Mentioend & Tagged sections?

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You mean the Mentioend & Tagged sections?

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All of them; badges, reputation, join date, location, posts, tagged, and mentioned.

While they may have an utility in the forum in general, they do nothing but clutter game threads where it's not uncommon to have replies that are a single line. It makes it harder to read discussions, and I think it'd be nice to let people choose if they want to see them or not, just like with avatars and signatures.

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Originally Posted by Sen

All of them; badges, reputation, join date, location, posts, tagged, and mentioned.

While they may have an utility in the forum in general, they do nothing but clutter game threads where it's not uncommon to have replies that are a single line. It makes it harder to read discussions, and I think it'd be nice to let people choose if they want to see them or not, just like with avatars and signatures.

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Would it be possible to just add in a spoiler kinda thing? Would be clean and still preserve the information.. If there is anyone out there that actually gives a shit about showing that random stuffs.

S-FM Achievements
Awarded for each achievement a player gets, depending on difficulty of said achievement

https://i.imgur.com/txUnpn1.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/K2lgoRS.png
https://i.imgur.com/dhVtyTM.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/eJT2AD7.png
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FM Awards:

FM MVP:
https://i.imgur.com/MhhbwIq.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/yvmIMTV.png
FM Win:
https://i.imgur.com/XvNfGSY.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/2ZFx5UI.png
FM Participation:
https://i.imgur.com/1AC6KBu.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/vN13ogI.png

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why are those so fat lol

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why are those so fat lol

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OMG wtf does it matter it's sending a message out that saying you need to be skinny is good when it just isn't cause like it's bar and you can be as far as you want and it's not fat it's normal but media forces these images on is and it's really bad caus people are dying cause you ask them why they fat so they don't eat and they throw up and they get too skinny and die so go AWAY

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OMG wtf does it matter it's sending a message out that saying you need to be skinny is good when it just isn't cause like it's bar and you can be as far as you want and it's not fat it's normal but media forces these images on is and it's really bad caus people are dying cause you ask them why they fat so they don't eat and they throw up and they get too skinny and die so go AWAY

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Stupid... obesity is an epidemic and we are not to coddle these badges. If you truly cared, you would step in and save their physical life, and then step up again to save their emotional life. You're just being lazy.

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why are those so fat lol

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i have no fucking clue... i spent the majority of my time on this project trying to figure that out, the other half was when i downloaded a non .psd
and couldn't figure out why i couldn't edit in layers :P

give the skwirl awards back

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give the skwirl awards back

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i only see skwarl in acp, is this the one?

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Originally Posted by Cryptonic

i only see skwarl in acp, is this the one?

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they got removed bc mesk deleted the imgur for them remember? at least that's what i remember happened

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they got removed bc mesk deleted the imgur for them remember? at least that's what i remember happened

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ooooooh that sounds familiar

Yep brendan is right, and the Skwirl award really was a squirrel on a medal. I think it was silver... Suggestion if it gets remade: make it a nut ;)


I'm not a squirrel though, soooo... it's not really up to me xD

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Yep brendan is right, and the Skwirl award really was a squirrel on a medal. I think it was silver... Suggestion if it gets remade: make it a nut ;)


I'm not a squirrel though, soooo... it's not really up to me xD

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if someone else wants to make one that doesnt look terrible i'll put it in

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Can't those awards be used in some way lol?

Edit: For some reason it doesn't show that Mesk is the original poster o.O