Badges for rating stories on the main site are now live, and being granted to Patrons first.
I haven’t finished adding a nice overview on the main site but for now you can see them listed here: TARDIS Guide Forum
There are also some extra, secret badges, and loads more to come.
Here are a few I’m going to be adding soon (none of these are secret ones):
An extra badge for each month you are a Patron (what’s a good Doctor Who image that represents Patron?)
Badges for being the first to rate a story, or for rating an older story not many other people have rated.
Special badges for sets of Audio dramas and for series of books
A badge for being Verified on the site
Badges for adding your links to the site to reviews, podcasts, etc
Yearly badges granted if you rate everything released in the Whoniverse for that year (this will have to wait until I’ve finished adding it all!)
A badge for contributing Guides to the site
More monster badges like the Cybermen and Daleks ones
Badges for behind-the-scenes stuff when that comes
Badges for setting “currently reading” when that is done
I will eventually make it more automated to suggest changes to stories on the site and you’ll get badges for doing that.
A badge for suggesting a new quote, and badges for favouriting them
Badges for collecting thing and for saving things to lists
When the big new Recommendation feature comes, and you need to train it by saying your favourite Doctors, Companions, Monsters etc, you’ll get badges based on that
Badges for rewatching (patrons only feature)
Badges for following people and gaining lots of followers
Lots of plans!
Does anyone have any ideas for any other badges - normal or secret? I have a long list but would be good to hear what you think!
I may be alone in this but I actually prefer the idea of a more limited set of achievements that are mostly gained from rating tv stories and don’t require any deep dives into expanded media
No problem! And you could have one for adding a picture and then another the first time you change it…
There should actually probably be one for cover photo, too. I haven’t gotten around to setting one.
(You could have some random pictures it chooses from if you don’t have a profile picture. Like a cyberman, dalek or silence headshot, for example. Maybe an option to choose a premade avatar if you don’t feel like uploading one. [And you should probably be able to add an emoji to the end of your username…])
Yes, good idea! I was thinking of offering some sample ones to choose from, or I was thinking of automatically showing one based on your favourite era (by ratings) which could then be overridden.
Have you seen the members page? I do automatically show random monsters for those that haven’t chosen an avatar however it’s not actually set as their avatar, I wanted them to be encouraged to add their own.
I’ve been looking at a plugin which lets me offer different ones to choose from, but I like them being more unique rather than an army of Cybermen
Interesting. I’ll look into that. As an alternative, you can make a badge be your “Title” and I could possible put emoji in badges…
Basing this off my experiences with video game achievements and other sites that have implemented achievement systems: I just personally find that a sorta limited list of achievements serves to be an exciting bonus while I’m doing what I’d normally do and then encourages me to branch out to some other stuff to pick up a few extras, even if I’m not necessarily trying to achievement hunt all of them, while a giant list of achievements that I could never possibly hope to collect just kinda makes me not engage with them much at all. Can see the appeal to some people of a more expansive list I just find that it tends to have the opposite effect for me sometimes where instead of encouraging me to explore new things it just makes them seem more daunting. I also find that too many meta achievements like adding links, making suggestions, etc. can make achievements feel like they’re more tedious than fun. Perhaps it’s possible to avoid a lot of those issues somewhat while still having a lot of fun badges by just having clear categories for them and/or keeping a lot of them hidden.
You just reminded me, there’s a Silence emoji but I didn’t really like the look of it. Should I add it?
You can set a title by choosing from a dropdown on your forum profile. Titles come from badges. I will be integrating it more into the main site so maybe I can let you set it there too.
Awesome, yeah I think that as long as it’s not a daunting list having a bunch should be pretty fun. Definitely having some for just rating your first audio/book/comic/etc. would be a nice way to nudge people into expanded media.
Not sure what all plans you’ve got for profiles but being able to have the home page of your profile showcase a selection of like favorite badges, stories, quotes, etc. would be really great
This won’t be news to @shauny but I’m all up for as many different badges as possible especially ones which cover ‘all the Zygon stories’ or ‘all the Skaro stories’ but have to include the expanded universe (otherwise you’d get them by default by watching the TV show).
I’d also like secret badges for loving unlvoved stories - not just the obvious one but any others of those unloved stories.
The list is endless really so I do get what Flora is driving at. Categorising them and maybe having the function of switching them off (patron-only?) could be the way to go to satisfy all points of view on this.
I will say “all the story” badges are ones I’d tend to say to have be hidden ones, so you get them unexpectedly when you just happen to be obsessive enough to get them…
Having badges about making progress would be encouraging. (Though hopefully in smaller increments then that. If listening to four more audios would get me a rankup, it might push me to do it, but not forty-nine…)
Probably “watched all of x Doctor” badges, “watched all of x era”, and such, as well?
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however it’s not actually set as their avatar, I wanted them to be encouraged to add their own.
but any others of those unloved stories.