Proposal TW Medals Overhaul and upgrade.

[roxxkatt]

could also have a foreign key in a player table to a medals table, and the player medals be something like "1,2,4,5,6,7,9"

[Ardour]

Something like this:

I like this idea.
But not to do with TWL medals.

I believe this would be nicer with the bar representing number of matchs. That itself would suggest what leagues a player plays and focuses on.

But the medals still have to be individual because they represent different seasons and so will display different stats. Maybe I will make the display of it like you said though... and have it expandable when clicked.

So it would be more like that for the display:
TWDD - Bronze medal [4]
TWDD - Silver medal [8]
TWDD - Gold medal [2]

And if you clicked on one, it would show all of the medals which would then allow you to click on an individual medal.

[Ardour]

Thanks for your suggestions roxxkatt.

I don't believe I will struggle to implement it either of the 2 ways I have suggested in my proposal. All depends on whether the commity like the idea and how they want it to proceed really.

[Rab]

lets hear your better way then

Ardir doesn't need telling how to implement it...

I'd probably do something like this - recording medals but also number of games played so we can calculate total games played ever (since the system was built):

New tables:
- seasons (id, name, date range)
- season stats (id, season id, max games twjd / twbd / twdd)
- season player stats (id, season id, games twjd / twbd / twdd, medal awarded twjd / twbd / twdd)

+ suitable indexes

this is just general common sense, it'll perform well, can be added to, can be reported on.

[Shaddowknight]

great idea, hope you get the go-ahead to make this all happen!

[Zeebu]

get rid of all medals

[Kane]

When I read this idea I can't help but think of the achievement systems. Many of the newer games have achievement systems now, they make it known when a player reaches a certain milestone in their playing career.

This will make leagues a bit more appealing to players. I'm not saying every player in leagues will enjoy this or pay attention. It will give some of the people something to play for and new players a better idea of the current players experience in leagues.

I can't think of anyway that this would have a negative effect on TW and its leagues. Its an improvement and any improvement no matter the size is helpful.

[Jones]

I like the fact that people could be getting 'achievement' for playing alot. Especially for newer players.

[Spacely]

would be cool to make some medals like the pub one you can fly in twd with and reset every month or something for like most kills, x/x/x amount of kills that month, x/x/x amounts of games that month,15/20/25/30 kills in one game. and different designs to meld multi medal achievements into the one medal