The GalCiv II Metaverse Needs YOUR Award / Medal Ideas

You should have awards for fastest game win on different map sizes. I'd like to see how few turns it takes expert players to win a game.

Also you can have awards for best mod.

What about racial awards? Completed 5 games as Drengin, Drengin 2nd Lieutenant rank awarded.

Looks good so far. My biggest complaint with the old medals was the lack of reward for topping the specialized categories (most evil, most good, most neutral, various map sizes, etc). But from your post it looks like you're already thinking about those. I just want to make sure that when I take the Evillest Man in the Meta award this time around, I get something to show for it

It also might be nice to have "past #1" medals for each category, so long as they work properly (I know there seemed to be problems with people getting them in error or not at all with GC1, at least last I saw... I know I never got a past #3, though that's more likely due to getting and losing the spot before the medals were added for it.).

As mentioned by others, it would be nice to have medals for community achievemets as well (mods submitted to library, ships, scenarios, etc). And one for Veteran/Diplomat/other special ranks too. Another idea would be to have medals signifying empire leaders.

Currently I think the average difficulty icons are to hard to tell what they are so we will probably be changing those.  Other than that I like what you have so far.

It might be good to be able to sort the database results in more ways so you could get the ranking for different races, difficulty levels, morality. I will never top the overall metaverse but I might be able to specialize and become the best chaotic good, Drengin player on large maps at a challenging setting

I agree with the difficulty icons: I cant tell if they are pictograms or just moderm art: a simple solution would be to split the 12 levels into 4 groups giving 1, 2 or 3 stars. These 4 tiers could colour their stars in wood, bronze, silver and gold.

The Galciv1 forum had a big discussion thread you've probably looked at with suggestions for all manner of medals. I like the idea of getting a medal for achieving peaceful victories such as an "Order of the [insert race] Diplomatic Service (1st, 2nd, 3rd class)" for example. Or the "[insert race] Prize for research" for those winning by the research route. The medal could change name acording to how many were won by that method when playing that race. Or on a global search show up as the "Inter-species" medal.

There could be a special Racial Awareness medal for winning a set number of games as each race. This could have ranks too such 1st,2nd,3rd class or something more prosaic like the British honours system "Member, Knight, Knight Grand Cross" etc. These internal ranks would have the same medal but with some distinguing mark added like a bar on the ribbon (and pop-up on hover text to tell you what they are).

I like medals: shiny shiny like my preciousssss...

Excellent suggestions so far guys. Thank you. I'm writing this stuff down. Keep'em coming. Soon, we'll have medals for EVERYTHING!!!!

I like the idea of having a set of ranks for each race you play, maybe stars for one, circles for other, triangles  for other or create some similar to the emblem of each race.

• Most slain enemies (overall total, top X% get it)


• Most conquered population (overall total, top X% get it)


• largest fleet (perhaps use the previously posted player ranks to denote peak size of your military, do the rankings so that ensign puts you at the top X% of those reported, with fleet admiral being the top 1%)


• What about a fat cat award, for those in the top 5% total $$ (in one game)? Perhaps use gemstones to denote the rankings.


• Maybe a 'Renaissance man' medal for each race. Require registering a victory for all possible ways to win AND on both sides of morality.  


• 'Nobel Peace Prize': no idea if its allowable to co-opt an existing award's name. No victories by military means in any submitted game..

I'd suppose the last two would be more rare than the others, and mutually exlusive.

Perhaps some science medals, maybe one for researching all tech in a game, or ending the game with the most tech research.

Maybe some for earning a tech victory with each race. Such as a medal for one race, then one after you do it for 3 races, etc.

How does this look?

Average Difficulty:

	Cake Walk			Easy			Simple			Beginner
	Normal			Challenging			Tough			Painful
	Crippling			Masochistic			Obscene			Suicidal

Now that is better,I got a suggestion but I don't know if this is possible, how about making 3 groups with 3 different colors like cakewalk to beginner (yellow), normal to Painful (blue) and crippling to suicidal (red)?  I meand the areas that are gray now changing them to these 3 colors?

Those definitely are better but the designs are a bit intricate to make for easy differentiation. Pop up text would help there I guess, but a simpler bolder design would be easier to take in at a glance.

up text would help there I guess, but a simpler bolder design would be easier to take in at a glance.

I have some ideas for this as well. I'll try to make a concept and drop it in this thread when I'm done. Thanks Kevin for the info, too. I know what you're saying. -- And THANKS TO EVERYONE for posting.

The galciv 1 thread I was referring to is

https://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=122015

and some of their results were posted at

http://files.galciv.org/medals.html

I like the chocolate mountain award

Ahh, this is good. Wow, I'm amazed at the amount of time and effort that the community has given to this in the past. Thanks Kevin for looking this info up.

Having recently been dethroned as #1, is there a "former #1 medal? I'm not likely to see #1 again

What someone up said; Awards for breaking "n" thousand in various categories; 10000 perhaps, or a medal for killing "n" number of enemy ships in one game.

Top player in your race for each one of the 4 types of victory.

Example: Top Drengin Conqueror( military victory) , Top Yor Techie (tech ), Top Terran Diplomat (allied victory), Top Arcean CEO ( Influence )

Several different other awards like beating the game at least once with every race. Something for beating the game on every difficulty level. Ribbon or medal for beating every difficulty up to including Normal. Maybe flight wings ? Then another one from Normal on.

Chaos Overlord = most wins on all random settings.

I'd like there to be awards for the victory types such as: Conqueror, Diplomat, Wunderkid (influence), Wizkid. Or something along those lines. Many people fine tune their strategies to one victory or another, and I think there ought to be an award for some of the most effective.

I like a lot of the suggestions and the difficulty icons.

Because I'm contrary and morbid, what about some more "defeat" based medals?

1. A medal if you submit nothing but defeats.

2. A medal if you get trounced all (three?) possible ways. I've already clocked the military and cultural defeats.

Some incentives to fool around other than getting high scores might be fun, too. Dunno if these are feasible, but...

1. An "Egghead" medal for having lots of labs/tech points?

2. A "Henry Ford" medal for having lots of factories/production?

3. A "Rock Star" medal for having influence points up the wazoo?

4. A "Baby Boomer" medal for having a high population?

5. An "n Wonders of the Galaxy" medal if you manage to build all the tech goods and/or wonders?

Peace & Luv, Liz

I am very new to the Metaverse, so maybe this already exists, but was curious if a medal for the fist time you win with a type of victory might be an idea.

1 for your first Research Victory

1 for your first Alliance Victory

1 for your first Influence Victory

and of course

1 for your first Conquering Victory.

Anyhow just a thought, there are some great suggestions above as well.

Thanks

I'd like to see awards for number of losses (5,10,25, 50,100 etc). What about an award for the games that take more than a certain number of turns.

What about a medal for:

Political parties used in game?
Collected all Super Projects in one game? 'Project Groupie' medal?
Collected all Galactic Achievements in one game? 'Grand architect' medal?
Collected all Trade Goods in one game? 'Taipan' medal?

and maybe more medals of the above if you win more games with those conditions?
eg:
Out of 2 games, one game you collected all Super Projects - 'Project Groupie' medal awarded.
Out of 7 games, you collected all Super Projects in 5 games - 'Schedule Masochist' medal awarded.
Out of 15 games, you collected all Super Projects in 10 games - 'Control Freak' medal awarded.... and so forth

Just some silly suggestions.

The type of victory the player achieved should be counted somewhere. It seems like alliance victories are far more quick and easy than are military victories, and tech are a pain in the neck.