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The GalCiv II Metaverse Needs YOUR Award / Medal Ideas

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The GalCiv II Metaverse Needs YOUR Award / Medal Ideas

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Hello GalCiv fans!

I just wanted to know your feedback on a new feature that will be coming to the GalCiv2 website; The Metaverse! Similar to the original metaverse from GalCiv1 site, we want to allow players the ability to submit game high scores to our website, where they can be ranked against the best GalCiv2 players.

The question is, what sort of medals would you like to see players winning. I'll give you some examples, and perhaps you, the players, can tell us what you want to see included in the new metaverse.

Okay, these are ideas we're looking for:
--Over all high score medals with the top 10 highest scoring players recieving medals.
--Nice guy awards
--Most Evil player award
--Most games played
--Worst average score award <- hehehe I would so own this one.
--Creative ship architect award.

Okay, I hope you get the idea. So with that in mind, lets hear what you think would be a cool NEW addition to the metaverse. GalCiv2 has a ton of new features, so let's be creative here people! We'll pick the best ideas and add them to the metaverse! So get posting! :)


Here are some concepts. Note the ideas or the graphics here are not final and may change.

Player Ranks:
Ensign
2nd Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Commander
Captain
Fleet Captain
Commodore
Rear Admiral
Vice Admiral
Admiral
Fleet Admiral
Overal Morality:
Very Evil
Chaotic Evil
Neutral
Chaotic Good
Very Good
Games Submitted:
5 Games
10 Games
15 Games
25 Games
35 Games
50 Games
75 Games
100 Games
150 Games
200 Games
Average Difficulty:
Cake Walk
Easy
Simple
Beginner
Normal
Challenging
Tough
Painful
Crippling
Masochistic
Obscene
Suicidal
metaverse
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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top
A medal that hasn't been mentioned yet is Map Size.. Since the medals say a lot about the player who has them, do they prefer many small, quick games or long drawn out Gigantic games?

Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
How much information does the Metaverse receive from the player's PC? Some of these might not work if it doesn't log some info.
Slow Poke- games that take longer than X years
Flash - Games that are faster than X weeks
Blitzkrieg- top x% of fast conquest victories or earliest turn someone attacked another player(and won, eventually)
Chairman Mao- all games turned in remained at an Imperial Government
Supreme Chancellor - in all games logged only advanced up to Interstellar Republic
El Presidente- same as above 'cept Star Democracy
Star Fleet Commander (?) - Star Federation
Focused - 50% of games, only at war with one person at any given time.
Schizophrenic (sp?) - Made Evil decisions yet chose the good alignment, or vice versa. For this one, anyone can get it, but it changes colors based on how many times one receives it.
Neanderthal - Won a conquest victory without significant gains in the tech tree
Snob- Lost due to conquest, but quite advanced in technology.
Merchant- Most goods traded (in diplomacy screen) and bcs involved (a statistic not an award)
Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top
want a "former 1st place"-badge in line with the "former top-25"-badge. same for 2nd and 3rd place maybe. so I can play modded games or not play that much (when work/college starts again) and still have a medal telling ppl I was #1 once

Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top
and what about a medal for moders? depending on the # of downloads from mods you uploaded. should maybe balanced with the size of the mod so a moder releasing 1 big mod that is downloaded 1000 times is about as good as a moder releasing multiple smaller files that are downloaded as often.
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
and some of their results were posted at


oooh my old website

Not sure if this has been mentioned but how about a medal for a Mod submission to library (Yup as the old Librarian for GCI i am bound to think of that i know )


Join The Galactic Diplomats.
– A GCII Metaverse Empire –
Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'd to see some more stats for the Empire side as well not just a total score which favours the bigger empires. The above all looks good though
Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

These are some great ideas.  Please keep them coming.

However, we are limited with we can do.  We have a limited set of data that is available.

Example of some of the data we have...Score, GalaxySize, Difficulty,  Victory/Loss Type, Alignment(morality), Years, Race, Population.  Thats basicially it.

And hopefully later today or tomorrow I will have some more medals implemented.

Reply #33 from Stardock Forums Top
want a "former 1st place"-badge in line with the "former top-25"-badge. same for 2nd and 3rd place maybe. so I can play modded games or not play that much (when work/college starts again) and still have a medal telling ppl I was #1 once


Me too, I wonder why? Hey, I lived up to my name, was there less than 24 hours, you're doing better than that. Probably deserve it more too. Weekend coming up, wonder how many games are going to get finished?
Reply #34 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hey how come I don't have my former 3rd place medal???
Reply #35 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Victory type awards for getting a certain number of a given win type.

There could also be levels to them:
1 tech win - Technological Victory Medal
5 tech wins - Excellent Typist
10 tech wins - Tech Monkey
50 tech wins - Unix Admin

you get the picture (and that I can't come up with names on the fly).
Reply #36 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Seems all the medals are missing form the posts now. Hopefully thay are fixing it.
Reply #37 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Fuels Chief:

It was mentioned in the "Sticky: Metaverse Help" thread that they took it down due to performance issues and they're working on fixing it.

Relevant post: https://forums.galciv2.com/index.aspx?ForumID=274&AID=101610&p=4#819693

So hopefully we should all be medal-enabled again soon.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Reply #38 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I second the idea of having special medals for a number of victories of a given kind (tech/culture/military/alliance).
Reply #39 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
- Average map size

- A ranking for most games played

- Pull out the top X (to maybe 1000? )

- Rival (eg. the race you always try to blow up)

- Top X for loses

- Vetran for people who bought the game during the first month of its release.

- Newbie for those who just got the game.

- Favorite type of victory.
Reply #40 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Do we still need more input on the medals or they way it is now it is the final?
Reply #41 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think you should stay with the current ones... I like them better but with you'll add more that's good.. and who do you get the medal - "Wounded In Action" ?
Reply #42 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think you should stay with the current ones... I like them better but with you'll add more that's good.. and who do you get the medal - "Wounded In Action" ?

You have to submit 5 losses.
Reply #43 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I need to lose or just Retire?
Reply #44 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Also seconding medals for military/diplomacy/cultural/technological victories (5/10/and so on)...
Reply #45 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
need to lose or just Retire?


so? I saw some poeple with 10 loses (not retire...) and they didn't get that medal... somebody saw someone with this kind of medal? and also if it is just to lose five times and this is that easy, why not everyone already have it?
hmmm.. food for thought..
Reply #46 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
and also if it is just to lose five times and this is that easy, why not everyone already have it?
hmmm.. food for thought..


Because most people would rather post wins, instead of decreasing their scores for one more medal
Reply #47 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I was thinking about this back in June, but I didn't want to necropost. Since the thread has been resuscitated, however...

I would like to see medals awarded for victories in the different galaxy sizes. There are many paths to victory in GCII, but the only path to the top of the Metaverse charts is military conquest in a gigantic galaxy.

Not everybody has the time to put in for this kind of massive slugfest; and not everybody has a computer capable of handling a gigantic galaxy with abundant everything and a thousand starships whizzing around.

Awards for high scores in different size categories would be a good and fair way to reward top players who have to get up from the computer once in a while, without upsetting the existing scoring criteria.

Each player's total scores in each galaxy size category could be scored as a subset, using the same formula as the total score, with medals awarded to the top and former top scorers in each galaxy size.

Better yet, instead of a medal grahpic, break into something new: boxing belt-type images with alt tags like "Heavyweight Champion" would make a nice addition to the military medals and game counter/alignment chicklets.
Reply #48 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
but don't you want more medal then you have? it's so easy to lose and non of the people want this medal.... I think in the Legend, there must be a link of details for each medal, how you get that... and another question... what is the difference between Former top 25 and Top 25? I saw someone in rank 600 and something with Former Top 25 but he is not top 25?

sorry to be so curios...

EDIT:

so if I now post five loses (retires) I'll get that medal?
Reply #49 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
so if I now post five loses (retires) I'll get that medal?


Actually, retires don't count toward the WIA medal, only end-of-game losses; you have to go down the long, bitter road to total defeat five times to get that one.
Reply #50 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
oh... thanks