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Postby IcePack on Sat May 05, 2018 8:51 pm

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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby CatchersMitt14 on Sat May 05, 2018 9:15 pm

How do you propose to deal with this retroactively? Seems like a massive amount of volunteer hours to update everyone appropriately. Some players will be due 50+ medals in multiple categories and will each need to be awarded individually and manually. For example look at shoop76, our current tournament medal leader. He has at least 200 tournament wins for a total of 34 medals, that means he'll need a minimum of 166 tournament medals awarded to him in addition to whatever else he is owed and that is just one player.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby riskllama on Sat May 05, 2018 9:19 pm

not sure if this is in the right thread but having a medal for all current gameplay settings would really be rather nice and would keep people playing games they otherwise would have no interest in. eg. who's up for some no fort zombie action???
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby riskllama on Sat May 05, 2018 9:22 pm

dang, mapmakers should be getting a lot more than a medal for making maps nowadays, imo... :?
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby IcePack on Sat May 05, 2018 9:44 pm

CatchersMitt14 wrote:How do you propose to deal with this retroactively? Seems like a massive amount of volunteer hours to update everyone appropriately. Some players will be due 50+ medals in multiple categories and will each need to be awarded individually and manually. For example look at shoop76, our current tournament medal leader. He has at least 200 tournament wins for a total of 34 medals, that means he'll need a minimum of 166 tournament medals awarded to him in addition to whatever else he is owed and that is just one player.


It takes time, but not impossible. Things are nicely organized in most cases, so can work through it catagory by catagory. With multiple departments potentially chipping in, it wouldn’t be that hard.

When clans first started doing medals they retroactively had to do a bunch, it can be done. Tournaments would be the biggest backlog, and once other departments like clans / cartos issued theirs they could pitch in to help TD’s
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby CatchersMitt14 on Sat May 05, 2018 9:45 pm

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CatchersMitt14 wrote:How do you propose to deal with this retroactively? Seems like a massive amount of volunteer hours to update everyone appropriately. Some players will be due 50+ medals in multiple categories and will each need to be awarded individually and manually. For example look at shoop76, our current tournament medal leader. He has at least 200 tournament wins for a total of 34 medals, that means he'll need a minimum of 166 tournament medals awarded to him in addition to whatever else he is owed and that is just one player.


It takes time, but not impossible. Things are nicely organized in most cases, so can work through it catagory by catagory. With multiple departments potentially chipping in, it wouldn’t be that hard.

When clans first started doing medals they retroactively had to do a bunch, it can be done. Tournaments would be the biggest backlog, and once other departments like clans / cartos issued theirs they could pitch in to help TD’s

I think you're way underestimating the time commitment for that. I'd support extending the scale for those who have passed the 200 limit but not removing it.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby Mad777 on Sat May 05, 2018 9:52 pm

I would be in favor of this but this should have been lifted many years ago, if the final decision is to lift this restriction then this mean admin have massively hired new hands since this will need hours and hours to catch-up the past.
Just from quick memory, merch313, who is still active member, has 400+ tournaments organized, just for this little instance he will gain 350 medals for one category - which I think it’s fully deserve since I believe you should earn what you “worked” for - but who will input those 350 medals? I know you can easily found which tournament was since all are listed in the hall of fame (for both TO and Tournament winner), but that’s is hours of work for solely one member and for one category, even myself I have more than 152 tournaments as TO, that is 129 medal to create.

Again, the idea is good and appreciate what you are trying to do and I tend to agree with the fact it could retain member and perhaps “reactivate” old member, I just don’t see how admin would spend time to make this happen.

Note: .....and we will lose josko who will more than likely fall way down and perhaps not even showing in the medal scoreboard anymore :lol:
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby IcePack on Sat May 05, 2018 10:07 pm

CatchersMitt14 wrote:
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CatchersMitt14 wrote:How do you propose to deal with this retroactively? Seems like a massive amount of volunteer hours to update everyone appropriately. Some players will be due 50+ medals in multiple categories and will each need to be awarded individually and manually. For example look at shoop76, our current tournament medal leader. He has at least 200 tournament wins for a total of 34 medals, that means he'll need a minimum of 166 tournament medals awarded to him in addition to whatever else he is owed and that is just one player.


It takes time, but not impossible. Things are nicely organized in most cases, so can work through it catagory by catagory. With multiple departments potentially chipping in, it wouldn’t be that hard.

When clans first started doing medals they retroactively had to do a bunch, it can be done. Tournaments would be the biggest backlog, and once other departments like clans / cartos issued theirs they could pitch in to help TD’s


I think you're way underestimating the time commitment for that. I'd support extending the scale for those who have passed the 200 limit but not removing it.


Youre talking here only on tournaments, many tiers stop at 30 / 50, not 200. But again, to reiterate all medals should be given / counted. I don't want to start picking and choosing all over again who gets what. They are all deserved imo. I'm not underestimating anything though, I understand its a big job. But its a worthwhile one.

Mad777 wrote:I would be in favor of this but this should have been lifted many years ago, if the final decision is to lift this restriction then this mean admin have massively hired new hands since this will need hours and hours to catch-up the past.
Just from quick memory, merch313, who is still active member, has 400+ tournaments organized, just for this little instance he will gain 350 medals for one category - which I think it’s fully deserve since I believe you should earn what you “worked” for - but who will input those 350 medals? I know you can easily found which tournament was since all are listed in the hall of fame (for both TO and Tournament winner), but that’s is hours of work for solely one member and for one category, even myself I have more than 152 tournaments as TO, that is 129 medal to create.

Again, the idea is good and appreciate what you are trying to do and I tend to agree with the fact it could retain member and perhaps “reactivate” old member, I just don’t see how admin would spend time to make this happen.

Note: .....and we will lose josko who will more than likely fall way down and perhaps not even showing in the medal scoreboard anymore :lol:


I agree it should have been lifted long ago (I would have preferred there never being a tier limit, but I can't go back in the past).
I understand it will take time. But again, thats time well spent and something that can be worked on / finished with time. It doesn't have to be done / completed in a day

The admin time to lift the tiers is minimal, the issuing of them will take more time, but as I said, that can be a joint effort over time to complete the project. I mean, most catagories could be completed in a day / weekend (i know clans, carto, couple others could all be done very quickly). Tournaments is the "big one" and once the CD team completes ours, we would assist as needed.

Regarding josko, the medal scoreboard wouldn't show issued medals (as I indicated in my proposal) to keep things "fair" that would then show some weighted medal score instead of flat medal count
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby CatchersMitt14 on Sat May 05, 2018 10:33 pm

IcePack wrote:
CatchersMitt14 wrote:
IcePack wrote:
CatchersMitt14 wrote:How do you propose to deal with this retroactively? Seems like a massive amount of volunteer hours to update everyone appropriately. Some players will be due 50+ medals in multiple categories and will each need to be awarded individually and manually. For example look at shoop76, our current tournament medal leader. He has at least 200 tournament wins for a total of 34 medals, that means he'll need a minimum of 166 tournament medals awarded to him in addition to whatever else he is owed and that is just one player.


It takes time, but not impossible. Things are nicely organized in most cases, so can work through it catagory by catagory. With multiple departments potentially chipping in, it wouldn’t be that hard.

When clans first started doing medals they retroactively had to do a bunch, it can be done. Tournaments would be the biggest backlog, and once other departments like clans / cartos issued theirs they could pitch in to help TD’s


I think you're way underestimating the time commitment for that. I'd support extending the scale for those who have passed the 200 limit but not removing it.


Youre talking here only on tournaments, many tiers stop at 30 / 50, not 200. But again, to reiterate all medals should be given / counted. I don't want to start picking and choosing all over again who gets what. They are all deserved imo. I'm not underestimating anything though, I understand its a big job. But its a worthwhile one.

You're selectively reading my argument yet again so nice try. I know I'm speaking about tournaments specifically in my post as that was the example I picked. It's an example, examples don't cover all of the scenarios they illustrate them. Now extrapolate my example through all the departments and you have the real issue.

You also conveniently neglect to acknowledge my other point where I support extending all of the limits. I don't think there should be limits at all, so just extend them well beyond whatever our top players have. Give people new goals to reach instead of changing our minds and creating a massive amount of work. Let's add another level beyond platinum, hell that's how we got platinum medals. Add more tiers past 200 or say after 200 you get one for one. Add new medals, particularly a zombie one. A few ideas there to drive people towards looking at future goals instead of looking back at what they've already done, that's how you create a future.

IcePack wrote:I agree it should have been lifted long ago (I would have preferred there never being a tier limit, but I can't go back in the past).
I understand it will take time. But again, thats time well spent and something that can be worked on / finished with time. It doesn't have to be done / completed in a day

This is my favorite part though, you talk about not being able to go back in the past but that's exactly what you're proposing we do. Oops, we changed our minds, let's try this again. :lol: :lol:

IcePack wrote:In order to satisfy the current thought / desire / set up to have the medal scoreboard being "fair" (whatever that means) from category to category, a medal weight calculation can be made for the medal scoreboard in lieu of the current restricting maximum medals (I won't make this calculation attempt, as it should be a separate suggestion since I'm not keen nor understanding of the current desire for weighted "fair" medals, someone else should lead that effort)

We as a site will never be able to agree to what "fair" means. That's how we ended up with the arguments in the past over tiers and limits. Basically this is just changing the argument from tiers on medals to how to weight medals on the scoreboard. Just trading one fight for another. This "weighting" you're suggesting is taken care of by the tiered system already. It's really serving the same purpose, just one happens on the front side and one on the back.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby IcePack on Sat May 05, 2018 10:52 pm

CatchersMitt14 wrote:
IcePack wrote:
CatchersMitt14 wrote:
IcePack wrote:
CatchersMitt14 wrote:How do you propose to deal with this retroactively? Seems like a massive amount of volunteer hours to update everyone appropriately. Some players will be due 50+ medals in multiple categories and will each need to be awarded individually and manually. For example look at shoop76, our current tournament medal leader. He has at least 200 tournament wins for a total of 34 medals, that means he'll need a minimum of 166 tournament medals awarded to him in addition to whatever else he is owed and that is just one player.


It takes time, but not impossible. Things are nicely organized in most cases, so can work through it catagory by catagory. With multiple departments potentially chipping in, it wouldn’t be that hard.

When clans first started doing medals they retroactively had to do a bunch, it can be done. Tournaments would be the biggest backlog, and once other departments like clans / cartos issued theirs they could pitch in to help TD’s


I think you're way underestimating the time commitment for that. I'd support extending the scale for those who have passed the 200 limit but not removing it.


Youre talking here only on tournaments, many tiers stop at 30 / 50, not 200. But again, to reiterate all medals should be given / counted. I don't want to start picking and choosing all over again who gets what. They are all deserved imo. I'm not underestimating anything though, I understand its a big job. But its a worthwhile one.


You're selectively reading my argument yet again so nice try. I know I'm speaking about tournaments specifically in my post as that was the example I picked. It's an example, examples don't cover all of the scenarios they illustrate them. Now extrapolate my example through all the departments and you have the real issue.

You also conveniently neglect to acknowledge my other point where I support extending all of the limits. I don't think there should be limits at all, so just extend them well beyond whatever our top players have. Give people new goals to reach instead of changing our minds and creating a massive amount of work. Let's add another level beyond platinum, hell that's how we got platinum medals. Add more tiers past 200 or say after 200 you get one for one. Add new medals, particularly a zombie one. A few ideas there to drive people towards looking at future goals instead of looking back at what they've already done, that's how you create a future.


As I said, lot of the departments won't be that hard. Extrapolating through all departments really won't be that bad, because of this.

I didn't "conveniently neglect" anything. You said a single sentence without explaining what you meant, so it made no sense to me at the time. Extending the tiers / limits just kicks the can down the road, but thats fine too. We can make everything 1,000 and then effectively, there are no limits. Thats fine with me. Regarding Platniums etc, thats a bit different then my suggestion as I'm talking about the medal tiers, not adding a new level for the standard ones. But sure, same concept. Start a suggestion and I'll support it. Regardless tho, extending the limits and not retroactively issuing the others totally defeats the purpose of the suggestion. So..yeah, not one without the other, IMO. There are people willing to do the work, so what does it matter that its a lot of work? If you don't want to help, then don't.

You can have past and future, you don't have to pick one or the other.

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IcePack wrote:I agree it should have been lifted long ago (I would have preferred there never being a tier limit, but I can't go back in the past).
I understand it will take time. But again, thats time well spent and something that can be worked on / finished with time. It doesn't have to be done / completed in a day


This is my favorite part though, you talk about not being able to go back in the past but that's exactly what you're proposing we do. Oops, we changed our minds, let's try this again. :lol: :lol:


I meant I can't go back and stop the tiers from happening. No need to be a smart ass. I'm not changing my mind, I'm saying all medals should be represented and the old ones issued. Its pretty clear here.

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IcePack wrote:In order to satisfy the current thought / desire / set up to have the medal scoreboard being "fair" (whatever that means) from category to category, a medal weight calculation can be made for the medal scoreboard in lieu of the current restricting maximum medals (I won't make this calculation attempt, as it should be a separate suggestion since I'm not keen nor understanding of the current desire for weighted "fair" medals, someone else should lead that effort)


We as a site will never be able to agree to what "fair" means. That's how we ended up with the arguments in the past over tiers and limits. Basically this is just changing the argument from tiers on medals to how to weight medals on the scoreboard. Just trading one fight for another. This "weighting" you're suggesting is taken care of by the tiered system already. It's really serving the same purpose, just one happens on the front side and one on the back.


Funny, at some point they did agree what fair was, which is how the tiers got implemented to begin with. So I guess thats really a non issue, huh?
It does basically transfer the tier limits to the weighting, you are correct there. But then it allows those who believe all medals earned should be issued to also be represented, instead of restricting one view over the other. And, as I indicated in the OP, there are other benefits to this as well such as encouraging people to continue in a section instead of stopping at the tier and not participating, or leaving altogether because the one area they are interested in they no longer can receive recognition for.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby CatchersMitt14 on Sat May 05, 2018 11:19 pm

IcePack wrote:
CatchersMitt14 wrote:
IcePack wrote:
CatchersMitt14 wrote:
IcePack wrote:
CatchersMitt14 wrote:How do you propose to deal with this retroactively? Seems like a massive amount of volunteer hours to update everyone appropriately. Some players will be due 50+ medals in multiple categories and will each need to be awarded individually and manually. For example look at shoop76, our current tournament medal leader. He has at least 200 tournament wins for a total of 34 medals, that means he'll need a minimum of 166 tournament medals awarded to him in addition to whatever else he is owed and that is just one player.


It takes time, but not impossible. Things are nicely organized in most cases, so can work through it catagory by catagory. With multiple departments potentially chipping in, it wouldn’t be that hard.

When clans first started doing medals they retroactively had to do a bunch, it can be done. Tournaments would be the biggest backlog, and once other departments like clans / cartos issued theirs they could pitch in to help TD’s


I think you're way underestimating the time commitment for that. I'd support extending the scale for those who have passed the 200 limit but not removing it.


Youre talking here only on tournaments, many tiers stop at 30 / 50, not 200. But again, to reiterate all medals should be given / counted. I don't want to start picking and choosing all over again who gets what. They are all deserved imo. I'm not underestimating anything though, I understand its a big job. But its a worthwhile one.


You're selectively reading my argument yet again so nice try. I know I'm speaking about tournaments specifically in my post as that was the example I picked. It's an example, examples don't cover all of the scenarios they illustrate them. Now extrapolate my example through all the departments and you have the real issue.

You also conveniently neglect to acknowledge my other point where I support extending all of the limits. I don't think there should be limits at all, so just extend them well beyond whatever our top players have. Give people new goals to reach instead of changing our minds and creating a massive amount of work. Let's add another level beyond platinum, hell that's how we got platinum medals. Add more tiers past 200 or say after 200 you get one for one. Add new medals, particularly a zombie one. A few ideas there to drive people towards looking at future goals instead of looking back at what they've already done, that's how you create a future.


As I said, lot of the departments won't be that hard. Extrapolating through all departments really won't be that bad, because of this.
Again, completely missing my point and making your own.

I didn't "conveniently neglect" anything. You said a single sentence without explaining what you meant, so it made no sense to me at the time. Extending the tiers / limits just kicks the can down the road, but thats fine too. We can make everything 1,000 and then effectively, there are no limits. Thats fine with me. Regarding Platniums etc, thats a bit different then my suggestion as I'm talking about the medal tiers, not adding a new level for the standard ones. But sure, same concept. Start a suggestion and I'll support it. Regardless tho, extending the limits and not retroactively issuing the others totally defeats the purpose of the suggestion. So..yeah, not one without the other, IMO. There are people willing to do the work, so what does it matter that its a lot of work? If you don't want to help, then don't.
I thought my statement was simple enough to stand on it's own. My bad, I'll explain in more depth next time. Not trying to "kick the can down the road." No limits, I'm for it. New medals at some point have to be made with the Roman Numerals on them (just look at both of our GC's right now), Wham isn't going to make an infinite number of them. So what I'm suggesting is set the new tiers and corresponding medals well past wherever we are and when people reach them we can create more following the same system. I understand your suggestion pertains only to medal tiers, I'm suggesting we look at the site as a whole and not just your tiers. If we're extending some why not extend them all? Yes they're different structure but still the same issue, people have maxed them out and need more to earn.

You can have past and future, you don't have to pick one or the other.
We do have a past, you're attempting to re-write it because you don't like how it happened the first time. The tiers were agreed to at the time, be it "right" or "wrong" in your opinion.

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IcePack wrote:I agree it should have been lifted long ago (I would have preferred there never being a tier limit, but I can't go back in the past).
I understand it will take time. But again, thats time well spent and something that can be worked on / finished with time. It doesn't have to be done / completed in a day


This is my favorite part though, you talk about not being able to go back in the past but that's exactly what you're proposing we do. Oops, we changed our minds, let's try this again. :lol: :lol:


I meant I can't go back and stop the tiers from happening. No need to be a smart ass. I'm not changing my mind, I'm saying all medals should be represented and the old ones issued. Its pretty clear here.

CatchersMitt14 wrote:
IcePack wrote:In order to satisfy the current thought / desire / set up to have the medal scoreboard being "fair" (whatever that means) from category to category, a medal weight calculation can be made for the medal scoreboard in lieu of the current restricting maximum medals (I won't make this calculation attempt, as it should be a separate suggestion since I'm not keen nor understanding of the current desire for weighted "fair" medals, someone else should lead that effort)


We as a site will never be able to agree to what "fair" means. That's how we ended up with the arguments in the past over tiers and limits. Basically this is just changing the argument from tiers on medals to how to weight medals on the scoreboard. Just trading one fight for another. This "weighting" you're suggesting is taken care of by the tiered system already. It's really serving the same purpose, just one happens on the front side and one on the back.


Funny, at some point they did agree what fair was, which is how the tiers got implemented to begin with. So I guess thats really a non issue, huh?
It does basically transfer the tier limits to the weighting, you are correct there. But then it allows those who believe all medals earned should be issued to also be represented, instead of restricting one view over the other. And, as I indicated in the OP, there are other benefits to this as well such as encouraging people to continue in a section instead of stopping at the tier and not participating, or leaving altogether because the one area they are interested in they no longer can receive recognition for.
So I can't be a smart-ass but it's okay if you are? Got it. Well, really you made that point very clear to me a long time ago I'm just glad it's out in the open now. Actually, people rarely agree so there will be an issue, it's the majority winning or accepting at the least objectionable solution. A recent example being the resign button you're so adamantly against. It was implemented site wide yet there are still individuals outraged about it. I'm agreeing with your ultimate goal just disagreeing with your solution. Add more tiers (what increments those are, I'm not sure right now I haven't had enough time to think about it). This achieves your goal of giving them continuation and recognition in all the categories.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby General Bax on Sat May 05, 2018 11:43 pm

this suggestion if possible and has some positive ingredients.

Having said that, may I remind an old suggestion of mind for varying medals - map champ medals, which are always rotating between the
three best players on each map (best= by map rank tool or any other reasonable method).
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby riskllama on Sun May 06, 2018 12:09 am

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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby IcePack on Sun May 06, 2018 12:17 am

CatchersMitt14 wrote:Again, completely missing my point and making your own.

We do have a past, you're attempting to re-write it because you don't like how it happened the first time. The tiers were agreed to at the time, be it "right" or "wrong" in your opinion.

So I can't be a smart-ass but it's okay if you are? Got it. Well, really you made that point very clear to me a long time ago I'm just glad it's out in the open now. Actually, people rarely agree so there will be an issue, it's the majority winning or accepting at the least objectionable solution. A recent example being the resign button you're so adamantly against. It was implemented site wide yet there are still individuals outraged about it. I'm agreeing with your ultimate goal just disagreeing with your solution. Add more tiers (what increments those are, I'm not sure right now I haven't had enough time to think about it). This achieves your goal of giving them continuation and recognition in all the categories.


How did I miss your point and make my own? I LITERALLY addressed your one liner / two statements directly.

Speaking of missing the point and making your own....I'm not talking about platinum with this suggestion. I get you are. Make a new suggestion then, but its not meant to be addressed here. Just the tiered medals. Why not extend them all? Because the more "parts" that need to be figured out and discussed in this suggestion, the higher chance it will never happen. This suggestion is ONLY dealing with the tiered medals.

I'm not attempting to re write it, I'm making a suggestion to address current site needs. Similar to others doing resign medals, nuke timing out, etc. New opinions on the matter and new concerns compared to the old ones, with a better (IMO) solution that allows for both interests to be met.

You were trying to reinterpret what I said to make it something its not, where I'm addressing what you said. Bit of a difference. And yeah, adding more tiers doesn't really help because again, those tiers have to be tracked etc. Every medal treated the same is the suggestion, not more tiers. You can solve the image issue by doing the same thing as the standard medals etc, remove the roman numerals altogether and just have the "medal" on its own. If you go to the wall and click award details, it tells you the number you've earned anyway. So it doesn't need to be on the image.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby PepeAtila on Sun May 06, 2018 3:11 am

DON'T Remove roman numerals on the medal image, they aren't needed are needed medals? . You can click on "award details" on your wall and find the number of each type you've been issued, and the medals would be similar to standards etc without any roman numerals on it...
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby Donelladan on Sun May 06, 2018 8:44 am

IcePack wrote:Currently there are entire clans that have basically maxed out and will likely never receive another medal, thereby basically killing the activity of the clan
Currently there are map makers who have 30+ who stopped making maps because they stopped getting medals for them
Currently there are tournament organizers who maxed out and have no incentive to continue making new unique tournaments for the community


I am really doubtful about that part of your argument.
First because I don't think that many players are concerned, second because I'd be surprised to know that clans players play for the medal, or that the most prolific mapmakers were doing it for the medal ( = if you only did one map, maybe it was because of the medals, if you've done more than 20 maps, I think you like doing it and the medal is kinda irrelevant).
Sure enough I might be wrong, but really I don't believe any one in my clan would stop playing clans game if you were to remove all clans medals forever.
Are we happy to have them ? Yes, and I totally agree with you it is really nice to be able to see what war we won. But actually that is what matter, replace medals by a nice list of all the wars we won and we'd be just as happy as with the medals. Current clan war tab kinda does it already. I mean what matter is the memory of the achievement , not the medal. And for many I'd assume neither matter, they just enjoy competitive team games.

So for example, concerning clans, only 15 players maxed out clans medals. That doesnt seems much to me. And mainly 2 clans are concerned, OSA and TNC. Maybe you do have information that I don't concerning them, but is it really the absence of medals that is killed TNC and is reducing activity at OSA and not just that those are old clans with old players that are just not into CC anymore ?

Btw, this argument works for and against that suggestion. It means it would be quite easy for the CDs to issue the missing medals if this suggestion was implemented, because there are very few players concerned (15). So totally doable.

Looking at tournament achievement, you've got 55 players with 30 medals, 25 with 31 medals and 4 players with more than that.
84 players concerned.

For mapmaking achievement, actually no one is concerned.

For tournament organization you go 40 players with 30 medals, 27 with 31 medals, 10 with 32 medals, 7 with 33 medals and 5 with 34 medals.
This one would probably be very tedious to do if we were willing to research all of it, especially because of all the people with 32,33 and 34 medals.



CatchersMitt14 wrote:You're selectively reading my argument yet again so nice try. I know I'm speaking about tournaments specifically in my post as that was the example I picked. It's an example, examples don't cover all of the scenarios they illustrate them. Now extrapolate my example through all the departments and you have the real issue.


After having a look at it, seems to me IcePack is right. It is only a problem for tournaments.
The only other departments concerned is clan department and they only have 15 players to care about, with a clan tabs already listing all the wars.



I slightly changed my mind while writing my post.
I think only few peoples are concerned, and after having a look at it, many of them already quit CC anyways. BUT, people concerned by this suggestions are some of the most active CC players, obviously, thus making more activity than the average players. So even if only few are concerned, this is important.

Concerning fairness for number of medals, I didn't really understand that :
In order to satisfy the current thought / desire / set up to have the medal scoreboard being "fair" (whatever that means) from category to category, a medal weight calculation can be made for the medal scoreboard in lieu of the current restricting maximum medals (I won't make this calculation attempt, as it should be a separate suggestion since I'm not keen nor understanding of the current desire for weighted "fair" medals, someone else should lead that effort)


I think there must be easier ways to do it. Just count the medal like we are doing it now ( so 30 medals up to 30 tournaments won/organized, 1 for 50 1 for 100 and 1 for 200) but do issue all of them. So that if I click on a player wall, instead of having 30 medals for each tournament, then 31 for 50, 32 for 100 etc, I have all the tournaments. But they dont add up to the total of medals.
That way the achievement is visible on someone wall, they can have the link to all the tournaments they ever organized/won on their wall, but their medals counts isn't incredibly inflated.

That or either make medals counts exclude all medals but the ones that follow the bronze/silver/gold/platinum pattern.
Would be much better imo.
Exclude challenge achievement, tournament achievement, general contributions, clan war, tribe achievement, mapmaking contribution, tournament organizing, general achievement from the total medals.
This way we have a medal counts only taking into account the "settings medals" ( dunno how to call them), and on each person wall, we do have the real total number of tournaments wons, clan wars wons, tournaments organized.
Fair for everyone.
Actually I do find it quite unfair that people at the tops of the medals counts are currently people with 30 tournaments won, 30 tournaments organized and many clans wars, rather than people that are full platinum, which is way more of an achievement.



Now concerning the problem of the tons of works for admins / volunteer to issue the medals.
Well let's just ignore it alltogether.
We remove the tiers FROM NOW ON. And for the players that are still active and have more than 30 tournaments organized/wons, they can get the medals if they make the research themselves, then send a pm with a link to each tournaments topic that they've won/organized. Problems solved for the volunteers and the admins.
Anyway most people that are above the limits are inactive.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby IcePack on Sun May 06, 2018 9:17 am

Donelladan wrote:
IcePack wrote:Currently there are entire clans that have basically maxed out and will likely never receive another medal, thereby basically killing the activity of the clan
Currently there are map makers who have 30+ who stopped making maps because they stopped getting medals for them
Currently there are tournament organizers who maxed out and have no incentive to continue making new unique tournaments for the community


I am really doubtful about that part of your argument.
First because I don't think that many players are concerned, second because I'd be surprised to know that clans players play for the medal, or that the most prolific mapmakers were doing it for the medal ( = if you only did one map, maybe it was because of the medals, if you've done more than 20 maps, I think you like doing it and the medal is kinda irrelevant).
Sure enough I might be wrong, but really I don't believe any one in my clan would stop playing clans game if you were to remove all clans medals forever.
Are we happy to have them ? Yes, and I totally agree with you it is really nice to be able to see what war we won. But actually that is what matter, replace medals by a nice list of all the wars we won and we'd be just as happy as with the medals. Current clan war tab kinda does it already. I mean what matter is the memory of the achievement , not the medal. And for many I'd assume neither matter, they just enjoy competitive team games.

So for example, concerning clans, only 15 players maxed out clans medals. That doesnt seems much to me. And mainly 2 clans are concerned, OSA and TNC. Maybe you do have information that I don't concerning them, but is it really the absence of medals that is killed TNC and is reducing activity at OSA and not just that those are old clans with old players that are just not into CC anymore ?

Btw, this argument works for and against that suggestion. It means it would be quite easy for the CDs to issue the missing medals if this suggestion was implemented, because there are very few players concerned (15). So totally doable.

Looking at tournament achievement, you've got 55 players with 30 medals, 25 with 31 medals and 4 players with more than that.
84 players concerned.

For mapmaking achievement, actually no one is concerned.

For tournament organization you go 40 players with 30 medals, 27 with 31 medals, 10 with 32 medals, 7 with 33 medals and 5 with 34 medals.
This one would probably be very tedious to do if we were willing to research all of it, especially because of all the people with 32,33 and 34 medals.



CatchersMitt14 wrote:You're selectively reading my argument yet again so nice try. I know I'm speaking about tournaments specifically in my post as that was the example I picked. It's an example, examples don't cover all of the scenarios they illustrate them. Now extrapolate my example through all the departments and you have the real issue.


After having a look at it, seems to me IcePack is right. It is only a problem for tournaments.
The only other departments concerned is clan department and they only have 15 players to care about, with a clan tabs already listing all the wars.



I slightly changed my mind while writing my post.
I think only few peoples are concerned, and after having a look at it, many of them already quit CC anyways. BUT, people concerned by this suggestions are some of the most active CC players, obviously, thus making more activity than the average players. So even if only few are concerned, this is important.

Concerning fairness for number of medals, I didn't really understand that :
In order to satisfy the current thought / desire / set up to have the medal scoreboard being "fair" (whatever that means) from category to category, a medal weight calculation can be made for the medal scoreboard in lieu of the current restricting maximum medals (I won't make this calculation attempt, as it should be a separate suggestion since I'm not keen nor understanding of the current desire for weighted "fair" medals, someone else should lead that effort)


I think there must be easier ways to do it. Just count the medal like we are doing it now ( so 30 medals up to 30 tournaments won/organized, 1 for 50 1 for 100 and 1 for 200) but do issue all of them. So that if I click on a player wall, instead of having 30 medals for each tournament, then 31 for 50, 32 for 100 etc, I have all the tournaments. But they dont add up to the total of medals.
That way the achievement is visible on someone wall, they can have the link to all the tournaments they ever organized/won on their wall, but their medals counts isn't incredibly inflated.

That or either make medals counts exclude all medals but the ones that follow the bronze/silver/gold/platinum pattern.
Would be much better imo.
Exclude challenge achievement, tournament achievement, general contributions, clan war, tribe achievement, mapmaking contribution, tournament organizing, general achievement from the total medals.
This way we have a medal counts only taking into account the "settings medals" ( dunno how to call them), and on each person wall, we do have the real total number of tournaments wons, clan wars wons, tournaments organized.
Fair for everyone.
Actually I do find it quite unfair that people at the tops of the medals counts are currently people with 30 tournaments won, 30 tournaments organized and many clans wars, rather than people that are full platinum, which is way more of an achievement.



Now concerning the problem of the tons of works for admins / volunteer to issue the medals.
Well let's just ignore it alltogether.
We remove the tiers FROM NOW ON. And for the players that are still active and have more than 30 tournaments organized/wons, they can get the medals if they make the research themselves, then send a pm with a link to each tournaments topic that they've won/organized. Problems solved for the volunteers and the admins.
Anyway most people that are above the limits are inactive.


You said you are doubtful of my argument, but quoted a part where i listed 3 facts about people being maxed out. That isn't really an argument?

The number of people it deals with being small is irrelevant, as time goes on more and more will reach that threshold. In a way, we should be lucky that some of the most active people are just now coming up to the threshold because if more had, we might see more drastic departures.

Qwert has specifically told me he stopped doing maps because of a medal issue. He had multiple ones in development when he left. So while thats just one mapmaker, again...its highly relevant (especially since we have almost none at this point).

Clan tab lists clan accomplishments, but medals is where you can showcase your personal involvement. Not everyone is apart of every war, some change clans, some are apart of one cup, but not the next etc. So medals are the only way to showcase what we've accomplished on a personal level.

Do you think its pure coincidence that the two busiest clans suddenly were less interested when their achievements stopped being recognized? Even if it was not the "killing" blow, do you want it to be a contributing factor to people leaving when we have less and less each year? Do we want experienced players leaving? You might not be interested in medals, but there are definitely people who are.

Personally, I care about medals, but not a "medal hunter". There are definitely people who care more about them then I, but what would matter to me is these achievements were no longer recognized and able to be viewed. So even tho I LOVE clans, they literally are the ONLY reason I stay on the site, and something I've poured HOURS into, why would I stay once I can't receive a medal for clans? For my clan mates, sure. But if winning the Cup no longer means anything because I can't view my personal accomplishment, why would I be staying? It would only be a matter of time before I too, would go.

Right now, its "only" about 100 people (15 clan, 84 tournament). "only" 100 of the sites most active clan and tournament people who were so active they hit the ceiling and as you already highlighted, have very low retention rates beyond that. How many others are coming up to the cap? How many more do we want to leave? Right now, 15 people is almost an entire clan being maxed out of medals / leaving. With only 21 ranked clans, thats a HUGE problem to deincentivize whole groups of two clans (+ more coming in the future) and its not like Community Tournament system is thriving here, do we want more of them to go?

Its not just about how many qualify now, but how many will soon qualify in the future?

I don't mind your alternative regarding keeping it the same but counting counting on the walls, but I think excluding medals and only counting "setting medals" is not the way to go for medal scoreboard. You think its more of an achievement, but the idea behind it was showcasing whose involved in different areas, etc not just plays all the settings.

And no, doing it from here on out is not the way to go. Again, if you don't want to do the work thats fine. There will be others willing to do it, so "the level of work" shouldn't be a concern / excuse not to do it right.
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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby Mad777 on Sun May 06, 2018 9:35 am

I think you are still underestimate the amount of work, it nice that you know people willing to help but I'm not quite sure those folks have a picture of the amount of work, also, and if this is going to start, then you know you can't stop until all medals are awarded...what about if some of your helper decide to stop and found that to be too much work and now you are with a suggestion in work but not completed and unfortunately can't find anyone to take over but you?

Now, and to explain why I maintain my thoughts about the workload, take the Hall of fame and check how many members have more than 30 on the board (both, organizer and winner), but this is not it, you will have to found player will less than 30 count as well because you have to count the auto tournament that does show in the member's wall but not in the Hall of Fame.

Exemple: (50 players showing per page)
Page 2 blonderic shows 29 medals so you think you won't have to deal with this account, wrong answer because his wall shows he already has the 30 count because he won some Auto Tournaments, so the next step is now using the tournament finder and put "blonderic" into the winner field and see how much Casual Tournament he has won (system shows 29 and match the Hall of fame), then repeating the same action using the Auto Tournament tab (shows 3 tournament that has tournament achievement as a trophy), now with the Auto Tournament you could find member with perhaps 15 or more Auto Tournament wins but only part are giving Tournament achievement medal, therefore you will have to scroll throughout the whole list and manually count how much AT should count.
When the above is done you add both numbers and compare with the wall and add medals accordingly, if you use the casual tournament edit page then you can automatically add the medal by checking the box for the winner only, but for the Auto Tournament you will have to make a manual entry (when I said manual entry, I'm talking about writing the correct verbiage that include the tournament link).
So with just the above exemple I used a member that you may not even think about since his count from the Hall of fame are under the 30 threshold and you may assume he is good, but he is in fact not, therefore how many player under the 30 count are part of this deal?

Note: I don't even talk about the issue you may face seeing empty spot on the player wall, meaning a medal has been award but you can't see which tournament was, the only way to rectify this issue first is to records all tournament wins using the both tournament finder tab and compare what the wall says, then you add what is missing (refer Dukasaur's wall, check the tournament achievement and you will notice 3 medals I've issued in February 2017), if you are curious to know how it look when the issue is visible then go on merch313's wall and go in the Tournament Contribution section and watch for the last 4 entries, they all 4 look the same and are duplicate, because at some point merch didn't receive a TO medal 3 times so the next tournament that he received it for duplicated the the award as many as to fill the gap...For this issue I started to review and tried to rectified the best way but again he has 400+ tournament organized and I have to found which one should be seen to fill the gap of 3 missing tournament....how many hours you think this will take? Forever...and that "forever" means for someone who dealt with tournament research and know were to go and what to look for.

Again, I'm not trying to be negative against this suggestion but demonstrating you may open more than just "a can or worms", and seriously I doubt webmaster will let this one start anyway because he knows what it would take to erase the past and make 1 trophy for one win with no limit.

Now since we are speaking about the medal I also want to say that we have now started to see that new Event medal for Challenge but not going retro actively to award for past Challenge? That should be a fix and perhaps more easy to deal with since this new medal has been awarded for 2 Challenge so far and you won't have to deal with any given tier.

To refer to the medal scoreboard and the way your suggestion is leaning toward, you will have to not only think weighing between medal type, but maybe weighing within a single medal type, if we are talking to put weigh on some medal versus other then this should apply internaly within a medal type but the issue is you win the same tournament medal for any given size of a tournament so how would you weigh it? Same between medal type, how will weigh between a Tournament medal and a Clan medal for instance, or between Clan medal that was award winning a Clan war or winning a the Conqueror Cup.

(As I side note I have ask webmaster to merge both tournament type into the hall of fame but never get an answer)

As a bottom line and not trying to be mean at all, I can't have tournament group spending time on this, to my own opinion if time need to be spend on something that big then have the same people helping webmaster fixing what is already broken within this site :lol:

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Re: Removal of Medal Tiers

Postby IcePack on Sun May 06, 2018 9:46 am

Ok, you win. Don’t know why I bother sometimes
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