[Discussion] Custom title for Coliseum losers

[Coyote]

Perhaps instead of a string of "battle banners" or medals, you can simply accumulate, I don't know... levels or something. Or simply a rank. You get a "Freeman" bar, like a Senator bar for your first win, for your next win that's replaced with a "Yeoman" bar, next win it turns into something else, etc.

We can go with the Roman-esque titles or SW Imperial ranks keeping with the Star Destroyer theme.

Award bars that change with your "level" prevents people from collecting long obnoxious and difficult add-on images that clutter up the account and slow down 56k users.

Can we double-stack bars so that Senators, Governors, etc can be recognised for participation?

EDIT-- we can also come with an award system if people "level up" to a high degree, like maybe they get Edit ability at some point. Theoretically, someone who does consistently well is a person who's got their ducks in a row, and we can trust them with Edit ability.

[Mad]

I find myself in the camp that wants to see this on a case-by-case basis, be it reward or punishment.

If someone feels something should be done, perhaps an aftermath discussion thread can be started with a proposal and quotes to support said proposal. The reward/punishment discussion and vote could then continue just as any other measure is done here.

This brings up an issue we've discussed before-- is there a way that the board software can support "battle ribbons" or "medals" being displayed somewhere on a person's account, such as under their AV or as an accessory part of a sig banner?

Check out your "Senator" tag. That's the feature you're looking for. However, I don't know how many graphical tags each user can have.

[Coyote]

Check out your "Senator" tag. That's the feature you're looking for. However, I don't know how many graphical tags each user can have.

I was thinking along those lines. We've discussed this sort of thing before, from SIG banners and those avatar stars to little graphics.... but we never really found a answer.

[seanrobertson]

A question from the Peons:

Wicked sense of humor at work

Personally, I would rather see the winner rewarded with his Laurels than the loser jeered.

Any reason we can't do BOTH?

Servo's right.

I'm still firmly among the case-by-case crowd, in any case.

[NecronLord]

I would much rather give out positive rewards than negative ones - I don't want to put people off providing the rest of us with amusement if they're not certain of victory. A purely positive reward system (save perhaps for very poor showings like this first one?) seems to strike me as a better way to encourage the arena's use.

Perhaps some arena themed title-bars (though one wonders about mods and senators in this case) would be appropriate... Mirmillo, Retiarius, Thraces, Spartacus... etc.

[NecronLord]

If the Senate's all hardcore about giving out some medal or whatever, there is the precedent of Shep's little nuclear blast image under his CT and above his avatar. I don't know the mechanics of it, if it is tied into a CT or something, but it's there and wouldn't seem to interfere with the Senator/Governor ones.

Just worth passing on.

[Ghost Rider]

I say we put this one hold until we have a few more bouts.

The first one was an intelligent poster versus a teenage retard. If the pattern holds, then we can do a proper titling of the losers. If it doesn't then we can discuss a reward system.