Achievements with levels, page 1

would you guys like to achieve stuff on tribalmixes?

there can be literally a million of different things to achieve and ways to get there..

(@mb i know we talked and you sent back but that was kinda narrow, this is vast and huge)

here's what i'm having in mind... and the list must be populated, please, add things!!

several groups of things:

1. Being on the site (visiting, clicking, claiming, browsing, time on site, user for 5 days/20/etc - initial stupid achievements)

2. Downloading things (numbers, amounts, per week, per day, simultaneous dl, speeds, etc)

3. Uploading things (up speed, per day/week/etc,  )

4. Sharing new torrents (per day/week/etc, get rated, get commented, have them liked so many times, etc)

5. Forum Posting/Commenting/Rating things (amounts per day/week/etc, starting topics, first comment on torrent, etc)

6. eventually submitting the tracks and embeds into the enjoy-system (amounts/charts reached/etc)

7. dj list editing (new djs/edited/etc per day/week/etc)

8. what do you think about?

so let's look at 2. downloading, for example, quick ideas.. and each one has, for example, 5 levels of achievement, rewarded with bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamond medals, badges, etc... i will use a 1/2/3/4/5 increasing abbreviation.

2. DOWNLOADING

1. total downloads of 100MB for level 1 bronze, 1GB - silver, 50GB for gold, 1TB for platinum, 5TB for diamond.

2. number of downloaded torrents: 10/100/1k/10k/100k - so 100 thousand torrents needs to be downloaded to get diamond downloader badge, almost impossible, but maybe not....

3. download in 24 hours 100MB/1GB/10GB/50GB/100GB (or easier have tham many downloaded data post in your account in one 24hr period)

4. same for 10 days with 10x limits.

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this will require alot of thinking.. i hope maybe you guys are interested in this?

and when it's in place, we could do all kinds of amazing things for engagement, and i mean, for example, set up different experience levels, say with 10 bronze badges you are baby, with 15 silver badges - toddler, with 20 gold badges - you're insider, etc... have one never-achievable one, like have 1 diamond badge in each group, or say have Platinum downloader badge, diamond poster, etc - become some cool fuck on here, etc, etc, etc...

Pretome runs something similar to this, of course not as in depth as what you outline below Slash. Their basis is around amount shared and amount downloaded, with time on the site taken into consideration. Much like our power user status just there are many more levels.

I think this is a good idea and a relevant idea to engage newer members to the site. Gives people a sense of belonging, reward and something to look forward to and achieve. If that is what makes you tick? I imagine in will be a programming nightmare, but i am sure you are up to as you have mentioned it....

Is five levels enough? Yes....  Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond? mmmm i have given it some thought and can't come up with anything more catchy.... Something might come to me later....

Would a more validative idea be for a user to achieve the eight tasks to a minimum level to achieve a given status? For example you will need to achieve certain level of 1 through to 8 or whatever we decide. It is about being all rounded not just strong in one field?

yeah, that's what i was talking about, it can be anything.. with multiple fields of achievements, then later we can make fun, for example, invent user classes, this is actually cool shit, look, for example... after reaching many many achievements with levels, and shit, users can pretend on SPECIAL ranks, and we could polish it up later, but, to start, we make up a cool rank, say, Heavy Seeder lets go with obvious, and break it into 8 or whatever conditions that correspond to our groups of achievements, and in this case we probably need like 2 platinum levels in seeding section, and also you either need to download to seed or to share your stuff, so you must have 2 golds in downloads OR 1 gold level in sharing. and maybe some time on site, something silver there or gold at least..

and similar things, like The Prophet, would need high rankings in submitting tracks, sharing torrents, posting and commenting, and also for example have 1 Diamond level in sharing torrents, something maybe from where your track has reached top 20 or whatnot.. something specific, so people would have complications reaching those extra rankings, but they will mark up some people nicely our of the crowd, just need to realize how to display all that next to the nickname, maybe in a popup... =) and of course in your user page all will be shown and explained. it can be a game, or whatever you call it, a race for the riches... maybe then i can sell it to facebook, the idea of broad achievements things.. well, it;s nothing really, it;s like grocery store software has to keep track of discounts on certain products bought together and similar bull..

but what i want US - THE TEAM - to do is to think on all of those groups of achievements and types in the groups..

where i am driving with this.. well.. we tried this, and that, and tightened rules and lax ones and no rules sometimes and unregistered downloads, and all kinds of new and old things, will never forgive myself for losing like 40% of visitors because i remade site using AJAX in 07.. anyways, lets make site fun and interesting to be and do stuff on, not just because it gives points to fix ratio, no, lets give points for points, and give badges for achievements, and see how that goes, and ratio-free system is good, but will eventually have nothing to work towards for the users.. so lets give them something to work for... =) will be funny if, for example, some special status moocowdan or i get for some super achievements, and some smart magic-the-gathering player who has mediocre stats still gets the right combination of achievements to get same status... hehe

so this is not interesting to anyone?

I don't think you should take the lack of responses as a sign that you shouldn't do it.  It is basically gamification of the site and it encourages people to do stuff on the site in exchange for rewards, but it has to be implemented by a "game master" like yourself.  If done well it should encourage more participation in the site which would be awesome.  

As a user I find myself striving for certain achievements that I would not have thought of from the perspective of "game master".  For example, this may sound lame to admit but right now I am anxious to score in the top 10 points leaders since I am so close -- less than 20k points to go.  

I know it is probably hard to keep the motivation to build such a thing when nobody wants to provide input and you don't get much out of it -- so I would totally understand if you are not motivated to implement it.  But if you can get motivated, I think it would be awesome based on what you have built here so far!

no motivation. i take a vacation from working on tribalmixes, to pursue other projects.