You may have noticed that some BotBrs have a bunch of format icons next to their names in posts or on the profiles. These are the formats they have earned the right to host One Hour Battles in. You earn these particular badges by having 7 or more entries in the given format with scores of 20 or higher.

In the future I plan to use the format trophy icons to indicate different levels of achievement --

bronze : 7 entries w/ score > 20
silver: 25 entries w/ score > 20
gold: 50 entries w/ score > 20
platinum: 100 entries w/ score > 20

With higher achievements the host can do wilder things with the battle's duration or start time. We don't have platinum trophies yet! :P

The format icons might be looking a bit cluttered, but this is a starting point for badges. . .

BLARGLE!

shroom bearers unite!

maybe badge icons should have their own special color

or maybe one badge with a number that represents how many formats you can host with a mouse-over elaborating as things are getting a little cluttered.

I still don't understand what dividing the categories does.

If a person can be trusted to host one category, can't they be trusted to host the rest?

They can be trusted to earn the right to host more formats.

Just ask an admin to host an SMS battle if you can ensure there will be enough people participating.

You've only got 5 more SMS tunes scoring above 20 to go anyway~

Looks like I'm almost ready to host a remix battle again as of the time of this post. I just did a lookup for how many entries I have made that scored 20 or higher, and I'm close to being able to host for two of them. I have six for remix and five for allgear. The rest of them are one or two, with the exception of the spc format. I have three for SPC. s3xmodit and pixel tie for the most amount of non-qualifying entries for three, and not a single one of my pixel entries has made it above 20. I'm not exactly interested in hosting a pixel anyways...

Now they are scrunched together into a single blob! D:

the scrunching might not be much of a problem for categories like NSF/NSF+

you could keep similar formats scrunched in groups actually

I don't mind the scünci.

achievement unloqt

I approve! =o

egobooster for strobe

Hey! take a look at Chip Champions endless row! :D

I'M OK WITH THIS

The + in NSF+ gets hidden by the overlap a lot of the time. Maybe it would be prudent to move the + to the left, or stack the icons the other way? (Or who cares?)

The overlap has already bugged me to the point that I adblocked it. ;____;

put 'em in a <marquee> ;3

oh yeah ant1 that's not a bad idea
we could use our cursor to pause the marquee too

i honestly think it looked better when the badges weren't collapsed.

maybe have badges only collapse if you have say more than 10?

We could copy ucollective and have them expand upon mouse over :3
It would be totally annoying =D
marquee is a good idea as well!

*reads "<marquee>"* *falls down an abyss while shouting NOOOOOOHOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOOOOOHOOoohooohoh*

But, what about <blink> and dancingbaby.gif?

bug: begast button does not show up on homepage for me, even though i am an admin (because i have no badges ;__;)

Strobe you are a very hateful man


earlier i had the idea that entries with between ten and twenty points should count for 0.5 (or another number) entries and entries with more than 30 points should count for 2 (or another number) entries

this is to allow mediocre but non-troll composers to make slow but steady progress to formatdom, and to accelerate the rise to superstardom of the bestest goodest creamiest musicians

xterm liked it How about you?

also - perhaps 20 is too high of a point cutoff? perhaps 18 is better? or maybe entries between 15-20 count as half, and entries with scores above 30 count double? here are some relevant chat logs:

[15:33] < notnowbernard> 20 seems a bit high
[15:33] < notnowbernard> there are a lot of times when people have made a genuine effort and gotten much less than 20
[15:33] <@xterm> yeah if he lowered it to 18 i think i could host s3xmodit haha
[15:33] <@Jangler> i agree that 20 seems a bit high
[15:34] < notnowbernard> maybe entries with between 10 and 20 points should count for half an entry
[15:34] < notnowbernard> or something
[15:34] < notnowbernard> and entries with 30+ points should count for two entries
[15:34] <@xterm> notnowbernard: something like that could be good actually
[15:34] <@xterm> especially for the 'gold' 'platinum' thing etc
[15:35] <@xterm> like doing REALLY good entries should get you there faster
[15:35] <@xterm> e.g. coda
[15:35] <@xterm> who gets >30 like half the time haha
[15:35] < notnowbernard> yeah
[15:35] < notnowbernard> and doing mediocre entries shouldn't prevent you from ever getting there
[15:35] <@xterm> right
[15:35] < notnowbernard> it should just take longer
[15:35] <@xterm> yeah i like that

I like this concept. It changes from an entry count to format experience points (or something like that). I'll have to play around with it; might have to adjust the achievement metal requirements.

I like ant1's idea.

(Though I still liked the unrestricted hosting better Q_Q.)

Grumskiz, I'd love your post, if I could! <3

I like this idea!!

Perhaps being voted somewhere in the extremely low regions (about 5-10 points) should count for -1 entries in order to deter trolls further.

More troll punishment. I like it!

I think it's a good idea, because more than 90% of all the troll entries get a score higher than 10 points anyway. If it's a troll entry that people appreciate, it shouldn't get punished. ( 'w')

ye can now track badge progress on the joogle

hey i was just wondering how badges were ordered, it seems to be random.

shouldnt it either be alphabetical or ranked left to right by badge progress? ranking would make more sense once badge trophies are implemented