Poniverse Staff Fiddling & Member Badge Edits

[NavelColt 22,883]

Just two relatively minor notes.
 
Feld0, don't you have enough donut fetchers already?
More Poniverse staff? More Poniverse staff. But this time, it's a new position.
 
With BronyCon right on our doorstep next week however, it's hardly surprising. Once that convention hits, and this site of ours and the concept of Poniverse take off to fellow bronies all over the interwebz, quickly becoming reality, we will suddenly find ourselves in a very busy situation; probably nothing we've yet encountered thus far. A more intricate network of newbs to fetch slippers and mocha coolattas for people is going to be a must.
 
In actuality, most of these new promotions are specifically staff for Ice Storm's new RP project that got announced earlier, but we can use them as mules anyway. It'll be fine.
 
At any rate, read Ice's topic if you haven't already The promotions of these new folks are detailed there.
 
Adding to that, C# (better known as rainbovv dash) has joined us as a developer and Jamiequadbike as our lead designer for all things Poniverse.
 
Now let's get to the really fun stuff.
 
I enjoy the shiny.
In the past, numerous times in fact, people have suggested new badge icons, as well as the removal of certain other icons. While there's little doubt that badges are hardly a top priority, there is also the fact that, the set we've used until now is slightly dusty in it's entirety. People may remember a poll topic that was had a short while back, asking people's opinions about the duel Brony badges (the second of which no one has yet to even obtain ). These two topics combined, have lead to a few changes to our badge system And just in time for BronyCon, as well.
 
First off, the two brony badges have been removed entirely. The vast majority of pollers either didn't like them, or had no fucks to give on the matter. Our theme goes from items to animals to ponies; all in-show elements, so, cancelling out these two tail-end badges that were fandom-related actually makes some sense.
 
Secondly, the following badges have been added.
 

 

 

 
All badges were made by Jokuc, who's style is so very polished that I dare say he's perfectly replicated Nico's original badges Thanks a lot, man!
 
The new ranking order will now go as follows:
 
Blank Flank (0) > Muffin (5) > Cupcake (40) > Parasprite (100) > Butterfly (200) > Squirrel (300) > Bunny (400) > Bird (600) > Phoenix (800) > Dragon (1000) > Changeling (1200) > Pony (1500) > Crystal Pony (3000) > Pegasus (5000) > Unicorn (7000)
 
Point amounts have been altered slightly, but not a terrible amount. While adding these new badges is something cool to have updated, completely revamping the system is neither needed nor optimal, in my opinion :3 It's still a great setup, and I also feel jostling amount and thus post count requirement too much would just be a misstep. Feel free to voice any thoughts on point value spacing; I tried to be fairly even and symmetrical with the rhythm. Sure, the line ends at 7000, but all I continued to see from the Certified Brony badge was 'it's rather high'. Perhaps in the future something else can be implemented to follow that up :3
 
Closing thought: 'Griffon' was a fourth and final badge I considered adding as well (made by Marcato), but I decided against it. As I mentioned earlier, our hierarchy, overall, goes from pony (or, a term for a pony, really), to items (food), to animals, to ponies (Changelings count as ponies because of their appearance). Griffon however isn't any of these three existing categories. I felt that, while the Griffon badge looks very nice, it wouldn't fit with the badge pattern we've established. Marcato agreed with me on the matter, but, for those interested in seeing the prototype for it yourselves, check out his post in the first linked topic regarding badge addition suggestions :3
 
Thanks for reading <3
 

[Princess Periwinkle 3,777]

New badges > 

 

Oh and by the way this is so exciting and I'm so excited and wow yes! Poniverse... My body is ready. Also, I'm just about to enter the "epic" badges, with the phoenix, the dragon, and such.

 

Good work, badge artist/s!

Edited July 27, 2013 by Sky Chaser

[Sir.Flutter Hooves 2,953]

I'm actually really glad you guys changed the member badges. I especially love the Changeling ones, and I do think it would have been to hard to get a Certified Brony. One question though, what if someone has over 7000 posts, will they keep the unicorn or will another badge be made for them?

 

[Shiki 5,857]

I am now extremely motivated to reach 1000 posts. Me want Dragon.

 

Jokuc should do more things for the site. He's actually good at things he does.

 

I really wish we could find something for 10000 posts again, though. Leaving the highest at 7000 makes my eye twitch, because awkward number.

[Blue Moon 6,345]

I like how the space between each badge is a bit more balanced now. The new badges look great as well. I really like the Crystal Pony one. It's so pretty. Excellent job, Jokuc.

[DND 2,355]

Wow? No Brony stuff? Was the Certified Brony badge to hard to achieve? XD

 

Anyways...

 

Frick'in awesome. Jokuc. Your badges got promoted, man! 

[Miss Light Diamond 2,803]

Sniff...sniff...g-g-goodbye being a B-B-B-Brony 

 

I'm joking.
In all seriousness, I missed that "Oh look i'm the next badge" Thing so this is quite exciting.
I quite like this idea and had no idea any new badge stuff was being planned so this was a pleasant surprise 

[~The Snowy Wolf~ 1,579]

Aww! But I was gonna work my way up to having that silver "Certified Brony" badge! Oh well... I guess I'll just have to get over it and get used to it

 

EDIT: And this brings me back down to a pony again?!?! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Edited July 27, 2013 by ~Shadow Wolf~

[Scootalove 10,692]

Well, now we see why we have extra badges for the members. They look pretty stylish, luckily the staff members have their criticism shields ready just in case that a war starts to break out. I actually like the newly added badges.

 

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE A CHANGELING MOMMY D: Seriously though, the new badges are awesome and I absolutely adore the crystal pony one.

[ProjectRKA 2,848]

I actually like these new badges. Nice work, Jokuc... but I hate the fact that I just got degraded to a dusty old pony... why would you do that ?

 

 

-Oh well... still got my bronycon badge, so that makes up for it.

[Marcato 2,144]

Gaaaaah dammit. 

 

Well there goes being a Pegasus. :I I'm going to be stuck as a pony for a loooooong time.

 

In other news, for those too lazy to track down the 'prototype' of the griffon badge, here's the work of crappy art in the flesh(?)

 

 

The other reason it wasn't used is because the anti-aliasing was a pain, and it still looks pixelated. (Maybe my program is bad with it.) I didn't want this thing on here as a badge. Of course, the biggest reason is still that it doesn't really fit. ^_^"

[Jokuc 8,175]

inb4 hate comment on my badges

love them or else

 

SURPRISE!

 

Well at first I did not really care much about new badges but now when they're added I am kind of excited xD

 

I made this thingy as my new siggy too wooo it's an edited ver..

 

wait does this mean that I am a unicorn again? BOOYAH

 

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And well I recently came home from the UK, London and from the Airport.

 

ME: *comes home from le airport*
CD: "JOKUCJOKUCJOKUC MAKE LE BADGEZ FOR DA FORUMZZZZ NAOOO"
Me: "But I am tired and I need candy ._. "
 

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we need a 10 000 badge

Edited July 27, 2013 by Jokuc

[repsol rave 2,963]

looks amazing! great work jokuc :3

also, i have no idea how much posts i was away from becoming something else, but now i know that i'm pretty damn far away from becoming a phoenix :/

anyway, nice to see something fresh

[Flutter's lover <3 8,210]

This is cool. The ladder looks to be more balanced out now between the different badges. But now I feel as if I'll never reach Pegasus. This saddens Fluttershy.

 

 

 

 

[fimdash 1,197]

These new badges are pretty nice. I kind of miss the brony badge though but oh well. Liking the whole Equestria theme, so I understand why the two brony badges had to go. I like how the gap between badges aren't super distant from one another (it was pretty ridiculous how far away certified brony was from brony), and now the users who had the brony badge will have new ranks to look forward to. Oh yeah, it's kind of funny how some users will have to earn their old badge again XD

 

One downfall though is that the pony ranks are a little high. We're barely going to have any unicorns or pegasus ponies around here now D: The previous post amounts were nice because we had a good amount of pony badges around, but now they're going to be a lot rarer.

[long gone 8,929]

I don't think there were any Certified Bronies so nothing of value was really lost by removing that badge.

 

The new badges look great. They definitely fit in better with the rest of the badges.

[Mailmare 979]

Inadequate. I see no Robot Pony badge, here. Why must everyone always discriminate against bot ponies? We have feelings too.

[Moon Rat 4,773]

Aww, but i liked being pink, fluffy, and adorable

 

Now I'm big brutish and scaly (not that it's a bad thing... i just liked being adorable more...)

 

HOW AM I EVER GOINT T-- *sees the post scale* oh...

okay...

 

I can do that :3

[Azura 1,107]

I used to be a Pegasus, until the Staff decided to mess around with the amount of posts needed.

 

To be honest, I'm quite happy with the current badge update, especially when it encourages me to start posting some more so I don't have to stay as a Pony anymore.

 

Good job Jokuc, the style of the Crystal Pony badge is exactly the same compared to the other Pony badges!

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Well I'm glad to see more badges were added, I always said there was way too big a gap in between brony and certified brony. However, I think that instead of changing the number of posts needed for pegasus and unicorn, those should have just been left alone, and the new badges should have just been added after the brony badge. So everything would be the same except there would be more badges after brony now. That would make a lot more sense to me than mixing everything around.

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Also, another thing. I'm basically gonna be working my way up to badges that I already had in the past...that just seems silly. I would rather have new badges to work up to, not ones I already had :/

[Ihei 714]

Oh, that's great! Now I could look forward to being a Dragon. :3 *sigh* Well, it's going to take a while.. Well, I'm happy about the badge changes. It was next to impossible to get certified Brony, though. At least that's taken out.

[Starshine 16,335]

By the great gods! Now I have to spam 4000 posts to be reunited with my lovely unicorn badge

 

4000 posts is no small amount... I guess I'll have to start posting right away

[Jokuc 8,175]

Also, another thing. I'm basically gonna be working my way up to badges that I already had in the past...that just seems silly. I would rather have new badges to work up to, not ones I already had :/

 

I do agree with you, I would have wanted the other badges after our current ones. Though I understand the mods because it seems logical to go from Creatures to Ponies. And eh, whatever it is just a picture below your avatar Look at your old-new badge with other eyes when you get them