This is off topic, but how do medals work? I've been playing for 4(?) years and have never been able to grant them.
In my experience, you can begin granting medals when you have at least 5 of one type (if you've got 5 trust medals, you can grant trust medals, but not other types). At this low level, you can only grant to non-realmmates though. At a higher amount (10? higher?), you can also grant medals to realmmates. Looking at your family page, you only have one medal total, so that would explain why you can't grant any medals.
Recently, code has been implemented to replenish your medal giving supply over time. Previously, if you ran out of medals to give you had to wait until you were given new medals.
I've been able to give out medals of a particular type after receiving two of them.
Interesting. I have 2 fun medals and haven't had the option to give any away. There's probably a bit of other factors to fuzz the numbers I've noticed, but I think they're a decent guideline.
That would mean that your best chance at getting medals lies in messaging people from other realms. That correlates with how I've earned medals in the past -- on both occasions it was by sending roleplay messages to foreigners. I shall have to do that more frequently in the future methinks.
Quote from: Kwanstein on August 24, 2013, 11:26:01 PM
That would mean that your best chance at getting medals lies in messaging people from other realms. That correlates with how I've earned medals in the past -- on both occasions it was by sending roleplay messages to foreigners. I shall have to do that more frequently in the future methinks.
All the more reason to join as many guilds and religions as your characters can.
Quote from: Kai on August 25, 2013, 09:10:14 AM
who cares about medals
isn't the whole point about not actively trying to get them or acknowledging them?
The discussion is about solving the low number of players/characters. Earning medals is one way for a player to increase his character limit.
It's one of the ways which takes so long that it's basically irrelevant for short term retention.
Quote from: Kai on August 25, 2013, 09:40:42 AM
It's one of the ways which takes so long that it's basically irrelevant for short term retention.
Correct, hence the talk about possible ways to increase medals distribution to make it easier for players to increase their character limit sooner.
Quote from: Kai on August 25, 2013, 11:17:48 AM
That's historically incorrect, the off topic medal discussion began:
Kai, it seems like you're trying to pick a fight. Medals have been mentioned several times in this thread prior to the posting you quoted. Instead of crapping on what other people say, why not come with some constructive ideas?
Quote from: Kai on August 25, 2013, 11:17:48 AM
It's also logically incoherent because noble limit is much more important than active limit.
Thank you, this is an important point you make. It wouldn't help the character density problem to increase the character limit unless the
active character limit is also increased.
Quote from: Vita on August 24, 2013, 11:19:27 PM
Interesting. I have 2 fun medals and haven't had the option to give any away. There's probably a bit of other factors to fuzz the numbers I've noticed, but I think they're a decent guideline.
I have one fun medal, I have given one fun medal recently and can still give another :). How that works, I really couldn't say.
I don't know whether it would matter or not, but I also have 7 trust and 1 roleplaying.
Pretty sure I would be competing for least medals per time played.
Beat 6 years and no medal.
Quote from: trying on August 26, 2013, 04:28:43 AM
Beat 6 years and no medal.
You need talk more with other players beside the usual group that you hang out with me think ;)
I have been playing since year 2009. Thus far I have like 6 Trust Medals, 2 Roleplaying Medals and 2 Fun Medals. Recently I started to give more Medals after being reminded on one of the forum posts somewhere. In my humble opinion, we should remind the players who have medals from time to time, to give out medals. Set a reminder or something rewarding those who give back to the game. In a way, we encourage the game interaction as without us talking with other players in the game, we will not simply give a medal to a player who we may even do not know about.
I played 6 years as a drone with 0 medals, the 6 medals i have now are all from 2013 when i decided to actually play the game
I've been playing the game since March this year. Basically I decided for a character concept and played them out. I had 2 nobles and 1 advy (who didn't get any interaction).
Just send letters to everyone, asking, small talk and write RP's. Open your mouth and stay In Character.
Since then I was awarded 7 RP medals, 1 Fun medal and 1 Trust medal. I try to encourage people with small OOC messages when I see a good letter or rp if I cannot give a medal myself. Other than that. Most of my content creation has been in the realm I have been part of with exception of a handful of guilds and 1 religion.
I am fiercely proud of each medal I am rewarded with and really feel like I'm going to stick around battlemaster.
Quote from: Renodin on August 26, 2013, 11:10:59 AM
I've been playing the game since March this year. Basically I decided for a character concept and played them out. I had 2 nobles and 1 advy (who didn't get any interaction).
Just send letters to everyone, asking, small talk and write RP's. Open your mouth and stay In Character.
Since then I was awarded 7 RP medals, 1 Fun medal and 1 Trust medal. I try to encourage people with small OOC messages when I see a good letter or rp if I cannot give a medal myself. Other than that. Most of my content creation has been in the realm I have been part of with exception of a handful of guilds and 1 religion.
I am fiercely proud of each medal I am rewarded with and really feel like I'm going to stick around battlemaster.
Yes - the medals are a reflection of how people value another person in their playing style. So if a person participates, then people will generally show their appreciation.
Even if you don't have time to write all the time, sometimes all it takes is an IC RP commenting on something odd (as opposed to OOC). For example, my character Berlas attempted to cast a scroll in Sale, and not a single person responded with an RP (yes, that was me :P). Btw, it gives a message something like "The sky turns dark and the ravens fly. Someone has failed in an attempt at magic."
As a different example, a bunch of peasants stopped two massive armies fighting in Atamara, and I wrote a shortish RP about it, and received something in return.