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  • BillionYrBunker

    I like your droid art. It's on the empathetic-anthropomorphic side of the uncanny valley like an R2-D2 or Johnny 5. It'll be cool to see it integrated into your game!

  • Perhaps moderators could remove tutorials, too. I think the devs are probably enjoying a much-deserved weekend at the moment, which is why the junk from Maksvir is still there, and I haven't seen them or any of the mods today.

  • Wrangler,

    I recall Tom and Ashley have said to PM them if there's something really going wrong. I don't want to spam their inboxes, so maybe you could drop them a note since you spotted it first?

  • I can update this thread as I learn more about the unpublished gamification elements.

    Rep for Site Activities

    -- All Badges = Current Listed Rep x 2

    -- Site Comment = 5 Rep

    -- Up or Down-voting Someone Else's Comment = 1 Rep

    -- Being Up-voted by Someone Else = +10 Rep (observed 2013/03/23)

    -- Being Down-voted by Someone Else = -5 Rep

    -- Forum Post = 2 Rep

    -- Posting a functional link = 500 Rep

    -- Creating a forum signature = 350 Rep

    -- Posting a Game = ?

    -- Posting a Tutorial = ?

    -- Editing a Tutorial = 5 Rep (?)

    -- Your Tutorial is Favorited = ?

    -- Your Tutorial Receives a Comment = ?

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    Any time you know for certain you'll be unable to complete a streak, you need to immediately skip a day so you can reset.

    EXAMPLE: You're on a 40-day streak, and need 60 more days to earn the Fanatic badge, but learn that in two weeks you have a business trip which will take you out of contact for a day. What do you do? Since you know you can't make it 100 days and won't earn any additional rep or badges until then, you must skip a day within the next four days, because instead of two weeks which don't count for anything, you'll have earned an additional Devotee badge. Likewise, if you have that same business trip in 23 days, you know you can't earn a Dedicated (30-day badge) in that time frame, so you need to interrupt your streak twice, earning two additional Devotee badges.

    Post below with comments, corrections, or additions!

  • I'm posting the information I've acquired in it's own thread, Pimp Your Rep: Site Secret Edition so it isn't buried under the limitation of Fanatic/Religious.

  • That's awesome! Much thanks.

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  • Tom, Ashley, or another experienced member,

    Once you've achieved Fanatic or Religious Updater, do you have to skip a day of visiting the site or skip an update to reset the counter, so you can work back through Updater/Dedicated Updater/Religious Updater and Devotee/Dedicated/Fanatic?

    I noticed that after I hit Fanatic, I didn't receive an additional Devotee award after 10 days.

    Having just hit Religious Updater, if it works the way the Fanatic path appears to, I need to skip an update so I can reset the badge chain. (I "accidentally" installed today's update, so whoops.)

    Thanks!

  • Hey, there's a new tab!

    All Tutorials

    ... and you can see a gold star by the ones you've favorited. Thanks, guys!

    --Closed Thread--

  • Hey, there's a new tab!

    All Tutorials

    ... and you can see a gold star by the ones you've favorited. Thanks, guys!

  • Hey, there's a new tab!

    All Tutorials

    ... and you can see a gold star by the ones you've favorited. Thanks, guys!

  • +1

  • Tom commented in the other thread that they're still working to revamp the tutorials section.

  • Thanks for the inspiration, Jorge. I think living up to our dreams is something a lot of us wrestle with. Being here is a step in the right direction. =)

  • I like it. =) I could put it on the projector and fall asleep in less than the time you took to make it!

  • Sounds good! Is there anything we should start doing now as we're writing new tutorials, to better integrate with the coming changes?