Here's an interesting idea I've scene on other forums. You build up a point base of some sort, in our case helpful points I suppose. And then use them to buy little things like mini avi's below you user info (so you could essentually have a dozen tiny icons below the my computer tab that you purchased with your points. Just stuff like popular logo's and game portraits etc. Here're two idea's I've scene on the PS3forum: and an example of the icon shop: I'm not saying we should rip off their idea but perhaps our own variations would make it a nice idea to further entice users to rack up those points.
That's a pretty good idea Ex I suppose the points base would have to be helpful points because if you were to use post points to buy items, it would encourage users to spam to get what they want.
We did have a shop feature like this a while back - I liked the idea a lot, and seeing that version I would even more so like to see it integrated, when there is sufficient time for our admins...but as you say change it a fair bit
I like the idea, use helpful points to buy stuff. I remember Sniper talking about a paid subscription service and maybe that could give you some points to spend in the store too? (plus it'd give you a way of supporting the running of the forum) Nice idea Ex, maybe for the paid users you could have a larger avatar size too.
I remember that, and that people did like it...at least what I remember of it, but we had stuff like a glowing name add on. It was based around posts
As pelvis rightly said, it should be based on helpful points - more insentive (sp) as posts can be spammed where as helpful points aren't. (assuming it was integrated)
Yeah it would have to be helpful points otherwise there may be a lot more spam here. Gotta also think about things like name colours, because Admins/Mods/News Crew would have to have their colours for them to be distinguished right? Also maybe a good idea for this would be the use of custom icons under titles? (just a thought)
Yeah that's a good idea Matt. I guess we'd have exclusive options for Admins, Mods, and Newscrew members to distinguish from blue and black members.
Like this Idea; everybody will start doing more research to get the solutions so they can get helpful points.
Also to add to this, maybe if this did get implemented along with that Member of the Month thing maybe the member of the month could be given credits for the 'store' and a custom colour for their name and a little icon under their name sayng they're member of the month.
That's a good idea Matt. We'll just have to finalize what the requirments would be for choosing the member of the month.
Well, store option can be done, but no icon shop, I simply don't want loads of images next to user names etc but maybe in the profile... Check these features, already implemented but not all would be used, if we decide to intsall the shop. 1) Change Username 2) Bold Username 3) Italic Username 4) Underline Username 5) Colored Username 6) Glow Username 7) Donate 8) Bold User Title 9) Italic User Title 10) Underline User Title 11) Colored User Title 12) Admin Donate 13) Bank 14) Change User Title 15) Change Others User Title 16) Thief 17) Thief Immunity 18) Change User Title Immunity 19) Sticky Thread 20) Unsticky Thread 21) Postcount Plus 50 22) Close Thread 23) Open Thread 24) Forum Access 25) Deny Forum Access 26) Give Forum Access 27) Give Gifts 28) Bump Thread 29) Debump Thread 30) Bypass Flood Control 31) Forum Password 32) Secondary Usergroup 33) See Deletion Notices 34) Primary Usergroup 35) Invisible Mode 36) Can See Invisible Users 37) Default Avatar 38) Change Others Default Avatar 39) Change Default Avatar Immunity 40) Remove Others Default Avatar 41) Remove Default Avatar Immunity 42) Custom Avatar 43) Change Others Custom Avatar 44) Change Custom Avatar Immunity 45) Remove Others Custom Avatar 46) Remove Custom Avatar Immunity 47) Change Profile Picture 48) Buy Lottery Ticket 49) Can Use Signature 50) Can View Members Info 51) Can Modify Profile 52) Can Set Self Invisible 53) Can View Others Usernotes 54) Can Manage Own Usernotes 55) Can Upload Profile Picture 56) Can See Who Left Reputation 57) Can Upload Custom Avatar 58) Can Use Custom User Title 59) Can See Others Profile Pictures 60) Can View Own Usernotes 61) Can Manage Others Usernotes 62) Can Post Own Usernotes 63) Can Post Others Usernotes 64) Can Edit Own Usernotes 65) Can See Hidden Custom Fields 66) Can Give Reputation 67) Can Hide Reputation 68) Can Give Negative Reputation 69) Can Upload Animated Avatar 70) Can Upload Animated Profile Picture 71) Can Edit All Posts 72) Can Delete All Posts 73) Can Open/Close All Posts 74) Can Edit All Threads 75) Can Manage All Threads 76) Can Post Annoucements 77) Can Moderate Posts 78) Can Moderate Attachments 79) Can Mass-Move Threads 80) Can Mass-Prune Threads 81) Can View IP Addresses 82) Can View Whole User Profile 83) Can Ban Users 84) Can Unban Users 85) Receive Email Upon New Thread 86) Receive Email Upon New Post 87) Can Set Forum Passwords 88) Can Physically Remove Posts 89) Can Edit Signatures 90) Can Edit Avatars 91) Can Edit Polls 92) Can Edit Profile Pictures 93) Can Edit Reputation 94) Can Access Control Panel 95) Can Administer Settings 96) Can Administer Styles 97) Can Administer Languages 98) Can Administer Forums 99) Can Administer Threads 100) Can Administer Calendars 101) Can Administer Users 102) Can Administer Permissions 103) Can Administer FAQ 104) Can Administer Images 105) Can Administer BB Codes 106) Can Administer Cron Jobs 107) Can Administer Maintenance 108) Can Administer Upgrades 109) Can Administer Plugins 110) Buy Reputation Points 111) Steal Others Reputation Points 112) Remove Others Reputation Points 113) Reputation Points Immunity 114) Unlimited Reputation Per Day 115) Always Horizontal Postbit 116) Always Legacy Postbit 117) Shadow Color for Username 118) Awareness Ribbons 119) Bypass PM Flood Control 120) Bypass Search Flood Control 121) Can Use Message Tracking 122) Can Deny PM Receipts 123) Arcade Pass 124) Arcade Access 125) Glow User Title Color 126) Shadow User Title Color 127) Username Font Type 128) User Title Font Type
I like that list, and yeah it's cool about the icons, they weren't that important, just another idea really (what about limiting it to 1 icon at a time?)
icons on the user profile page would been theres no need to limit it to 1, something to think about I guess. thief, you take a chance at stealing someone elses points, if you fail you lose points.
lose points to the other person or to the trust..? I like this idea...but please dont make things very expensive coz people like me will end up with just a small glow under the username..lol So, can we change the username as well?