Player anniversary. Developer appreciation for players.
BJDware
Down underMember, Retired Moderator
Myself and a few others have been talking a lot about how developers could show veteran players some appreciation in the form of an item. Something to show thanks to the players whom have stuck around Cubic castles, and something players can use to show their dedication to fellow players.
My personal thoughts was in the form of a placeable Qbee statue, where a player can walk up to it, and it will disclose the player name, and X year anniversary,
"BJDware's 3rd year Anniversary statue. Thanks for playing Cubic Castles!"
Each year, a statue could be made from a different material. Such as wood, for 1st year anniversary. Stone for second. iron, silver, gold, emerald, ruby, etc etc.
Another idea from another player was a Hat. but in my opinion, we already have enough vanity items. And last time a hat was rewarded to players, it was abused.
Just something to make long term players feel more appreciated.
And not as a once off thing. Something any player can acquire now, and in the future.
What are your thoughts? Do you like the idea of a statue? Or do you have a better idea in mind? Do you think it would be nice if developers did this for their players?
My personal thoughts was in the form of a placeable Qbee statue, where a player can walk up to it, and it will disclose the player name, and X year anniversary,
"BJDware's 3rd year Anniversary statue. Thanks for playing Cubic Castles!"
Each year, a statue could be made from a different material. Such as wood, for 1st year anniversary. Stone for second. iron, silver, gold, emerald, ruby, etc etc.
Another idea from another player was a Hat. but in my opinion, we already have enough vanity items. And last time a hat was rewarded to players, it was abused.
Just something to make long term players feel more appreciated.
And not as a once off thing. Something any player can acquire now, and in the future.
What are your thoughts? Do you like the idea of a statue? Or do you have a better idea in mind? Do you think it would be nice if developers did this for their players?
Comments
I like your statue idea but not the hat one :)
"You can't drop that, that's your statue!"
Hmm. But how to place xD
Well I tried lol
But how would anyone keep track of the date each one of us joined the game? I don't think making it unable to be dropped would affect it in any way from being placed (???)
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Would love to see some trophies/awards/rewards being offered in the game. I've seen other games do this, and it's cool to be able to display some of your achievements in your realm. These would be permanently attached to the account where they were earned, and not be (re)sell-able.
For example:
Retroactive trophies:
Alpha and Beta Testers (for those who were part of original alpha and beta testing; also for those current beta testers)
Anniversary Trophies (retroactive to every annual anniversary for those that were here through other annual events; also provided for future annual anniversaries of the start of the game)
Event trophies:
Building/Decorating Events - 1st, 2d, 3d place trophies for the various building/decorating events; also provide a 'participation' trophy for those that participated but didn't make the podium. (Same trophy for all, but 1st place is gold, 2d place is silver, 3d place is bronze, and participation would either be stone or wooden).
Special event trophies - anyone who participates gets one (for example buying cubits during the baby sale or participating in the Easter egg hunts). If there is a podium (1st, 2d, 3d place, then also provide some sort of 'upgraded' trophies for those positions, e.g. Easter egg hunt, but probably not for the cubit baby sale).
Accomplishment trophies:
Leveling pet trophies - get one for each level 50 pet (each trophy would be an image of the pet) (or maybe for each level 49 pet as I see most people don't want to level them to 50).
Max Farmer trophy - have max number of crops (2500) and have harvested from the max at least once.
Builder trophy - built x number of realms of at least x by x size
Mining trophy - for mining x number of blocks (make it a huge amount)
Patron trophy - for buying/earning cubits (only get once)
See the attached picture of my trophy/award wall from another game (Faunasphere - sadly, now defunct)...The cupcake with a 1 was the first anniversary of the game where everyone got the statue. The first place trophy was for a building/decorations contest/event. I don't remember why we got the other two awards, but everyone in the game at the time got them.
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I like your idea of the trophy/statute having information when you hover over the trophy/statue/award to explain why it was awarded to that player.
If i am incorrect, then it could be based from the placement of the starter realm. Which is tracked and can be observed via the info bumper when placed within the starter realm.
@b3achy
Trophies could be quite fun. Kinda along the same lines as achievements.
I like it!
but how about those player that already play 3 year? xD do they get iron statue
Iron
+∞
if this is implemented, a player whom has already played for three years should obtain 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year anniversary statues.
I have issues on the implementation side though.
How do we differentiate someone who made an account during the beta period and left, and then decided to start playing this year? Is it important that we do? What about people who play just a month every year? Is this something that would be awarded to everyone who has an older account or should you be an actual active player in the game? Are these items trade-able? Can you give your 3yr anniversary statue to a rich new player for some extra cubits? Does it lose meaning if you do?
Make A Cubic Hall Of Fame Realm
Where The Statue of A rewarded player was On there
and overall a good idea
Well ideally, it would be better if it could not be traded.
But even if it wasn't, be a bit strange as per example, if Superxtreme had a statue that said "BJDware's 3rd year Anniversary statue. Thanks for playing Cubic Castles!" when players walked up to it. :P
I Play another game that does almost the same thing. I stopped playing it for several years, and returned to find anniversary items for those missing years. Essentially, those items have no use besides aesthetic value, so it did no harm to recieve them. As a player, it was still nice to receive them.. Felt like a warm welcome back, on which encouraged me.
Everyone plays games differently and at different rates. Would be a shame if there were strict regulations to receiving one. Think of the idea as a simple "thank you", not as a reward to be earned. I Know a few players who are under level 40, yet have been playing since 2014/15.
Just because they choose to play the game differently, shouldn't mean they are less deserving. :) It's a neat idea.
But seeing your statue paled by rows and rows of others, would kinda diminish the intention.
But the idea could also be branched out from there. Not just player anniversary's.
but maybe some ideas with it: the statue wont be able to be dropped nor traded like the starter deed, but only you can place it in your own realm (like the nuke you cant place it in another realm where you got perm from another player) and it can only be destroyed by you (like the bedrock)
+1
As I have been playing for more than 3 years already myself, I'd love to see something similar to that.
As some mentioned above, it could be untradeable or something like that, and only the owner could actually pick it up and place it. So, Trusted players in a realm wouldn't have the ability to remove or take those in other words.
Hope this gets implemented at some point.
great idea, hope SirK conciders adding this!
shouldn't be tradable, and the player should have logged on atleast 35 times per year to be concidered active and get the trophy.
plus only one account per-device.