Increasing the rewards for Play + Community

[Squirrel]

(12-08-2017, 10:38 AM)Sora Wrote: This is one of the features planned to eventually implement. Along with new features and gamemodes, there will gradually also be ways to view your agma profile in more detail, and to link the agma profile with the forum profile, letting you directly influence the game profile via the forum profile. For example by receiving ingame rewards when posting threads/posts, receiving upvotes, and being the top member of the month.
Looking to prioritize this sometime after new gamemodes are available in game, but in the meantime let's discuss and plan which ways will be best to link game with forum profile, and what kind of rewards can be received.

I think a lot of the rewards would be more of a 'status' thing amongst players. People probably want others to know if they have been recognized by the game, at all, and those awards are posted by way of small icon with every post that a person makes. So certainly, someone who is playing well, and being rewarded by the game, has a little added incentive to post something, so that people have the ability to see that.

The inverse way, having a persons Forum merits visible from within the game is a bit harder for me to imagine. (And I'm not sure the people playing the game would even care very much? When in the game, I figure that you're mostly focussed on playing.)

I suppose that, with some work, it would be possible to have a 1-to-1 user mapping between the two platforms. (I think that would likely have to be verified by a staff member.)

But I think the Forums would help a person gain recognition for playing the game well, and also just hold people together as a community. Discord is a nice way to chat and socialize, but very few would bother to scroll through everything in an active server to keep on top of things, and the in-game chat only sticks around a matter of minutes, so for anyone who really wants to socialize, the Forums is the best way for people to find out about you, and get a sense of who you are, whereas Discord is best for casual banter.

Since there's options on each platform to save login credentials, then it would be an easy matter to flip between the two (in separate windows) with a single button.