hey everyone!
i ve been wondering for a while now but how can i increase my ranking and stars?
thanks in advance!!

They way it's set up now is, anyone with a higher rank than you can increase your rank up to one below their current rank.

For example, someone Rank 5 could increase your rank to Rank 4, then you could increase someone Rank 1 to Rank 3.

If you take a look at the Guild Rank page, the "Assigned to" field lets you know who changed who's rank.


I'd like to at some point open ranks 1 to 10 to everyone. Maybe setting various conditions for getting an automatic rank increase. As it is now, higher Guild Ranks make people automatic Moderators and Admins. lol

[ Edited Jun 7, 2011 ]

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thanks!!

[ Edited Jun 7, 2011 ]

Rei They way it's set up now is, anyone with a higher rank than you can increase your rank up to one below their current rank. For example, someone Rank 5 could increase your rank to Rank 4, then you could increase someone Rank 1 to Rank 3. If you take a look at the Guild Rank page, the "Assigned to" field lets you know who changed who's rank. I'd like to at some point open ranks 1 to 10 to everyone. Maybe setting various conditions for getting an automatic rank increase. As it is now, higher Guild Ranks make people automatic Moderators and Admins. lol

In keeping with your theme of Star Trek ranks I thought you might like this:

It provides you with thirty obtainable ranks 1 unobtainable rank(yours/Fleet Admiral).
The insignia that face the other way represent special awards and services in addition to your rank. They face the other direction so that your right collar represents your Guild rank and your left collar represents your highest obtained "special award" (Mod would be displayed over Recruiter as an example). Obviously we would not need to use all thirty-one ranks now, but as the Guild grows having more ranks to go through will come in handy.
Also, the special awards could serve as an additional inventive to help out on the site, though looking at them now I probably would switch the "Recruiter" and "Special Contribution Award." These collars obviously need some touch up and are only display but I though you might enjoy them nonetheless.

I wonder if I got the current rank set from the same site. ^_^

If we go with 30 ranks, it would make the Star Trek theme rather permanent. Not that I'd mind. The extra rewards seem like a good idea, though I'll need to tweak a few things to make it work out.

Is there a place I could fetch those images? I'll need to name them rank1.png ... rank30.png | char1.png ... char5.png | etc so I can easily pick the image based on a Rank Number.



As for modifying the Guild_Members table... I'm thinking...

[A] Everyone is assigned Rank 1
[B] Staff have their moderator "powerlevel" set to their old Guild Rank
[C] I add a 255 char text field called "Status" so people can leave an away message if they take an extended leave of absence - or use it however they like.
[D] Character Contribution Rank
[E] staff position ........ hmm i dunno. i'm fine with people having access to everything while working in only the areas of their choice
[F] ??? anything else?


Awards are quite awesome. It's certainly a feature I have planed for the Guilds later on. Every guild will be able to define their own awards, and a very complex Real World Inspired Metric will be used to decide the value of the awards by factoring in how many people have one, who issued it, how easy/difficult it is to earn, how desired it is, how respected it is. ^_^

[ Edited Jun 27, 2011 ]

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Here are the individual images for each rank, there are thirty-three obtainable and 1 unobtainable(Fleet Admiral) ranks. I will provide the Awards for the left collar soon. Have Fun. If you need more info whatever let me know and I will give you whatever I can. If you want the specific url for each image from the site I got them from just let me know as they are label in numbers example r-e1 equals crewman third class.
Edit: Included the three additional ranks.
Recruit
First Year Cadet
Second Year Cadet
Third Year Cadet
Fourth Year Cadet
Crewman's Assistant
Crewman Third Class
Crewman Second Class
Crewman First Class
Petty Officer Third Class
Petty Officer Second Class
Petty Officer First Class
Chief Petty Officer Third Class
Chief Petty Officer Second Class
Chief Petty Officer First Class
Senior Petty Officer
Master Petty Officer
Warrant Officer Second Class
Warrant Officer First Class
Chief Warrant Officer
Senior Warrant Officer
Master Warrant Officer
Ensign
Lieutenant (Junior Grade)
Lieutenant
Lieutenant Commander
Commander
Captain
Deputy Director
Fleet Captain
Director
Vice Commodore
Commodore
Rear Admiral
Vice Admiral
Admiral
Fleet Admiral

[ Edited Aug 13, 2011 ]

Considering the size of the above post I am double posting to make this more more manageable. Also, since I do not exactly know what you want/do not want here's everything. Also, staff ranks could be re-purposed as awards if you want. I also updated my previous post for better copying/ seeing what it would really looks like.
Banned member user rank (let's hope you never need to use it).

Staff ranks - Obviously more then needed but better to have non-used ones then not enough. Also, if you want them facing the other direction let me know as I do have them available for you if you decide you would prefer those.









Rei

Awards
Character Submit level 1
Character Submit level 2
Character Submit level 3
Character Submit level 4
Special Recognition
V.I.P. (Needs an artist's T.L.C.)

Final Thought:
Here is an idea of how it might look using Rei as an example:
_______________Rei

_______Joined on 05-24-07
___________Posts 1522

Anyway I hope you liked this presentation please take your goodie bag with you as you exact the premises.

[ Edited Jun 29, 2011 ]

Looks awesome CaptainBrain! Thanks for posting them all, I know it wasn't easy.

That's pretty sweet too, the left-right counterparts. I should be able to make use of them in that way at least in the login bar.


13x31's request has taken top priority ... got about 700 lines of code to write there. With a little luck, I'll be done it today, and can roll out the Guild Ranks code tonight.

Update:

Nearly there ... see screenshot for Road Map ;-)



[ Edited Jul 1, 2011 ]

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Everyone's been assigned Rank 1 - Recruit.

Staff Members had their previous rank transfer to their Staff rank - so I'm hoping all the changes I made will ensure those with mod powers can still moderate.

So! Onto the issue of advancement ...

Recruit
First Year Cadet
Second Year Cadet
Third Year Cadet
Fourth Year Cadet

These first ranks, I think should advance using a metric of "Time & Usage".

Every week, if you've viewed more than 100 pages on ACDB, you'll advance one Cadet rank.

Retroactively, everyone who's been here more than 5 weeks, and viewed more than 500 pages - will be advanced to Crewman Third Class.

One rank per week seemed the most fair - all of us can wait a week for the next installment of our favorite anime and manga.


The rest of the ranks............

Ever since the XBox, it's been popular to have an Achievements section for games. Maybe we can have one too, and give a rank for each achievement?

If that sounds good to everyone, then start sharing your ideas for the Achievements!

But, a few ground rules first --

1. Instant achievements will be limited in number.
2. Achievements should be reasonably possible for anyone, but also take a reasonable amount of time and effort.
3. Achievements should be fun and meaningful!

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Nice work Rei and CaptainBrain! However, it's not letting me post new characters now, and the mod no matches is not on the banner anymore.

As for achievements, how about a counter of how many characters you have seen with certain characteristics. After you reach certain milestones you would get an achievement.
For example:
Lets say I've looked at my 100th character with red hair. I would then receive an achievement.

[ Edited Jul 2, 2011 ]