Reworking our recognition ranks

[Dominic]

Hello everyone,

 

The Board has been discussing a rework to our recognition ranks for a while now. Currently, the ranks being referred to would be Honorable Gamer and Legend. We felt as though we were missing something and that the gap between the two was too large. We've decided to implement another tier that will be a middle ground for this system. While this middle tier will have some general parameters, the Board will still be the deciding factor when it comes down to placing people in one of these ranks. This new rank will be called Veterans! One important thing to note with this change is that we'll be removing the Presidential Award entirely, as we no longer see a need for it. Laid out below is how each rank will be treated moving forward, generally.

 

The lowest recognition rank you can receive is Honorable Gamer. This rank will pretty much remain the same. It can be given to previous staff members or normal members who have contributed to the community in a significant way, more than the average player. Admins will still be able to nominate people for this rank which will be reviewed by the IA team and the Board. This rank does not grant any admin powers.

 

The next rank above that will be the newest addition, Veteran. The people eligible for this rank will mostly be server managers or very longtime admins, but it is still dependent on performance, attitude, etc. People in this rank will not be granted any admin powers, but will be granted perks similar to that of an Honorable Gamer.

 

The last and top rank will be Legend. This rank is for people who have contributed to the community in an extremely crucial way, akin to our now removed Presidential Award, and kept a positive attitude while doing so. Previous Presidents, Vice Presidents, Board members and technical staff are who you'll likely be seeing in this rank, but it may vary further. This rank will have the equivalent of Senior Admin powers on our servers and will have access to the Community Advisors section on our forums.

 

With this change, we've reevaluated all the people who were either Honorable Gamer or Legend and sorted them accordingly. We think we got it down pretty well, but there may still be people we need to look into. You may have lost your rank entirely in this process, you can reach out to a Board member for clarity on why. If you feel you've been misplaced, you can contact a Board member and we'll discuss it. Listed below is all the current holders of each rank.

 

Our current list of Legends:

 

 

 

1) Haggard

2) Astrum

3) Atarian

4) Bethy

5) Blank

6) Bor3d

7) Bread

8) Broncoty

9) Crazy Swede

10) Crimson

11) Daze

12) eXtr3m3

13) floffypus

14) Henda

15) High

16) Jaffa

17) Jager

18) Jen

19) Kennith

20) Labarr

21) LitKey

22) Mad Dogg

23) mNote

24) MPQC

25) Mrs. Blargh

26) Ngo

27) Paul

28) Prez

29) raven maniac

30) Red

31) Revenga

32) Spartan

33) SpikedRocker

34) Tcp-Kill

35) Third

36) Vick

37) XeNo

 

 

 

Our current list of Veterans:

 

 

 

1) arottenpickle

2) Banana Joe

3) BlackEagle

4) Bob Loblaw

5) Bullet Wound

6) Clamor

7) Cookie Crisp

8) DancingMoonLight

9) D2W

10) EvilShadow98

11) Exk

12) ExRev

13) Gunner412

14) Huwajux

15) Irish

16) Itch

17) Jake

18) James

19) Leon Mordecai

20) Lux

21) Matt

22) Modgers1

23) Mystique

24) Ned

25) nick

26) Nimmy

27) Nuclear Onion

28) Paralyzed

29) Psyche

30) Queen Venomous Fate

31) Shoiep

32) SilentGuns

33) Slade

34) Spiritwind

35) Tinkerbell

36) Unnamed Newbie

37) Vinyl

38) Wawa

39) Zero001

 

 

 

Our current list of Honorable Gamers:

 

 

 

1) Alex

2) AznSoul

3) Bald

4) Bdcoll

5) Bubbles

6) Chaos

7) Charliere

8) Chrixz

9) Coldwar

10) CollieFlower

11) Dimitry

12) Diryathing

13) El Nino

14) Eldest

15) Eskomo

16) Fluid

17) Frosty

18) GhostTitanium

19) Jewpiter

20) Karma

21) Korean Ninja

22) Kratos

23) Leon

24) Luke

25) LVG

26) Mapper

27) Matty

28) Maxwelldon

29) Moo Moo Viking

30) Mr. Trololo

31) MyHobos

32) Papa

33) Phoenix

34) Post

35) PotshotPolka

36) Punky

37) Repus

38) Riperzz

39) Sarah

40) Scoutkllr

41) Sean

42) Souce Boss

43) SpazMonkey

44) Storm

45) Supa

46) Suri

47) TheCharizard

48) ThRza

49) Tsuna

50) Turtlefiish

51) Tweezy

52) Ultramarine

53) Veggie

54) Wavy

55) WriteX

 

 

 

As mentioned above, we've reevaluated each and every person who was eligible for one of these ranks. This has been an extremely long discussion, the Board has spent countless hours doing this. If you have any issues, please reach out to us so we can reconsider.

 

Thanks everyone!

[Dominic]

Going to take a bit for all the listed changes to take effect.

[SilentGuns]

Kind of bummed out with losing powers after 10 years but overall i think this is a good move to adress the large variation in contribution to the community within the old LG ranks. I take it that i can no longer wear the [sG] tag, so what are the new proper tags for the veteran rank?

 

 

Cheers.

 

 

 

Edit: also the new rank might have broken avatars/sigs

[Korean Ninja]

Aww

[Unnamed Newbie]

Aww

 

Part of my master plan to finally vote for myself and win Veteran of the Year. Had to cull the competition.

 

But also hugely bummed

 

Edit: following up SilentGuns' point, both awards and messaging are also a bit janky. Understandable that it'll take a bit to fix.

[matt]

How many Legends even play on SG servers anymore?

[Prez]

How many Legends even play on SG servers anymore?

 

Without knowing a lot of the work done behind the scenes for the change, based on the general eligibility I think it may make sense to give veterans at least an A level of powers, if not SA like Legends.

[Bacon]

Without knowing a lot of the work done behind the scenes for the change, based on the general eligibility I think it may make sense to give veterans at least an A level of powers, if not SA like Legends.

 

I completely agree with this, veterans should have SA power because some of them actually frequent the servers and help out. Most of them were also the people who managed the servers so not allowing them to have power on a server they used to manage and help out on is a little weird to me. I think people should be granted HG if they are a longtime admin or you have contributed a lot to the growth of the community. Veteran should be kinda like retired staff in the sense that it should mainly consist of AT's IA's and once and a while a CA that has put in a lot more work but just never wanted to get to AT.

[Nuclear Onion]

Edit: also the new rank might have broken avatars/sigs

 

As well as visitor messages? Can't write on my own or anyone else's as far as I'm looking

[Dominic]

Veterans don't have any specific tag to wear currently, but we do have another announcement coming up that will allow all non-admins to represent SG in a new way. In regards to the permissions issues, we'll get them all fixed as soon as possible.