Current Star System Update
Our star system has been in place for nearly two years, and I've recently come to the conclusion that it's entirely counter-intuitive. As the lunatic responsible for its creation, I'm wondering what exactly I was smoking when I came up with it. With that in mind, I've made some changes to the way it works, and hopefully the whole thing will make a bit more sense now.
First off, the number of stars that a person has will still reflect their position on the staff. 1-4 for Regular Members, 5 for Moderators, 6 for Senior Moderators, 7 for Administrators and 8 for Owner. However, instead of a regular member's stars fluctuating between 1 and 4 as their post count increases, it'll simply move from 1 to 4 as their count goes up.
Star color, on the other hand, gets a bit of an overhaul. Star color will change as post count goes up for all members, even staff. Since you can determine a staff member's position from the number of stars they have (not to mention the actual title that appears beneath their name ;) ), it doesn't make much sense to also have them stay the same boring old green all the time.
Number of Stars:
1: Member (1-99 posts)
2: Member (100 - 999 posts)
3: Member (1000 - 9999 posts)
4: Member (10000+ posts)
4: Hosted Forum Moderator
5: Moderator
6: Senior Moderator
7: Administrator/Developer
8: Owner
Yes, I know that 10k members and Hosted Forum mods both get 4 stars. There are so few (read: 1) 10k members though that I figured it's an acceptable compromise, otherwise we either have to keep regular members to 3 stars, or bump all the latter ranks up another one and 9 stars for the owner is a bit much ;)
Color of Stars:
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...tar_purple.gif: 0 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...tar_violet.gif: 50 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image.../star_blue.gif: 100 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image.../star_cyan.gif: 200 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...star_green.gif: 500 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...stars/star.gif: 1000 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...tar_orange.gif: 2000 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...s/star_red.gif: 4000 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...star_black.gif: 6000 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...tar_silver.gif: 8000 posts
http://www.armageddongames.net/image.../star_gold.gif: 10000+ posts
Additionally (you mean there's more?!?), stars will now come in decidedly non-star shapes depending on the amount of time their wearer has been registered.
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...s/star_red.gif First Year
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...s/star_red.gif Second Year
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...s/star_red.gif Third Year
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...s/star_red.gif Fourth Year
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...s/star_red.gif Fifth Year
http://www.armageddongames.net/image...s/star_red.gif Sixth Year
BTW, the titles are staying the same. Since I unstuck War Lord's old post in favor of this one, here's the info again:
Title Values
Newcomer (Minimum Posts: 0)
Initiate (Minimum Posts: 50)
Apprentice (Minimum Posts: 100)
Rookie (Minimum Posts: 200)
Junior Member (Minimum Posts: 300)
Member (Minimum Posts: 400)
Senior Member (Minimum Posts: 500)
Veteran (Minimum Posts: 600)
Seasoned Veteran (Minimum Posts: 800)
Forum Regular (Minimum Posts: 1000)
Forum Addict (Minimum Posts: 1400)
Posting Maniac (Minimum Posts: 1800)
Noble (Minimum Posts: 2000)
Elder (Minimum Posts: 3000)
Sage (Minimum Posts: 4000)
Ancient (Minimum Posts: 5000)
Immortal (Minimum Posts: 6000)
Postwraith (Minimum Posts: 7000)
Damned (Minimum Posts: 8000)
Forsaken (Minimum Posts: 9000)
Lifeless (Minimum Posts: 10000)