New badge proposal

@Imperious:

I don’t think the title should convey accolades like “hall of fame”, rather a title that makes someone know they create maps, paint their pieces, upgrade player aids, etc…and probably include house rules and variants.

This title cannot be too long or it won’t fit in the bracket under your name.

what about Contributor? Customizer? File Maker? Map Maker? Cartography? Game upgrader?

I totally agree with you IL on the “type” of people that should be recognized, but it will be difficult encompassing every trade mentioned into one title. If you include people who create maps, paint their pieces, upgrade player aids, etc… you won’t be able to get away with Map Maker or File Maker. A more bold suggestion would be Designer, but Customizer is also very good. In fact, it’s very straight to the point and probably the best we’ve come up with so far. If someone contacts a “Customizer” for something specific, that person can help them or guide them to a different “Customizer” if necessary. I contacted Most Holy on making a pod cast for my game days and he was extremely helpful, I myself have be contacted numerous times about my customized global map, or my Alpha +2 rule book, and there are also tremendous ideas out there from members engineering their own tables. My point is, people should know who to ask when looking for certain game aids, or customization ideas… like a “Customizer”. There are also those who are very well versed in the many house rules that have been offered in that thread, and they would also fall nicely under the title of customizer.

Yes… CUSTOMIZER… 100% agree.

Hey IL,

What are your thoughts on color and icon? I know that Yellow, Red, Green, and Blue are pretty much taken, so what about black? What’s available as far as Icons, do you like the pair of dice idea, or is there a unit icon that hasn’t been used yet?

@Imperious:

The boss will use the colored bar…

Orange, or Black or white with black letters?

Please not orange… something between green and blue (aqua) would be more appealing. However, white with black letters or black with white letters would be just fine too.

Just saw LHoffmans painted pieces…. he should definitely get tagged as a customizer.

Once these badges start getting handed out, it might be beneficial to everyone if the customizers use their signature sentence to describe what it is they customize. For example…. “I paint pieces” or “I build tables” or “I create map files”. Just a suggestion for those who get a badge so that we can identify people with our own interests.

@Tall:

Guys,

@Young:

Please not orange… something between green and blue (aqua) would be more appealing. However, white with black letters or black with white letters would be just fine too.

––Please, not Orange or Aqua.
----Black w/White letters,….or White w/Black letters seems so much more appropriate,….like a canvas yet to be “customized”.

“Tall Paul”

My ultimate choice would be Black with White lettering.

Hey IL,

How’s the new badge coming? curious to see how it looks.

@Imperious:

I keep bugging Djensen but he hardly visits this place. I will keep trying.

He must be to busy drinking beer and blogging about it… Keep at it.

Cheers.

@djensen:

LOL. Unfortunately the beer blogging has slowed to a crawl as well. I have a lot of projects going on right now. What’s the icon for the badge?

What’s available?