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[Reoh]

There's a feature of another game that I really enjoyed, which provided accolades\medals to players on their performance each match. This showed up as a screen tab with the scoreboard at the end of the game. It worked something like this.

As a scout, I head off and detect enemy 'mechs, my squadmades launch some missiles while I shoot at the enemy. I continue to relay targetting information to my teamates as more show up. Now for fulfilling this role I'd be awarded with accolades\medals. For every X mechs scouted I might get an award, another for succesfully lighting up 5 enemy mechs which my teamates capitalised on. I also helped shoot these down and might achieve yet another for 5 assist kills. These would help show my contribution at the end, where I may yield a poor result in the kill column.

Now the above was just an example, you could also have accolades for killing lots of mechs (1, 3, 10!! etc.), firing missiles blindly at a target lit up by a teamate, getting a number of headshots, and so on. The idea would be that each role would have some appropriate themed accolades which would help guide players into their role. They could provide some boost to xp\cbills at the end of the match for your performance, but should be balanced around the concept of each player regardless of mech-role should be able to achieve a comparable score (presuming a comparable level of success).

[Thaygood]

Like I said on another post...Kill flags of your beaten foes...Yeah Baby

[Aeryk Corsaer]

As the focus in MWO is on you being the pilot and fighting for a faction, this would be a great addition to being that pilot.

[Reoh]

Thaygood, on 01 July 2012 - 02:24 PM, said:

Like I said on another post...Kill flags of your beaten foes...Yeah Baby

I'm not entirely sure what you meant by that, do you mean something like collecting dogtags in Battlefield games?

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PS - Which I thought was fun, esp. since my first tags were golden.

Edited by Reoh, 03 July 2012 - 07:23 AM.

[Schtirlitz]

Nice idea. I'd like to have some awards for my performance on battlefield.

[Reoh]

I forgot to mention something about the "ranking up" of an award. It would start off as a Bronze, then rank up to a silver, or a gold with a commensurate increase in values for the xp\c-bill bounty for each.

Edited by Reoh, 03 July 2012 - 08:49 AM.

[Thaygood]

Reoh, on 03 July 2012 - 07:22 AM, said:

I'm not entirely sure what you meant by that, do you mean something like collecting dogtags in Battlefield games?

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PS - Which I thought was fun, esp. since my first tags were golden.

Yes Reoh, like fighter plane pilots who display the country flags of defeated foes on their planes.

[Reoh]

Thaygood, on 03 July 2012 - 09:13 AM, said:

Yes Reoh, like fighter plane pilots who display the country flags of defeated foes on their planes.

Oh I'm with you now, thanks for clarifying for me.