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definately better that way for newcomers

Achievements should also give points a la Live and the total should be shown on the profile.

as long as there is cg_drawAwards 0/1 ...

exellents, impressives etc. is already smth like this, it just isnt counted into your profile stats.

Like the idea.

I like it.. great idea :)

agreed!

Looks really cool.

F1

Yeah its better than how it is, but from what I can tell rewards mean nothing anyway. I mean who the fuck cares if you get a raptor award, does anyone know what a raptor award is, and more importantly do you really care?

It should be linked into the game somehow if its not already.

I.E. to unlock duels you have to earn it. It'll keep the game easy for news and an incentive to open it up.

ATM I have played so little I have no idea how the game really works from that perspective, but it appears to be wide open to me from minimal play and I'm just going on instinct. Correct my if I'm wrong.

I don't really care about the achievements, no. But many kiddies do care. And I think they would find it 'cool' to get rewarded with THE raptor award :)

What exactly do you mean by: it should be linked into the game? You mean, the awards should be accessable via the ingame menu? I think it's good enough to have them all on a separate page on quakelive.com.

I don't think unlocking game modes, such as Duel, would be a great idea. Why shouldn't a newcomer be able to play duel with his buddy? Unlocking is a good idea, to get the motivation up and running. But maybe there should be more weapon skins and models or new taunts, sounds and whatsnot.

Maybe even implementing EXP would be wise to make it more interesting for newbies. If that's too much RPG for you guys, at least linking the player stats to your forum account wouldn't hurt too much, I guess. y/k, earning EXP/Levels on the quakelive board as you post more comments and play more Quake.

maybe we should make map be unlockable. Everyone starts on dm6 and when you win a certina number of times you get to play other maps.

Maybe that would make actually playing other maps much cooler. And pros need at least some amount of games on theri real account so they can play all maps in a tournament! :P

Or you only have the MG until you kill 1000 opponents, then you'll get the GL.

and then you use the mg to kill another 2000 to get a good weapon? :P

well, I guess gl + quad + ffa + close map might do the trick

The problem with most QL rewards are they are too easy.

All this stuff was suggested way before even closed beta so don't get your hopes up.

Yes, they are too easy, but there are alot of awards. So this should compensate for it.

They need to have on a "level up" style thing:

Need to do a "First Blood" X times to get it in Bronze/Silver/Gold or something like that.

So you could get the "award" after doing something once (e.g. a "Raptor" kill) but that would be more so you are aware of it.

yes please.

I wanna be a golden raptor!

rawwr :]

nice :)

nice pg aim

Yeh great idea for the casual/newbie players out there.

Can't see it being too hard to implement either?

I have a weird feeling id would have already done it if it was possible engine-wise.

I agree, the netcode would have been fixed and new maps added if it was possible, you know, engine-wise.