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Forum Updates V2: Profile Fields + Achievements Update
Hello members of the most pro academy in the world!
Hello members of the most pro academy in the world!
1st part of the forum updates were awesome as stated by many and now we are proud to bring you the 2nd wave of these updates.
You have seen some small catchy icons in some people's profiles, you have seen some weird code bursts, you have seen some profile fields being removed or hidden form the eyes of mortals. All this we will explain you now in details.
Profile Fields
Profile fields have gone to refreshment. With time, we created many profile fields, some were used, some have never seen the light, but when you are in a rush, you don't plan that you will screw up the look of profiles with so many fields. So, the first thing was removing unnecessary fields. We will not torture you with what those are, most of you have not even seen them lol, like Tournament Strikes or Lesson Certificates. No need for those. Also, one more thing got removed if you did not notice already and I think this will hurt you the most: the custom ranks are now gone from DA. We decided to take that step since those ranks were supposed to be expensive and only the ones who are long time here would get em, but it all ended wrong, many people happen to have it due to large amount of Dice Games where you can earn easy DP etc. We wanted clear look of your profile in posts and that rank was messing it all up. It is already too much that we got Pro Decklists rank under your avatar, so another one is not needed, especially because all ranks are different in style. Next update is warning bar. As we said, clear look, so warning bar had to go into normal profile fields, not like a custom rank lol. We decided that we don't need huge warning bars, so this small one fits our needs. The next thing is removing of some fields in your profile in posts, but leaving those in your real profile page. We have left only those relevant to the forum, like warnings, posts, reputation, DP, pro decklists etc. All that personal info like Age, Sex, Location etc, no need for it in posts. This is something we had to do due to your profiles being too large and pages loading slower.
Achievements
YAY! Finally, after so much waiting we got it to work. Many people actually liked the achievements in DN Forum so it was suggested to us that we try to make those ourselves for DA. After some thinking we said, screw it why not lol. With this we show you one more time that our free forum software is capable of these things too, although it is not one click to enable the plugin like in DNF (Paid IP Board forum software and they got extensions they can simply import lol), here we had to think between the lines to create it where you wouldn't feel the difference
So, from now on you will be able to earn achievements! It simply works like this: you fulfil requirements for an achievement and if you want to get it, you post a topic as request in the section reserved for it.
You can take a look at these and get more info here: http://www.duelacademy.net/t29013-achievement-system-rules-information
This is it for now, stay tuned because we are not done yet. Next days we will be working on huge update for Shops generally, including DA Bank as well. We want to make that system better, it was not updated since long long time lol. Also we will be working on the few details like, decreasing the limit for signatures again, solving the issue for having no smileys in new topics or new reply pages
, and Profile Songs.
Profile fields have gone to refreshment. With time, we created many profile fields, some were used, some have never seen the light, but when you are in a rush, you don't plan that you will screw up the look of profiles with so many fields. So, the first thing was removing unnecessary fields. We will not torture you with what those are, most of you have not even seen them lol, like Tournament Strikes or Lesson Certificates. No need for those. Also, one more thing got removed if you did not notice already and I think this will hurt you the most: the custom ranks are now gone from DA. We decided to take that step since those ranks were supposed to be expensive and only the ones who are long time here would get em, but it all ended wrong, many people happen to have it due to large amount of Dice Games where you can earn easy DP etc. We wanted clear look of your profile in posts and that rank was messing it all up. It is already too much that we got Pro Decklists rank under your avatar, so another one is not needed, especially because all ranks are different in style. Next update is warning bar. As we said, clear look, so warning bar had to go into normal profile fields, not like a custom rank lol. We decided that we don't need huge warning bars, so this small one fits our needs. The next thing is removing of some fields in your profile in posts, but leaving those in your real profile page. We have left only those relevant to the forum, like warnings, posts, reputation, DP, pro decklists etc. All that personal info like Age, Sex, Location etc, no need for it in posts. This is something we had to do due to your profiles being too large and pages loading slower.
Achievements
YAY! Finally, after so much waiting we got it to work. Many people actually liked the achievements in DN Forum so it was suggested to us that we try to make those ourselves for DA. After some thinking we said, screw it why not lol. With this we show you one more time that our free forum software is capable of these things too, although it is not one click to enable the plugin like in DNF (Paid IP Board forum software and they got extensions they can simply import lol), here we had to think between the lines to create it where you wouldn't feel the difference
So, from now on you will be able to earn achievements! It simply works like this: you fulfil requirements for an achievement and if you want to get it, you post a topic as request in the section reserved for it.
You can take a look at these and get more info here: http://www.duelacademy.net/t29013-achievement-system-rules-information
This is it for now, stay tuned because we are not done yet. Next days we will be working on huge update for Shops generally, including DA Bank as well. We want to make that system better, it was not updated since long long time lol. Also we will be working on the few details like, decreasing the limit for signatures again, solving the issue for having no smileys in new topics or new reply pages
, and Profile Songs.