Point badges over 50k

Posted by: zeb43

Point badges over 50k - Mon Dec 03 2012 05:42 PM

Why are there no point badges over the one at 50k, as I'm approaching a million? Just curious. It would be a nice award for some who don't play a whole lot. I think it's taken me 5 years or more.
Posted by: WesleyCrusher

Re: Point badges over 50k - Mon Dec 03 2012 05:48 PM

There are such badges - 100k, 250k, 500k and a million. They just replace the previous grade instead of giving you an extra level (since you do get a level for passing the point barrier anyway).
Posted by: joecali

Re: Point badges over 50k - Mon Dec 03 2012 06:28 PM

A new badge over 5M or 10M? With a level-up?

The 1M it's short for many active members.
Posted by: reeshy

Re: Point badges over 50k - Mon Dec 03 2012 06:35 PM

Perhaps a megabadge for 10 million would be appropriate, but I don't suppose that more point badges would be a big priority (despite 10 million being a massive, amazing and commendable effort!)?
Posted by: dg_dave

Re: Point badges over 50k - Mon Dec 03 2012 09:59 PM

Also, the 50k is a "bonus point" badge, which is not figured into Wes's post. Those are "point duke," "point king," and "point god."
Posted by: salami_swami

Re: Point badges over 50k - Tue Dec 04 2012 10:59 AM

I see no such "50k bonus point" badge. I know we once had a 20k bonus point badge, but it was incorporated into just a 20k regular point badge. What is the 50k bonus point badge you speak of? I cannot recall there being one...
Posted by: flopsymopsy

Re: Point badges over 50k - Tue Dec 04 2012 01:11 PM

Point Apprentice is 50k points.
Posted by: WesleyCrusher

Re: Point badges over 50k - Tue Dec 04 2012 02:32 PM

There is no 50k bonus badge. The old bonus badge (which existed in the 20k and 50k variants) was folded into the 20,000 badge (so that no one would lose a level when the badge was retired) and the Apprentice - Duke - Prince - King - God series starts at 50,000 (and was like that from the start).
Posted by: Nammage

Re: Point badges over 50k - Fri Dec 07 2012 02:04 AM

I always thought there should be a Categories Point Badge. Meaning, say one obtained 50,000 points in Animals, then 50,000 points in Humanities, then Movies, Television, Literature, etc., etc.,

That, in of itself, may take awhile to get but what honor that would bestow on those who were able to obtain it. Some would probably get it quicker than others, it'd take me years since Sci/Tech, Animals, and Video Games are more of my poorest areas. Maybe even Literature but it's not that I don't know Literature, I just don't read anything contemporary unless biographical or historical.

It's sort of a branch of the 24 hr mini-badges for particular categories.

The only category, at the moment, I would qualify for would be Movies, since I have 94,090 points in that category (as of Dec 03). My least is Video Games at 1,400 points (as of Dec 03). It's a challenge that would get people more active, perhaps, in the categories that they aren't normally too active in anyway.

The All-Encompasing Funtrivia Player Badge.

wink

-Nam