Sagan 4 Forum -> Return of Badges

Sep 3 2022, 02:30 PM

Hello everyone, we are bringing back badges for contributing to Sagan 4 and completing challenges. However, as information on who had which badges on the old forum has been lost, we need your help.

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Diorama Maker: Given to a user who has made at least 5 dioramas for the diorama challenges.

Diorama Winner: Given to a user who won at least one Diorama contest.

Diorama Master: Given to a user who has won at least 5 diorama contests.

Biome Adopter: Given to a team member who made 5 or more organisms specifically for a "barren" biome (ones with "pioneer" species present).

Strength in Numbers: Given to a team member who made 15 or more organisms specifically for a barren biome.

Biome Master: Given to a team member who has adopted 5 or more barren biomes (5 or more organisms for each biome) .

Diversifier: Given to a team member who made at least 5 descendants for the same organism.

Diversifying Master: Given to a team member who has made at least 5 splits to at least 5 organisms.

Diversifying God: Given to a team member who has made at least 5 splits to at least 20 organisms.

Kingdom Master: Given to a team member who created at least 1 organism for each kingdom.

Food Web Maker: Given to a user who created at least 5 Food Web charts.

Landmark Maker: Given to a team member who created at least 5 landmarks.

Size Chart Maker: Given to a team member who created at least 5 size charts.

Generation Master: Given to a team member who made thirty or more species in a single generation. (Can only be given once)

Challenge Master: Given to a team member after completing 10 or more species challenges.

Year Challenge: Given to a team member for finishing the month challenges.
Adventurer: Given to the Sagan 4 Adventure Contest winner.

Moviemaker: Given to a contributer to the Sagan 4 Movie Project

Shirt Designer: Given to a user who's made a Sagan 4 shirt design

Apps Maker: Given to a user who's made an application to help make Sagan 4 wiki easier to use

Cladogram Maker: Given to a user who made at least one cladogram for the Sagan4 project

These are all of the badges one can earn. If you believe you have earned one of these badges, or if you know of a member who has, please post below with evidence and an administrator will verify and assign it.

Do note that at this time, the Kingdom Master badge only applies to Sagan 4 Alpha and we will be making a separate version for completing the challenge in Sagan 4 Beta in the future.

Disgustedorite

Sep 3 2022, 03:19 PM

For the record's sake, and so users have an idea of what they're supposed to do, I will list what badges I know I have earned.

Diversifier: I have made 5+ direct descendants of the seashrog. https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Seashrog

Generation Master: I made 34 species in generation 162. https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Generation_162

Apps Maker: I run Sagan Bot, which probably qualifies for this, and made many changes to the wiki for the sake of easier navigation. Um, I'm not sure how to post evidence of this.

Cladogram Maker: Asterzoa cladogram for Beta in generation 11 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/6163...ladogram_11.png

There's probably more, like Biome Adopter and Diversifying Master, but that's more complicated to check since I don't remember specifics from memory.

Coolsteph

Sep 3 2022, 03:41 PM

I qualify for the Diversifier badge due to the Red Smoolk:
Red Smoolk (made 8 descendants for it, all in Generation 154)
In case anyone's curious, a roughly 14-minute check suggests I'm 3/5 done for 4 other organisms:
Shellflora (3/5)
Grub Krugg (3/5)
Syrup Ferine (3/5)
Pioneer Quillprong (3/5)

Disgustedorite

Sep 3 2022, 03:52 PM

I added the badge, but it doesn't seem to be showing up. I will need to mess around in settings to see how to make it appear.

Disgustedorite

Sep 3 2022, 04:32 PM

I have it working now!

Coolsteph

Sep 3 2022, 05:58 PM

I think the Kingdom Master badge should be revised.

There are 44 kingdoms of life on Sagan 4 according to the kingdoms taxonomy page, including some that are probably extinct now, such as the kingdom Protobia. Given the sheer number of kingdoms relative to Earth (5 kingdoms, with 35 extant animal phyla, for comparison), I recommend splitting the badge into three steps, and perhaps limiting the "Kingdom God" (I recommend using "Deity" here), to 35 kingdoms, so it's impressive but allows people to skip some microbial lineages of uncertain biological plausibility.

If split as evenly as possible into three steps, with 44 kingdoms total, it would be: 14+15+15. With 35 kingdoms, it could be 11 + 12 + 12. Since the badges tend to go in groups of 5, though, one could round down to 40 and go with 10 - 20 - 40.

On a somewhat related note, it's nice to see the badges again. I certainly feel encouraged to work on those four groups I'm 3/5s finished on.