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  1. The time has finally come! We'd like to formally re-introduce... The Sonic Stadium Achievements system! This has been in the making for many, many months. We actually delayed the launch a few times as we wanted to make sure that the system we introduced was fair, provided a realistic promotion curve and awarded things in the way we wanted to. And we will still be tweaking things as we go (see the Fine Print section below), as we soft-launch this new system and get to understand how people use and respond to it. So let me start by saying; BADGES ARE BACK! But, there is also much more to our new Achievements system. I'd like to introduce the whole thing to you here and give you the rundown of how it works and what to expect. Sonic Stadium Achievements: Overview Almost anything and everything you can do on The Sonic Stadium (well, the SSMB side of it, anyway) can be recognised and rewarded with points and/or badges. These rewards can be offered either through automatic rules that the Sonic Stadium staff set, or manually awarded by SSMB Mods and Admins (and in some cases, TSS Staff with certain conditional events). Automatic Rules-based rewards (like the ones above) are usually given for meeting certain milestone targets during your stay at The Sonic Stadium. For example, if you just registered an account with us and made your first post in a topic (and it gets approved), you will automatically earn a special badge. We can set rules for [making X number of posts], [giving X number of Reactions to another user's content]... even [return visits to The Sonic Stadium]. There will often be multiple tiers/levels to these kinds of Achievements, with circular basic-colour badges being more common and easier to unlock, and spiky/shinier badges being more rare (or require a bit more dedication to earn). Manual Rewards (like the badges seen above) will mostly be handed out for meeting unique conditions (i.e. during Community Events) that SSMB staff will track, or for qualitative instances such as rewarding the quality of a user's post in a topic. Badges associated with these kinds of Achievements will mostly be in a square format, and (with the exception of Limited Edition or Community Event badges) can be awarded multiple times. For example, the green badge above is awarded by Staff to a user that makes a post that they think counts as really great content - they will be able to award this directly to that user's post. That user will also be able to see a link to the content that earned them this badge, by checking their Badge list on their profile page. Progression In order to understand the Achievements system fully, it's best to think of it as four major pillars of progression: Achievement Rules, which are custom conditions set by us that you meet in order to earn... Achievements, which will consist of EITHER or BOTH of the below, depending on the Achievement: Badges, which are cool little tokens that are forever saved to your account Points, which contribute to your account levelling up in... Rank, which is a visual representation of your journey in the Sonic Community. Badges alone do not count towards your Rank progression. Only Points do. So, having lots of Badges on your account will not necessarily mean you will shoot up in Rank, unless many of those Badges also have a Points value assigned to them. Not all Achievements will include a Points reward. Some will reward only Points (i.e. make a post in a topic and you earn X points towards your next rank), some will reward only Badges. Only Achievements that reward Badges will be listed on your profile page for you to track. With this first iteration of the Sonic Stadium Achievements system, we're offering 16 Ranks that start at the level of 'Chao' and run up the Sonic character leaderboard... all the way to Hyper Sonic at the very top. These Rank Badges were created for TSS by the amazing @Zaysho - be sure to give them all the love in the world for making these incredibly expressive renditions of the Sonic crew! You can check your progress at any time by going to your Profile page and clicking the 'Recent Badges' link above the main content area on the right hand side. This will also detail your Badge collection in full. A reminder of your current Rank status (and the Points needed to level up) can be found in the User Dropdown menu (or User Menu Drawer on mobile), as well as on Profile hovercards (when hovering your mouse over a member's username). Can I See The Achievement List? At the moment, we are still deciding exactly how much we share of the Achievements/Rules list. There are a few reasons for this: There are loads and loads of Rules in our system already, and the potential for many more to come - it would be too long and tedious a list to tell you every little thing you'd get points for (some of them are incredibly boring, like earning X Points per Topic post and Y Points for every Reaction)... it's also one of the reasons why only Badge-related Achievements are tracked on your Profile We want people to be surprised by cool Achievements they earn as they organically use the SSMB and explore different areas of the site. At this early stage, we'd rather not spoil all the different badges you could potentially get Revealing the list could lead to members abusing the system in an attempt to earn as many Badges and Points as they could, in order to artificially boost their Rank. We want this to be a fairly-run system that rewards good behaviour. We may change our mind on this at any time and share the list in full if we feel that it would be beneficial to do so. It would depend on whether we could engineer the system so that having the membership know the Achievements List doesn't negatively impact the content or activity on this site. During this soft-launch we will be keeping things pretty conservative as a result, but we will of course take on board feedback about this. Having said that, we're not against sharing some of the Achievements you can earn through using the site. Here are some examples of Badges: First Steps: Made your first Post on SSMB Conversation Starter: Made your first Topic on SSMB (this is achievable once your account leaves 'Newbie' status and enters the 'Sonic Community' usergroup) Reacting Well: Give 5 Reactions to other users' content Great Content: Manual Badge. Awarded to a user if staff determine it is... well, great content. Helping Hand: Manual Badge. Awarded to a user if their content has been recognised as helpful to others. A Decade Dedicated: Been a member of the Sonic Community for ten years. There are many more to find and unlock, so we hope you have fun discovering all that the Achievements system has to offer! Classic SSMB Badges As you might remember, we used to have a Badge/Award system before on SSMB - you might be wondering what has happened to all of that? Well, even though the Sonic Stadium Achievements is a brand new system, we were able to migrate all of the old SSMB Awards into it. That means, if you were ever awarded an SSMB Badge in the past, you'll find it sitting right there in your profile right now. They'll be labelled 'Classic Awards' and will have no Points value attached to them, but you can rest easy knowing that your epic run through the SSMB Heroes Academy will forever be immortalised. What About Reputation? The Reputation system has been used as a sort of crude 'Ranking' mechanic for many years now, and to be honest I'm kind of impressed that we were able to use it in this way. However, with the advent of this new Achievements system, the Rep system will be pretty much redundant. At this time, no changes will be made to it, but logically it doesn't really make sense to have two 'ranking' like systems, so at some point it may be revised to become a little closer to its original intended purpose - to offer users a one-look view of how trustworthy/helpful a user is to the SSMB community. If we do anything radical to Reputation, we will find a way to honour people's progression there into this new Achievements system. And we will of course announce any changes we plan in advance. But for now, it's just kinda staying as it is. Fine Print While all of this is very cool and exciting, I want to point out that we are soft-launching this new system with the objective of making tweaks and changes to the Badges and number of Points offered as we go. This means that there may be some small turbulence every so often as we reset or alter the system in order to rebalance things. The reason for doing this? We want it to be fun, accessible yet challenging (but not too much) to earn Points and level up in Rank, and while we've made every effort to plot things out in a way we think works, we simply have no idea how easy it might be for some of you to reach the Hyper Sonic rank until we set this whole thing live. This iteration of SSMB has a directory of members spanning the last 10-12 years, and most Achievements work retroactively - so that means there's a LOT of potential content that various power users of the forum can be credited for. We will be keeping an eye at the average Ranking and progression of the entire userbase over the course of the next week or two, and will tweak things up or down if we feel that people are either levelling up too fast, or in fact finding it too difficult to rank up (i.e. if certain Ranks provide too steep a curve in relation to the user journey we want to set out with this system). So, rebalancing can go either up or down. Please bear with us while we get this right. To my knowledge, if we rebalance things, it should not affect the Badges you have earned - only Points and Ranks - but we'll keep tweaking until we feel we have it perfect. And you're more than welcome to offer feedback to the system either in here or via our Feedback Forum! Your help and interaction is vital in making our Achievements system a success. So I hope you're as excited about this journey as I am! Enjoy! Happy Badge Collecting! NOTE: In order for the new Achievements system to account for all members’ past activity, we need to recalibrate it. This might take a long while, as there is 12+ years of content on this forum for the system to comb over. Once it’s done, you’ll be able to access and view all of your Achievements and Badges!
  2. One of the things that I am really proud of, when it comes to the Sonic Stadium, is the community that has been built around it. Thanks to each and every one of you who read and post in our forums, this place is undoubtedly the online home for dedicated Sonic the Hedgehog fans. I want to do my best to encourage active discussion and collaboration across our website and forums, as communities living exclusively on social media become more and more fragmented and hostile to one another. To that end, we're going to be introducing some new Achievements and features that will reward great content and discussion on these pages. Get Your Content on the Homepage! First, let's take a look at the Forum homepage. You'll notice a new widget at the top of the page, called 'Our Picks'. The design of this may change over time, but its function is to amplify and promote excellent content we find posted across the Sonic community. That can be a single post, a topic, or even a calendar event. SSMB moderators will be able to select hot content they feel should get priority attention from the community and will slot it in this carousel. If your content is selected to appear in this widget, you will earn Points towards your next Sonic Rank as well as the following 'Promotion!' Badge: The above badge is for your first Promotion to the Our Picks carousel, but we have follow-up badges primed for whenever your content is promoted a number of times (i.e. for 10 Promotions, you get a special 'Always Be Promotin'!' badge). You also earn the warm glow in your heart that comes from being recognised for your discussion skills. Rewards For Great Content! I mentioned in a previous Stadium Update that we would be introducing what we called 'Manual Badges' to reward great content we see on the site and forums. We're now ready to start implementing these badges in the field - so we're going to be keeping an eye on the discussion forums to dole out content that we think deserve special credit. These are the Badges you can earn for your Topics and Posts (in most cases you will earn a Points reward too): Great Content: Awarded for creating a post that has a lot of thoughtful and original content. Sonic News Tipster: Awarded for posting a News topic in a manner that suits Forum Guidelines. Helping Hand: Awarded for helping out another user in a Topic. Great Community Support: Awarded for posting content that should serve as an example to others. Superstar: A special Badge awarded by the moderation team if they feel your content goes above and beyond, in a manner that is not covered by (or covers multiple instances of) the above Badges. How to Get Rewarded! Looks awesome, right!? How do you get them!? Well, we won't just give them out willy-nilly - here are some basic notes on what we would consider prime candidates for these rewards: Information worthy of its own Topic belongs in its own separate Topic. Anything posted in a Megathread, hidden away from main forum view, will not be considered for rewards unless split into its own Topic. Topics and posts that adhere to recently-published, new, Forum Guidelines (i.e. New News = New Topic) will be infinitely more likely to earn rewards over those that ignore those Guidelines. We will be prioritising material posted in discussion forums - it's worth noting that you earn Points for posting new topics and replies (and you can earn Badges for cumulative Posts made as well). In relation to the last point, we want to clarify that this means that Status Updates have not been, and will not be, eligible for any Point or Badge rewards. Ever. You will get nothing for posting a Status Update - the Statuses feature exists for fun, shower thoughts only and isn't intended to replace discussion forums. We are much more likely to reward content that has substantial original content/text to it, rather than something that is just a copy-paste of an article or a tweet embed. Related to the last point, putting some effort into your Topics (especially News-related topics) will not only increase your chances of rewards, it will increase the number of Points you will earn alongside the appropriate Badge. If you are posting a News-related Topic, linking to the original source of the information (instead of just linking to a tweet/article that posted the news elsewhere) will increase the chances of being awarded the Sonic News Tipster Badge (and will definitely increase the number of Points awarded). If your News-related Topic is covered and credited on Sonic News (Sonic Stadium's news section), you will earn the Sonic News Tipster Badge. It might look like a long list of bullet points, but overall it's very simple: creating high-effort Posts, News and Topics that follow correct forum guidance and stand out as an example for others to follow will earn you special Badges and Points! Let's work together and keep our fellow Sonic fans informed and updated! And let's have some fun while doing so!
  3. A list of Sonic Origins’ trophies has finally been released, and its a pretty sizable list. We’ve got bronze, silver, and gold trophies, as well as a single platinum trophy for completing everything. You can check out the list below: Complete Clear (Platinum) - Get All the Trophies! Welcome to Sonic the Hedgehog (Bronze) - Watch the Opening for Sonic the Hedgehog Welcome to Sonic CD (Bronze) - Watch the Opening for Sonic CD Welcome to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Bronze) - Watch the Opening for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Welcome to Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Bronze) - Watch the Opening for Sonic 3 & Knuckles Beware Moto Bugs! (Bronze) - Defeat 10 Motobugs in Sonic the Hedgehog Bubbly Breath (Bronze) - Use air bubbles in Sonic the Hedgehog Time Traveller (Bronze) - Travel to the past or future in Sonic CD Shut Down Metal Sonic (Bronze) - Win a race against Metal Sonic in Sonic CD Beware Stingers! (Bronze) - Defeat 10 Stingers in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Lucky Hedgehog (Bronze) - Get the Jackpot in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Beware Rhinobots! (Bronze) - Defeat 10 Rhinobots in Sonic 3 and Knuckles Easy Peasy with Shields! (Bronze) - Collect all three types of shields in Sonic 3 and Knuckles Ring Collector (Bronze) - Collect a total of 1000 Rings Gallant Spin Dash (Bronze) - Defeat 30 Enemies with the Spin Dash Newbie Hero (Bronze) - Defeat a total of 50 Enemies Museum Time (Bronze) - View a Premium Collection item from the Museum Very First Mission Clear (Bronze) - Clear 1 Mission Knuckles the Echidna (Bronze) - Glide as Knuckles Miles ‘Tails’ Prower (Bronze) - Fly as Tails Boss Rush Attempt (Bronze) - Try the boss rush from any of the titles Sonic the Hedgehog Mission Master (Silver) - Clear 10 Sonic the Hedgehog Missions with a S Rank Sonic CD Mission Master (Silver) - Clear 10 Sonic CD missions with a S Rank Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Mission Master (Silver) - Clear 10 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 missions with a S Rank S3 & K Mission Master (Silver) - Clear 10 Sonic 3 and Knuckles missions with a S Rank To the Mirror World (Silver) - Play Mirror Mode Movie Maniac (Silver) - Unlock 6 movie collection items with coins Sound Savant (Silver) - Unlock 10 sound collection items with coins Art Appreciator (Silver) - Unlock 30 art collection items with coins Everyone’s Hero (Silver) - Defeat a total of 200 enemies Super Sonic (Silver) - Turn into Super Sonic Cleared Sonic the Hedgehog (Gold) - Clear Sonic the Hedgehog in either anniversary or classic mode Cleared Sonic CD (Gold) - Clear Sonic CD in either anniversary or classic mode Cleared Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Gold) - Clear Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in either anniversary or classic mode Cleared Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (Gold) - Clear Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles in either anniversary or classic mode All Clear! (Gold) - Clear all 4 titles! Thoughts from our tipster, @Ryannumber1gamer... What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below, as always! Source: Exophase
  4. It's that time of year again! The annual Sonic Music Spectacular is warming up for another run - and to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 32nd birthday, the Sonic Stadium community is opening up submissions for the 2023 event right now! If you're not familiar with this event, the Sonic Music Spectacular is a community event organised by @Ryannumber1gamer that has been running for eight years now. It's a celebration of the music of Sonic the Hedgehog, allowing fans to contribute their favourite tracks to a playlist that is then streamed for all to enjoy! Users who take part will earn themselves exclusive Event Achievements as well. It's loads of fun, and I'm so psyched that it's coming back for another session in 2023. This year, the theme of the "SMS" is centred around the April Fools Day gag game, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. So as you'd expect, the event's artwork and all the Achievements you can earn are similarly themed! The more you participate in the music event, the more Achievements you can earn (these take the form of cute little tickets, and rank from Knuckles all the way up to Super Sonic). Full details are in the special Community Event topic on the Forums - check it out, read the rules and learn about what you need to do (there's a lot of text, but honestly, it's really quite simple to take part), and then post your music requests in that topic! The closing date for entries is 23 July 2023 - exactly a month after Sonic's birthday. After that, you may miss the chance to get any Achievements (or worse, have your music choices represented in the final stream). So go do it now! View full story
  5. It's that time of year again! The annual Sonic Music Spectacular is warming up for another run - and to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 32nd birthday, the Sonic Stadium community is opening up submissions for the 2023 event right now! If you're not familiar with this event, the Sonic Music Spectacular is a community event organised by @Ryannumber1gamer that has been running for eight years now. It's a celebration of the music of Sonic the Hedgehog, allowing fans to contribute their favourite tracks to a playlist that is then streamed for all to enjoy! Users who take part will earn themselves exclusive Event Achievements as well. It's loads of fun, and I'm so psyched that it's coming back for another session in 2023. This year, the theme of the "SMS" is centred around the April Fools Day gag game, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. So as you'd expect, the event's artwork and all the Achievements you can earn are similarly themed! The more you participate in the music event, the more Achievements you can earn (these take the form of cute little tickets, and rank from Knuckles all the way up to Super Sonic). Full details are in the special Community Event topic on the Forums - check it out, read the rules and learn about what you need to do (there's a lot of text, but honestly, it's really quite simple to take part), and then post your music requests in that topic! The closing date for entries is 23 July 2023 - exactly a month after Sonic's birthday. After that, you may miss the chance to get any Achievements (or worse, have your music choices represented in the final stream). So go do it now!
  6. Wanted to kick off a Megathread about the Sights, Sounds and Speed DLC pack for Sonic Frontiers. Release Date Event + Info Please discuss your gameplay experiences and thoughts on this new content expansion in this topic. You can also use this topic to share your screenshots and participate in the Community Achievements event that is taking place (details in the Sonic Stadium Update post here). Community Achievements This is now closed for new entries. Members are eligible for the following Special Achievement Badges from DLC 1's release date, until 23:59 UK time on Friday 31st March. It helps if you can make it clear in your post that you are going for any of the below Achievements, as we have to award these to users manually. Starfall Snapper: Take a photo in Sonic Frontiers' Photo Mode and share it with the Community! How to Earn: Take any photo in Photo Mode (make it look really cool, though!), save a snapshot using your PC/console's screenshot feature, and post the image in this topic. Cyber Space Speedster: Complete the Cyber Space Challange and share your score with the Community! How to Earn: Complete the marathon run of Cyber Space Challenge, take a snapshot of the results screen (or the main menu with all the Ranks outlined against each stage) as proof using your PC/console's screenshot feature, and post the image in this topic. Any Rank is eligible. Boss Battler: Complete any of the Boss Rush stages and share your score with the Community How to Earn: Complete any (or all, if you prefer!) of the Boss Rush stages, take a snapshot of the results screen (or the main menu with the Rank/s outlined) as proof using your PC/console's screenshot feature, and post the image in this topic. Any Rank is eligible. Audio Archaeologist: Unlock a song by collecting Sound Memory tokens and share your discovery with the Community How to Earn: Unlock a new song to the game's new Jukebox feature (none of the 13 available starting songs count). Switch to the song during gameplay, and take a snapshot of the game with the song menu selected (and the unlocked song highlighted) using your PC/console's screenshot feature. Post the image in this topic.
  7. Spring is almost here, and with the promise of a new season comes some brand new Sonic the Hedgehog content to enjoy! As we reported earlier this week, Sonic Frontiers is set to get its first free content update for 2023 in just over a day's time. So we thought we'd do something to celebrate the occasion! That's right, we're introducing some new Limited Edition Achievements for the Sonic Community! These will all be Sonic Frontiers-themed, and available to all users who play the new DLC pack (and contribute to the Sonic Stadium forums) until the end of the month. Each Badge will relate to one of the new modes or features found in the upcoming Sights, Sounds and Speed DLC pack. To earn these Badges, you will need to play or complete the relevant mode, take a screenshot of your handiwork and post it on the Sonic Stadium Forums to share with the rest of the Sonic Community. We have created a new Topic in the 'Sonic Chat' forum which will be used for your Achievement hunting and screenshot sharing - check it out here for details on each Achievement Badge and how to unlock it! Achievements FAQ Speaking of Achievements, we know that since we launched the new system in mid-2022 there have been a lot of questions about how it works, what kind of badges you can earn, and a lot more besides. So we've taken the time to create a Site Guide on the Sonic Database that fully introduces the Achievements System and all you need to know about it. You can find it here: That Database record will also contain links to other records that list special Badges you can earn, as well as legacy SSMB Awards from yesteryear (if you're curious)! If there are any more questions about how the system works, please feel free to let me know and I can update the Suite Guide to account for any missing information. Events Calendar You might have noticed that the Calendar section has had a bit of a facelift. That's part of a recent site software update that changes the focus of the section from less of a 'calendar' and more of an 'Events' portal. The front page of the Events section will now show an at-a-glance view of all upcoming occasions, but if you like you can switch it back to a traditional Calendar view too. We also took the opportunity to tart up the Events widget, found in the sidebar on the Forum homepage and elsewhere. You can better see what's coming up in the month ahead, and we're always adding new Events so that it doesn't get stale and empty. We encourage the Community to also create Events to help populate the Calendar with us - you get Achievement Points and Badges for contributing, and you also get a warm glow of satisfaction for helping your fellow Sonic fan know when the next major game anniversary will be. Give it a try! Personal Discussion is No More A quick update on the Personal Discussion forum - in our last update post we announced that this forum would be closed down at a nearby date. Due to certain events that have taken place this week, the moderation team has decided that the closure of the forum is long overdue. So if you no longer see the forum where you would expect it to be... that will be why. It's kaput. Why has it been shut down? To recap, the site staff spent some time re-assessing the kind of discussion and content that we would like to see and encourage on the Sonic Stadium and its forums, and we found that topics of a deeply personal nature - many of which veered very closely to sensitive and borderline subjects - are themes that we no longer have an appetite for hosting on our community. We want to be a positive, encouraging space for people to come together and talk about their favourite things, but at the same time we can not be a destination where community members end up therapising one another. Sad topics (a significant person's passing, or a newsworthy tragedy, for example) will of course continue to be allowed in the General Discussion forum. But topics of a deeply personal nature, of the kind previously fit for the Personal Discussion forum, will no longer be permitted. For various reasons, we also cannot move certain topics from the Personal Discussion forum into a new 'allowed' destination. Thanks for your understanding on this. Coming Soon I have to say, I'm enjoying finding the time to post site updates on here once again. This is starting to become a monthly thing, isn't it!? Maybe we can make a habit of this. Anyway, I wanted to round things off with a notice that I'm still working on a number of further updates to the site, including slight design tweaks to make the user experience a little cleaner, and some new features that I hope you'll love. But the headline here is all about the Achievements, and I want to get into the habit of offering more seasonal/exclusive Badges to encourage community discussion and connection. Stay tuned for more in the coming month/s!
  8. Spring is almost here, and with the promise of a new season comes some brand new Sonic the Hedgehog content to enjoy! As we reported earlier this week, Sonic Frontiers is set to get its first free content update for 2023 in just over a day's time. So we thought we'd do something to celebrate the occasion! That's right, we're introducing some new Limited Edition Achievements for the Sonic Community! These will all be Sonic Frontiers-themed, and available to all users who play the new DLC pack (and contribute to the Sonic Stadium forums) until the end of the month. Each Badge will relate to one of the new modes or features found in the upcoming Sights, Sounds and Speed DLC pack. To earn these Badges, you will need to play or complete the relevant mode, take a screenshot of your handiwork and post it on the Sonic Stadium Forums to share with the rest of the Sonic Community. We have created a new Topic in the 'Sonic Chat' forum which will be used for your Achievement hunting and screenshot sharing - check it out here for details on each Achievement Badge and how to unlock it! Achievements FAQ Speaking of Achievements, we know that since we launched the new system in mid-2022 there have been a lot of questions about how it works, what kind of badges you can earn, and a lot more besides. So we've taken the time to create a Site Guide on the Sonic Database that fully introduces the Achievements System and all you need to know about it. You can find it here: That Database record will also contain links to other records that list special Badges you can earn, as well as legacy SSMB Awards from yesteryear (if you're curious)! If there are any more questions about how the system works, please feel free to let me know and I can update the Suite Guide to account for any missing information. Events Calendar You might have noticed that the Calendar section has had a bit of a facelift. That's part of a recent site software update that changes the focus of the section from less of a 'calendar' and more of an 'Events' portal. The front page of the Events section will now show an at-a-glance view of all upcoming occasions, but if you like you can switch it back to a traditional Calendar view too. We also took the opportunity to tart up the Events widget, found in the sidebar on the Forum homepage and elsewhere. You can better see what's coming up in the month ahead, and we're always adding new Events so that it doesn't get stale and empty. We encourage the Community to also create Events to help populate the Calendar with us - you get Achievement Points and Badges for contributing, and you also get a warm glow of satisfaction for helping your fellow Sonic fan know when the next major game anniversary will be. Give it a try! Personal Discussion is No More A quick update on the Personal Discussion forum - in our last update post we announced that this forum would be closed down at a nearby date. Due to certain events that have taken place this week, the moderation team has decided that the closure of the forum is long overdue. So if you no longer see the forum where you would expect it to be... that will be why. It's kaput. Why has it been shut down? To recap, the site staff spent some time re-assessing the kind of discussion and content that we would like to see and encourage on the Sonic Stadium and its forums, and we found that topics of a deeply personal nature - many of which veered very closely to sensitive and borderline subjects - are themes that we no longer have an appetite for hosting on our community. We want to be a positive, encouraging space for people to come together and talk about their favourite things, but at the same time we can not be a destination where community members end up therapising one another. Sad topics (a significant person's passing, or a newsworthy tragedy, for example) will of course continue to be allowed in the General Discussion forum. But topics of a deeply personal nature, of the kind previously fit for the Personal Discussion forum, will no longer be permitted. For various reasons, we also cannot move certain topics from the Personal Discussion forum into a new 'allowed' destination. Thanks for your understanding on this. Coming Soon I have to say, I'm enjoying finding the time to post site updates on here once again. This is starting to become a monthly thing, isn't it!? Maybe we can make a habit of this. Anyway, I wanted to round things off with a notice that I'm still working on a number of further updates to the site, including slight design tweaks to make the user experience a little cleaner, and some new features that I hope you'll love. But the headline here is all about the Achievements, and I want to get into the habit of offering more seasonal/exclusive Badges to encourage community discussion and connection. Stay tuned for more in the coming month/s! View full story
  9. This is a list of special Achievements and Badges that are available to Sonic Community members on the Sonic Stadium during certain limited-time events. Users who participate in various tasks and projects across the Community will be awarded these Badges at the end of the event or limited period. Most Achievements are exclusive to their limited time event - if you miss it, you lose the chance to get it forever - but some may be made available in the future in repeat events.
  10. This is a list of legacy awards that were made available to users of the Sonic Stadium Message Board (SSMB). These were in active use between 2009 and 2017, using a bespoke awards system that was replaced with the current Achievements system in 2022. The below awards are no longer being distributed to users, and are listed on users' accounts as "Classic Awards".
  11. One of the things that I am really proud of, when it comes to the Sonic Stadium, is the community that has been built around it. Thanks to each and every one of you who read and post in our forums, this place is undoubtedly the online home for dedicated Sonic the Hedgehog fans. I want to do my best to encourage active discussion and collaboration across our website and forums, as communities living exclusively on social media become more and more fragmented and hostile to one another. To that end, we're going to be introducing some new Achievements and features that will reward great content and discussion on these pages. Get Your Content on the Homepage! First, let's take a look at the Forum homepage. You'll notice a new widget at the top of the page, called 'Our Picks'. The design of this may change over time, but its function is to amplify and promote excellent content we find posted across the Sonic community. That can be a single post, a topic, or even a calendar event. SSMB moderators will be able to select hot content they feel should get priority attention from the community and will slot it in this carousel. If your content is selected to appear in this widget, you will earn Points towards your next Sonic Rank as well as the following 'Promotion!' Badge: The above badge is for your first Promotion to the Our Picks carousel, but we have follow-up badges primed for whenever your content is promoted a number of times (i.e. for 10 Promotions, you get a special 'Always Be Promotin'!' badge). You also earn the warm glow in your heart that comes from being recognised for your discussion skills. Rewards For Great Content! I mentioned in a previous Stadium Update that we would be introducing what we called 'Manual Badges' to reward great content we see on the site and forums. We're now ready to start implementing these badges in the field - so we're going to be keeping an eye on the discussion forums to dole out content that we think deserve special credit. These are the Badges you can earn for your Topics and Posts (in most cases you will earn a Points reward too): Great Content: Awarded for creating a post that has a lot of thoughtful and original content. Sonic News Tipster: Awarded for posting a News topic in a manner that suits Forum Guidelines. Helping Hand: Awarded for helping out another user in a Topic. Great Community Support: Awarded for posting content that should serve as an example to others. Superstar: A special Badge awarded by the moderation team if they feel your content goes above and beyond, in a manner that is not covered by (or covers multiple instances of) the above Badges. How to Get Rewarded! Looks awesome, right!? How do you get them!? Well, we won't just give them out willy-nilly - here are some basic notes on what we would consider prime candidates for these rewards: Information worthy of its own Topic belongs in its own separate Topic. Anything posted in a Megathread, hidden away from main forum view, will not be considered for rewards unless split into its own Topic. Topics and posts that adhere to recently-published, new, Forum Guidelines (i.e. New News = New Topic) will be infinitely more likely to earn rewards over those that ignore those Guidelines. We will be prioritising material posted in discussion forums - it's worth noting that you earn Points for posting new topics and replies (and you can earn Badges for cumulative Posts made as well). In relation to the last point, we want to clarify that this means that Status Updates have not been, and will not be, eligible for any Point or Badge rewards. Ever. You will get nothing for posting a Status Update - the Statuses feature exists for fun, shower thoughts only and isn't intended to replace discussion forums. We are much more likely to reward content that has substantial original content/text to it, rather than something that is just a copy-paste of an article or a tweet embed. Related to the last point, putting some effort into your Topics (especially News-related topics) will not only increase your chances of rewards, it will increase the number of Points you will earn alongside the appropriate Badge. If you are posting a News-related Topic, linking to the original source of the information (instead of just linking to a tweet/article that posted the news elsewhere) will increase the chances of being awarded the Sonic News Tipster Badge (and will definitely increase the number of Points awarded). If your News-related Topic is covered and credited on Sonic News (Sonic Stadium's news section), you will earn the Sonic News Tipster Badge. It might look like a long list of bullet points, but overall it's very simple: creating high-effort Posts, News and Topics that follow correct forum guidance and stand out as an example for others to follow will earn you special Badges and Points! Let's work together and keep our fellow Sonic fans informed and updated! And let's have some fun while doing so!
  12. The time has finally come! We'd like to formally re-introduce... The Sonic Stadium Achievements system! This has been in the making for many, many months. We actually delayed the launch a few times as we wanted to make sure that the system we introduced was fair, provided a realistic promotion curve and awarded things in the way we wanted to. And we will still be tweaking things as we go (see the Fine Print section below), as we soft-launch this new system and get to understand how people use and respond to it. So let me start by saying; BADGES ARE BACK! But, there is also much more to our new Achievements system. I'd like to introduce the whole thing to you here and give you the rundown of how it works and what to expect. Sonic Stadium Achievements: Overview Almost anything and everything you can do on The Sonic Stadium (well, the SSMB side of it, anyway) can be recognised and rewarded with points and/or badges. These rewards can be offered either through automatic rules that the Sonic Stadium staff set, or manually awarded by SSMB Mods and Admins (and in some cases, TSS Staff with certain conditional events). Automatic Rules-based rewards (like the ones above) are usually given for meeting certain milestone targets during your stay at The Sonic Stadium. For example, if you just registered an account with us and made your first post in a topic (and it gets approved), you will automatically earn a special badge. We can set rules for [making X number of posts], [giving X number of Reactions to another user's content]... even [return visits to The Sonic Stadium]. There will often be multiple tiers/levels to these kinds of Achievements, with circular basic-colour badges being more common and easier to unlock, and spiky/shinier badges being more rare (or require a bit more dedication to earn). Manual Rewards (like the badges seen above) will mostly be handed out for meeting unique conditions (i.e. during Community Events) that SSMB staff will track, or for qualitative instances such as rewarding the quality of a user's post in a topic. Badges associated with these kinds of Achievements will mostly be in a square format, and (with the exception of Limited Edition or Community Event badges) can be awarded multiple times. For example, the green badge above is awarded by Staff to a user that makes a post that they think counts as really great content - they will be able to award this directly to that user's post. That user will also be able to see a link to the content that earned them this badge, by checking their Badge list on their profile page. Progression In order to understand the Achievements system fully, it's best to think of it as four major pillars of progression: Achievement Rules, which are custom conditions set by us that you meet in order to earn... Achievements, which will consist of EITHER or BOTH of the below, depending on the Achievement: Badges, which are cool little tokens that are forever saved to your account Points, which contribute to your account levelling up in... Rank, which is a visual representation of your journey in the Sonic Community. Badges alone do not count towards your Rank progression. Only Points do. So, having lots of Badges on your account will not necessarily mean you will shoot up in Rank, unless many of those Badges also have a Points value assigned to them. Not all Achievements will include a Points reward. Some will reward only Points (i.e. make a post in a topic and you earn X points towards your next rank), some will reward only Badges. Only Achievements that reward Badges will be listed on your profile page for you to track. With this first iteration of the Sonic Stadium Achievements system, we're offering 16 Ranks that start at the level of 'Chao' and run up the Sonic character leaderboard... all the way to Hyper Sonic at the very top. These Rank Badges were created for TSS by the amazing @Zaysho - be sure to give them all the love in the world for making these incredibly expressive renditions of the Sonic crew! You can check your progress at any time by going to your Profile page and clicking the 'Recent Badges' link above the main content area on the right hand side. This will also detail your Badge collection in full. A reminder of your current Rank status (and the Points needed to level up) can be found in the User Dropdown menu (or User Menu Drawer on mobile), as well as on Profile hovercards (when hovering your mouse over a member's username). Can I See The Achievement List? At the moment, we are still deciding exactly how much we share of the Achievements/Rules list. There are a few reasons for this: There are loads and loads of Rules in our system already, and the potential for many more to come - it would be too long and tedious a list to tell you every little thing you'd get points for (some of them are incredibly boring, like earning X Points per Topic post and Y Points for every Reaction)... it's also one of the reasons why only Badge-related Achievements are tracked on your Profile We want people to be surprised by cool Achievements they earn as they organically use the SSMB and explore different areas of the site. At this early stage, we'd rather not spoil all the different badges you could potentially get Revealing the list could lead to members abusing the system in an attempt to earn as many Badges and Points as they could, in order to artificially boost their Rank. We want this to be a fairly-run system that rewards good behaviour. We may change our mind on this at any time and share the list in full if we feel that it would be beneficial to do so. It would depend on whether we could engineer the system so that having the membership know the Achievements List doesn't negatively impact the content or activity on this site. During this soft-launch we will be keeping things pretty conservative as a result, but we will of course take on board feedback about this. Having said that, we're not against sharing some of the Achievements you can earn through using the site. Here are some examples of Badges: First Steps: Made your first Post on SSMB Conversation Starter: Made your first Topic on SSMB (this is achievable once your account leaves 'Newbie' status and enters the 'Sonic Community' usergroup) Reacting Well: Give 5 Reactions to other users' content Great Content: Manual Badge. Awarded to a user if staff determine it is... well, great content. Helping Hand: Manual Badge. Awarded to a user if their content has been recognised as helpful to others. A Decade Dedicated: Been a member of the Sonic Community for ten years. There are many more to find and unlock, so we hope you have fun discovering all that the Achievements system has to offer! Classic SSMB Badges As you might remember, we used to have a Badge/Award system before on SSMB - you might be wondering what has happened to all of that? Well, even though the Sonic Stadium Achievements is a brand new system, we were able to migrate all of the old SSMB Awards into it. That means, if you were ever awarded an SSMB Badge in the past, you'll find it sitting right there in your profile right now. They'll be labelled 'Classic Awards' and will have no Points value attached to them, but you can rest easy knowing that your epic run through the SSMB Heroes Academy will forever be immortalised. What About Reputation? The Reputation system has been used as a sort of crude 'Ranking' mechanic for many years now, and to be honest I'm kind of impressed that we were able to use it in this way. However, with the advent of this new Achievements system, the Rep system will be pretty much redundant. At this time, no changes will be made to it, but logically it doesn't really make sense to have two 'ranking' like systems, so at some point it may be revised to become a little closer to its original intended purpose - to offer users a one-look view of how trustworthy/helpful a user is to the SSMB community. If we do anything radical to Reputation, we will find a way to honour people's progression there into this new Achievements system. And we will of course announce any changes we plan in advance. But for now, it's just kinda staying as it is. Fine Print While all of this is very cool and exciting, I want to point out that we are soft-launching this new system with the objective of making tweaks and changes to the Badges and number of Points offered as we go. This means that there may be some small turbulence every so often as we reset or alter the system in order to rebalance things. The reason for doing this? We want it to be fun, accessible yet challenging (but not too much) to earn Points and level up in Rank, and while we've made every effort to plot things out in a way we think works, we simply have no idea how easy it might be for some of you to reach the Hyper Sonic rank until we set this whole thing live. This iteration of SSMB has a directory of members spanning the last 10-12 years, and most Achievements work retroactively - so that means there's a LOT of potential content that various power users of the forum can be credited for. We will be keeping an eye at the average Ranking and progression of the entire userbase over the course of the next week or two, and will tweak things up or down if we feel that people are either levelling up too fast, or in fact finding it too difficult to rank up (i.e. if certain Ranks provide too steep a curve in relation to the user journey we want to set out with this system). So, rebalancing can go either up or down. Please bear with us while we get this right. To my knowledge, if we rebalance things, it should not affect the Badges you have earned - only Points and Ranks - but we'll keep tweaking until we feel we have it perfect. And you're more than welcome to offer feedback to the system either in here or via our Feedback Forum! Your help and interaction is vital in making our Achievements system a success. So I hope you're as excited about this journey as I am! Enjoy! Happy Badge Collecting! NOTE: In order for the new Achievements system to account for all members’ past activity, we need to recalibrate it. This might take a long while, as there is 12+ years of content on this forum for the system to comb over. Once it’s done, you’ll be able to access and view all of your Achievements and Badges!
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    Achievements System

    During your journey as a member of this Sonic Community, you may find that your account is rewarded with badges and ranks from time to time. Don't worry, this isn't a random occurrence. That's just The Sonic Stadium's Achievements system hard at work! This page aims to explain the wonderful world of Achievements on The Sonic Stadium, and how it works. The purpose behind the Achievements system is to help encourage and reward community activity and collaboration. We love it when the community gets together and develops incredible things, so we wanted to offer a way to thank those dedicated members of the Sonic community in a fun way.
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