Suggestions to Make the Forum More Engaging and Rewarding

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JorgeDLaw

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Hi everyone,

I'd like to share a few ideas that I think could make the beloved PokéForce forum even more engaging and rewarding for the community.

First of all, it would be great if players could display their badges alongside their forum posts. Even if a player earns many badges in the future, a simple expandable section (or a "<>" button) could keep everything clean and organized and do the trick.

Another feature that could be fun would be forum level titles based on the number of posts or messages a player has made. For example:

0–100 posts: Novice
101–500 posts: Rookie
1,500–2,000 posts: Expert Trainer
3,000–4,000 posts: Forum Enthusiast
5,000+ posts: Celebrity

The ranks could continue with even more creative titles. Higher-tier ranks could also have unique visual effects, such as a subtle shiny sparkle on the title or decorative frames around the username/forum level to make them feel more rewarding and prestigious.

Of course, to discourage spam, only meaningful posts should count toward progression, or there could be moderation rules and penalties for low-effort or spammy content.

I also think it would be really cool if players could choose to display some in-game statistics on their forum messages or posts besides the forum profile, such as the number of Shinies caught, Pokédex completion, achievements, or other interesting stats.

Finally, I believe forum-exclusive events with badges as rewards (for example, the "Summer Memories" event) would be a great way to encourage players to participate more actively and keep the players engaged with the forum.

I'd love to hear what everyone else thinks about these ideas, and I'm also interested in hearing any other thoughts/amazing ideas the community has for improving the forums!
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I've gone and implemented all of your suggestions, take a look at preferences :)
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Alycia said:I've gone and implemented all of your suggestions, take a look at preferences :)


Thank you so much, i appreciate it. I didnt notice the forum preferences until now that you mentioned them, i hope we get to display all of our badges in the future, it would be really cool.

Now i am really curious about the different forum levels/titles and if they will have good visual effects in the future. I guess that i will have to climb my way up the ladder to find out, it will be a lot of fun.

I also like that we can display up to two different “featured game stats”, i feel like there is a lot to work with here, it would be amazing to spot the different kind of trainers in the forums, like the number of chopped trees, berries harvested or overall life skills level (the level of all skills combined), it would be cool to identify the farmers haha.

I also dont know what “A little Coin Flip on the side, for the brave.” regarding The PokéBank means, but the gamblers identity can be a nice touch as well to identify the coin flippers and how much coins they made with their bravery.
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JorgeDLaw said:Hi everyone,

I'd like to share a few ideas that I think could make the beloved PokéForce forum even more engaging and rewarding for the community.

First of all, it would be great if players could display their badges alongside their forum posts. Even if a player earns many badges in the future, a simple expandable section (or a "<>" button) could keep everything clean and organized and do the trick.

Another feature that could be fun would be forum level titles based on the number of posts or messages a player has made. For example:

0–100 posts: Novice
101–500 posts: Rookie
1,500–2,000 posts: Expert Trainer
3,000–4,000 posts: Forum Enthusiast
5,000+ posts: Celebrity

The ranks could continue with even more creative titles. Higher-tier ranks could also have unique visual effects, such as a subtle shiny sparkle on the title or decorative frames around the username/forum level to make them feel more rewarding and prestigious.

Of course, to discourage spam, only meaningful posts should count toward progression, or there could be moderation rules and penalties for low-effort or spammy content.

I also think it would be really cool if players could choose to display some in-game statistics on their forum messages or posts besides the forum profile, such as the number of Shinies caught, Pokédex completion, achievements, or other interesting stats.

Finally, I believe forum-exclusive events with badges as rewards (for example, the "Summer Memories" event) would be a great way to encourage players to participate more actively and keep the players engaged with the forum.

I'd love to hear what everyone else thinks about these ideas, and I'm also interested in hearing any other thoughts/amazing ideas the community has for improving the forums!


Thank you for suggesting the Badges and the in-game stats.
Titles I'm iffy on. I personally lurk. In every discord, forum, video game, etc.
I'm just not much of a talker. If anything, instead of Titles - which I would say would be best to keep as Staff titles, as well as possible Tournament/Event winners, etc - making them special.
Instead of the Titles for everyone, I reckon some sort of a "upvote" or something could work, as long as there is no downvoting - because the downvoting would get abused much harder than any sort of upvoting.

Whilst I like the idea of forum-exclusive events and badges... Again. Lurkers like me won't really enjoy being "forced" to participate in such things. (FOMO is real bad for me. T-T)



Alycia said:I've gone and implemented all of your suggestions, take a look at preferences :)

Thank you for adding the Badges and the in-game statistics options.

On the profile, would it be possible to get the Info Panel to showcase as per the layout/format we input?
I intentionally placed each 'category' or relevant info on different lines, but it's all placed it into the same line when saved to our profile. :(


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