New Ranks

[Squishy Rex]

Hey all, it's time for that topic again! Some love 'em, some hate 'em and I guess everyone else is indifferent, but they're back! Well... they never really went anywhere, they just looked pretty half-baked, and that's about to change. Now regardless on where anyone stands on the ranks topic, I feel like if we're going to have ranks, we might as well make the effort to have them look decent, especially with the cool new forum themes that have been getting made. The new rank images are a bit different to what we've typically had in the past, but I really hope you enjoy them.

I've made some changes to the Rank roster, so you'll see two new faces to celebrate Beta 5; Chain Chomp and Boss Bass, as well as a slight shuffling of some of the older ranks.

Rank backgrounds now also change. Ranks between 1-999 posts have a blue background, 1000-4999 posts have a silver background and 5001 onward are gold. How fancy! You can check out the unlocked Ranks and changes below:

Ranks

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1 - Goomba
5 - Shy Guy
10 - Cheep Cheep
15 - Koopa Troopa
20 - Bob-Omb
25 - Spiny
30 - Fighter Fly
40 - Hoopster
50 - Bot
60 - Swooper
80 - Buster Beetle
100 - Monty Mole
125 - Tweeter
150 - Blooper
175 - Flurry
200 - Snifit
250 - Spike
300 - Chain Chomp
350 - Ripper II
400 - Nipper
450 - Lakitu
500 - Volcano Lotus
600 - Rocky Wrench
700 - Eerie
800 - Foo
900 - Ninji
1000 - Fuzzy
1100 - Dolphin
1200 - Boss Bass
1300 - Boomerang Bros
1400 - Phanto
1500 - Rex
1600 - Torpedo Ted
1800 - Charged Spiny
1900 - Van de Graf
2000 - Chargin' Chuck
2100 - Birdo
2250 - Boom Boom
2500 - Mouser
2750 - Reznor
3000 - Fry Guy
3250 - Larry Koopa
3500 - Ludwig von Koopa
4000 - Wart
4500 - Bowser
5000 - Mario
5500 - Luigi
6000 - Toad
6500 - Peach
7000 - Link
??? -???

Emral currently holds the highest post count on the forums which would have unlocked a couple more ranks, however, since they have a special Rank, I will leave those ones so they can still be discovered and not spoiled.

Please remember that shit-posting to boost your post count/Ranks still isn't cool or tolerated.

[Marina]

Hi sorry to ruin everything right away but we did deflate the rank numbers a bit so people will feasibly see all of them in our lifetime. Starting at

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1900 - Van de Graf
2000 - Chargin' Chuck
2100 - Birdo
2250 - Boom Boom
2500 - Mouser
2750 - Reznor
3000 - Fry Guy
3250 - Larry Koopa
3500 - Ludwig von Koopa
4000 - Wart
4500 - Bowser
5000 - Mario
5500 - Luigi
6000 - Toad
6500 - Peach
7000 - Link
??? - ???

[Alagirez]

Those new ranks are indeed fancy.

[Retro]

Can we have a option in the control panel where we can change to the original ranks for the people who dont really like the new ranks?

[KurttheKing]

Can we have a option in the control panel where we can change to the original ranks for the people who dont really like the new ranks?

I second this. The new ones look fine, but the old ones were already perfectly fine

[Master of Disaster]

It would be cool to have an option to switch to a lower rank.
I don't want to delete around 50 messages and then never post again just to get the role I want...

[krakin]

Personally I’d like themed ranks like how SMW Central has, it’d probably be too much to implement for now though

[Squishy Rex]

I’ve done a bit of a Google search, and at least from what I can find, there is no way of doing that even with phpBB mods. I’ve found topics asking the same question from a good few years ago, but with no concrete solution. The basic rank system allows only for post-count ranks or special ranks (The Egg Hunt 2025 rank), which still can only be given by admins. I’ve been curious about that before too, I’m kinda surprised it’s not a thing.

[Marina]

Can we have a option in the control panel where we can change to the original ranks for the people who dont really like the new ranks?

It would be cool to have an option to switch to a lower rank.
I don't want to delete around 50 messages and then never post again just to get the role I want...

I'll look into implementing these! Can't promise anything but it's on the list!

Personally I’d like themed ranks like how SMW Central has, it’d probably be too much to implement for now though

Can you elaborate how these work? Not familiar with the SMWC system

[krakin]

Personally I’d like themed ranks like how SMW Central has, it’d probably be too much to implement for now though

Can you elaborate how these work? Not familiar with the SMWC system

Oof, seeing my pfp and pronouns on those forums is a blast from the past, (last seen 3 years, 11 months and 5 days ago).

Anyways, I don’t remember my password there but from what I can remember they’re called “ranksets”, there’s some users with SMB3 ranks, LoZ ranks, Kirby ranks, Paper Mario, Earthbound, even just dots as ranks. You could go to your user control panel and select any one you want or you could disable ranks altogether.