One concept that has been pretty much untouched since 0.9.8.X are XP ranks. Well now that the game has progressed a bit, I have a proposal to make this concept more meaningful.
I think it's a good idea to keep the distinction between XP and Skill rank. Now, the skill ranks are earned through amazing feats of gameplay (badges) while the XP ranks are attained through a lot of gameplay killing various monsters. Now that we have secret medals and assemblies - the reward for experience is revealing information to the player as they gain XP rank. Also this change will normalize the XP rank progression since the vast majority of Veteran's are basically sitting at the Arch-Vile rank.
Enough talk
Here is the proposal:
*The fresh player starts with all medals and assemblies (even basics) hidden from view except for the two most common ones (Hell Champion Medal/UAC Star Bronze & tactical boots)
*Gaining rank reveals medal names and requirements AND assembly names, but not how to make them (the name alone will give players a good clue if they aren't spoiled on the wiki)
*Rank requirements will keep the idea of killing X number of the title monsters and introduce earning X number of any medals and eventually completing the game X number of times
M = Medals
A = Assembly
| RANK | REQS | REWARD |
| | | |
| Human | N/A | N/A |
| Former Human | Kill 50 | Reveal 2M & 2A |
| Imp | Kill 100 Imps / Earn 2 Medals | Reveal 2M & 2A |
| Demon | Kill 50 Demons (melee) / Earn 5 Medals | Reveal 2M & 2A |
| Lost Soul | Kill 100 Lost Souls / Earn 10 Medals | Reveal 2M & 2A & Names of 5 Uniques |
| Hell Knight | Kill 200 HKs / Earn 15 Medals / Win 1 Game | Reveal 3M & 3A |
| Cacodemon | Kill 50 Cacos (pistol) / Earn 30 Medals | Reveal 3M & 3A & Names of 5 Uniques |
| Pain Elemental | Kill 500 Lost Souls / Kill 5 Agony Elementals | Reveal 3M & 3A |
| Revenant | Kill 200 Revenants / Win 3 Games | Reveal 3M & 3A & (All BASIC forumlae revealed, but not earned) |
| Mancubus | Kill 50 Mancs (Melee) / 75 Medals / 5 Games | Reveal 3M & 3A & Names of 5 Uniques |
| Arachnotron | Kill 500 Arachs / 125 Medals | Reveal 4M & 4A |
| Hell Baron | Kill 1000 Barons / 15 Games | Reveal 4M & 4A |
| Arch-Vile | Kill 1000 Viles / 200 Medals / 25 Games | Reveal 4M & 4A & All ADV Formulae |
| Shambler | Kill 50 Shamblers / 300 Medals / 50 Games | Reveal 4M & 4A |
| Cyberdemon | Kill 100 Cybies | Reveal More stuff |
...and the secret ranks that exist beyond this.
I didn't really count the numbers of assemblies or unique medals but scaling the concept is pretty easy.
EDIT: I thought about the idea of having "secret" ranks that you can attain and elect to have in your mortem title rather than a linear progression. These secret ranks would be the boss enemies like Bruisers or Arena Master that you can 'discover' by say killing the AM 50 times in melee. I couldn't think of an exact way to implement it - but it is something to think about
Definitely open to different possibilities here.
Let's talk!
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