Better overview for the game awards wall

[xTr4ceur]

I had an idea to optimize the game awards wall for a better overview which mostly affects users with many mastery badges.
Giving users the option to create own categories that can be collapsed, I've made a picture and maybe you understand what I want to tell you: Game Awards wall.
What do you guys think about it?

[LuneDeCuivre]

I think it's a good idea. Giving players the ability to pick their own categories would mean that people could "quarantine" peak streak into it's own category for example, or have truly cohesive walls badge wise. It may also help slow computers load the profile if the categories are collapsed by default (and the achievements inside not loaded until the category is maximized).

[xTr4ceur]

A user in the german section on RA discord posted an improvement of this idea. :)

[LuneDeCuivre]

Images with banners would be awesome but that means we would be restricting groupings by hubs, right?

[xTr4ceur]

Connecting it with our hubs would be also good, i mean these hubs are really detailed so far and if some users want there own categories then they could create them and upload they own images or they let it be blank like I posted it 1st.

[wescopeland]

One tricky problem is this may reinforce us loading hundreds of awards on every profile hit. This is something with a potential user2 page that we want to try to steer away from.

The direction we ultimately want to go is showing "up to N" awards (N can be some reasonable limit, maybe 200), and a "See more" button to see everything. Right now, server-side memory consumption on some user profiles is far too high.

[xTr4ceur]

oki doki, was just an idea maybe a project for the far future.

[LuneDeCuivre]

Wouldn't this potentially help? Instead of loading 600 mario games, you only load 1 banner. And you only do the hard work if someone clicks on the banner. The "up to x" solution works too though.

[clolis1]

Wow, this banner idea is fantastic!

How about this for an idea:

• Walls are (initially) limited to 40 rows of 5 (200 badges, currently).
• RA has custom banners for most/all categories of various scope and direction, i.e. Mario Series banner, Mario Kart banner, 3D Platformer Banner, Uzebox banner, Subset banner, etc.
• Each banner takes up a row. Clicking on a banner opens a dropdown of badges that otherwise remain unloaded.
• You gain access to a banner by completing a game of that category.
• Until you master 100 games, your wall is capped at 40 rows, after which you gain 1 row per 10 games.
• Banners require at least 1 game to be put on your wall for the dropdown effect.
• In terms of creation UI, I think instead of a list it should be changed to a 5 column system to reflect the sidebar 5 unit width. Imagine an empty grid where you drag and drop badges/banners to fill in empty squares/rows.
• Banners can be placed taking up an entire row and a UI effect will have a target area below the banner showing what games will be displayed under said banner. When all 5 row slots are taken up, a new row appears under the old one, still in the banner's target area. This allows for "more" than 40 rows (because some badges will start unloaded and prevent overhead issues).
• Badges can only be placed once. Either by themselves or under a single banner.
• Badges can only be placed under banners whose category they apply for.

So overall, it gives the art team more fun stuff to do, it gives people rewards for their masteries (both individual and total), it resolves a longstanding overhead issues with page-loading, and it makes the mastery system more interactive and fun to use.

tl;dr We limit total rows but use category-based banners to hide badges til they're clicked on so you can still display everything and it's pretty.