I think my bronze marker shows good taste and dignity, without excess. Ahem. ;-)

This is like Sunday School and those awards for perfect attendance--except that my family always went camping for two weeks in the summer and couldn't attend a Lutheran church, so I never got the pins. *sigh* I grieved that all through my school years. lol!

@FApple: email Kestas at [email protected]

I did it

So I clicked on this: userID=30452

and got this error message:

"Error triggered: Undefined index: DonatorPlatinum.

This was probably caused by a software bug. The details of this error have been successfully logged and will be attended to by a developer."

Weird, now it's fixed...

I wonder the requirements for each level of medals.

Woohoo! Look at my fancy new medal! Yeah!!!!!

Lol. It's great, FA, especially next to your 11 's. :D

That 11 represents what I donated, right???? LOL

@ kestas: go ahead and give yourself a gold medal. you've earned it.

Testing one two.

Nudged the gold/silver thresholds to be a bit lower, since I noticed a few of the e-mails were for unrelated payments and not webdip donators

@abgemacht; the list contains all donators going back to 2005, but we did get 50 or so with that recent drive for dedicated hosting which was a great response.

@yebellz; that might have happened while I was copying a change over. I was toying with adding another category, bumping gold and silver up, and splitting bronze into bronze & silver, but I think moving the thresholds down is enough.

The implementation also opens the way to add an icon for mods and banned people, so that's something else to consider (though I dont want to cram profile links with too many icons)

@Kestas - thanks for such a quick turnaround on my medal! I love it!

> Does the donator coin give any bonuses? Or is it just to show you donated a certain amount of money?
It's just a marker, like they have on sourceforge and slashdot

>How much is it to pay for a year at the site K?
We're on http://www.leaseweb.com/en/dedicated-servers/dual-core-servers - the DC6 option, which is 588EU for 2 years (plus minor things like DNS etc).

Thanks to the donators we're set for ~3 years though, which is great :)

"Does the donator coin give any bonuses?"
Yes, bronze gives your units double strength. Silver gives triple. And Gold gives you five times the strength.

THANKS TO ALL DONATORS!!!!

I missed the boat and did not contribute. I feel shamed... This is thus my lame attempt at trying to feel better by making sure I applaud and thank every single player who's made the switch to the dedicated server possible.
Thanks a lot, to all of you!

How about changing the color of the player link? Example:
-blue text for regular player
-orange/green text for moderator/admin
-gray/black text for banned players
-red text for trolls ;) (kidding for this one)

Text color wouldn't increase cluttering for the names, but rather be an easier way to spot a mod or something.

I just got this in a live game... gameID=66448

Fatal error: Call to undefined method userMember::donatorMarker() in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/webdiplomacy/gamepanel/member.php on line 168

That's a possibility acmac, though if possible Id rather stick to the convention for blue being links, plus it could get confusing on board pages where usernames are usually colored according to country.
For now Ive added a mod icon as the police checkerboard thing, though I expect there's a better alternative since I know police markings change from country to country

@cachimbo you sti can donate

Kestasjk, what about a shield for mods? But as you say with the checkerboard, while a shield is a common police image in the U.S., maybe elsewhere shields aren't used for police?

Yes, I've only faintly heard of blue checkers representing police. I thought it was a glitch when I first saw it.

Thats a possibility Alderian, though Im not sure if a shield would be easy to recognize in 12x12px Ill give it a try next time

If we're going to get symbol happy, how about a a Scarlet Letter for those of us who burn everyone's ears and eyes off with our many, many, far-far-too-many posts?

;)

lol, put one on Atom straight away...

@ PSMongoose

Don't forget Tettleton's Chew.

@ kestasjk

What are the requirements for the donor icons? How much must you give to get a silver or gold icon?

whats with the symbol besides kestas?

I am impressed.