Award bronze, silver, gold and platinum badges

[Ralph_Toelle (Ralph)]

Instead of awarding a route badge only once:

Add a counter to each route badge stating how often you received it.

Award bronze badge at 1st reception of a badge.
Award silver badge at 5th reception of a badge.
Award gold badge at 10th reception of a badge.
Award platinum badge at 25th reception of badge.

Make those badges really look good.
Initialize any already received badge to bronze badge.

[Rob_Packard (Rob)]

I’m all for that plan.

[Daren (Daren Chandisingh)]

I found this one as I was searching for badge-related feature requests, and I’m definitely in favour.

Another one I saw was this one:

Request for new Badges

I just saw a guy on reddit, that made literally all cycling badges in just one winter of zwift riding. This is very impressiv but at the same time it made me think: Why is there not many more badges that can be achieved? But i didn’t open this thread to say just this, i did it to bring up some of m…

I replied to this thread as it was newer, but both of the suggestions are things I support. It seems to be that apart from designing an icon for the achievements and a bit of data capture, these are simple things that Zwift could add.

I’d like to see more of the long term/lifetime types of achievements touched on in the other thread.

Some ideas I had:

Meta achievements for riding every badge route on a given world, e.g. “Rider of Watopia” (naming things isn’t my forté, so just imagine I’ve come up with good names).

Badges that promote spending Drops:

“Easy Come, Easy Go”: spend 5 million Drops

Badges that promote competition:

“Speed Demon”: Ride 100 ITT or TTT events
“Podium Hunter:” Complete 500 races

Achievements that promote social riding:

“Better Together”: ride 1000km with RoboPacers or in group ride events. (Distance might favour stronger riders, so this could be awarded for, say, riding 100 hours with RoboPacers/group rides.)

Achievements that promote social encouragement:

“You’re Doing Great!”: give out 5000 Ride Ons. Thinking about this one, I thought it could be cool to have a special reward for those who really love to give out Ride Ons. For example, after giving out 10,000 Ride Ons (or something), your “Ride On” thumb could change from blue to Zwift orange, and from then on every time you give out a Ride On they get an orange thunb.

Another variation on this theme might be that for every 1,000th Ride On you give out, the system pops a golden Ride On over your avatar. That way everyone else around can see you’ve just given out a 1,000th Ride On (or 500th, 250th etc.)

Zwifter Score

I like the idea of an overall achievement score too. World of Warcraft does this, where each achievement has a score (5, 10, 20 etc.) and as a player you accumulate a total score.

This might be your Zwifter Score that’s shown on your profile page (when we get public profiles), or could be shown on Club pages to promote friendly rivalry within clubs.

The other thread I linked had a load of good ideas for things that could contribute, but there are hundreds of others people could come up with I’m sure.

The more the better IMO. Really lean in to the game aspect of Zwift. As another poster said:

I am getting started on Zwift and am currently in the process of collecting all of the badges.

Once I have achieved this, I am concerned the ‘gamification’ aspect will diminish.

What’re more, along with all these new badges and long term goals I really want to be able to display them. A virtual trophy cabinet that people can look at to see which badges I have. This could be as simple as a page on my Zwift web profile, but could also be something we see when inspecting a rider in Companion.

I just want more things to try and collect. I don’t use Zwift for “training” like some, I’m here because I’m a cyclist and a gamer, but Zwift doesn’t do enough to satisfy the gamer side of me.

[R_Atwell (R)]

I definitely agree that the strongest part of the gamification is the badge hunting and even though I’m on 32/180 I can see how people who have been going a while could lose interest if they have them all.

Some other further badge ideas:

PBs: 1 Badge for beating a PB on a sprint, 1 Badge for beating a PB on a KOM/ QOM section, 1 Badge for beating a PB on a route.

Total time/ distance: 1 Badge for spending a total of 1 day on the bike, 1 badge for spending a total of 1 week on the bike, 1 badge for spending a total of 1 month on the bike. 1 badge for 10,000km on the bike, 1 badge for 100,000km on the bike, 1 badge for 1,000,000km on the bike. etc

Workouts: 1 badge for completing a group workout, 1 badge for completing 100 workouts, 1 badge for 1 day spent in workouts, 1 badge for completing a custom workout you built