Proposal to Adopt the Name of an Earned Medal as a Title

[subearthling]

Essentially, I think it would be cool if users could adopt the name of a medal they've earned as a title. For example, if you earn a hush-hush medal like "Obsessed," you can have "Obsessed" appear as your title, or if you have the 5 star taiko FC medal, you can have the title "Demonslayer." This would give users a cool way to distinguish themselves from each other at a glance, via a simple piece of text under their name in locations like the forums.

Obviously there's a concern that this would undermine the prestige of existing titles like "former owc champion" or -GN's "champion above champions," but I believe that the significance of these unique titles could be preserved by assigning them a special text color, font or a fancy border.

Games like Rocket League do this really well, where there are both common and unique titles that players can choose to display next to their name. Note the difference between the common title "MASTER" and the unique titles with a special color.

[Ephemeralis]

I don't know how many medals would have names that would work especially great as titles, but I like the idea in concept.

Importantly though, if we go down this route, some kind of differentiation between uniquely awarded titles (aka the ones people have now) and medal/achievement titles should be made, as you've mentioned. Perhaps by having the unique ones show up in italics or something.

[Walavouchey]

Just italics probably wouldn't stand out much and be less flashy than it could/should be

[cl8n]

italic is a no-go with Torus anyway 🙃

[Ephemeralis]

We have internal points tiering for medal difficulty that could be used as like, "rarity" colours similar to how MMO gear works or Rocket League does it. Would be interested to see what @arflyte thinks of the whole thing though.