I would rather have something rare and unique aimed at the rich end of the player base tbh. The Nstar medal costs 1mil+, so there is a precedent already set for expensive forum medals.

I guess one other option would be to create 2 medals. A lower tiered one with coal, redstone, lapis & iron. Using @knears2000's prices this would be approximately 450k and then the exclusive gold/diamond/emerald medal which would be approximately 2.3mil.

EDIT: Or just forget about the lower value ones completely. And just have 3 medals for gold, diamond & emerald. 300k, 775k & 1.25mil respectively.

 

Would it be possible to make it different stages? For example, you have to get the coal medal before you get redstone, etc... I would personally like this better, but it's up to everyone.

NetherStars would be excluded from this, as they already have a medal, and some people might not want to go through the trouble of collecting all of the other medals.

 

I'm sceptical about the amount of different stages you mentioned (eg. coal before redstone). As Delucaco correctly said above, this would lead to too many medals in my opinion. If we think about the current medals which you 'buy' for only cosmetic reasons: ECC Medal (250k), Bitcoin Medal (Currently roughly $45-50, so 220-300k), the Nstar Medal (1mil+). I think having individual medals for coal etc would be too cheap. This is of course if we are still talking about it being 1 dchest; You could have it set at 8 double chests of coal for example. Regardless, I still think individual ore/blocks medals would result in too many.

Take my idea above for example, and limit it to gold, diamond & emerald to keep the number of medals down but provide a 'cheaper' medal (Gold) whilst still keeping it relatively rare. I don't think we should limit it to stages. If someone wants to spend 1mil+ on a medal, we should let them. Naturally, the majority of people will get the cheaper ones first, but I don't think there is a strong reason for preventing getting any medals in the order they want.

At the moment the 'stages' medal all concern the same 'thing'. 75k SG points -> 150k SG points, 3000 Powerlevel -> 6000 Powerlevel etc. Diamond blocks are distinct from gold blocks, so I think there is a pretty justifiable reason why any new medals for this reason shouldn't have to follow a stage-type system.

 

I believe there shouldn't be a very cheap one, there's already the ECC medal and the bitcoin medal, those are currently the "cheap" medals.

I think the medal should be something like "Valuables Collector" 1 doublechest of ironblocks, 1 doublechest of goldblocks, 1 doublechest of diamondblocks and 1 doublechest of emerald blocks.
An alternative would be 2 medals "Metal Collector" 1 doublechest of ironblocks and 1 doublechest of gold blocks, and "Valuables Collector" 1 doublechest of diamondblocks and 1 doublechest of emeraldblocks.

My alternative would probably be a better idea, because it stimulates the currently dead metal market, gold and iron are basically hitting their /sell hand price and it's rarely worth it to sell to other users.
And it stimulates the diamond and emerald market a little bit more. Possibly raising the price a little.

Metal Collector would be worth $233,280 + $311,040 = $544,320
Valuables Collector would be worth $1,244,160 + $777,600 = $2,021,760

Metal Collector would be relatively cheap, valuables collector would be very expensive.
And with the nstar medal being worth about 1.4m-1.5m this would be a nice step up. 550k, 1.5m, 2m

 

'Metal Collector' & 'Valuables Collector' Medals. I like that a lot.

I also agree that the medals should be targeted towards the richer users and something new to aim for.

 

+1
I really really like this idea.
Personally I'd like to see only one new medal being introduced for a double chestful of each gem blocks making this medal
one of the most expensive and rare medals on the forums.

 

This is probably what you'd use all the iron you bought for

 

+1

I only see one problem with this. What would the hoarder medals look like? If I was just starting, I would think "oh well lets make this medal iron,gold,and diamond blocks". This may be confusing with the current donation "block medals". However I could be completely wrong. The medals may be of another block.

 

Thats a good idea, im all in for this suggestion.

 

I like this idea a lot. Adding forum medals creates new things for the rich to strive for as well as a way to take money out of the economy.

 

Kuke's idea sounds like the most reasonable and like a good economic idea. It would also allow us to remove these types of metals/valuables from the economy without generating money.

To top it off, it would allow an exit for emeralds. Emeralds do not have a way of leaving the server short of /ci or death. That means that before long there will be a surplus of emeralds. Give them an exit. +

 

Tekkit much?

 

Tekkit > FTB

 

I really like this idea of having two separate medals for this. I wish we could somehow incorporate lapis though, just because I love it. Perhaps it could also be added to the "Valuables Collector" medal?

 

Well, lapis doesn't really fit in with either. Diamonds and Emeralds are special commodities that are traded among people. While lapis rarely gets traded, it's like insta /sell hand

It would need some player-player worth first. Because that worth isn't really there right now, and I doubt the medal will fix that.

 

It may not 'fix' it... But it would certainly help. Taking a decent chunk of blocks out of the economy could possibly help the market. Even if it doesn't what is the worst thing that could possibly happen? There is absolutely no downside to adding it.