Yy / Hic Reward

For those that want to see YY's thread on how he finished off the challenge, click Here!

Yes, YY definitely deserves a reward for completing Salted's HIC Challenge! I've made this thread as a proper discussion to what this reward should be.

There's many things that I think should be considered, so I'm gonna type a bunch of stuff sUper casUal stYle and you guys can discuss in posts below. And add more ideas!

"GAMER" RANK:
The most widely supported idea right now is the Profile Post Petition, which is definitely one of those obvious ideas that would stick out: give a rank! It's a little vague: would this be a Discord rank, Forums rank, Server rank, or all three?
Wynncraft usually likes to keep things as professional and strict as possible with ranks. Which is great! I'm not sure if a "colour of his own choosing" would work, as there's probably a consistent colour theme Wynn wants to follow.

And of course, it doesn't have to be called "GAMER", but any sort of rank would be a good reward.

RANDOM MYTHIC:
Another idea is presented in Salted's Quote. This is probs a joke idea, but y'know, let's discuss it, and similar ideas.
Giving a Mythic as a reward... isn't a reward, really, considering it's unusable. It's a novel idea, but it really would just take up inventory space - and if YY wants to use this class in the future, well, it'd kinda suck that space would be taken up. (To be honest, I'd probably sell it. Wouldn't you? Maybe? Maybe not?)

Speaking of what "I" or "you" would do, if we did the challenge...
HIC CHALLENGE ITSELF:
I have a super different, alternate suggestion: Make this an OFFICIAL challenge! Yeah, alright, so the challenge in the above screenshot came out of Salted's... typing, so it's sorta official. But there was no official reward planned. No recognition besides Local Respect.

And that's something we have to remember. If any of us completed such a crazy challenge, then we don't need any fancy item or cosmetics as a reward, because doing the Challenge Itself is its Own Reward.

...that being said, a reward for this challenge would have to be one of two things (or both!):
Something Memorable: This is why a random mythic wouldn't work as a reward, but a gamer rank would: a gamer rank is your memory of the challenge, and others can recognise this. (Basically, something the PUBLIC sees!)
Something Personal: A random mythic is personal, but you can't use it, isn't a personal reward. A personal reward would be a super cool item that you can't get anywhere else... maybe. That's just an example. (Basically, something PRIVATE!)

In fact, I don't think we should limit this to just YY! What if future people want to take up this insane challenge, as a motivation to do HIC? I think some sort of reward should be given to them as well. (The only downside to this is that it might make YY's completion "less unique", to a degree, so maybe he deserves something Extra Special for being the first.)

Here's what I think:
Make an Official HIC Challenge, which I think should be everything Salted said above EXCEPT FOR "lvl 103".
My original thinking was to remove "lvl 103" requirement as the Max Combat Level could be increased in the future. I realise now that maybe more dungeons will be added in the future too, hm.
This is why the reward matters: if its a private reward, the player may get an unfair advantage in the future when the game is updated. This can be solved by taking away this reward once the game is updated. That's stupid and unfair to the player, though, hahaha.
If its a public reward, like a rank, then it's all good, they can keep their rank even when the game updates, because it's a testament to how they once completed the challenge. This won't effect future gameplay.

There's a lot to consider, yo! That's the whole point of this thread!

SO, yes, TL;DR: Make the challenge official, and whatever reward is given, make it so that it can apply to all future soldiers that take up the challenge. I feel that should be considered. And again, maybe YY does deserve something Extra Special. (Besides local recognition for being first to complete the challenge.)

Examples of a nice good reward could be:
- Make it so that your HIC coloured tags (these ones!: ) become a different colour (I was going to say &6, but that's the Moderator tag colour, ahhh! maybe &e, but that doesn't look strong enough... something like that!) This is a public reward!
- Make it so that the person that has completed the challenge has access to the Bank! This is more of a private reward, and this finally connects your HIC class to all your other classes! A very nice reward to tie everything up nicely. (Maybe even allow just full access to turn Ironman or Craftsman off!)
- A combination of the above two rewards! ((only issue with both of these: what if you die? does your hardcore nametag become grey? do you lose your reward/s? personally, I think no: you deserve to keep the rewards. you've dealt with enough, hahaha.))

Alright, I've typed enough. Any other good ideas from the rest of you, or thoughts on what I had to say? I'd love to hear it.

Congratulations to YY for being the first to complete such a difficult, time-consuming challenge!

And finally, a message to the Wynn Content Team: It would be so, so easy to solve all this by simply not giving a reward. I implore you not to do this. It would be so much more fulfilling to have even a small reward as a tribute for playing, and completing, the toughest challenge... of this amazing game.

Thanks for reading!

 

I approve of this entire thread