UPDATE (10/17/2009; 9:47AM CST)
This update displays all the concept badges I made, and after a while of thinking I came up with hypothetical prerequisites in order to earn each badge.
Medal of Honor
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/MOH.png
To earn the Medal of Honor, you must be at 10th Prestige, Level 65 (Commander), complete every Challenge in the Barracks, and have a positive KDR (1.10 or higher). However, due to the extremely prestigious honor of the MoH itself, it may require far more than just what was listed. If worse comes to worse this badge may never be considered.
Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/n-mc-commend ation_valor.png
To earn the Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal, you must deliver a set number of bayonet/melee kills, assuming Treyarch decides to implement melee kills in our stats.
Legion of Merit
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/legion-of-me rit.png
To earn the Legion of Merit, you must complete all the Challenges in the Barracks.
Navy Cross
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-cross.p ng
To earn the Navy Cross, you must reach 9th Prestige.
National Defense Service Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/ndsm.png
To earn the NDSM, you must fully complete the Boot Camp challenges.
Navy Pistol Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-pistol- expert.png
To earn the Navy Pistol Expert badge, you must deliver 35 headshots with a handgun; this should fully complete the Pistol Expert Challenge in the Killer Challenges.
Navy Rifle Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-rifle-e xpert.png
To earn the Navy Rifle Expert badge, you must deliver all the required headshots with bolt-action rifles and semi-auto rifles according to what is required in the Killer Challenges.
Silver Star
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_bad ge_silver-star.png
To earn the Silver Star, you must reach 5th Prestige, complete the Challenges in the Barracks (previous completions should be carried on before you're 5th Prestige) and you must maintain a positive KDR (above 1.00).
USMC Good Conduct Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/usmc-good-co nduct.png
To earn the USMC Good Conduct Medal, you must be a good COD:WAW HQ forum member. How this works will be up to Treyarch.
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UPDATE (10/12/2009; 2:22PM CST)
Navy Cross
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-cross.p ng
In real-life, the Navy Cross is the highest medal to be awarded to personnel enlisted in the US Navy or the US Marine Corps; in precedence, it is one rank just below the Congressional Medal of Honor. My idea for achieving this badge goes like this : You must be 10th Prestige, maximum level, and must complete every challenge in the Barracks.
Of course, the idea of completing every challenge in the Barracks could be lowered in difficulty. For example, each user's profile in the COD:WAW HQ has a list of all the challenges he has accomplished....though they don't state what level of the challenge he/she has completed (like Phase 3 of 3, etc). But for sure, to achieve this badge, you must be a 10th Prestige and reach Level 65.
National Defense Service Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/ndsm.png
In reality, the National Defense Service Medal (or just National Defense Medal if you prefer) is awarded to personnel in the Armed Forces for participating in any campaign directed at a hostile force against the United States. However, sometimes personnel who graduate from boot camp will be awarded this medal. My idea for earning this medal is simple, though, but it could sound like just an excuse when you observe the medal itself and what it symbolizes. Anyway, to earn this badge, you must fully complete the Boot Camp Challenges in Multiplayer...
...but this again could be an issue, because as I described above regarding completed Challenges listed in users' profiles, you cannot tell if the user has completed all the phases of the Challenges. Therefore, earning this badge could simply require you to complete one phase of each of the Challenges. But again, I will leave it up to Treyarch.
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I have to say that the implementation of badges on this website have inspired my, er, creative juices to flow, because to me there's a lot of potential in this element.
I hope I don't get in trouble with Treyarch, Activision, or the respective creators of the badges in this website; what I did was use GIMP to create 22x9 PNG images for ribbons (badges), to display in this thread, hopefully to catch the attention of this site's moderators so that they can at least take into consideration my ideas.
Obviously, I don't require credit or anything. I designed these badges using the ratio of the currently-available badges, and these can be theirs for the taking, assuming they decide to implement this idea. To view these images, obviously you will have to copy & paste the URL's to your address bar.
Navy Pistol Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-pistol- expert.png
Acquisition of the Navy Pistol Expert badge could be that you deliver at least 35 headshots with a pistol. Because each pistol doesn't have its own unique Challenge, instead having one in the Killer Challenges, I suppose this means that you can use any pistol you like, but the kills have to be headshots.
The reason they have to be headshots coincides with the "expert" title in various weapon challenges. Achieving non-headshot kills with weapons leads to a "Marksman" title, whereas headshots leads to "Expert" titles; this is something I just thought about recently, and I've decided that it only makes sense.
Navy Rifle Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-rifle-e xpert.png
Compared to the Navy Pistol Expert badge, earning the Navy Rifle Expert badge will be a little tougher. My idea for this one is that you need to deliver at least 25 headshots with each rifle, both bolt-action (Springfield M1903, Arisaka, Mosin-Nagant...you know) and semi-auto (SVT-40, Gewehr 43, M1 Garand....you get the idea). As for the other types of weapons, like SMG's and machine-guns, I don't know, because technically they aren't considered rifles, at least not like the aforementioned two, despite the truth that, for instance, the BAR has the name "Rifle" as the last abbreviation, and some machine-guns back then were called "automatic rifles". This part's complicated, so I guess I should leave this up to the website's badge designers.
Once again, headshots with various weapons leads to completing "Expert" challenges, hence why it only makes sense to require headshots in order to earn this badge.
Silver Star
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_bad ge_silver-star.png
I haven't decided upon the prerequisites to earn this badge. Basically, I designed this badge because I wanted to see how it would look as a 22x9 PNG image. That, and I find the Silver Star to be pretty, though considering its high precedence in the US Military's medal heraldry (or whatever it's called), it should be expected that to earn this badge requires a lot of effort. I was just now thinking that perhaps this badge could be earned by completing every Challenge in the Barracks. However, assuming they decide to implement my ideas, I will leave the prerequisites to earning this badge entirely up to them.
Weapon Focus badges
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_wea pon-focus-badge_bronze.png
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_wea pon-focus-badge_silver.png
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_wea pon-focus-badge_gold.png
These are just design concepts I created. I originally made Weapon Focus badges with oak-leaf clusters. The reason for the insignias on the Weapon Focus badges was to denote a symbol of achieving a certain number of Weapon Focus badges on the website. Instead of oak-leaf clusters, I decided to use stars instead, because I figured they'd be more eye-catching to the community.
The purpose of these badges is to save space on your ribbon-rack (badge holders on your avatar). My idea was that the bronze star badge denotes completing 5 Weapon Focus missions, that the silver star badge denotes completing 10 Weapon Focus missions, and the gold star badge could symbolize completing all the available Weapon Focus missions this website could ever deliver to us. Of course, if they decide to implement Weapon Focus challenges for every single weapon in this game, perhaps the aforementioned number of completed Weapon Focus missions should be increased for each one. Perhaps the bronze one could remain as 5 completions, but the silver one, for sake of balance, should denote completing at least 50% of all Weapon Focus missions the COD:WAW HQ ever offers, therefore the gold star badge denotes completing every Weapon Focus mission.
USMC Good Conduct Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/usmc-good-co nduct.png
This is a badge I created just now. Unfortunately I haven't thought about the prerequisites to earning this badge, but I believe it could serve as a COD:WAW HQ forum-related badge. Perhaps it could be earned for being a good community member of the forums, but being as that stuff's deep for me at this point in time, I'll leave it up to them as to how to earn this badge.
In conclusion, I plan on creating more badges, but for now these will do. For now, community response would be appreciated, as well as contributions to ideas and such (including if other members want to create their own badges for suggestion to Treyarch). Even if Treyarch decides not to implement my (or our) ideas, at least we still have the privilege to post our ideas in this thread, right? Only time will tell, though, really.
REMINDER OF ORIGINAL BADGE OWNERSHIP RIGHTS
The badges designed and displayed above were made out of creative curiosity while respecting the rights of Treyarch, Activision Publishing, Inc., and all respective COD:WAW HQ employees and personnel involved in the feature of avatar badges. These self-designed badges, although designed out of creative curiosity, are created as a form of contribution to COD:WAW HQ, which shall not and cannot be used for monetary gain towards the designer of the aforementioned badges (Gross1985), and with absolute respect are reserved as part of the COD:WAW HQ ownership rights.
© 2008 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision and Call of Duty are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. The ratings icon is a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.
This update displays all the concept badges I made, and after a while of thinking I came up with hypothetical prerequisites in order to earn each badge.
Medal of Honor
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/MOH.png
To earn the Medal of Honor, you must be at 10th Prestige, Level 65 (Commander), complete every Challenge in the Barracks, and have a positive KDR (1.10 or higher). However, due to the extremely prestigious honor of the MoH itself, it may require far more than just what was listed. If worse comes to worse this badge may never be considered.
Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/n-mc-commend ation_valor.png
To earn the Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal, you must deliver a set number of bayonet/melee kills, assuming Treyarch decides to implement melee kills in our stats.
Legion of Merit
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/legion-of-me rit.png
To earn the Legion of Merit, you must complete all the Challenges in the Barracks.
Navy Cross
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-cross.p ng
To earn the Navy Cross, you must reach 9th Prestige.
National Defense Service Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/ndsm.png
To earn the NDSM, you must fully complete the Boot Camp challenges.
Navy Pistol Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-pistol- expert.png
To earn the Navy Pistol Expert badge, you must deliver 35 headshots with a handgun; this should fully complete the Pistol Expert Challenge in the Killer Challenges.
Navy Rifle Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-rifle-e xpert.png
To earn the Navy Rifle Expert badge, you must deliver all the required headshots with bolt-action rifles and semi-auto rifles according to what is required in the Killer Challenges.
Silver Star
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_bad ge_silver-star.png
To earn the Silver Star, you must reach 5th Prestige, complete the Challenges in the Barracks (previous completions should be carried on before you're 5th Prestige) and you must maintain a positive KDR (above 1.00).
USMC Good Conduct Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/usmc-good-co nduct.png
To earn the USMC Good Conduct Medal, you must be a good COD:WAW HQ forum member. How this works will be up to Treyarch.
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UPDATE (10/12/2009; 2:22PM CST)
Navy Cross
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-cross.p ng
In real-life, the Navy Cross is the highest medal to be awarded to personnel enlisted in the US Navy or the US Marine Corps; in precedence, it is one rank just below the Congressional Medal of Honor. My idea for achieving this badge goes like this : You must be 10th Prestige, maximum level, and must complete every challenge in the Barracks.
Of course, the idea of completing every challenge in the Barracks could be lowered in difficulty. For example, each user's profile in the COD:WAW HQ has a list of all the challenges he has accomplished....though they don't state what level of the challenge he/she has completed (like Phase 3 of 3, etc). But for sure, to achieve this badge, you must be a 10th Prestige and reach Level 65.
National Defense Service Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/ndsm.png
In reality, the National Defense Service Medal (or just National Defense Medal if you prefer) is awarded to personnel in the Armed Forces for participating in any campaign directed at a hostile force against the United States. However, sometimes personnel who graduate from boot camp will be awarded this medal. My idea for earning this medal is simple, though, but it could sound like just an excuse when you observe the medal itself and what it symbolizes. Anyway, to earn this badge, you must fully complete the Boot Camp Challenges in Multiplayer...
...but this again could be an issue, because as I described above regarding completed Challenges listed in users' profiles, you cannot tell if the user has completed all the phases of the Challenges. Therefore, earning this badge could simply require you to complete one phase of each of the Challenges. But again, I will leave it up to Treyarch.
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***
I have to say that the implementation of badges on this website have inspired my, er, creative juices to flow, because to me there's a lot of potential in this element.
I hope I don't get in trouble with Treyarch, Activision, or the respective creators of the badges in this website; what I did was use GIMP to create 22x9 PNG images for ribbons (badges), to display in this thread, hopefully to catch the attention of this site's moderators so that they can at least take into consideration my ideas.
Obviously, I don't require credit or anything. I designed these badges using the ratio of the currently-available badges, and these can be theirs for the taking, assuming they decide to implement this idea. To view these images, obviously you will have to copy & paste the URL's to your address bar.
Navy Pistol Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-pistol- expert.png
Acquisition of the Navy Pistol Expert badge could be that you deliver at least 35 headshots with a pistol. Because each pistol doesn't have its own unique Challenge, instead having one in the Killer Challenges, I suppose this means that you can use any pistol you like, but the kills have to be headshots.
The reason they have to be headshots coincides with the "expert" title in various weapon challenges. Achieving non-headshot kills with weapons leads to a "Marksman" title, whereas headshots leads to "Expert" titles; this is something I just thought about recently, and I've decided that it only makes sense.
Navy Rifle Expert
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/navy-rifle-e xpert.png
Compared to the Navy Pistol Expert badge, earning the Navy Rifle Expert badge will be a little tougher. My idea for this one is that you need to deliver at least 25 headshots with each rifle, both bolt-action (Springfield M1903, Arisaka, Mosin-Nagant...you know) and semi-auto (SVT-40, Gewehr 43, M1 Garand....you get the idea). As for the other types of weapons, like SMG's and machine-guns, I don't know, because technically they aren't considered rifles, at least not like the aforementioned two, despite the truth that, for instance, the BAR has the name "Rifle" as the last abbreviation, and some machine-guns back then were called "automatic rifles". This part's complicated, so I guess I should leave this up to the website's badge designers.
Once again, headshots with various weapons leads to completing "Expert" challenges, hence why it only makes sense to require headshots in order to earn this badge.
Silver Star
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_bad ge_silver-star.png
I haven't decided upon the prerequisites to earn this badge. Basically, I designed this badge because I wanted to see how it would look as a 22x9 PNG image. That, and I find the Silver Star to be pretty, though considering its high precedence in the US Military's medal heraldry (or whatever it's called), it should be expected that to earn this badge requires a lot of effort. I was just now thinking that perhaps this badge could be earned by completing every Challenge in the Barracks. However, assuming they decide to implement my ideas, I will leave the prerequisites to earning this badge entirely up to them.
Weapon Focus badges
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_wea pon-focus-badge_bronze.png
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_wea pon-focus-badge_silver.png
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/concepts_wea pon-focus-badge_gold.png
These are just design concepts I created. I originally made Weapon Focus badges with oak-leaf clusters. The reason for the insignias on the Weapon Focus badges was to denote a symbol of achieving a certain number of Weapon Focus badges on the website. Instead of oak-leaf clusters, I decided to use stars instead, because I figured they'd be more eye-catching to the community.
The purpose of these badges is to save space on your ribbon-rack (badge holders on your avatar). My idea was that the bronze star badge denotes completing 5 Weapon Focus missions, that the silver star badge denotes completing 10 Weapon Focus missions, and the gold star badge could symbolize completing all the available Weapon Focus missions this website could ever deliver to us. Of course, if they decide to implement Weapon Focus challenges for every single weapon in this game, perhaps the aforementioned number of completed Weapon Focus missions should be increased for each one. Perhaps the bronze one could remain as 5 completions, but the silver one, for sake of balance, should denote completing at least 50% of all Weapon Focus missions the COD:WAW HQ ever offers, therefore the gold star badge denotes completing every Weapon Focus mission.
USMC Good Conduct Medal
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j124/dave_gross_2006/CoD-WaW%20HQ/usmc-good-co nduct.png
This is a badge I created just now. Unfortunately I haven't thought about the prerequisites to earning this badge, but I believe it could serve as a COD:WAW HQ forum-related badge. Perhaps it could be earned for being a good community member of the forums, but being as that stuff's deep for me at this point in time, I'll leave it up to them as to how to earn this badge.
In conclusion, I plan on creating more badges, but for now these will do. For now, community response would be appreciated, as well as contributions to ideas and such (including if other members want to create their own badges for suggestion to Treyarch). Even if Treyarch decides not to implement my (or our) ideas, at least we still have the privilege to post our ideas in this thread, right? Only time will tell, though, really.
REMINDER OF ORIGINAL BADGE OWNERSHIP RIGHTS
The badges designed and displayed above were made out of creative curiosity while respecting the rights of Treyarch, Activision Publishing, Inc., and all respective COD:WAW HQ employees and personnel involved in the feature of avatar badges. These self-designed badges, although designed out of creative curiosity, are created as a form of contribution to COD:WAW HQ, which shall not and cannot be used for monetary gain towards the designer of the aforementioned badges (Gross1985), and with absolute respect are reserved as part of the COD:WAW HQ ownership rights.
© 2008 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision and Call of Duty are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. The ratings icon is a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.