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====== Player Level/Scoring ======

Of course everyone wants to know, how leveling happens. First of all, the nice thing is, that you get a little **gift**, i.e. a skill, **with every level**. 

A players level is calculated from 5 numbers. Details may vary, but the numbers are **ranked roughly in decreasing influence**:
  - Different **[[badges|badge]] types** in inventory
  - **[[quadrants#full|Full quadrants]]** (i.e. <color #22b14c>**green**</color> ones) {{ :rules:quadrants.png?200|}}
  - **[[quadrants#half|Half quadrants]]** (i.e. <color #ffc90e>**yellow**</color> or <color #00a2e8>**blue**</color> ones).
  - **First [[badges#drop|drops]]** (i.e. number of own badges first dropped in a gray or blue quadrant).
  - **First [[badges#take|takes]]** (i.e. number of foreign badges that have been taken).


**Notes:**
  - All these numbers are found in the first 4 bright lines in the player profile (see sample above).
  - “Different types” can decrease when you drop the last badge of a type. Badgers keeps track of the **maximum different you had**, so your level will never decrease again. Only distance to next level can indirectly grow.
  - First drops and takes rules mean, that **every player can** potentially **score with every badge**, but maximally once. I.e. you can take an own badge after a drop, but you cannot score with it any more, i.e. you can drop a foreign badge after a take, but you cannot score with it any more.
  - Dropping an own badge in a yellow or green quadrant does not generate score, however it creates space in your inventory or allows for valuable trades for missing badge types with other players.
  - Taking a foreign badge from a blue or green quadrant does not generate score of type “half/full quadrant”, however it can **increase the crucial number of “different types”** in your inventory.
  - All **system, mapper, ruler and skill badges** count towards **“different types”**. You might go for “one of each skill” for that particular reason.
  - Sometimes you drop or take badges not for leveling, but just to block or unblock space for other badges by the distance rule, cf. [[rules:badges#drop]].
  - And if you remove badges of other players from a region this helps to capture the ruler badge for this region faster. 

===== Percentages =====
Level progress is displayed in terms of percentages of next level. Score progress is displayed on the client by animated percentages and percentages in the profile.

===== Influences =====
A single drop or take action, often **influences several counters**, so each of them has impact on the score you got (except the capacity):
^Action^Counters^^^^^Effects^^
^Sample^Types^[[quadrants#full|Full Q]]^[[quadrants#half|Half Q]]^[[badges#drop|f.Drop]]^[[badges#take|f.Take]]^Remark^[[rules:inventory#capacity|Capa]]|
|Drop undropped self produced on gray|  0/-1  |  0  |  +1  |  +1  |  0  |Quadrant turns <color #ffc90e>yellow</color>. Types count can drop, if it the last.|-1/+1|
|Drop undropped self produced on blue|  0/-1  |  +1  |  -1  |  +1  |  0  |Quadrant turns <color #22b14c>green</color>.|-1/+1|
|Drop undropped self produced on yellow/green|  0/-1  |  0  |  0  |  +1  |  0  |not recommended|-1/+1|
|Take unknown (foreign produced) from yellow|  0/+1  |  +1  |  -1  |  0  |  +1  |Quadrant turns <color #22b14c>green</color>. Types depend on actual badge type.|-1/+1|
|Take [[ui:map#badges|unknown]] from gray|  0/+1  |  0  |  +1  |  0  |  +1  |Quadrant turns <color #00a2e8>blue</color>. Types count always depends.|-1/+1|
|Take unknown from blue/green|  0/+1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  +1  |Types count always depends.|-1/+1|
|Receiving a [[rules:regions|Regions]] badge|  0/+1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  | |  +1  |
|Producing first badge of a new type|  0/+1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  | |  +1  |

These combined effects might making scoring look like "random". However scoring is **not random** and **not depending on the order you take actions**, everything you do counts fully.

**Notes:**
  * Drop: The counter for different types of badges in inventory could decrease if this was the last badge of this type.
  * Take: The counter for different types of badges in inventory could increase if this was the first badge of this type.