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Let's Talk About Fruit
Okay.
Yes.
The fruit is officially on the way.
I know because I’ve seen it. In fact, I’ve even edited a few of the image files. More than that, Aaron and I did all the work coming up with the new levels and the names for the new levels and which “fruit” goes with what level, and did you notice how I put fruit in quotation marks just then?
There are only so many fruits. And, just like we did last time here, most of the upper levels are not fruits. In fact, on Old-School Tanga, only the first nine levels were fruits. Well, ten, if you count the Jack-O-Lantern as a pumpkin. But level eleven on up was Rocket, Bell, Trumpet, Key, Castle, Wizard’s Hat, Meeple.
Nine fruits. Ten on Halloween.
New Tanga..? FIFTEEN fruits!
Cool, huh?
Most of you won’t be getting any of them.
Because you’ve got to start out as Cherries. That’s a given. And it only makes sense to move from there to Lemon. And then to the next fruit. And then the next. And of course, there’s that excitement as you work your way through the fruit of knowing that someday, eventually, when you’ve finally earned enough Tanga Points, you’ll reach that level where you move beyond the fruit and get your very first different-looking icon – Woo-hoo! I made it! Awesome!
A lot of you are there already.
If you’ve recently made a comment here on Tanga which included the all-caps phrase BRING BACK THE FRUIT, you’re likely gonna by-pass most of the fruit. Heck, if you simply remember when we used to have fruit, then you’ve been here long enough to have probably earned enough Tanga Points to by-pass most of the new fruit.
The bulk of our new fruit is for levels under 10,000 TP. That doesn’t mean we don’t have cool stuff for the levels over 10K. And there might be some fruit still available at those higher levels…
But I just wanted to prepare you.
Thanks just in time for a nice summer fruit salad.
10,000 huh? Well, that was quick... :)
THE FRUIT'S BROUGHT BACK!
yay
Well, you could always use my proposed level system that was more "exponential" in nature:
http://www.tanga.com/forum/blogs/old-fruit?comments_page=1#comment_371359
... then even us old-timers could still have a share of the fruit salad. Yummy, yummy!
Hooray for the fruit! ... Actually I haven't quite been around long enough to remember it. I've surmised that it was an unofficial ranking system, but where did the fruit appear? In the Tanga Badges section, like the leftover fruit does now or somewhere different?
[4] The problem, Doc, is twofold:
1. We have a LOT of new levels. More than 20? More than 25? Maybe even more than 30? Could be.
But, more important than that...
2. The average Tanga user has (are you ready..?) fewer than 1000 points!
I know. It's kinda mindblowing. But most people here do not really solve puzzles. And if they do, it's usually just the Cryptopix, and it's almost always the next day for just 10 points. And if most don't solve our puzzles, then, of course, even fewer make them. Or write Random Questions. Or buy stuff at the BigRob level :)
So the early levels is where the "movement" is needed. Which is why we put it there. And yeah, we always planned it to be exponential in nature. It's just that you guys - the ones who post/contribute on a regular basis - you're mostly on the high end of that curve.
Thank you Arnott for putting up with our fruity whining! I'm looking forward to seeing what you pulled together.
Will people only have one fruit at a time as in the past? Or will the badges section hold each fruit/item you've earned, so you can see them all? That could/would be a way for Dr. Banana and friends to enjoy the entire fruit salad.
Arnott (and Aaron and the Tanga Team) are about to BRING BACK THE FRUIT!!!
[5] Fruit was around in the time before avatars. The badges section also didn't exist. The level that you had earned (based on points accumulated, which were much more difficult to earn back then) gave you a fruit icon. The fruit icon more or less served in the place of an avatar. When you would post, your 'fruit' would be dispayed with your user name.
If you haven't seen it, and are interested, here is a list with the old ranking levels, the points needed to get them, and the fruit associated with that level.
http://www.tanga.com/forum/blogs/old-fruit?comments_page=1#comment_370631
Be still my heart! I've waited so long for fruit, I can hardly believe it will soon be here!
What a wonderful Birthday present! Thanks Tanga!
And for what it's worth...I like the idea of being able to see ALL of the "Fruits" you've achieved.
Even if you count a jack-o-lantern as a pumpkin, that's a vegetable... not a fruit.
Just sayin'
[7][10] Sorry. One "fruit" at a time. Once you level-up, you never look back.
[11] Techinally, a fruit is a plant-structure-thingie that contains its own seeds. A squash is like a tomato or an eggplant - or a chili pepper, even - in that it's considered to be a fruit-vegetable.
Most of us, me included, think of these as just being vegetables. So, yeah, I think of a pumpkin as just being a vegetable. But if someone chose to correct us about that, well... technically, scientifically... they'd be right.
Is all I'm sayin'.
So the fruit is coming... soon. Arnott, you're such a tease!
[12] I agree, seeds = fruit
[13] Only semi-intentionally.
I'm just Creative, and my work is done. It's up to Programming now. And, even though I kinda *do* speak for them, I can't really speak for them, you know?
[11][12] Some interesting reading on the subject:
http://vegetablegardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/fruit_or_vegetable_
Could we spend Tanga Points to buy Fruit and other Icons? And other stuff in general?
Like how you can spend Geek Gold on BGG?
[17] Hmmm....
Feeling Healthy for This Weekend?
If not, you might want to make sure you have some fruit in the next day or two.
[19] Oh, he's dropping hints again.
In the words of Mrs. Doubtfire, "It was a run-by fruiting!"
FRUIT
BTW, that scary looking badge is temporary! Should be fixed later today.
I like that I can see ALL of my badges, not just the most recent one. Thank you.
and I like it next to my name - how did you know I'd like cake better than fruit?
I've been egged!
Look at all the badges!
I've been... clocked?!?
I love that we can see all the badges!!! This if flippin AWESOME! Great Job Tanga-Crew!!!!
[22] I like Tanga "Pornstar" ...too bad he's going away....
Is there a list of the fruits and how many points you need to get each?
Yay fruits!
[28] That's what I want too! I wanna know what's ahead of me, not just what's behind me.
I'm a potato... Not sure how I feel about that... but "Tanga Notable" - that sounds special!
THANKS FOR THE FRUIT!!!!!
FRUUUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
Is that eggplant some kind of slur against my italian heritage?!?!
Murdoc, everyone's gonna think you're a permanent "Tanga Somebody!"
I'm feeling 'hot hot hot'!
Awesome job on the fruit!
[28] This is not an official list, but one I've cobbled together from looking at a lot of people's scores, it should be pretty close to actual:
1 cherry tanga virgin
100 lemon tanga squirt
300 watermelon tanga seedling
500 orange tanga tenderfoot
900 <face> tanga cadet
1,000 strawberry tanga apprentice
1,500 peach tanga regular
2,000 grapes tanga natural
3,000 plum tanga classic
4,000 kiwi tanga player
5,000 apple tanga pro
7,500 banana tanga somebody
10,000 rocketship tanga star
13,500 potato tanga notable
15,000 radish tanga whiz
17,500 garlic tanga ace
20,000 sailboat tanga master
25,000 carrot tanga hero
30,000 onion tanga sage
35,000 pumpkin tanga bigwig
40,000 eggplant tanga guru
50,000 rubber duck tanga titan
75,000 chili pepper tanga hotshot
100,000 cake tanga veteran
150,000 egg tanga egghead
200,000 tomato tanga oracle
250,000 xylophone tanga maestro
300,000 clock tangaholic
What the heck is that face at 900?
[34] it's TanaJoe's old avatar. Probably a placeholder picture until they come up with the fruit.
I have no suggestions about a fruit cadet. Nothing.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
I always knew I was slightly cracked :) Love the Fruit!!!!
[33] That is awesome! It must have taken you some time to come up with that list!
Thanks! :-)
[31] But I AM somebody!
In the immortal words of Mr. T: Be Somebody.. or Be Somebody's Fool!
After all this time, I just don't think I could bring myself to change my avatar...
[23][27] Heh, yeah... I think that's actually an error :) Yet another example of a mistake that turned out to be better than the original idea.
[34][35] It's supposed to be a PEAR, but the image file got messed up.
[41] It's interesting that some of the badge titles match the puzzle:
http://tanga.com/puzzles/1804-11-13-2007
however, a few do not. ;(
[42] We saved a lot of the old-school names from our previous "fruit" levels. And that was when that puzzle was done.
Oh my gosh! I haven't been around much lately and I just now discovered FRUIT! Lots and lots of lovely fruit! Yay for fruit!