my profile has gold pieces?

[Ancalagon]

Hello

Apparently I have 153 gold pieces on my profile. As a search for gold pieces on EN world will result in a gazzilion hits, I thought I would ask here and find out what's going on

 

[Morrus]

They're used to buy badges (which aren't currently displaying right now, as something inexplicably broke, but I'm working on it!)

 

[Nagol]

Hello

Apparently I have 153 gold pieces on my profile. As a search for gold pieces on EN world will result in a gazzilion hits, I thought I would ask here and find out what's going on

You must start a lot of threads. 1 gp / thread started, IIRC.

 

[Ancalagon]

You must start a lot of threads. 1 gp / thread started, IIRC.

I've been here a while.

So... what can we do with this gold?

 

[Nagol]

I've been here a while.

So... what can we do with this gold?

As Morrus wrote, you can buy badges. They used to display under the username, but apparently that broke when the look/feel was last updated. I don't think you can browse/purchase them at the moment.

 

[Morrus]

I've been here a while.

So... what can we do with this gold?

The thing that I said.

 

[Ancalagon]

The thing that I said.

I'm so sorry, I only saw Naggol's post for some reason. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Lanefan]

You must start a lot of threads. 1 gp / thread started, IIRC.

Ah. I was wondering how these were earned. Thanks!

 

[lowkey13]

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[Nagol]

It explains a lot of threads.

Farming.

When gold was released, I spent a few minutes figuring out what paid and didn't pay -- the FAQ is somewhat vague and quite wrong on this topic. I briefly thought about starting more threads to farm gold then realised it was cosmetic and clique building at best and a new scoring mechanism at worst.