Experience and Achievements

How experience works

Community XP is stored on the user and periodically reconciled from counted activity: feed likes received, forum likes received, profile likes received, confirmed bug rewards, and achievement XP bonuses.

Level uses a triangular threshold curve with a 100 XP step. Level 1 starts at 0 XP. Level 2 starts at 100 XP, level 3 at 300 XP, level 4 at 600 XP, and so on.

XP is cumulative. Leveling up does not spend or reset XP.

Earning XP

XP is awarded from two sources:

• Feed post likes: 10 XP to the feed post author.
• Forum post likes: 10 XP to the forum post author.
• Profile likes: 20 XP to the profile owner.
• Confirmed bug reports: 50 XP to the author of the confirmed feed/forum item.
• Achievement bonuses: one-time XP bonus defined by the achievement.

Cooldowns

Community level reduces interaction cooldowns. The base post cooldown is 2 hours. The base comment and profile-comment cooldown is 30 minutes. Effective cooldown is the base cooldown divided by your current level.

The post cooldown is shared by feed custom posts and forum topics. The comment cooldown is shared by feed comments and forum replies. Profile comments have their own separate cooldown with the same 30-minute base.

Leaderboards

Open Top users from the Community sidebar at /community/top-users. In the Web UI, the Leaderboard and Achievements tabs have separate addresses; Achievements is at /community/achievements. Search by username or choose Sort to rank everyone by Experience, Profile likes, or Overall likes. The same controls are available on phones.

The leaderboard shows rank, avatar, username, level, experience, profile likes, and overall likes. Results are paged, and a user keeps their overall rank when you search. Select a row to open that person’s public profile.

On the Achievements tab, search by name or description and choose Rarest first, Most unlocked, or Highest XP. Cards show rarity, description, unlock percentage, and XP reward.

Achievements

Achievements are one-time milestones attached to a user profile. Each achievement has a key, name, description, icon, rarity, hidden flag, availability flag, active flag, and optional XP bonus.

Visible available achievements that you have not unlocked are shown on your own profile. Hidden achievements are counted for you, but their details are not shown until unlocked. Other users only see achievements you have unlocked.

Unlocking an achievement can add XP and creates an achievement notification. Revoking an achievement removes its XP bonus when applicable.

Visible achievements

The visible catalog currently includes profile, account, project, bug, and collection achievements:

• Main Character: added a profile description. Common, 100 XP.
• They’re the Same Picture: added an avatar. Common, 200 XP.
• We Live in a Society: added at least one social network. Rare, 300 XP.
• Trust Me Bro: added at least one custom link. Rare, 400 XP.
• One Does Not Simply: added a profile banner. Epic, 500 XP.
• Never Gonna Give You Up: added a featured YouTube video. Epic, 600 XP.
• Nobody Asked: added a personal-page post. Epic, 800 XP.
• My Eyes!: added a profile-page background. Epic, 1,000 XP.
• Stay Awhile and Listen: subscribed to news and updates. Uncommon, 200 XP.
• Hacker Hater: enabled MFA. Uncommon, 50 XP.
• Perfectionist: performed 50 exports. Common, 20 XP.
• Undecider: created 5 projects overall. Common, 20 XP.
• Big Brother is Watching You: linked Google account. Common, 20 XP.
• To support, right? Right?: linked Patreon account. Rare, 50 XP.
• Scout: found 1 confirmed bug. Uncommon, 50 XP.
• Hunter: found 5 confirmed bugs. Rare, 100 XP.
• Terminator: found 10 confirmed bugs. Epic, 200 XP.
• Dabbler: created your first custom collection. Common, 20 XP.
• Tinkerer: created 5 custom collections. Uncommon, 50 XP.
• Trailblazer: published one map in Atlas. Uncommon, 100 XP.
• Golden Mapper: published an Atlas map rated above 4.5 from at least 10 votes. Rare, 200 XP.
• Rookie Star: published an Atlas map with more than 100 downloads. Rare, 200 XP.

Continuous paid subscriptions

Hidden subscription streak achievements reward uninterrupted paid-team access over consecutive calendar months. Like the existing tier achievements, they apply to every team member. Plus, Pro, and Ultra all count, whether the team’s paid tier comes from Patreon or has been assigned directly. Basic does not count.

Each member’s streak begins when they gain paid-team access. Changing between paid tiers preserves it. Access through another paid team also preserves it when one subscription ends. Losing all paid-team access resets the current streak immediately, even for a gap shorter than a day. Renewing starts a new streak; separate paid periods are never added together. Previously unlocked achievements and their XP remain earned.

The first paid subscription month counts as month 1. Consecutive paid months in July, August, and September therefore count as three. A confirmed monthly payment can count before the anniversary of linking your subscription. Multiple payments or upgrades in the same calendar month count that month once; simply crossing into a new named month does not count as a renewal.

Continuous access also advances on UTC calendar anniversaries, including directly assigned tiers and annual subscriptions. If an anniversary falls beyond the last day of a month, it falls on that month’s last day. Awards are checked automatically, so you do not need to open your profile or create a project to receive them. Existing members receive credit for earlier uninterrupted paid-team access where their history supports it. Credit cannot begin before you joined the team or before its paid access began. Incomplete history may limit how much earlier time can be credited.

Bug achievements

Confirmed bugs are counted from feed and forum reports after MapToPlay accepts the item as confirmed. The confirmed bug reward is 50 XP per confirmed item.

Bug achievements unlock at 1, 5, and 10 confirmed bugs: Scout, Hunter, and Terminator.