Dedicated writer
early eyes
Unlock this stamp by writing a long letter over a certain wordcount (maybe 1500? or something like that)
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Shiro from Slowly
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True Scribe
jacka212
For the people that write longform letters of 5000 words or more, a stamp showing a wall of text.
Shiro from Slowly
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Chatterbox, for the letters that are more like essays.
Adam1707
I've made a great friend with a pen pal I met in July 2023, our letters started off as short-medium length exchanges that quickly grew and grew in size the more that we talked about and got to know each other.
Since our first exchange, we've become quite close friends and introduced little sections to our letters that digress away from topical conversation. I say little sections... one section in particular which sees us exchanging song recommendations alongside, why we connect with a song, has become quite lengthy indeed but is a staple of our letters. The past few letters that we have sent saw the word count creep above the word limit for a Slowly letter (something close to 10k words I think?) so we have to split our replies into 2 letters!
My suggestions is this: What if we had achievement stamps that can be unlocked maybe every thousand or couple thousand words that we achieve in a single letter? For example, if my letter contains 1987 words, I might get a stamp for sending a letter containing 1000 words. Then, I might send another which contains 3034 words, which nets me another 2 stamps; one for surpassing 2000 words, and another for 3000 words.
This will reward the dedication and effort that we put into writing up our very detailed and extensive letters and recognise us as a "Chatterbox".
Regardless of the outcome, thanks for reading!
Александр П.
The design is similar to the achievement for the number of letters sent. You can reclaim the Golden Pencil achievement stamp by changing the conditions for obtaining it. For example, sending a letter over 5000 words long three times. Or get a message that the letter is too long to send in one envelope.
jacka212
Александр П.
Thank you for replying. I could not find a Golden Pencil achievement anywhere so this is my suggestion. Also I think requiring multiple 5000 words long letters can be a separate achievement.
Aiztin
Me encanta la idea
Александр П.
Congratulations on discovering the word limit on a letter and the friend to whom you can write such letters. I encountered this limit last year and now I'm moving towards the need to divide a letter into three envelopes.
Maybe it's worth giving not an achievement for every thousand words, but for trying to send a letter that exceeds the limit. Maybe we don't even need to come up with a new brand design: bring back the Golden Pencil achievement with a new condition for receiving it.
Phy.mania
Ummm no!!
Александр П.
There is already a stamp with this name - the achievement for 500 letters sent. The achievement for the longest letter was previously "Golden Pencil". For the longest letter sent among all users in a day. 1,500 words is not even an average letter... A proper letter is from 5,000 words.
early eyes
Александр П.: I realised the name has already been taken shortly after submitting this suggestion, but hey this is just a rough idea. Also there are languages a lot more efficient than English and reaching 1500 words might not be that easy.
Александр П.
early eyes: my experience with letters is just mostly unrelated to English. All my letters are originally written in Russian and then translated. :-)
Madmax
I believe people will just copy and paste a long article to cheat for this achievement stamp.
Александр П.
Madmax: any achievement can be simulated. The correct achievement for long letters would be: at least three letters of 5,000 words or more in a row, answered by at least as long letters, with correspondence with at least three contacts.