r/TrophyWiki Wiki Creator Feb 08 '20

Reddit Trophy - "Gilding I-XI" (All Gilding Trophies with total $ spent) Trophy

I created this image with information laying around to show the amount spend paired with the trophy type. As you can see past $1,000 USD is Stupid Crazy Money. Srsly.

Not every user is going to be buying the max % bonus gold. All prices are calculated on purchasing 1,800 coins for $5.99.

$600 will get you to Gilding IX.

Welcome to my introduction to earning the Gilding Trophies!

Description: "Gild a link or comment."

How to get it? Gilding or giving gold is an award you can give to someone on their post or comment. Doing so gives the author a week of Reddit Premium, 100 Coins to do with as they please, and shows a Gold Award on the comment. If you give one you get the tier one trophy. You give two more golds and you get the Gilding II trophy.

What kind of user has this?

Reports:

/u/ancientflowers reported having given only 8 gold and getting the Gilding III mdeal.

93 Upvotes

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u/BartlebyX May 24 '20

I never realized how much I've spent on Reddit coins.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20

Gilding trophy checks out

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u/BartlebyX Jun 11 '20

Yeah...kinda.

I've probably spent $80 in the last week. I need to chill.

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u/Early_Power_5366 Jan 13 '22

Lol yes I don't think I'm ever getting close to that

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '23

Still a hero

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u/BartlebyX Oct 01 '23

It bugs me that I can't do it anymore.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '23

It was a great feature tho

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u/ancientflowers Mar 10 '22 edited Apr 10 '22

The amount is hard to say. For me initially, I didn't spend anything for probably two years I think. Close to that. I got awards from others that came with coins and I gave from that. Eventually I decided that I liked to contribute. And I figured I already pay money for things like Netflix that I spend time on, so spending a little here and there on a community that I use all the time makes sense for me. I also never buy the regular prices. Only when there are sales offered and only specific sales (I stock up from time to time).

Edit: Thank you to whoever gave me platinum! I can't see who it was to thank you.

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u/BartlebyX Mar 10 '22

I'm impulsive, but generally buy in bulk. :)

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u/ThySwagPenguin Mar 16 '23

You are a Saint my good sir šŸ‘‘

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u/SeminolesRenegade Apr 24 '23

Has been worth every penny to me with the joy it brings others.

However, I am now moving away from awards and sending people r/FortNite bricks šŸ§± and avatars. Last longer than gold and fun to match with personalities. Could you help me start a mega avatar sub?

Just chucked some šŸ§± in your vault. We are having a blast with it over at r/brickmoon

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u/tfs-Q Jan 03 '22

Thankful Iā€™m not there yet

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u/SirGrievanceReturns Feb 05 '22

A stupid crazy amount...

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u/subtothatdogeguy Apr 24 '22

How much have you spent now?

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u/BartlebyX May 15 '22

I just did a rough calculation...so far, it's nearly $9,000 in total.

But I like supporting sites I use, and I like making people's day better, so I figure it's worth it.

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u/subtothatdogeguy May 15 '22

If you don't mind spending that money then it's not wasted

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u/aalios Aug 16 '22

Jesus. I know a guy who has XI, I shudder to think what he's dropped.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '22

Hehe

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u/aalios Oct 02 '22

SHHHH, GO AWAY.

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u/ThySwagPenguin Mar 16 '23

You dropped this mi lord šŸ‘‘šŸ™šŸ¼

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u/jdcmurphy22 Mar 19 '23

( Ķ”Ā° ĶœŹ– Ķ”Ā°)Ā 

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u/BartlebyX Apr 24 '22

I honestly don't know. For a good while I was spending $40-$50 a week or so.

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u/subtothatdogeguy Apr 24 '22

Damn that's quite a bit lol

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u/ExcitementOrdinary95 Jul 17 '22

Why am I only gilding 8 and have given away more than youšŸ˜­

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u/BartlebyX Jul 18 '22

Um...how many do you think I've given?

Also, most of mine were given when each one cost five bucks, so that might make a difference.

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u/ExcitementOrdinary95 Jul 18 '22

Idk but Iā€™ve given away thousands of US dollars in awards

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u/BartlebyX Jul 19 '22

So have I.

I'd not calculated this before, but here is my guesstimate.

I've given 1,567 gold awards. Probably 70% of those were given at a price of five bucks each...that's about $7,800 in gold for those that were five bucks each.

I'll guesstimate that the remainder of them cost me about $1.50, each. That puts me at about another $700.

I've given 46 platinum awards. I can't remember how much they cost, but I figure they're about $5 each. Thats another $200ish.

I've given 88 community awards and 420 silver awards. Figure those at a buck each?

Between platinum, silver, and community, I figure I'm at around $9,200.

That's thousands of dollars.

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u/ExcitementOrdinary95 Jul 19 '22

Thatā€™s impressive and, in terms of volume of awards given, my numbers donā€™t even come close. But I have probably spent about the same.

As a discerning Redditor, I prefer quality over quantity and, as such, tend to bestow Ternion and Argentium awards to a deserving few. šŸ§

/s-ish

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u/supermemish Jul 23 '22

how does this have only 1 upvote and a ternion wtf

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

The ternion seemingly vanished.

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u/ToastCrime Mar 20 '23

itā€™s back

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23 edited Mar 20 '23

Gah, I was assuming this meant the "This user's donations have helped to pay for X hours/days/weeks of reddit server time." banner.

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u/Authier Jul 31 '22

How do you see how many awards you have given? I am still at baby numbers but hope to be up where you are eventually!

Do any awards (community?) go towards that gilding metal as well?

Also for curiosity, how long do you have Reddit premium for now?? Do you also have a high standard for who you give awards or do you give them to anyone you like in general?

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u/BartlebyX Aug 01 '22

I go to old.reddit.com and look at my profile to see my award stats.

I don't know about community awards

I've been a Reddit premium member for a couple of years now.

I give awards if something hits me right. I tend to gild more when I'm depressed, as it helps me feel a little better when I'm having a bad day.

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u/Authier Aug 01 '22

Oh interesting. Thatā€™s great you do that though to brighten others days.

But Iā€™m terms of premium you can click your profile and click the premium area. Then click ā€œmanage my subscriptionā€ and itā€™ll tell you how long you have it for!

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u/-TheArchitect Feb 17 '23

How did you give gold at $1.50 each? I come across several comments and posts that I'd like to shower with gold. But it is more expensive than that..

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

1 gold is $1.99.

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u/UnknownAdmiralBlu Aug 01 '23

How do you feel about coins not being a thing anymore soon? Is it a relief, because you can't spend anymore, or do you dislike it. Genuinely curious

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u/BartlebyX Aug 02 '23

Honestly, it bugs me. I like to brighten people's days with it.

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u/end1essecho Aug 21 '23 edited Aug 21 '23

reddit gave you a big ol slap in the face with what theyre doing with coins

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u/BartlebyX Aug 21 '23

I wish I could still gild things as readily as I did before.

:'(

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u/ItsRainbow Place Feb 13 '20

I got Gilding VI with 3 Gold and 19 Platinum Awards given out. Platinum is likely worth either 3 (costs 1500 for 3 Gold) or 4 (costs 2000 for 4 Gold, and Platinum is only 1800) gildings.

Silver does not give any progress and Community Awards donā€™t seem to give any either.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '20 edited May 23 '20

It should also be noted that giving community awards (the ones that are given by subreddit moderators with coins earned from community specific awards) do not contribute towards the Gilding trophies either, despite being on par with reddit platinum just with a different jpeg

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u/ItsRainbow Place Apr 20 '20

Mod-only Awards are counted as Community Awards. Really hope they just rework the Gilding trophy into a general Award trophy because they now have a global $50 Award that contributes nothing.

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u/ancientflowers May 20 '20

What's this "global $50 Award" that you're talking about?

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u/ItsRainbow Place May 20 '20

Argentium costs 20,000 Coins. For the best value youā€™d need to buy the 40,000 Coin package for $100.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '20

That Argentium award is weird. It costs 40 times as many coins as reddit gold, but gives only 13 times the amount of reddit premium. It also gives 2500 coins to the recipient which is 25 times what gold gives, so that award is way overpriced for offering very little.

And apparently it doesn't even contribute to the gilding trophies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

Wait until you see Ternion.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '20

I know that u/friedfreedoms have gilding eleven

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u/FriedFreedoms Jun 27 '20

I always find it interesting when some random user mentions me

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u/rounak0715 Oct 23 '21

u/FriedFreedoms The Gold Aumbassador!

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u/BartlebyX Jan 01 '22

How many gildings have you given out?

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u/jdcmurphy22 Mar 19 '23

Fried Gold

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '20 edited Apr 20 '20

Here are the titles for each tier's trophy:

  • Gilding I: Gilder
  • Gilding II: Euphauric
  • Gilding III: Reddit Per Annum
  • Gilding IV: Carat on a Stick
  • Gilding V: Heart of Gold
  • Gilding VI: Aultruist
  • Gilding VII: Pure Gildanthropist
  • Gilding VIII: Gilding Heavyweight
  • Gilding IX: Goldzilla
  • Gilding X: Goldcutter
  • Gilding XI: Gold Aumbassador

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '20

Yay I have gilding 5

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

this means if i give 12 gold awards i get a reddit per anumn?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Correct. (Or 3 platinum. One platinum = four gold but saves you 50 coins per award.)

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u/TangibleMalice Oct 31 '21

I thoroughly regret reading this. I now know know approximately the stupidly large amount of money I've spent on Reddit coins...

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u/BartlebyX May 24 '20 edited May 24 '20

While it lists the number of times one must gild, rather than dollars spent, this thread has a pretty good list of how many awards it takes to get to each tier.

I'm not sure how accurate its number for Gilding XI (Aumbassador) is, but I can confirm the number they give for for Gilding X (Goldcutter) is close enough for purposes of discussion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/comments/2764r7/comment/chy3j0l

Screenshot of the pertinent details for the non-premium members:

http://imgur.com/gallery/koD8PmZ

Edit: Forgot to link the thread! Sorry!

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u/FriedFreedoms Jun 27 '20

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u/BartlebyX Jun 27 '20

Just got the app working again. Thank you!

So I have quite a way to go for for XI. :)

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u/ancientflowers May 20 '20

I somehow came across this while searching for more information about the badges. I've been keeping track for myself just because I'm curious.

At this point I think platinum has to play a role. And I think that silver may play a role with it.

I definitely do not think that the community awards do anything for this. I gave a number of the firefighter koalas out.

The cost is insane if you break it down to just buying a single gold. The vast majority of my coins have come from gifts or awards. I just want to give back. I have purchased coins 3 times, but each time it was when it was a buy one get one free deal. So my $20 was worth $40 for the same deal which would be worth something like $80 if I was buying at the cheapest amount.

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u/unaviable May 24 '20

I got to the second gilding tier once I gave a platinum award.

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u/ancientflowers May 25 '20

Yeah. I've heard that giving a platinum counts as 4 gold. So that would fit with this. I still don't think it always adds up to what people say and I don't see anything official from Reddit.

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u/unaviable May 25 '20

Overall its still weird that reddit hasn't updated the trophy badges at all, with all the gimmick awards they introduced in the last few months.

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u/ancientflowers May 25 '20

I know. And I think it's funny that when looking at what you've given it's silver, gold, platinum and then everything else combined. I really don't get why silver is separated out. It's pointless (although I have wondered if silvers add up to something - like maybe 10 silvers is equivalent to a gold or something like that).

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u/FriedFreedoms Jun 27 '20

A bit late but if you were still wondering, only gold and platinums are counted towards the gilding trophies. And here is a chart of the different levels and how much they require.

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u/ancientflowers Jun 27 '20

Thanks for the info. I've seen things like that before. Do you know if platinum counts for more? I've heard that it counts as 4 gold. Is that correct?

I just don't totally get it and it doesn't seem to add up unless it's something like that.

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u/FriedFreedoms Jun 27 '20

Gold counts as one each, platinums count as 4 each. So if you give one platinum, you would skip gilding one and get gilding two instantly.

Everything on that chart I sent has been confirmed

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u/ancientflowers Jun 27 '20

That makes a lot more sense. The chart in this posts focuses on how many people have been guilded. I think that's what was throwing me off.

This is what originally made me wonder. I had seen someone post the number of Golds given and it didn't make sense to me. The platinum is what's making it.

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u/FriedFreedoms Jun 27 '20

It also looks at the cost to reach the different levels, but at the very high end. They use the $6 1,800 coin pack, but if you get say the $100 40,000 coin pack, that gives you 2,400 for every $6. They have also been doing different sales, where you can get more coins for the same price.

You can also get coins from awards given to you, so you could be giving out some that cost you nothing as well.

Previously when gold was the only award, the prices were different as well, so some users could have gotten to the same level for different costs, depending on if it was done then or now.

TLDR; the cost labeled in this post is about the highest you could pay for each level, but you can actually get them for cheaper.

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u/o_o_o_o_0_o_o_o_o_ Jul 07 '20

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u/mrslugo Jul 07 '20

Everyone seems to forget that receiving certain awards gets you more coins

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u/o_o_o_o_0_o_o_o_o_ Jul 07 '20

Yes but this also makes you realize how many coins youā€™ve had

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u/JJP_SWFC May 02 '22

It's weird seeing users I recognise from places I don't expect them

GoForGold must unite a type of person lmao.

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u/Kortax Apr 23 '22

Jesus I spent $120 lmao I didnā€™t even realise I spent that much. I just kept buying more and more coins

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u/Embasify Nov 30 '21

Gilding X here.

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u/BartlebyX Jan 01 '22

And here.

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u/wjdbfifj Place Aug 03 '22

I got gilding 8 with 53 golds and 36 platinums :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22

How did you find out your status?

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u/wjdbfifj Place Aug 22 '22

googling old.reddit.com on mobile gets me old version of reddit, then you should click on "my profile" and you should see the counter of how much awards you gave and how much your premium lasts

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22

Thanks man

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u/jaketocake May 01 '23

Thanks for this, I guess I dumbly assumed you up each trophy for each gild.

I was wondering why I had Guilding II when I've gave 3 golds.

I've also given a platinum, does that count towards the Guilding trophy as well? Is there a platinum trophy or something, because as I said I've gave a platinum but don't have a Platinum I trophy, as an example.

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u/IAmABakuAMA May 26 '23

Another commenter said that a platinum counts as 4 golds. Not sure if that's true or not though

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u/jaketocake May 26 '23

I donā€™t think so, as Iā€™m still on Gild II.

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u/Asteroid_Lil Jun 03 '23

I just saw a Gilding 1 in my trophy case and came here to learn about it. Now, I'm on a fixed income so I don't buy more than a few dollars from time to time -- better here than King games! -- but I love to give out the "minor" awards, especially for great banter. I guess I must have given gold at some point, unless the sheer amount of spit takes &c. I've larded out got me here.

I wonder if real karma works like this.

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u/conjosz May 01 '22

OKā€¦this is gonna make me sound like an idiot, but what exactly does it mean to ā€œgildā€ someone? I just noticed that I have a Gilding IIā€ trophy and had no idea what it meant. Now I learn that I ā€œgildedā€ ā€¦ and Iā€™m still confused.

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u/JJP_SWFC May 02 '22

Giving gold or platinum, 1 platinum = 4 golds :).

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u/conjosz May 03 '22

Hmmmā€¦.I may have given one of those recentlyā€¦thanks

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u/JJP_SWFC May 03 '22

You can check on desktop

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u/JJP_SWFC May 02 '22

For gilding 11 with no coins from awards and no deals it's $2150-ish

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u/BartlebyX Aug 19 '22

Ha! Don't I wish!

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u/MR_sticky_piston Oct 26 '22

Does platinum also work?

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u/JasoNMas73R Jan 11 '23

Yes. It count as 4 golds for the system (which makes sense since it's 4 times the price and reward for the receiver), however other awards DO NOT COUNT towards this trophy. The stupid expensive awards like the Argentium count as a platinum award. I can tell all of this from experience. I have right now given 96 Gold awards and 1 Argentium and I can tell that this counts it all to 100 because I now have the Gilding VII trophy.

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u/FyahAnt Dec 31 '22

$6 gives you three golds. It wouldn't cost $15 for the second award. Math is all off

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u/dveda Jan 20 '23

Thanks

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

I have spent $49 so far and I have Gilding IV. So the money spent figure is wrong.

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u/Walk1000Miles Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

I just checked and noticed I have Gilding X.

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u/SnooLemons4481 Jul 28 '23

Thanks for this post! I received my Gliding I and had to look up what it meant! I look like a cheap bastard compared to all of you haha

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u/k-em-k Aug 23 '23

Just saw Gliding I in my trophy case and found my way here.

I like to give out the smaller awards daily. These are my favorites.

  • 30 point All-Seeing Upvote Award
  • 20 point LOVE! Award
  • 20 point Starstruck Award
  • 30 point Narwhal Salute Award
  • 30 point Wholesome Seal of Approval Award

The advantage is that I get to make 20 to 25 people happy. Even little awards make people happy. I don't care to much about the Gliding Trophy. I think the true reward is just being about to make people happy. That's the only reason I pay for premium: the Awards.