User Badges

Overview

Badges are used to quickly identify Staff or various forms of Citizen on Total War Center. More rarely seen are the badges of Curial Officers. The site has a long history with its badges, dating back to the beginning of the site and appearing in different designs as the site has changed. Redesigns often corroborated with a site theme or recent game release, though this practice has slipped in recent years.

Users are also distinguished by the color of their name, and additional badges or roles can be seen below the primary badge they identify as (unless they choose none, in which case only the group names are seen). Users who are moderators or administrators are always primarily identified by those badges, otherwise users have agency how to display their groups.

The update to xenForo in 2025 allowed multiple badges to be displayed per user, with links to an explanation about each category, as seen in the example below:

Some badges from the vBulletin version of the site are shown below. The Troy style badges previously used on the forum were removed at the artist's request, see here, the badges shown below came second in the competition held to choose Troy themed badges.

Category	Name	Troy-style badge	TW3K-style badge	TWRII-style badge	ETW-style badge	MIITW-style badge	RTW-style badge	Old RTW-style badge
Staff Officers
	Hexagon Council Administrator
	Moderator
	Technical Staff							-
	Content Director							-
	Content Staff							-
	Gaming Director				-	-	-	-
	Gaming Staff					-	-	-
	Tribune						-	-
Curial Officers
	Magistrate						-	-
	Consul (formerly Curator)						-	-
	Censor				-	-	-	-
Badges Awarded by the Curia
	Citizen							-
	Civitate
	Artifex
Honorary Awards
	Opifex	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here
	Phalera	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here		-	-
	Divus	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here	Awarded as a medal see here
	Patrician				Not used in this period.	Not used in this period.
	A God in Colchester						-	-
	Stalker					-	-	-
Repealed and/or merged ranks/roles
	Praefectus (repealed)			-	-	-	-	-
	Primus Praefectus (repealed)			-	-	-	-	-
	Librarian (user group merged with Content Staff)						-	-
	Content Artist (user group merged with Content Staff)					-	-	-
	Modding Director (merged with Content/Moderation)				-	-	-	-
	Modding Staff (merged with Content/Moderation)				-	-	-	-
	Vault Staff (Inactive)	-	-			-	-	-
	Member	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Senior Member	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Senator	-	-	-	-	-
	Speaker of the House	-	-	-	-			-
	Officer Emeritus	-	-	-	-	-		-
	Ogre's Network Administrator	-	-	-	-	-	-
	TWC Staff	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Consilium de Civitate	-	-			-	-	-
	Creative Assembly member	-					-
	Feral Interactive member	-			-	-	-	-
	Slitherine Publishing member	-				-	-	-
	SEGA member	-	-	-	-	-	-

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