LS Achievements

Hi all,

What do you all think about LS achievements to go along side with our personal achieves? A number of mmo's have guild/ group/ achieves and i was wondering if anyone thinks they would be a good idea for ffxiv? Was thinking it would help bond/ unite LS for a stronger sense of loyalty to a group. Give things for linkshells to do as a group. I realize we can have more than one LS so achieves would only count towards currently equipped LS. I would like to here others thoughts on the subject. Instead of complaining wanted to toss in an idea that would help build ffxiv rather than be destructive towards it.

Yes.

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Sounds like fun.

How this gonna work though? Like you join that LS and have it's achievements? Or like being in a party with everyone from the same LS to get an achievement? And what activities would earn such an achievement?
Some examples might be nice.

How would they determine if something is a LS wide achievement and not the achievement of just 1 member in the LS? Would the events have to only contain LS members? It sounds like it would be elaborate to record on SE's end...

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Originally Posted by Coldfire

How this gonna work though? Like you join that LS and have it's achievements? Or like being in a party with everyone from the same LS to get an achievement? And what activities would earn such an achievement?
Some examples might be nice.

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lol great minds think alike?

>>How this gonna work though? Like you join that LS and have it's achievements?<<

You would get the LS achievements if they were done already. But would have no effect on your personal achieves.

>>Or like being in a party with everyone from the same LS to get an achievement? <<

example: defeat Ifrit 50 (insert number) times with full LS group. One non-member would not apply towards achieve.

>> And what activities would earn such an achievement?<<

examples:

Gathering: gather grade1 ltems 100,000 times. grade 2 items 250,000 times. grade 3 items 500,000 times. ect. All LS members with equiped shell will count towards achieve.

crafting: similar to above but for each crafting class.

battle: defeat 1 million enemies.

just for a few examples and im sure SE could dream up loads of them.

Go for it, that would help LS's to be more competitive

No, because that's what Free Company is supposed to be: competitive.

Bad idea, ppl shouldn't be forced to join an ls just for a few more achievement points.

I belive in the mmo that have that kind of stuff u can only join one guild/ls only and in here u can join multiples LS, i can be wrong though

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Originally Posted by Antanias

Bad idea, ppl shouldn't be forced to join an ls just for a few more achievement points.

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I think it would be points for the LS, not the individuals in the LS. And with Free Companies coming, maybe this should be held off to be FC Achievements.

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Originally Posted by MariyaShidou

No, because that's what Free Company is supposed to be: competitive.

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Originally Posted by Myrhn

I belive in the mmo that have that kind of stuff u can only join one guild/ls only and in here u can join multiples LS, i can be wrong though

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

I think it would be points for the LS, not the individuals in the LS. And with Free Companies coming, maybe this should be held off to be FC Achievements.

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I agree and I wouldn't mind something like this being done for free companies... good idea all the same though

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Originally Posted by Masamune1004

I think it would be points for the LS, not the individuals in the LS. And with Free Companies coming, maybe this should be held off to be FC Achievements.

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Makes sense :D

The achievements would not be reflected in your personal achievements but the LS achievements. And no one has been forced to join an LS at anytime. As for free companies SE needs to give us more info not the tiny bit of info they have given us. I dont see free companies overriding LS.

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Originally Posted by Sindy

The achievements would not be reflected in your personal achievements but the LS achievements. And no one has been forced to join an LS at anytime. As for free companies SE needs to give us more info not the tiny bit of info they have given us. I dont see free companies overriding LS.

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I think what they are saying is if LS' are going to be purely social... then any actual objectives would be free company based
I can't say for 100% certainty... But I am thinking Yoshi-p said stuff like "Building ships, owning ships, owning buildings, etc would be free company deals"
so if you are already doing group crafting... that would be the perfect place to drop in group crafting achievements

are you encouraging every LS open to mutliple LS to get achivement?

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Originally Posted by Rydin

I think what they are saying is if LS' are going to be purely social... then any actual objectives would be free company based
I can't say for 100% certainty... But I am thinking Yoshi-p said stuff like "Building ships, owning ships, owning buildings, etc would be free company deals"
so if you are already doing group crafting... that would be the perfect place to drop in group crafting achievements

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Yea this was my understanding of how it would be. LS is social stuff you could have multiples of, Free companies are your "business" so to speak.

Anyways as far as achievements go, I think they would be fine as long as a majority didn't revolve around needing a huge group size. It might be interesting to have something like "This LS has defeated Ifrit under 10 minutes", "This Linkshell has at least one of every craft at 50", to help out people that are looking for LS's as it brings more of them into the limelight or shows off skilled players, even lesser known ones. If they add LS/FC buildings the achievement awards could even add decorations you could set up.

I think a "World First" type of deal would be a awesome addition to this game ^^; World first to get 75 warrior; world first to kill ifrit or w.e. the leveling one is a good idea for when cap is increased.

This is cool as long as they are tangible & actually home so sort of meaning.

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Originally Posted by Leo_Hart

are you encouraging every LS open to mutliple LS to get achivement?

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It would be an Achievement for the LS not the PLAYER.

Open 8 LSs you still get 1 Achievement number for each LS, which means nothing if you say have 100/100 achievements per LS, woo? That is like saying people make multiple chars just so they can do the same achievements over ....

Please read the thread guys.

I think this would be a fantastic idea, and so does ArenaNet since its already in GW2 XD lol. Their guild system is insane tho, but Achievements for the LS would be great, but I think they should be more community enjoyable and not "LS gained 500 million kills" that I think is just retarded.

More creative achievement ideals would need to be thought up.

I am not sure how LS achievements would work. I don't think there is much in game right now that can really count as something achieveable - for example:

- Number of People in Linkshell
If achieves are earned by having increments of like 10, 20, 30 people in the LS , then that will only prompt spamming of linskshell invites to get quotas, and without the tools to magage ousting inactives it would lead to a lot of re-shelling

- Significant party kills
I don't know how probable it would be for the devs to come up with a mechanic that can record whether or not everyone in a party is all in the same LS or not at the point where you down a NM or kill a primal.

- Cumulative monster kills
Yes players do have a record of how many monsters they have slain and while it may seem like a simple feat to add it all up, it doesn't account for the fact that some people may have joined the LS part way through accumulating so not all their monster kills can be attributed to the time in which they were in LS. Also it would be too easy to invite then kick players with the 100K plus kill acheive to get the numbers

- Linkshell quests
Currently there are no real events or quests that can be attributed to a linkshell, they are all character based. And you can't, say for example have one for 'all members participated in Valentione's day' when if you have inactive players you can't delete, you would have to reshell just to get all the active players who have done the quest in the LS. This would then also lose progress on other LS achievements. If the requirements were 'at least 20 players have participated in the event' then this limits those small linkshells.

- Obtaining LS property
There is no function for a LS to gain some kind of room or storage facility, as this seems to be a goal for the future Free Companies and may not make its way to individual LS.

While it may be nice to be able to display some kind of acievement to proove a Linkshells worth, rather than refering to cumulative character based scoring systems, there simply isn't much content that can be associated with a Linkshell as a unit, and what can be doesn't seem feasible to be implemented. I think for this kind of thing we wil have to wait for the Free Company system

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Originally Posted by Magnesium02

I am not sure how LS achievements would work. I don't think there is much in game right now that can really count as something achieveable - for example:

- Number of People in Linkshell
If acheives are earned by having increments of like 10, 20, 30 people in the LS , then that will only prompt spamming of linskshell invites to get quotas, and without the tools to magage outsing inactives thoughw ould lead to a lot of re-shelling

- Significant party kills
I don't know how probably it would be for the devs to come up with a mecahnic that can record whether or not eveyrone in a party is all in the same LS or not at the point where you down a NM or kill a primal.

- Cumulative monster kills
Yes players do have a record of how many monsters they have slain and while it may seem like a simple feat to add it all up, it doens't account for the fact that some people may have joined the LS part way through accumulating so not all their monster kills can be attributed to the time in whic they were in LS. Also it would be too easy to invite then kick players with the 100K plus kill acheive to get the numbers

- Linkshell quests
Currently there are no real events or quests that can be attributed to a linkshell, they are all character based. And you can't, say for example have one for 'all members participated in Valentione's day' when if you have inactive players you cna't delete, you would have to reshell just to get all the active players who have done the quest in the LS. This would then also lose progress on other LS achievements. If the requirements were 'at least 20 players have participated in the event' then this limits those small linkshells.

- Obtaining LS property
There is no function for a LS to gain some kind of room or storage facility, as this seems to be a goal for the future Free Companies and may not make its way to individual LS.

While it may be nice to be able to display some kind of acievement to proove a Linkshells worth, rather than refering to cumulative character based scoring systems, there simply isn't much content that can be associated with a Linkshell as a unit, and what can be doesn't seem feasible to be implemented. I think for this kind of thing we wil have to wait for the Free Company system

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Thanks Rogue, word from my heart :)

Ok "IF" a linkshell achievement system was put into place what kinds of rewards could we see? Maybe -30 min reward to anima regen. Or maybe +1% Hp or Mp% while shell is equiped. So if there was 600 achieves in all; at 50 achieves done a reward would unlock, and then again at 100 and so forth. Some things would unlock /w specific achieves completed. Just an idea. And none of the above would have to actually be what the reward would be just examples. So discuss plz. >.>