Achievement points on Adventurer Plate

I think this would be a neat idea kinda like PSN profiles and Steam profiles where they showcase trophies that the players have earned.

Most achievements are pointless because they're either automatic or they're just busywork/grind. I really don't care about the volume of achievements anyone, myself included, have managed. However, I would like to see more adventurer plate elements rewarded for certain specific achievements (like the Ultimate completion achievements already have) so that people can showcase those specific achievements on their plates.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Most achievements are pointless because they're either automatic or they're just busywork/grind. I really don't care about the volume of achievements anyone, myself included, have managed. However, I would like to see more adventurer plate elements rewarded for certain specific achievements (like the Ultimate completion achievements already have) so that people can showcase those specific achievements on their plates.

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Give me a plate for Breathless from 1.0 and I'll be happy.

It'll never happen :(

The folks who care about achivement points will want them displayed, this includes the one person who is famous for having every achivement.

I am an achievement hunter on FFXIV, but I honestly only go after them to do something in the game while socializing with my friends. (This character is an alt btw.) I personally feel like the number does not matter; but the number could be a pretty good indicator to tell which players are extremely active, veterans, or new. I actually love going on the achievement page on my lodestone because its all listed in order and shows me what my journey has been like with all of the dates. I am like "huh... I chose warrior as my starter job 3 years ago. What a nice memory."

I do think having a number in the AD plate would be the best place to display it because you can't see anyone's achievement scores in the game. I however don't mind if it gets in or not.

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Originally Posted by Gember

I am an achievement hunter on FFXIV, but I honestly only go after them to do something in the game while socializing with my friends. (This character is an alt btw.) I personally feel like the number does not matter; but the number could be a pretty good indicator to tell which players are extremely active, veterans, or new. I actually love going on the achievement page on my lodestone because its all listed in order and shows me what my journey has been like with all of the dates. I am like "huh... I chose warrior as my starter job 3 years ago. What a nice memory."

I do think having a number in the AD plate would be the best place to display it because you can't see anyone's achievement scores in the game. I however don't mind if it gets in or not.

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It's interesting that you mention alts. To clarify my earlier statement, the achievement point number is not meaningful. A low number doesn't mean a person is inactive or new; they could be on an alt. You can't draw any meaningful conclusions just by looking at a person's achievement points. How many people even have an idea of what "a lot" of achievement points looks like? How many achievements does 13,000 points represent? What quality of achievements or difficulty of achievements does 13,000 points represent? It's just not worth taking the time to put that information on an adventurer plate.

However, more plate elements to showcase specific achievements would be meaningful. If, for example, you saw someone with an adventurer plate customization that represented completing all sightseeing log entries, you could draw some conclusion about how that person enjoys the sightseeing log; or someone with a plate customization for getting all caster jobs to Lv100 might be signaling that casters are by and large what they prefer to play. Specific customization elements for specific achievements can tell you something about what activities the player enjoys and what accomplishments they're proud of. That would be way better than just an achievement point number.

I don't mind there being an option, but I don't want it to be a required part of the plate. While normally I'm a completionist in games I thoroughly enjoy, I don't bother getting them in this game unless I want a specific reward, so I'd rather not have that number tied to my character publicly.

Sounds like fun! In general, I think we should have more control over the components of the adventurer plate. Would like the ability to take out times active or my FC and put something like maybe achievement points, or my favourite achievements, or my PvP record, or my housing information. Just options.

Wait... I GOT IT.

What if, if one of the intersts you have is "achivements" and that's on your plate, it shows the number of points you have, when somebody mouses over the achivement icon?

Could any of the others be tweaked in that way? PVP rank when you mouseover the PVP interest maybe?

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Originally Posted by ICountFrom0

Wait... I GOT IT.

What if, if one of the intersts you have is "achivements" and that's on your plate, it shows the number of points you have, when somebody mouses over the achivement icon?

Could any of the others be tweaked in that way? PVP rank when you mouseover the PVP interest maybe?

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That is a pretty good idea. Maybe if you say you are into raiding, you mouseover and it shows the raid you cleared (of your choice). PVP information (like you said). Maybe make it so whatever you set as your interests, the player can link an achievement/title/etc that is related to it to show up as a tooltip.

As for achievement points not being a good measure of what a player does, I sort of agree with the earlier poster

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Originally Posted by Rongway

To clarify my earlier statement, the achievement point number is not meaningful. A low number doesn't mean a person is inactive or new; they could be on an alt. You can't draw any meaningful conclusions just by looking at a person's achievement points. How many people even have an idea of what "a lot" of achievement points looks like? How many achievements does 13,000 points represent? What quality of achievements or difficulty of achievements does 13,000 points represent? It's just not worth taking the time to put that information on an adventurer plate.

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I didn't go out of my way to earn achievements until Endwalker. According to various websites, I had just under 10,000 points before Endwalker came out. That's just whatever I earned doing content I liked. Mind you, I earned a bunch from stuff like the Luminary tools back in 2.0 since I really wanted those tools and points just naturally come from doing that. Same with doing some relics (just a few) or from clearing raids... but not necessarily clearing them 10 time (usually just 8 to get a mount for everyone).

It wasn't until Endwalker came out that I started hunting achievements. I found it enjoyable. In the previous 8 years, I earned about 10000 points. In the last 18 months, I earned about 7500 points.

However, neither the first number or the second number really mean anything. I did a lot of content in the first 8 years... I just didn't bother going out of my way to earn the achievement at the end. I think this probably applies to many players. The achievements can tell a story, but they don't have to. There likely is amount of achievement points out there that separates players from those that just happened to get them done along the way to other things and those that went out of their way to earn them.

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Originally Posted by ICountFrom0

Wait... I GOT IT.

What if, if one of the intersts you have is "achivements" and that's on your plate, it shows the number of points you have, when somebody mouses over the achivement icon?

Could any of the others be tweaked in that way? PVP rank when you mouseover the PVP interest maybe?

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This seems elegant and avoids much clutter. Could also be used to show achievements you're interested in (like put necromancer or the blue marbolo, sudden buddy that wants that too).