Reimagining Achievements - A list of changes for a healthy game

[thedude28]

As someone who has done a lot of these grinds and knows newer players who are working on them now, yes. Some people like grinding achievements. Asking for them to be removed because it isn't for you is borderline ridiculous.

I agree, asking them to be removed for ME is borderline ridiculous. Except y'know... what I'm asking for... would benefit you... if you cared.

Let me tell you just how careless you and Squex is.

I already think Occult Crescent is horribly designed. But the 1000 carrot achievement... Running around the map for treasure is one thing. Gunning for rare drops is another. Asking your bravest soldiers to get 1000 of them?!??!?!?!

Option A: Speed-run through capitalism.

• At the time of writing, Universalis, an "international" market-board driven by player data, prices these Fortune Carrots at 2.3mil gil each on North American servers (I'm on Cactuar).
• 2.3mil x 1000 carrots = 2.3 BILLION GIL, if the prices stay at 2.3mil. And they won't stay there exactly because they're a 1% drop.
• The only good way to tackle this issue is owning an FC with maxed out Fight Club subs, but even then it'll still be a slog and you're still raising the price of the carrots with each purchase (BECAUSE THEY'RE A 1% DROP).

Okay, but real estate in this game isn't noob-friendly. It's a lotto system now. So, if you get priced out of Option A, you gotta run it back, no?

Option B: Running it back.

• My friend tells me that it will cost you approx. 5500 hours to collect all 1000 carrots. It doesn't really matter if that's accurate, because...
• 5500 hours = 229 days.
• 229 days spent in Occult Crescent running around the map, doing nothing but farming chests. That's not including bathroom breaks. It's all optimized active time spent.

Even if you get a little lucky, this is just as bad as the 20k hoards achievements (which you have), but not as bad as the Leves, which are still perhaps the most time intensive. How... how could you say that I'd like achievements removed just for me? Shouldn't all achievements be attainable to some degree?

But no, people like you would just spit in my face and tell me to let it go... when I have more of a sense of what I'm doing for these achievements than you...

With all due respect, I hate you. Please quit the game at your earliest convenience.