[Dev 1081] Achievements

[normalforce]

Looking through the list of the upcoming achievements has me fairly happy. And, by the looks of a few, they're going to take a while to earn. Talk about long term goals. Take the Assimilator; convert 1,000 items in materia. Holy wow! o.O How many materia do you convert on a normal day? 10 a day would take over 3 months!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, you say. It that a bit too much? Well, how about trying to earn that title within a year? Then you better start converting at least 3 a day.


And don't even get me started on how long it'll take to get that Butcher's Crown! (Oh, who am I kidding. Multiple the numbers needed per day from above by 100 to get a feel of what you would have to do. Hey marmot, I don't like your face!)


Some of them I'm somewhat indifferent about. Achieve gladiator level 10 or miner level 20. Assuming its every 10 levels for an achievement that makes it 5 achievements per class. With 19 classes in the game that's 95 achievements out of 300+ just for those.

[Fuma-Kotaro]

Hmmm clarification on this is a must. I personally do not care if i get every achievement but i know many hunters....like my ls lead who is r50 all. Would be a serious kick in the nuts if a decent amount of this did not carry over.

[normalforce]

Hmmm clarification on this is a must. I personally do not care if i get every achievement but i know many hunters....like my ls lead who is r50 all. Would be a serious kick in the nuts if a decent amount of this did not carry over.

I think anything that you can't earn again will have to be carried over. For the other ones, it's more of an inconvenience but I am able to defeat 10,000 enemies again. I'll never be able to ding 50 as a PUG again.

[Fuma-Kotaro]

I think anything that you can't earn again will have to be carried over. For the other ones, it's more of an inconvenience but I am able to defeat 10,000 enemies again. I'll never be able to ding 50 as a PUG again.

Yes...i guess that is true. However if you have everything 50 what is the max number of kills you will get at one time? Maybe 50 if you are running some raid type. The problem is without a lvl cap raise you would be forced to kill mobs for no reason to get this. Which ....blows.

[Victor]

I hate this not knowing part >_<

[Orias]

I'm really looking forward to this! This sounds way better than what I had in mind.

[xCid]

Accumlative achievements are weak. Basically based on a players playtime, the more playtime the more achievements gained by that player.

Would rather see stuff based on a players skill such as something like:
Solo any level 50 faction leve
Defeat any SH boss with no more than 4 members in your party
Defeat Ifrit with a party where at least 1 of each DoW and 1 of each DoM class is present within the party

Things like this seem better and adds more to the game. Even though it would be easy to cheat these examples above stuff like this trumps achievements like kill 100k enemies and finish 10 leves.

[normalforce]

Accumulative achievements are weak. Basically based on a players playtime, the more playtime the more achievements gained by that player.

Would rather see stuff based on a players skill such as something like:
Solo any level 50 faction leve
Defeat any SH boss with no more than 4 members in your party
Defeat Ifrit with a party where at least 1 of each DoW and 1 of each DoM class is present within the party

Things like this seem better and adds more to the game. Even though it would be easy to cheat these examples above stuff like this trumps achievements like kill 100k enemies and finish 10 leves.

I don't mind cumulative achievements but I'd also like a whole slew of skill based ones like you mentioned. This is where an achievement system can really shine. Like Alise said, she leveled up all her classes to 50 and in the process got 100,000 kills. She shouldn't need to do that all over again. And that achievement only rewards you for doing something you were going to do in the first place. It should be about how you go about doing something.

[Alise]

yes.. I need to know this.. I got achievement for kill 100,000 enemies since the time when I level my all R50 DoW, now I don't want to do all that process again without exp.

[Duuude007]

What about achievements that are no longer available because of the achievement revisions? Do those who took all the time to earn them still get to keep them, or are they removed entirely?

However for example “completed the 7th Umbral Era” or other achievements which can be completed up until 2.0 will exist.

We know that SE assured us about content and achievements experienced before 2.0 would be kept for the players who earned them, even after 2.0 despite the fact other players can never earn them. This description seems to be entirely valid for my question above, and I just want some sort of confirmation that our previous efforts are not nullified.