Problem: Achievements

[Themis]

A lot of valid points for and against here, just wanted to add that it would be good to offer power ups for those achievements that take months/years to complete, makes so much sense to as their are a lot of achievements with no rewards and a lot of classes/jobs that could use it

This is the only problem I have with the achievements. They are a long term goal, but after spending all the time aiming to finish an achievement there should always be some kind of reward to show off, be that an item or a title. It's interesting that completeing 5000 levequests gives you a title, but doing that over again for 20 achievement points and you get nothing else is a little stingy. I can't really see the incentive to do that. Especially considering that that's 10000 levequests that you can't use on the local, faction or company leves too. Add on the fact that you have to wait to for the timers to award you those leves and you have a good wait before you can get those points.

Whilst I get that achievements are meant to be long term goals (and I fully support that) but I think something more has to be given than just points, especially for these final ones. Using the crafting/gathering as examples, you get titles for the penultimate achievement (if you view them as a progressive series, though you can just do this high-tier one at any time) and an item reward for the last. This should be a common thing across all progressive achievements at the very least, and the rewards should be suitable and possibly reflect what was achieved. Maybe Key Items that give better rewards for certain leve types or increases the leve allowance you get every 12 hours by 1.

If my math is right (and the info I'm using at the minute is also right) then it would take almost 3.5 years to do this one achievement if you spent your leve allowance only on regionals. If that's so, then you really do need more than 20 points to even warrant thinking about heading for this achievement. These kinds of achievements are going to be gained accidentally rather than an achievement that is going to be worked towards - like achievements should be - and that might only be after 8 or 10 years. That's a little too long term to get nothing out of it, that's for sure. I don't even think personal satisfaction is going to be sufficient by that point.