Achievement points on Adventurer Plate

[Rongway]

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.

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.