Achievements For Tw's Finest!

[Capital Knockers]

This has already been done, I can't believe no one has said anything. Nasir ran TWMS or something. It was Missions rather than Achievments, but pretty much the exact same system. You'd do well to try and find him and whoever else was involved with that, they might still have the site/medals etc. their experience would also be quite valuable.

[Tyler]

Medals

We can use something simular to this.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1999/h3medalsui7.gif

Thats all of the Halo 3 medals and what you have to do to get them.

[Kahlan]

I'd say we have these medals and then people with the most medals or most point-based medals get ranked on a page. And perhaps come up with a semiannual contest involving the top medalists. Just a thought.

[HateTheFake]

i dont like the prizes like jav rockets

however maybe a cool rotating banner option, and stuff on your twd profile will be cool.

Awards
Mvp Streak- Minimum of 3 to be considered a streak. (1 or more leagues combined)
Mvp Solo Streak- 1 league only, minimum 3 games
Sluggers- 5 games 10+ avg
Mild Mannered- 10 games 10+ avg
Heavy Hitters- 5 games 15+ avg
Lagtastic Award- 5 games 0 lagouts (haha)
Time Spent On Squad Award- 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, ect
Time Spent On Trench Wars- 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 2 year, 5 year, ect
Banner Exporium- Create 5 Banners

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

Teamkill award. get 5 teamkills in a jd :P

[CaptainPoopface]

I like Hate's idea about a banner that could be appended to the player names in game. If you're really badass, you would have a grid of chevrons next to your name like General Petraeus, until the next time you log off, or for 5 minutes after the achievement, or something like that. I think that would be a good system.

I also agree there should be no prizes. We are egotistical enough that flaunting our medals would provide enough satisfaction.

Things I'd like to see:
Assists (when a player dies, everyone who shot him between his last full charge and his death gets an assist. Maybe a 30% minimum damage threshold or something, and you get that percentage of dead guy's bounty added to your score)
Sniper / Sprayer (shot accuracy)
Long Ranger (# kills where death occurs at least 1 or 2 X or Y coords away)
Killing Sprees (5, 10, 15...)

I also like the idea of negative medals, which invite ridicule:
Man on the Inside (most team kills)
Safe Zone Police (# of kills within X distance of safe zone)
Living Decoy (X amount of time with no kills)
Obnoxious Bastard (65% or more of last 12 lines, or last 5 minutes, of chat)
Laggot (avg ping > whatever)

I visualize these medals forming a small 2 dimensional grid beneath the player's name next to his ship. They would disappear while on a turret. Players could toggle player names to turn them off. Like this:


--/\--
CaptainPoopface (347)
:fear: <--- these are my medals, but they should be the same size as 1 text char

[Tyler]

impossible

I like Hate's idea about a banner that could be appended to the player names in game. If you're really badass, you would have a grid of chevrons next to your name like General Petraeus, until the next time you log off, or for 5 minutes after the achievement, or something like that. I think that would be a good system.

I also agree there should be no prizes. We are egotistical enough that flaunting our medals would provide enough satisfaction.

Things I'd like to see:
Assists (when a player dies, everyone who shot him between his last full charge and his death gets an assist. Maybe a 30% minimum damage threshold or something, and you get that percentage of dead guy's bounty added to your score)
Sniper / Sprayer (shot accuracy)
Long Ranger (# kills where death occurs at least 1 or 2 X or Y coords away)
Killing Sprees (5, 10, 15...)

I also like the idea of negative medals, which invite ridicule:
Man on the Inside (most team kills)
Safe Zone Police (# of kills within X distance of safe zone)
Living Decoy (X amount of time with no kills)
Obnoxious Bastard (65% or more of last 12 lines, or last 5 minutes, of chat)
Laggot (avg ping > whatever)

I visualize these medals forming a small 2 dimensional grid beneath the player's name next to his ship. They would disappear while on a turret. Players could toggle player names to turn them off. Like this:


--/\--
CaptainPoopface (347)
:fear: <--- these are my medals, but they should be the same size as 1 text char

Impossible to do the medals below players names. Its simply NOT in the programming of continuum.

[Capital Knockers]

Can someone help me find Nasir's old site if it still exists, this has all been done before. Doesn't anyone else remember it?

[Tyler]

Nevermind

removed. Previous entry was made becuase im simply a dick... I removed it becuase It was not neccessary.

[HateTheFake]

always use the SSDev Team

http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=14409

[The Unliked One...]

Right.. Little support from TWDev team. Well thanks for contacting us since I didn't get any call.
Also SSDev isn't any more active than TWDev. They just have JabJabJab.

But anyway, I can wake up TWDev... hopefully

Edit: Javs, duel, base, blah, would have a top-10 medallist boards that was updated by a bot. Ambitious but rubbish?

[Kim]

Well it seems that there is going to be very little support from TW Dev, and the chance of getting bot dev to assist seem very improbable. Most players i have talked to enjoyed the idea and most staff i have talked to did also. But the few members of bot dev/tw dev that have put there 2 cents in seem less than thrilled at the time/effort needed to put into something like this. Consider it a dead issue.

Why are you calling off my idea?
Ideas don't come into fruition over night. I sent a ticket recently to twcore dev team to have a simple suggestion box type of module added to Robobot so we can get players to give achievement ideas with short descriptions to the bot, which will be compiled and wiped daily so that new ideas can be added by the same player, instead of replacing your previous entry.
We'll take all these ideas, filter and sort by difficulty and plausibility and we'll discuss each one of them with a dev member on the project to consider time constraints and work load.

[PH]

so it turned into a "dead issue" less than 8 hours after the original post. or did it? obviously the level of communication within staff is still excellent.

[milosh]

The Bot-Dev team never means to deter anyone from what may very well be a worth-while idea. Tyler is referring to some words I spoke to him on the staff chat, but I was in no way meaning to address him or this project specifically. My intention was to address a general attitude that I sense in Trench Wars that just because something is feasible it is reasonable. My only request is that players take into consideration that development is time-consuming and developers are few and far between. Simply because a a bot has a feature does not mean it can be "copy/pasted" onto another bot and just because a feature is possible does not mean it has a good cost to benefit ratio. It would be possible to create all of the yahoo games inside Trench Wars arenas with lvz and bots and it would probably be very fun and entertaining whilst drawing hundreds of new players... but is it reasonable to ask basically two bot developers to do such a thing? I'm not trying to put a damper on any idea or limit any of you from "dreaming big"; the developers would just appreciate it if we were given some consideration about the difficulty of a task before becoming set upon it. We are working hard to make many "big ideas" of the past come into fruition.

Cheers,
milosh

[Maverick]

Well it seems that there is going to be very little support from TW Dev, and the chance of getting bot dev to assist seem very improbable. [...] But the few members of bot dev/tw dev that have put there 2 cents in seem less than thrilled at the time/effort needed to put into something like this. Consider it a dead issue.

I certainly didn't give such a conclusive response to this idea yet. There are manpower issues in bot development but this doesn't mean this idea will be put aside just because of it.
As with all (big) ideas, everybody needs time to work things out, get it thought out and started up. Giving it all up so early won't help at all at this point.

EDIT: As milosh is better with words then me (in this early morning)... yea, what he said :P