Achievements For Tw's Finest!

[KrynetiX]

medals should be hard to obtain and symbolize a great acheivement

[Vehicle]

What he's saying, Kryn, is that if the medals are easier to achieve newbs who get owned in subarenas will actually have something to do. I kind of agree with him on that.

However, maybe if there were no medals for LTing people would change ship. Maybe if you did include levi medals, more people would be in levi's thereby diminishing the overall gameplay which is more important than being inclusive to everyone. Maybe if all you can do is LT, you should just quit the game anyway because you suck ass. Maybe we should bring pure pub back because, as a person who spends a decent amount of time in pub, the regular pub is retarded these days. I can hold a base on a private freq solo. That doesn't mean I'm awesome at TW, it means that no one is basing because of, surprise surprise, levis. I'm sorry, but levis and specifically LTs are what are ruining the game. People don't want to log in and get blown up every 3 minutes by a blue bomb that hit a wall on the corner of their screen. It gets frustrating and people quit. Rant over.

To keep this on task:
Elim/Belim Medals
10 game streak
20 game streak
3:1 with 10 deaths
Kill the same person 6 times in one elim (if there are 10+ players)

[Vehicle]

My B for double posting but I just had an idea that I think is pretty decent. Maybe make each medal worth a certain amount of "points" (not the same as points ingame) and then have a list of buyable things (Max shrap, super, whatever) and let people spend their medal points on these things in pub.

[Kim]

Medals should not be limited to the arena, ship, or player. Any player who commits enough time to these achievements may achieve them, but it will be difficult to get the higher levels of these achievements.

Levterr and levies are just as much entrenched in our game as javs and warbirds are, so I had no intention of leaving them out of public awards. If anything, it would show veterans a rekindling love for ship 4 that kind of separates long-time TWD players from long-time public arena players.

Medals should have a spectrum of unattainability versus accessibility. We want players to try for these medals...therefore say at Level 1 Solo Levterr Ownage achievement, we want a levterr to hold base by themselves on a private frequency for a minimum amount of points and time that is justifiable, however, at Level 3 of the same achievement, the requirements would be much more difficult, which would require a lot of trials and inevitable failures that would make the achievement so prestigious to uphold.

On a scale of things, there will not be a shit load of TWD medals as people are listing here. The obvious ones like MVP'ing constantly or best K ratios are honestly...kinda boring. We want more for our achievement system. Achievements can be quirky, and sometimes chance based. Our team of developers will try to find achievements in every nook and cranny of our zone in events not played as much and in ships that are more than despised upon. Make the achievements attainable at entry level, make the prizes lucrative and exclusive....this is my vision to the concept we are trying boil up here.

[HateTheFake]

http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=21703&hl=

[The Unliked One...]

So.. How would this be monitored? Bots in every arena monitoring every player at the same time? Sounds.. Laggy

[SokoMoko]

Well in another game I play there is medals such as

Net worth - top 3 places (most points in our game)
Winner - top 3 places (most kills)
platoon - Top 3 places (best squad I guess in ladder ranks)

There is population and richest but I guess that can't fit into this game.

But instead of monitoring all the time it should be done at the end of the round which could be scorerest in pub or every 2 weeks or something. Which the bot just scans and records the top 3 in everything and uploads there score and does like ?Go javs medals n stuff too at same time. But I wouldn't have a clue of how it would be done unless the scores and that is always getting sent and stored for the scanning at end.

[CaptainPoopface]

Has this been cast aside like expired queso? I'm still interested.

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

What about the golden shield of awesomeness that is dynamically appended to the name of the player with the highest score? How does that work? Suppose every player has that shield appended to his name, but instead of a shield, it's his set of achievement banners, or his most recent achievement banner?

If you look at the image of the shield, each of the animation frames could be replaced with one of the achievement banners, and then some kind of runtime code (bot) could determine which ones to iterate through, or mask them if they haven't been achieved.

I'm not sure this is feasible, but many a conundrum has been solved with devious stratagems. :fear:

[RiiStar]

It is only given to the player with the highest score in the arena.
You cant give it to everyone. It's just not possible with the way the game was desigend.

[duel pasta]

give a golden medal if you can get the following players to quit continuum:

JabJabJab, sokomoko

[HateTheFake]

give a golden medal if you can get the following players to quit continuum:

JabJabJab, sokomoko

rofl

[CaptainPoopface]

It is only given to the player with the highest score in the arena.
You cant give it to everyone. It's just not possible with the way the game was desigend.

OK, what about the king of the hill crown image? I played in T3 The Gauntlet once (don't rofl at me) when everyone started with a crown next to his name, lost it upon death, but regained it after killing someone with a crown. I presume this was managed by a bot. If so, the crown image might be edited in the way I described above. There is also a kingex image that looks to have a timer on it, so there are permutations to manipulate.

Devious stratagems...

[roxxkatt]

actually, that is a server setting exclusive to the arena, you can kill a certain # of ppl with a crown to regain yours.

[CaptainPoopface]

OK, so there are server settings that can decide when to put a certain image (the crown) next to a player's name, based on counting deaths and checking other player attributes (whether they have a crown). What stops us from expanding the number of things that the server looks at and the different images it appends to someone's name?

For example, say the server watches your kills and deaths, and if you get 10 kills without dying, instead of putting the crown next to your name, it puts a little spinning "10" image there. If you die, you lose your 10. It seems like the skeletal functionality is already there.

[roxxkatt]

because it doesnt work that way, theres no way to make stuff visible to OTHER PEOPLE