Zahlea Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 So, I really love achievements. With the kibble rework came arguments that removing the kibble chain would take away a sense of progression, so I was thinking: maybe achievements could help a little? For a long time I've been thinking about what achievements I'd like to see. Now I'm asking you guys - am I missing some issues with the ones I'm proposing? Am I forgetting some obvious achievements? Vanilla ARK: Spoiler Percent of dinos tamed Just like the explorer note achievements give a sense of progression in 10% increments, maybe we could get the same with how many dinos we've tamed? Tamed all flying creatures on the Island/Tamed all land creatures on the Island/Tamed all aquatic creatures on the Island This could be instead of the one above, or even in addition to it (I'd love to have both!). There are so many dinos to tame, I'd love for there to be achivements for getting part of the way. Hatching a fertilised egg Or, if that's easier, claiming a newborn baby (again, I'd love both). I really miss a sense of progression when it comes to breeding. Hatching/claiming a newborn baby with a mutation and/or Hatching/claiming a newborn baby with all maximum stats from its parents Again, more achievements for breeding would be amazing. New generation Hatching/claiming a baby dino of each sex in the same species. Building a thatch house/Building a wooden house/Building a stone house/Building a metal house I imagine "a house" would just be an enclosed area. Taming a max level dino "Max level" being the max for the server (no Tek), like a lvl 150 on a difficulty 5 server. I realise there are issues with this as you can game it by making a single player difficulty 1 server and quite easily get the achievement... but I still like it and think it worth mentioning. Tame a Titanosaur Well, that's really an achievement! Killing a dinosaur of each speciesA little blood thirsty, mayhaps, but I still think it somewhat of a measure of how much one has been playing. Killing a Giganotosaurus and/or Titanosaur Well again, that's an achievement! Killing an Alpha Raptor/Carno/Rex/Megalodon/Mosasaur/Tusoteuthis/LeedsichtysYeah, I really think that's an achievement. It's really cool the first time, so why not an achievement for it? ? Collecting all types of resources on The Island Having collected at least one of each of the resources on the island. Would be a nice check box at having discovered all resources ? Growing one of each advanced crop (and/or all growable crops) It'd be nice with some farming related achievements as well. ? Fertilising a crop Using fertiliser - it takes a bit before you get there so I feel it's a milestone. ? Growing a Plant Species X That's a bit of a milestone in farming/defense as well! ? Cooking all recepies Not counting custom recipes of course, but all the "standard" recipes. Whether or not Mindwipe should be in here could be up for debate. ? Forgetfulness Couldn't resist naming this one: using a mindwipe tonic! ? Cooking and/or creating a custom recipe I've actually never done it... could get more people to try it out Also, I'd really like some achievements in the Expansion packs, which I'm really missing! Disclaimer: I haven't played much of any of the expansion packs yet, so these achievements are more theory crafting than actually what I'm missing, like vanilla achivements are. Scorched Earth: Spoiler Surviving Super Heat/Sandstorm/Electrical Storm Surviving Heat Stroke Tame all dinos of Scorched Earth Defeat the boss of Scorched Earth Building an adobe house (enclosed area) Uncover more than 80% of the mini-map Discover certain areas (like basegame Highest Peak/Lowest Depth) Collect all Scorched Earth artifacts Collect all Scorched Earth Explorer notes ? Collecting all types of resources in Scorched Earth (or only the map specific?) ? Growing a Plant Species Y (Surviving the first day) Aberration: Spoiler Tame all dinos of Aberration Defeat the boss of Aberration Surviving all seasons/a "year" Catching fish Uncover more than 80% of the mini-map Discover certain areas (like basegame Highest Peak/Lowest Depth) Collect all Aberration artifacts Collect all Aberration Explorer notes ? Collecting all types of resources on Aberration (or only the map specific?) ? Growing a Plant Species Z (Surviving the first day) Extinction: Spoiler Tame all dinos of Extinction Defeat the boss of Extinction Uncover more than 80% of the mini-map Discover certain areas (like basegame Highest Peak/Lowest Depth) Collect all Extinction artifacts Collect all Extinction Explorer notes Collecting all types of resources on Extinction (or only the map specific?) (Surviving the first day) Surviving a meteor shower Good suggestions from @Royalstar for The Center and Ragnarok: The Center: Spoiler Discover certain areas (like basegame Highest Peak/Lowest Depth) Ragnarok: Spoiler Discover certain areas (like basegame Highest Peak/Lowest Depth) Defeat the bosses of Ragnarok Killing Ice worm/Lava golem Taming a griffin Successfully navigating the labyrinth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royalstar Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 These are good ideas, I agree that we need more achievements. I’m not sure about a few of your suggestions: Survive a day on Aberration/Extinction: I think the current achievement already goes for all maps, correct me if I’m wrong. Explore 80% of the map: again, I think the current achievement works on all maps, not sure though. Survive a meteor shower: this seems more based on luck rather than skill, idk if I wanna be rewarded for surviving if it’s completely beyond my control. Otherwise, these are good. Similar achievements for the Center and Ragnarok would be nice too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 Thank you for your input! You may very well be right about the "Survive a day"-achievement. Since it's not that much of an achievement anyway (just exist ) maybe it's not very valuable to add even if the current one is just for The Island. Hmm, I could've sworn that it said somewhere that it was 80% of the map on The Island but I can't find anything to confirm it so you're probably right there. Then I really do think they should have one for each map - I mean: for an achievement hunter it sure is an achievement having discovered many maps! Ah, yeah, as stated I haven't played the expansions much, so you're right. I agree that something you can't control yourself is not an achievement! I'll even strike it What achievements would you like for The Center and Ragnarok? Have you played them and have experience? Would be great with some map-specific achievements! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royalstar Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 12 hours ago, Zahlea said: What achievements would you like for The Center and Ragnarok? Have you played them and have experience? Would be great with some map-specific achievements! There’s already an achievement for completing the Center boss fight, the same for Ragnarok would be nice. The Center: reach the highest and lowest point. The highest point is on the floating island, and completing this achievement wouldn’t be much harder than reaching the highest point on the island. The lowest point would be tricky, considering how crazy deep and dark the ocean on the Center gets. Ragnarok: aside from a boss fight achievement, and maybe a highest/lowest point one, I’d like achievements for killing the dungeon bosses (ice worm and lava golem), taming a griffin, and maybe successfully navigating the labyrinth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted January 18, 2019 Author Share Posted January 18, 2019 10 hours ago, Royalstar said: There’s already an achievement for completing the Center boss fight, the same for Ragnarok would be nice. The Center: reach the highest and lowest point. The highest point is on the floating island, and completing this achievement wouldn’t be much harder than reaching the highest point on the island. The lowest point would be tricky, considering how crazy deep and dark the ocean on the Center gets. Ragnarok: aside from a boss fight achievement, and maybe a highest/lowest point one, I’d like achievements for killing the dungeon bosses (ice worm and lava golem), taming a griffin, and maybe successfully navigating the labyrinth. I love them! Added them to the original post Didn't even know about the Ragnarok labyrinth... that seems like an exciting achievement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 Well, if it's just you and me wanting more achievements, I think it looks a bit grim However, I feel it would be comparatively easy changes that give a sense of progression compared to most other options... and, well... I'm an eternal optimist! ☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentebent Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 I like the idea of adding achievements for the supported custom maps. It would promote their use even further which is nice since they're all way better than The Island. "Tame all X" and "Defeat boss of X" is kinda grindy but it is a good measure of progression so it is hard to disagree with. Crafting related achievements maybe? Cook all the different kinds of foods, grow all plants etc etc. It feels like a somewhat neglected part of the game otherwise. Interestingly enough, there are no PvP achievements but I am guessing they're not worth it since they would be too easy to abuse, making them pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 On 1/23/2019 at 5:52 PM, Bentebent said: I like the idea of adding achievements for the supported custom maps. It would promote their use even further which is nice since they're all way better than The Island. "Tame all X" and "Defeat boss of X" is kinda grindy but it is a good measure of progression so it is hard to disagree with. Crafting related achievements maybe? Cook all the different kinds of foods, grow all plants etc etc. It feels like a somewhat neglected part of the game otherwise. I like it. What kind of crafting related achievements are you thinking? Yeah, I actually thought about this the other day - like collecting all resources (maybe not exactly what you wrote, but along the same lines). I've added them to my original post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1nk Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 I personally dont think we need so may achievements (growing a crop? Hatching a baby? Seems a bit much) That being said it would be nice to have some harder achievements. 'Slay all Island bosses' 'Tek Cave' 'Ascend' etc. Which platform are you on? Xbox we have quite a few achievements but its been so long since ive checked em out. I was lucky and got all my achievements legit before to many dinos were added The problem with the achievements is you can simply go into single player, teleport to all notes etc and voila! Ill post later when I get some time to think and add some constructive achievement ideas I always welcome some discussion threads here, I hate to see the front page filled with "ZOMG MESH!!" "WC STOOPID?????" etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 22 hours ago, d1nk said: I personally dont think we need so may achievements (growing a crop? Hatching a baby? Seems a bit much) That being said it would be nice to have some harder achievements. 'Slay all Island bosses' 'Tek Cave' 'Ascend' etc. Which platform are you on? Xbox we have quite a few achievements but its been so long since ive checked em out. I was lucky and got all my achievements legit before to many dinos were added The problem with the achievements is you can simply go into single player, teleport to all notes etc and voila! Ill post later when I get some time to think and add some constructive achievement ideas I always welcome some discussion threads here, I hate to see the front page filled with "ZOMG MESH!!" "WC STOOPID?????" etc Thank you for those kind words ❤️ I agree - this forum could really do with more discussion threads where the discussions are more than just pretty much people throwing poop at each other for not agreeing. I see your point. My thinking though, was that the achievements could bring a sense of progress, which is why I wanted to add achievements for all parts of the game. And about some of them being a bit easy... well, there is an achievement for just surviving one day and for sitting up at a dino I figured if that's where the bar's at... Yeah, I realise many of these achievements can be cheated... Even if you don't go to SP and teleport, it's not that hard to find the information online and just fly to all of them But I figured, all achievements don't need to have cosmetics bound to them - maybe it's even better if they don't as it would be as big of a deal to add them! - maybe the cosmetics are just for the hard ones and the easy ones are just for the badge? That way people can cheat their hearts out but it wouldn't matter much - like cheating in a patience game I'm excited for any new ideas you might have, so if you think of anything I'm all ears! Edit: Forgot to answer! I'm on PC but figured the achievements were pretty much the same across all platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted January 26, 2019 Author Share Posted January 26, 2019 I just thought of another thing: If it's an achievement to be in the game for one day, why not 100 days? That'd have to be calculated from online time, ofc. It's not that much of an achievement though. Rather, it's more of a progression type of thing. It could be extended or come in flavours of like 250 days, 500 days etc. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentebent Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 On 1/24/2019 at 7:51 PM, Zahlea said: I like it. What kind of crafting related achievements are you thinking? Yeah, I actually thought about this the other day - like collecting all resources (maybe not exactly what you wrote, but along the same lines). I've added them to my original post! I was thinking something like certain recipies, kibble, maybe making gear of certain quality. I guess you could use the achievement to assert ability to craft something for trading? On 1/26/2019 at 11:27 PM, Zahlea said: I just thought of another thing: If it's an achievement to be in the game for one day, why not 100 days? That'd have to be calculated from online time, ofc. It's not that much of an achievement though. Rather, it's more of a progression type of thing. It could be extended or come in flavours of like 250 days, 500 days etc. What do you think? I think this would be fun, just as a marker for people how much you've played since it's a game where a lot of people spend a lot of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 18 hours ago, Bentebent said: I was thinking something like certain recipies, kibble, maybe making gear of certain quality. I guess you could use the achievement to assert ability to craft something for trading? Hmmm, how do you mean assert ability to craft something? The BPs let you craft better gear if you find one good enough, which doesn't say anything about your skill. And I'm thinking an achievement for reaching a certain skill might be too much directing players how to play? Or am I misunderstanding what you meant? 18 hours ago, Bentebent said: I think this would be fun, just as a marker for people how much you've played since it's a game where a lot of people spend a lot of time. Yeah, that's what I thought. It would make for a fun overview as well, when you look at the global achievements in Steam, to see how many people have more than 500 in-game days played Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentebent Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 On 1/29/2019 at 1:05 PM, Zahlea said: Hmmm, how do you mean assert ability to craft something? The BPs let you craft better gear if you find one good enough, which doesn't say anything about your skill. And I'm thinking an achievement for reaching a certain skill might be too much directing players how to play? Or am I misunderstanding what you meant? Yeah, that's what I thought. It would make for a fun overview as well, when you look at the global achievements in Steam, to see how many people have more than 500 in-game days played I mean you assert your ability to craft something buy having the achievement, so it proves you can do it, either by using or blueprint or engram doesn't matter, just shows that you can do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 On 2/6/2019 at 5:16 PM, Bentebent said: I mean you assert your ability to craft something buy having the achievement, so it proves you can do it, either by using or blueprint or engram doesn't matter, just shows that you can do it! That's what I was talking about as well, just that I wasn't sure just how much it actually says about your ability... If you find a good enough blueprint you get the achievement, regardless of your ability. But hey, I just want more achievements, I wouldn't say no to that either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 Shameless bump: Am I really one of the odd ones out wanting achievements? Does most of ARK's player base (present on the fourm) not care about achievements? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techsupport Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 On 1/24/2019 at 3:13 PM, d1nk said: I always welcome some discussion threads here, I hate to see the front page filled with "ZOMG MESH!!" "WC STOOPID?????" etc not gonna lie, that's the majority of what I see on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1nk Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 7 minutes ago, Techsupport said: not gonna lie, that's the majority of what I see on here Especially as of recently. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techsupport Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 18 hours ago, d1nk said: Especially as of recently. Yes. I mean, I can understand some criticism or complaining, but there's just way too much of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 I really agree with both of you @d1nk and @Techsupport which is why I do what I can to feedback with why I don't like something and what I would like to see instead... Ooooooooooooooooon that note.... ? I think there are too few achievements in the game as it is because I like collecting badges so I would like to see more achievements! If you guys got to choose one favourite achievement to add (or, heck... go nuts, pick as many as you want ), what achievement(s) would that be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentebent Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 What about some building related achievements for the S+ release? No idea how you could do it but achievements for building buildings of x size or complexity would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zahlea Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 6 hours ago, Bentebent said: What about some building related achievements for the S+ release? No idea how you could do it but achievements for building buildings of x size or complexity would be cool. I definitely agree! I was trying something along those lines with the "house" achievements, but I didn't think to expand it further than that. I really like that idea! A very simple one could just be 100 structures built (or some other number than 100, or even multiple ones with different numbers), but I also like what you said about complexity... Not sure how that would work and I'm guessing achievements need to be made from data that is already in place or very easily compiled... Calculating the sqm of a house might not fall into that category Thank you so much for your suggestions! I really like this new path to explore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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