yeah, its pretty clear to me that these achievements were designed with a timescale in mind. there's the super easy "play tidal trouble" style achievements that can be achieved within a few minutes/hours, but then once those easy ones are done there needs to be more challenging stuff. the 123 xyz and "breed x ancients" one speaks to this - i like that there's achievements that will require months if not years of planning and gameplay to get. keeps the system feeling fresh and makes you approach the game in a new way.
although i was thinking that if someone really whaled and bought thousands of boons of fertility, they could get those breeding based achievements in a day or so by buying tons of non-BCD fodder adults, booning them, then mass exalting all the hatchlings and repeating until they get the achievement. but it would probably cost around a million gems in boons to get both the modern and ancient breeding achievements
Yeah, I am the one who brought up the 123 thing, and to be clear, I am not upset that those achievements exist (just incase it could be mistaken that I was).
I also agree, I saw someone bring up exalting dragons and about no-exalt lairs on SMR, and my first thought was immediately 'did you honestly think they wouldn't have an achievement for a huge part of the game?' As a non-exalting lair myself, I fully expected there to be exalting achievements and I am glad to see that there are.
I also agree that there should be super easy achievements as well as achievements meant to be obtained further down the road, with or without planning.
I also agree with someone on SMR about it really seems like a lot of people do not play any other games like FR, or any other games at all, with how a lot of people complain about normal and common mechanics (such as achievements taking a long time, or the MP restocking, or even just having things that take longer than a few days to obtain).
A common theme with those that whine a lot about those things are that they mostly want instant gratification imo. Honestly they're most likely really annoying individuals I don't want to mingle with.
FR's achievement system as it is right now isn't any different from a lot of other game's. Hell, I'd say they're even generous as a lot of them don't even give rewards.
I admit I want more instant gratification :P But I also had to learn patience when I was trying to do Neopets on Dialup. So, I realized that waiting, or things taking a while, isn't the end of the world (to me at least).
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Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-09 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)although i was thinking that if someone really whaled and bought thousands of boons of fertility, they could get those breeding based achievements in a day or so by buying tons of non-BCD fodder adults, booning them, then mass exalting all the hatchlings and repeating until they get the achievement. but it would probably cost around a million gems in boons to get both the modern and ancient breeding achievements
Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)I also agree, I saw someone bring up exalting dragons and about no-exalt lairs on SMR, and my first thought was immediately 'did you honestly think they wouldn't have an achievement for a huge part of the game?' As a non-exalting lair myself, I fully expected there to be exalting achievements and I am glad to see that there are.
I also agree that there should be super easy achievements as well as achievements meant to be obtained further down the road, with or without planning.
I also agree with someone on SMR about it really seems like a lot of people do not play any other games like FR, or any other games at all, with how a lot of people complain about normal and common mechanics (such as achievements taking a long time, or the MP restocking, or even just having things that take longer than a few days to obtain).
Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 01:48 am (UTC)(link)FR's achievement system as it is right now isn't any different from a lot of other game's. Hell, I'd say they're even generous as a lot of them don't even give rewards.
Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 04:29 am (UTC)(link)Completely agree.
I admit I want more instant gratification :P But I also had to learn patience when I was trying to do Neopets on Dialup. So, I realized that waiting, or things taking a while, isn't the end of the world (to me at least).