achievements only being for positive things is not really accurate, though. theres acheievements for getting wrong answers on games like higher/lower, getting killed in the coli, missing 3 attacks in the coli, etc. achievements are given for certain mundane or special activities that occur while you play the game, its not inherently about the "winning" milestones.
also progen restore isnt inherently bad or good. its just a feature added so that people can get them back if they exalted them, either accidentally or years ago. i truly struggle to understand why this is considered some kind of bad thing to need to do, its literally set up to be as easy as possible to restore them. yes i understand that there may be moral associations with exaltation, but its a game mechanic as is the progen restore system, and as part of /the game/ fr admins will want to direct users to play with it
Yeah, there is an achievement for getting all 10 Tomo Answers wrong. I saw the one about having all three dragons KOed in the coli, though I missed the one about Higher/lower (that one would be super easy for me :P)
So, yeah, not all achievements are 'positive'.
Exalting is part of the game. Dragon restoration is part of the game. Achievements are little 'awards' for playing the game, which includes exalting and restoring dragons.
Also, I highly doubt that FR means for you to exalt and restore dragons 'as a lark' but rather, again, those achievements are meant to be achieved during normal play of the game. It is just like the old 'hatch a dragon with Clown' achievements, where I had to buy two dragons specifically for that, because I hate clown. For many people, that would have been something they obtained during normal gameplay, but since I didn't like clown, I had to go out of my way to obtain that one.
This is the same. For a lot of people, exalting and restoring dragons is just something that will happen during normal gameplay. Maybe not often, but I am sure that most people who exalt dragons, especially large amounts of them, will eventually have one they regret exalting and restore it. Achievement done. Many people exalt their progens, then come to regret it. (thus the whole 'you can send a ticket in and have your progens unexalted' and the whole 'you can exalt/unexalt your progens as many times as you want!') Thus, again, achievement done during normal gameplay for those people.
For people like me, who isn't into exalting (yet, going to try) and has never exalted her progens? To get that achievement, I am going to have to go out of my way to obtain it.
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Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 11:14 am (UTC)(link)also progen restore isnt inherently bad or good. its just a feature added so that people can get them back if they exalted them, either accidentally or years ago. i truly struggle to understand why this is considered some kind of bad thing to need to do, its literally set up to be as easy as possible to restore them. yes i understand that there may be moral associations with exaltation, but its a game mechanic as is the progen restore system, and as part of /the game/ fr admins will want to direct users to play with it
Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)So, yeah, not all achievements are 'positive'.
Exalting is part of the game. Dragon restoration is part of the game. Achievements are little 'awards' for playing the game, which includes exalting and restoring dragons.
Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)Also, I highly doubt that FR means for you to exalt and restore dragons 'as a lark' but rather, again, those achievements are meant to be achieved during normal play of the game. It is just like the old 'hatch a dragon with Clown' achievements, where I had to buy two dragons specifically for that, because I hate clown. For many people, that would have been something they obtained during normal gameplay, but since I didn't like clown, I had to go out of my way to obtain that one.
This is the same. For a lot of people, exalting and restoring dragons is just something that will happen during normal gameplay. Maybe not often, but I am sure that most people who exalt dragons, especially large amounts of them, will eventually have one they regret exalting and restore it. Achievement done. Many people exalt their progens, then come to regret it. (thus the whole 'you can send a ticket in and have your progens unexalted' and the whole 'you can exalt/unexalt your progens as many times as you want!') Thus, again, achievement done during normal gameplay for those people.
For people like me, who isn't into exalting (yet, going to try) and has never exalted her progens? To get that achievement, I am going to have to go out of my way to obtain it.
Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-10 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)source: accidentally got it while working on the "win 10 battles with a team of just one level 1 dragon" achieve.
Re: 10th Anniversary
(Anonymous) 2023-06-13 09:46 am (UTC)(link)