As we all know, an achievement is a notification that you completed something. I'm a bit puzzled that those are not in Elite Dangerous yet, since it's an easy (and cheap) way to give people a destination point, some distant star where to point the ship nose (and since the lack of that is something people complain about).
Yes, I know what most people think about achievements. To start in the same page, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFM4eIAou5M (I'm talking about "optional" achievements, here).
Call them awards, medals, accomplishments, etc. they should be known beforehand by the players. Grouped by the faction giving the reward and scaling in amount. Something similar like: "Universal Cartographics: 10/50/250 systems discovered - x/y/z ship skin", "Federation: 500/1500/4500 pirates killed in federation systems - x/y/z credits", etc.
Since those are optional, just another kind of mission, it should not matter to "purists" and give the rests of the players something extra to do and, in the case of using skins as rewards, something to brag about
(and fulfill one of the "player's needs").
Cheers!
Yes, I know what most people think about achievements. To start in the same page, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFM4eIAou5M (I'm talking about "optional" achievements, here).
Call them awards, medals, accomplishments, etc. they should be known beforehand by the players. Grouped by the faction giving the reward and scaling in amount. Something similar like: "Universal Cartographics: 10/50/250 systems discovered - x/y/z ship skin", "Federation: 500/1500/4500 pirates killed in federation systems - x/y/z credits", etc.
Since those are optional, just another kind of mission, it should not matter to "purists" and give the rests of the players something extra to do and, in the case of using skins as rewards, something to brag about
(and fulfill one of the "player's needs").Cheers!
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