Player Achievements

[Dale]

I'm working on adding in player achievements like they used to have in Col1. Things like "You've discovered the New World!" and "You've discovered the Pacific!"

Just wondering what achievements you would like to see?

Here's a list of achievements I thought of real quickly:
- Discovered land
- Discovered the Pacific
- Met a native tribe
- Met a European nation
- Founded X colonies
- Destroyed a native tribe

I've attached a pic showing the concept so far. The achievement shows as a popup (I also want to put pictures in those popups). The achivements don't give you any extra bonus, it's just a bragging rights thing. There will be an "Achievements" screen showing all the ones you have for that game so you can screenshot and show others.

The best bit is that every achievement will be XML loaded. This gives complete control in the most basic modder's hands. There will be no need for python coding or SDK coding when I've finished this.

Here's the XML of the achievement shown in the picture just to show how flexible this concept will be:
[xml]

ACHIEVE_LANDFALL
TXT_KEY_ACHIEVE_LANDFALL
1
1
TXT_KEY_ACHIEVE_LANDFALL_HEAD
TXT_KEY_ACHIEVE_LANDFALL_TEXT
0
0
1

[/xml]

[Dale]

And now, the full achievement with a pretty picture!

All controlled via XML still.

[snoopy369]

Dale

Some chance i'll be home reasonably early today ... maybe ... hope to get some work done on those victory conditions at SOME point ... :sigh:

[Ijuin]

It looks nice! Would it be possible to have a list that you could pull up in-game that would say which achievements you have already accomplished?

[Supr49er]

How about discovering geographic things like Mountain Ranges, Great Lakes, Grand Canyons, etc. ?

[Dale]

Here's an old favourite.

[Unimatrix11]

Very nice, Dale. Though i dont like the text of the last one. It took only 6 years after Columbus´ discovery of America until Vasco da Gama would finally reach India by sea. Rather point to the unlocking of the ability to send ships both ways from europe from now on...

Speaking of which - are those achievements meant to be shown for the first player to get there, only ? I guess they are not, right ?

[Dale]

Text is completely open to re-writing.

The achievements are per player, so every player has the opportunity to rack up their own list of achievements. They aren't like FF's where it's only one player per FF.

[Dale]

I've been working on the Achievements Advisor screen tonight.

Got the pics working, now to add all the text elements.

[armyjournalist]

Originally posted by Unimatrix11
Very nice, Dale. Though i dont like the text of the last one. It took only 6 years after Columbus´ discovery of America until Vasco da Gama would finally reach India by sea. Rather point to the unlocking of the ability to send ships both ways from europe from now on...

Speaking of which - are those achievements meant to be shown for the first player to get there, only ? I guess they are not, right ?

Vasco da Gama took the Eastern route to India, around the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Magellan's expedition of 1519-1522 was the first to take the westward passage Columbus dreamed of (although Columbus remained convinced to his dying day he'd already found Asia)

[armyjournalist]

BTW, there were 21 years between Columbus' first voyage and Balboa's "discovery" of the Pacific by crossing that expansive landmass known as Panama

[armyjournalist]

Dale,
What do you think about these achievements?
-1st immigrants
-Cargo from the New World (in the 1st Col)
-1st Treasure shipped
-1st naval victory
-1st unit with "x" experience (i.e. "forging a veteran army" a la Valley Forge or something like that)
-Last REF regular/dragoon/cannon/man-of-war defeated
Just some thoughts. Looks pretty neat so far.

[Dale]

Thanks armyjournalist.

Here's the completed Achievements Advisor screen. Scroll buttons like the Congress Advisor screen also work here.

[Zealot]

First Expert Tobacco Planter
First Expert Sugar Planter
First Expert Cotton Planter
First Expert Fur Trapper

These experts can only be acquired with training on indian villages. I think they're a worthy achievement the first time they finish training.

[crantor]

I like it!