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An idea about negative achievements and silly titles
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Post by
Interest
Perhaps it would work if you actually lost achievement points when you get the achievements. That way no one (trolls, maybe) would want to get these anyways, especially not the achievement !@#$%s.
I think we should have unsuccesful points. everytime you can get at an achievement but fail OR don't get it, you get failure points instead of acheivement points.
So failing an anti-achievement would... *paradoxical explosion*
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/fail-blue-screen.jpg
Post by
ElhonnaDS
Die to the elevator boss in any instance in which there was an elevator :) Title awarded: "The Shafted"
Post by
itascagasman
"I stand in black stuff"
Post by
Interest
"Crappppp"
Die to falling damage due to accidental ability usage.
Post by
Eldente
"Iam not prepared" - Die in every encounter in the cataclysm heroics
Totally for it. Say, it tracks down deaths in every raid encounter, you get killed by every possible boss and voila! Epic achievement.
And...
http://dukelupus.com/achievementcreator/achievements/02da88786e414abeb390abb5f98ba58c.jpg
Couldn't help it. Happens too often on my server.
Post by
skumbananer
"I farmed Strat 100 times and all i got was..." Kill Rivendare in Stratholme 100 times without obtaining the mount drop. Reward: A lousy t-shirt.
"No cool pre-cata mounts for you!" During one raid lockout period, complete the Obsidian Sanctum with three drakes up, Tempest Keep, Kill Attumen in Karazhan, Aurius Rivendare in Stratholme, Anzu in heroic Setthek Halls, Onyxia, Malygos, and Heroic Skadi the Ruthless without obtaining a mount drop. Reward: Three legged retarded donkey mount.
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Simples
"There's always one" - Fall through THAT gap in wailing caverns.
"Once Ressed Twice Dead" - In any dungeon or raid instance, die within 5 seconds of being ressurected.
"Well, I tried." - Die within 5 seconds of picking up the Warsong flag.
"Something Fishy" - Have a fishing pole equipped for an entire instance.
Post by
wobbuffet
"At Least I Have Chicken" - kill 49 rookery whelps within 15 seconds / kill 50 rookery whelps within 16 seconds
Either one would be good :D
Post by
Interest
"At Least I Have Chicken" - Die while attemping the Leeeeeeeeroy! achievement.
Fixed.
Post by
wobbuffet
"At Least I Have Chicken" - Die while attemping the Leeeeeeeeroy! achievement.
Fixed.
How would this be dissociated from someone simply running the instance :P?
Unless, of course, "Die after pulling at least 50 rookery whelps"
Post by
Interest
"At Least I Have Chicken" - Die while attemping the Leeeeeeeeroy! achievement.
Fixed.
How would this be dissociated from someone simply running the instance :P?
Unless, of course, "Die after pulling at least 50 rookery whelps"
That's the idea =)
Post by
OverZealous
I'd love to have anti-achievements in the game, it'd be a whole lot of fun. Only thing I'm worried about is people aiming to get them, though, which would effectively destroy any attempt to kill -insert X boss- or do -insert Y thing to do-
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Interest
I'd love to have anti-achievements in the game, it'd be a whole lot of fun. Only thing I'm worried about is people aiming to get them, though, which would effectively destroy any attempt to kill -insert X boss- or do -insert Y thing to do-
Not if they awarded negative achievement points.
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wobbuffet
I'd love to have anti-achievements in the game, it'd be a whole lot of fun. Only thing I'm worried about is people aiming to get them, though, which would effectively destroy any attempt to kill -insert X boss- or do -insert Y thing to do-
Not if they awarded negative achievement points.
Yes if the players did not (like me) care about achievement points :D
Post by
Gnub
It seems like people are confused on what a real anti-achivement is, and hence why it would completely ruin the system if they gave negative points.
Basically, a proper anti-achievement is one that doesn't promote "positive" skill. An ordinary skill achievement, for instance, is defeating a certain raid-encounter in another way. Think Ulduar-hardmodes.
An anti-achievement, on the other hand, is one that is still hard to do, but doesn't promote that skill-based playing, but rather going out of your way by doing something stupid or odd. The perfect example is really
Going Down?
. Like I quotes from my previous post:
What anti-achievements do is take the theatrical or the subversive - the perfectly bad shot, the irreverent antic, the silly joke - and codify them into a system of clearly delineated extrinsic rewards. Anti-achievements, like achievements more generally, instrumentalize performance, thereby allowing the game system to subsume portions of the meta-game. Anti-achievements simply make this instrumentalization all the more apparent.
What most people seem to be going at is basically a negative achievement where players get negative points for doing something that, potentially, damages the gameplay for others.... which, yeah, I really don't think is going to work -
especially
not in an MMO. Then again, I might just be damaged from my studies in Game Design.
:P
Post by
ElhonnaDS
I agree Gnub- I don't think that players would want to have some kind of stigma attached to their account, because they made some kind of mistake. Especially not one others could look up on the armory. A lot of people have to practice for a while before they get encounters or playstyles right, and they might rack up some anti-achievements when new that will hurt their chances at a guild or something later. Also, even the best player can't control things like hurricanes, black- outs, their ditzy roommate unplugging the modem when trying to charge their phone, etc. I could see the rage as good players accrued "standing in fire" or "doing less DPS than the healer" tags because of something like this.
I think that there are already a lot of achievements that play on the humor of screwing up, without actually penalizing play. The one where Deathwing kills you, the falling one, "Jenkins"- all examples where they're poking fun at our screwups without labeling us for them.
Post by
zanpactoe
Bad to the bone- title and achive
you can require this by getting at least 10 reps to hated
crossdresser- title and achive
you earn this by fully equipping a armor class lower then you
idk how the cloth wears would get it
you must be really hated- ahcive
you get by reciving the emote slap 500 times
Post by
zanpactoe
one night stand-achiv
you get this by being afk in every bg for at least 10 mins
Post by
Interest
What do you not understand about dragons?
In a single encounter with a valid dragon boss, get hit by both the frontal and rear attacks.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
What do you not understand about dragons?
In a single encounter with a valid dragon boss, get hit by both the frontal and rear attacks.
LOL- I like this one.
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