Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.05.14 17:55:00 -
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Sooo...
Achievements were originally a way to show off how involved you were in a game, or how much you had finished. Companies very often use them as a away to keep gamers playing, to get that one last achievement that's just that hard to get. In other words, there's really no point in getting them, apart from the sense of.. well, achievement. Otherwise, you're essentially playing a game for no reward. Not that games need rewards, mind you. They just need to be entertaining.
Now we have a MMORPFPS which rewards you for playing in another way. The more you play, the better the equipment you can wear, and the better you can survive. Not only that, if you're good, and play well with others, you can own your own planet. You get to play the game in any fashion you wish to, within game mechanics, and get the same sense of achievement when you finish conquering a planet, finally get to use that proto weapon, manage to take down another corp through subterfuge (I expect to see this within a year!) or any other type of unforced reward system. I've always found the achievement system way too forced. If I beat the game, why do I have to jump off a building doing a double backflip, and headshot someone on the way down just for 10 points? I'd feel much more satisfaction doing the same thing, but without the achievement system rewarding me for such. |
Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.05.14 18:45:00 -
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nor asha wrote:
eve online has "credentials"
They are eve online's achievements/trophies . So suck it. Hull tanking "
Also you can create your own Trophies using the ingame decoration tool. Yes I'm ******* serious, internet spaceships man, serious business
The certificates you're referring to were meant to be a way to show to others what skills you had. For example, if you wanted to show that you were a miner, you could point to your certificates and say "I have all the mining certs, I'm good for your corp" and be recruited.
However, they are no longer used like this, and used more like a skill planner. I rarely bother with them anymore as I already know what I want to skill into, and most of the skills in the certs are a little unnecessary for what I want to do.
Just for the record, they were made fairly irrelevant when the API key came in, and you could send your API key to someone else so they could check your skills, instead of having to use the certs. |