[X] My Assistant

Make cotton training gear. Give cotton of a specific suffix a huge (larger than heavy) burden increase, and derive a stat (exp bonus) from the burden of those new cotton.

Legendary Lead-Adorned Cotton Robe Of Tenboro's Gism All Over Your Face

I dunno about other people but if it takes me 3-5 minutes to get to BT round 50 with mage vs. the 20-25 it takes to get me to round 100 on melee in BT

Your connection must be pretty slow (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Achievements and some skills unlocked by them.
Nowadays achievements are everywhere so why not in HV. The system already tracks all kind of data so it wouldn't be all that difficult to implement. But they should be interesting and not too easy. Especially those that (if any should) unlock skills.

Achievements could include something like reached 1000 rounds on IWBTH in Crysfest or Grindfest. Or beat Real Life on 7 successive days. Or reached Forge Level 50. Or perhaps something hard to figure out like beat this or that monster with a specific spell or triggered Spark of Life in 10 successive turns.

And to make it even more interesting! The conditions to unlock should be secret save for the name of the achievement. It would be fun to spend some time to try and unlock some hidden achievement. (Only after unlocking an achievement a funny or sarcastic description would show.)

As long as the conditions to unlock are not completely obvious.. this could be fun! Especially if some of those unknown achievements actually unlocked something useful. People would go crazy and try all kind of stupid shit. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Achievements and some skills unlocked by them.

No.

No.

Gonna agree with this. No.

I honestly hate achievements, not for the achievements themselves but for the idiocy it has spun people into "gotta get them" "gonna play games just to buff my e-peen score" "wow you don't have <arbitrary personal point threshold> you must be lame", not to mention discarding all of that, it'd be a waste of time that could be spent on something more productive towards the game like more ability sets at higher levels, further balancing, new items or equipment..

plus that drive to come up with tons and tons of weird things for people to do... Everything you get from them would have to be very minor to deter people from just achievement whoring even worse, and anything hidden would be quickly found and posted how-to, taking out the exploratory fun you'd want in it.

...but also i just hate achievements altogether for dictating all the paths a game should or can be played, or the things you can do. Just make your own achievements for yourself. I hate loading up an old game on a new system such as ps1 classic or whatnot on the psn or something similar on XBLA, and being shown "YOU CAN DO THIS AND GET AN ACHIEVEMENT FOR IT"

then i don't care anymore, because it's already possible, there's even a sign built there to congratulate you.

When my friend (i think) finished a solo-calculator-only run of FFT (no other skills, basically reduced to poking everything with a stick), it was amazing. if there had been an achievement for it, i'd have given him far less praise about it...




...well, that's just how i feel anyway. sorry for the rant.

No.

You're just saying that cause Microsoft and Sony did it wrong.
I'm not suggesting to bring the trophy whoring to HV.

If they were actually hidden and fun to figure out and actually did something besides increasing epeen..
I mean if most of them had deceptive names (barely considered hints) and were absurd in nature. Imagine you had to do absurd things you don't usually do in HV to find the requirement to unlock those achievement. That would add some fun and lots of testing.

If they were actually hidden and fun to figure out

They'd end up on the wiki the instant they are discovered and then all the mystery is gone.

They'd end up on the wiki the instant they are discovered and then all the mystery is gone.

That would depend on how absurd they're.

Something like accomplishing to trigger Sparks in 10 successive turns is reaaally hard to figure out (basically you can't unless you're actually trying just that). So depending on difficulty of those it would take the community at least a year to figure them all out.

This post has been edited by Death Grunty: Aug 29 2012, 19:33

They'd end up on the wiki the instant they are discovered and then all the mystery is gone.

Simple solution. Kill the wiki. With fire.

It's not like anyone reads that anyways. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

If they were actually hidden and fun to figure out and actually did something besides increasing epeen..

You mean the type of achievement that goes undiscovered for months because it's "Secret" and not story-driven?

Fuck that, those are the worst ones.

You mean the type of achievement that goes undiscovered for months because it's "Secret" and not story-driven?

Fuck that, those are the worst ones.

Yeah, but HV isn't story-driven in the first place, so..

But if you're so vehemently opposed to the idea of achievements. Let's call it a long-term event for the community. An event that would take the effort of all players to figure out all those hidden achievements. And perhaps make them shared globally (as in achievements for the whole community) with the player's names who first unlocked them.

Yeah, but HV isn't story-driven in the first place, so..

But if you're so vehemently opposed to the idea of achievements. Let's call it a long-term event for the community. An event that would take the effort of all players to figure out all those hidden achievements. And perhaps make them shared globally (as in achievements for the whole community) with the player's names who first unlocked them.

Isn't that sort of done now with the Pony Feathers, Pony Figurines.... etc. etc. etc, except with naming?

Achievements and some skills unlocked by them.

I'd rather have some half done features completed before he starts another project.

Monster Lab
Forge
Something to do with spare Ability and Aura Points
Arena for lvl 350 and 400 (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I'd rather have some half done features completed before he starts another project.

Monster Lab
Forge
Something to do with spare Ability and Aura Points
Arena for lvl 350 and 400 (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Couldn't care less about the monster lab and forge, but as I've previously said, the ability tree revamp is probably what I'm most looking forward to.

Couldn't care less about the monster lab and forge, but as I've previously said, the ability tree revamp is probably what I'm most looking forward to.

My Waifus Monster Lab is more important!

Couldn't care less about the monster lab and forge, but as I've previously said, the ability tree revamp is probably what I'm most looking forward to.

A few minutes ago, I saw that the tree has a new line. Err, is this new? Or are you already waiting for another one? Uhm, does it even matter which rank I am to have access to a certain amount of tree levels?

This post has been edited by moonflow: Aug 29 2012, 21:32

It really should be called ability array, since it doesn't look anything like a tree.

if you water your tree it will grow and give you more spells

More like an ability matrix. And I don't think the game ever refers to it as a tree.