DA: Introducing Achievements!

Yo,

So with the new skin we're going to bring back the notorious achievements system which nobody really liked back at the time. And I say notorious because the last time we had it we didn't really put our hearts into it, and eventually we ended up removing it. This time we tried to be better at our jobs and actually pour more effort to make it work. The new achievements system will be displayed in both your profile and messages, and it'll apply on past achievements as well - that is, if you've won a tournament 3 years ago, you'd still get the 'Win a Tournament' achievement and unlock the icon permanently.

Earning achievements should be one way to have fun around here

You can check all of our available achievements by following this link: http://www.duelacademy.net/h34-achievements

This is how they'd display in your profile: http://prntscr.com/c1va1c

We're going to roll it out in a couple of days, we still have few things to work out before we kick things off. If you've got any questions please do let me know.

~Cheers

I want mah icons! And I love the archievements. I could suggest couple of more.

Sure, if you've got something interesting then please share it with us. Sky is the limit to how many achievements we can have.

Also, the system is probably going to be available tomorrow, I just need to make sure my staffers learn their ways around it before we kick it off.

I bet you didn't even earn yours.

I did earn all of them in fact, though some are a bit older than the others; for instance, the 'GG2EZ' and the 'Never back down!' were when I played the game competitively. Believe it or not, I used to win tournaments.

If anyone has some interesting ideas and thoughts for our achievements then please do share them with us, I've been getting a lot of messages claiming we need more achievements, yet no one bothered to suggest some new ones. So, I'll say this again: If you have an idea for an achievement, then post here or PM it to me.

Well i know it might be something little but for me if you wanna rejuvenate the forum you should put some achievements for progressing trough the dorms. Like when you get your first post you get an achievement for getting into slifer, one for ra, obelisk and the society of light. You know so new people can have achievements that are easy to get so they have a motivation to get more. That is if you still wanna go in the direction of Yu-Gi-Oh entirely like before.

Pepchoninga wrote:

Well i know it might be something little but for me if you wanna rejuvenate the forum you should put some achievements for progressing trough the dorms. Like when you get your first post you get an achievement for getting into slifer, one for ra, obelisk and the society of light. You know so new people can have achievements that are easy to get so they have a motivation to get more. That is if you still wanna go in the direction of Yu-Gi-Oh entirely like before.

That's actually a great idea. 

Im wondering though how will adding more and more work? As you can see some users have the achievement bar full already. If we add more achievements to x user does that mean his onscreen profile will get incredibly tall, thus kinda ruining the aesthetic ?

@Pepchoninga Interesting idea, I'll keep it in mind.

@CrimsonOverlord Well, that's a tough task if you ask me. I mean, we've some veterans here and there who might end up with extended profiles, but for other members achieving some of these achievements is going to take some time. So at least for now we don't need to worry about the aesthetic perspective of thing. Though, I can always give it a fixed height and add a scroller on the side, so no big deal.

Well for the older members with more achievements they could only have there best achievements displayed. This would also show that they have achieved a lot in the forums.

That would beat the purpose of achievements to be frank.

But, I don't see why we're discussing placements right now. I don't believe it's an issue we're having. Leave the future for the future to deal with.

To give you a better idea: If we ever started having troubles with extended profiles, we can always make the images smaller a bit: http://prntscr.com/c36oac

Don't double post

And these achievements are meh, try to think harder.

What question?

They are unlocked now, so no questions.