Achievements

[Clint Herron]

Achievements are awesome! One of the things I'm most looking forward to in an update.

Achievment ideas (feel free to add your own in the issue comments):

• Built a 6th Ship
• Built the Relic Ship
• Rolled 7 Dice
• Own every die-manipulator tech card
• Own both victory point tech cards
• Destroy the Relic Ship by placing a Colony
• Destroy the Relic Ship by placing the Isolation Field
• Go up 3, 4, 5, 6, 7+ points in a single turn
• Win a game
• Raid twice in a single turn
• Land 2, 3, 4, 5 colonies in a single turn.
• Begin a turn (after rolling) with more than 8 resources
• Win without ever building your 6th, 5th, 4th ship.
• Use the normal and discard abilities of the same card in a single turn.

[Tim Jordan]

Achievements would be nice but I'd also appreciate some sort of local score/record tracking in games vs. AI. Even better, one that some how incorporates your wins out of attempts vs. the various levels of AIs (i.e. Having an untarnished 20-0 record doesn't mean much if it is only against the Cadet AI).

[Daniel Johnson]

Some of the Agenda cards from factions would lend themselves to good achievements.

I would point out that using both of a card's abilities in a single turn would require using the discard ability, acquiring the other copy via the alien artifact or raiders' outpost, and then using the fuel ability of that one.

[Martin Grider]

I agree with Tim that achievements are great, but I want to see the underlying statistics that achievements would require! I'd love a game-log of some kind, (even if it was just a list of games with final scores at the end).

It's also fairly easy to implement ELO ranking, and adding a GameCenter leaderboard for that number would be a nice way to compare yourself to other players without true multiplayer, IMO.

I feel bad commenting without some achievement ideas, so here are some:

• win a game without using the Colonist Hub
• collect 16 resources on a turn (or some other amount determined to be difficult)
• win a game against each type of AI (could be an achievement for each, or one for the lot)
• Win a 4-player game against 3 admirals
• Win a game with all your Colonists in one Territory
• Win a game without being the one to finish placing all your colonists
• Place all three types of field in one turn
• Have all three types of field on your colonies at once