What are your Achievement Ideas?

[Dan Dixon]

I'm considering adding Achievements in the near future. I'd love to hear your ideas for what you'd like to see. Let's brainstorm and not be critical of any one's ideas at this point. No restrictions.

What's an Achievement?
"In video gaming parlance, an achievement, also sometimes known as a trophy or challenge, is a meta-goal defined outside of a game's parameters."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achievement_(video_gaming)
Achievements in Universe Sandbox would be very similar to how Xbox Live or Steam achievements work.

Here's an older thread about achievements that might help get the brainstorming process started:
http://universesandbox.com/forum/index.php/topic,1697.0.html

[Naru523]

Binary Lover - Make a planet orbit a binary star system (easy)
Destroyer - explode 10 objects (beginner)
God of Destruction - explode 50 objects (beginner)
Elliptical Orbiter - make an object's orbit elliptical at least 0.75 (easy)
Elliptical Crazy Scientist - make an object's orbit elliptical at least 0.9 (medium)
Moon Explorer - shoot an object from Earth to the Moon (medium)
Inner Solar System Explorer - shoot an object from Earth to each planet in the inner Solar System (hard)
Solar System Explorer - shoot an object from Earth to every planet in the Solar System (critical)
It's 2012 already? - shoot an object atleast 0.1 earths and 4500 km to Earth (beginner)
Jupiter Moon Orbiter - make an asteroid orbit one of Jupiter's moon and make it go to another moon five times (hard)
Pluto a Planet - make Pluto larger at least 0.75 earths and 9000 km. (beginner)

[atomic7732]

What happened to mine??

[Dan Dixon]

Those are really good Naru523. That's exactly what I'm looking for.

What happened to mine??

Feel free to copy and paste them from the old thread. I linked to it.

[atomic7732]

Sorry if I sounded... idk... I was mad at something.

Okay, here are [my ideas for] achievements:

I think what would need to happen is for one of them, have a "game" area, and the other just normally playing US.

Now, for NORMAL...

• First system - Open a system
• Happy Hour (yes, typical) - First full hour
• Full Day - Play a total of one day
• 24/7 - play a total of one week
• Earth maker - place 5 earths
• Jupiter maker - place 5 jupiters
• extrasolar - Make a 5 M_J planet
• Hydrogen Fusion - Make a planet turn to a star (i remember making Jupiters collide till they had the sun texture, but Jupiter colored, idk if you can still do that
• Addicted - play a total of 1000 hours

Now for the Game area. I was thinking in the game area, you had a list of challenges, and maybe there could be user submitted challenges later (WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY later). I know! Maybe on the Universe sandbox site there can be a community area, with peoples Uploaded creations, and profiles, with their achivements in their profile. And depending on what achivements you got, you get points, which give you a rank, just to say how many you got? Kind of like on http://modnation.com/

Challenges (I say call them "Test your skills")

• Shoot an Earth at Jupiter from a distance of over (1,000,000; 2 million, 5 million) km
• Shoot an Earth at Jupiter from a distance over (1,000,000; 2 million, 5 million) km and have it consume a moon
• Shoot a small object (<5 km) past the Moon (orbiting Earth) from over 100,000 km away and have it come within 500 km of the surface
• ... then have it come back within 5 orbits of the moon within 5000 km
• Shoot a small object past any two objects the size Ceres or bigger (could be a "General" but would work better if a Ceres and a Europa (for example) were set in stable orbits around an Earth) and have the object come within 10,000 km of both within 3 orbits of the [outer one]. (probably quite complicated)

[Laura]

Maybe it's just me, but US2 isn't really a game, is it? 
Simulator, creative tool, educational software... sure. Game?
I just don't see it.

[deoxy99]

Maybe it's just me, but US2 isn't really a game, is it? 
Simulator, creative tool, educational software... sure. Game?
I just don't see it.

Yay, Laura is back!

[Laura]

Oh, I've been lurking 

[zionn10BE]

destroy the universe...

[atomic7732]

Yay, Laura is back!

I wanted to say that!   

[Chaotic Cow]

Multiverse: Download x Number of custom systems.

Heatwave: Send Earth on a Joyride to the Sun.

[deoxy99]

Extreme Cold: Fling Earth out of the Solar System

[Darvince]

Deadly Star: Grow the Sun to the Size of Mars' Orbit

Make sure its mass doesn't increase.

Solar System Creator: Make at least 20 exoplanet systems.

[deoxy99]

Maybe it's just me, but US2 isn't really a game, is it? 
Simulator, creative tool, educational software... sure. Game?
I just don't see it.

Hmm, after some thought, I agree with you.

[atomic7732]

Solar System Creator: Make at least 20 exoplanet systems.

[Flandre Scarlet-chan]

Plenty of Planets - makes atleast 25 planets orbit a star
Moon Collision - make two moon collide head-on
Meteor Shower - make atleast 30 asteroids hit Earth
Meteortacular - make atleast 75 asteroids hit Earth
Our Moon is also Our Savior - make a Ceres object and try to get pulled by the Moon's gravity by shooting it at Earth at ~400,000 km
Swallow them all - make an object and let it swallow nearby objects atleast 25
Explosion Show - make an asteroid and let it explode into atleast 10 pieces near Earth's surface by 100 km
Expert of Mars - make an object/spacecraft from Earth to hit Mars
Expert of Pluto - make an object/spacecraft from Earth to Pluto
Asteroid Miner - make an object from Earth to one of Mars' moons.

[Bla]

Aliens! (Create a planet with an Earth texture orbiting a star which isn't the Sun inside it's habitable zone)
Planetary Exploration (land on a planet and navigate around)
Asteroid Belt (create thin rings orbiting a star)
Protodisc (create broad and dense rings orbiting a star)
Powers of Ten (create a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a star orbiting a supermassive black hole/in a galaxy)
Star Cluster (create a system with at least 50 stars)
Galaxy (create a system with at least 1000 stars)
Lighthour (emit a light pulse which travels at least one hour)
Fried Civilization (create a planet with Earth's texture orbiting a star within half the distance of it's habitable zone's inner border)
Frozen Civilization (create a planet with Earth's texture orbiting a star at least two times the distance of it's habitable zone's outer border)
Hot Jupiter (create a gas giant orbiting a star within 1/100 of it's habitable zone's inner border)
Binary System (create at least 3 planets orbiting binary stars)
Ternary System (create at least 3 planets orbiting ternary stars)
Tachyon/Law Breaker/Criminal of Physics (create an object with a velocity greater than the speed of light, if it's possible in Universe Sandbox)
Melting Ice (create a moon with an icy texture within the outer border of a star's habitable zone)
Astronaut (land on a space craft)
Destiny Recorder (record a system with at least two galaxies colliding)
Destroying the Death Star (destroy the Death Star orbiting Endor)
Exoplanet (create a star at least one light year from a star with the name 'Sun' and create at least one planet orbiting it)
Ring Ripper/Distorter (launch an object with at least 25% of the mass of an object with rings orbiting it towards the rings to distort them)
Map Wrapper (apply a custom texture to a body)
Military Satellite (take a high-res screenshot close to a planet, with the planet in focus)

[SuperNova]

Luv this idea. i got some few, will add more.

Planetary Extraordinary: let a Planet have a stable orbit and at least 4 moons
Black Cycle: Make a Sun with 1 planet orbit a Black Hole.
Makin Bacon: Make a earth close to the Sun

[atomic7732]

Dan, when you choose some, don't tell us the easy ones, or it'll be too easy. Maybe the harder ones, that'd be a good idea.

[Bla]

Dan, when you choose some, don't tell us the easy ones, or it'll be too easy. Maybe the harder ones, that'd be a good idea.

Agreed. For example showing

Military Satellite (take a high-res screenshot close to a planet, with the planet in focus)

as an achievement would just result in someone go farming all the easy achievements. It'd be more exciting to find one of these easy but hard to guess achievements pop up at different moments when you do something interesting.

[SuperNova]

So, a hard one?
I got one



Like that
Or

[atomic7732]

as an achievement would just result in someone go farming all the easy achievements. It'd be more exciting to find one of these easy but hard to guess achievements pop up at different moments when you do something interesting.

Oh I see, like:

*shoots moon at earth*
You got achievment "Destroyer of Worlds".
Try to shoot a satellite from Low Earth Orbit to a near Areosyncronous orbit [click to open file].

I only added the click to open file for the automatically made system, it could be a hidden file. Then Dan can put it in a folder that is obvious Universe Sandbox > Systems > Achievment Systems, but the file name is like dsjf9913jjv9f8j0qf.ubox so that someone can't tell what it is. But, in a case where you need the pre-made system, I am thinking just have an area for them, a pre-known achievments.

For example:
Easy ones are not posted on the forum, or anywhere. You just have to find them out.
Medium ones may have clues.
Hard ones should be posted here.

Maybe have an achievment creator? Idk. lol

[Darvince]

Paying Attention to Detail: Write an XML file with at least 10 planets, 3 stars, 100 moons, 4 rings, and at least 10 custom textures.

Moon Man: Create a planet below Neptune's mass and then have at least 5 heavy moons (2 or more Earths) orbit it with a stable orbit.

Immposibilities: Have a system with an at least 100 sun mass star and 48 planets.

System³ (Powers of Three) Write an XML file where the rule of the system is that each new object has powers of three as it properties. It must have 3, 6, 9, 12, or 15 planets, 27, 54, 81, 108, or 210 moons, and 1, 3, or 5 rings around planets. 1, 3, or 6 gas giants, and the other planets rocky or gas dwarves.