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Closeness feedback for badges

While having direct quantitative feedback regarding badge counters may have negative consequences to gameplay, having some "subjective" feedback would help with the "I could swear I've done 1003 herbs. Why don't I have my badge?"

So instead of a literal quantitative "You have 853/1003" or "85% complete", have messages that give subjective feedback on how close you are to a particular badge. The exact message you get is somewhat random, within a given % range

(Personally I image the quotes coming from Illmenski Jones, but that's just me)

0-20%: "You don't seem to be working on it very hard"
5-25%: "A start."
10-30%: "A nice start."
15-35%: "Look at you, badginess is surely in your future"
20-40%: "Wow, with some hard work, you could get somewhere"
...
98-100%: "OMG OMG OMG!!"

So if you were 12% through Bounder, Tenured you might get "A start" or "A nice start", but not "Look at you..."

[ For the programmers out there: Purely random would allow folks to just spam refresh, so I suggest a hash of the Ur date be used to pick which message is shown ]

Posted 6 months ago by Sturminator i` Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I too have been negative about the  "You have 853/1003" or "85% complete" messages, but this solution is actually a nice middle ground between exact information and no information.  
    Posted 6 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • lol WindBorn you are the post I have linked :)
    Posted 6 months ago by Sturminator i` Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh man, I would love to have this. It would make it a lot easier to work towards the badge goals. Because I never know how close I am, it's very easy to get discouraged and bored.
    Posted 6 months ago by Maddie_Rocca Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I suggest displaying the completion rate as color tone (i.e. - Go to the Achievements page: white background badges are close to 0%, fully transparent ones are 100%, the color spectrum in between gives a rough idea of how close you are)
    Posted 6 months ago by Ayzad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like this idea.
    Posted 6 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good idea!

    I'm not sure if achievement progress will ever be immediately available across all achievements at once (for technical reasons) but it is possible that we'll eventually let you view it on a per-achievement basis).
    Posted 6 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • fun way to solve this indeed +1
    now I demand subjective feedback about subjective feedback feature being (or not) in the works :p

    like:
    0-20%: soon
    20-80%: two weeks™
    80-100%: "OMG OMG OMG"
    Posted 6 months ago by Lemo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1, and +1 Lemo! XD
    Posted 6 months ago by Abby Cadabra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lemo, I think the TS new feature feedback is:

    0-1%: We are considering it
    2%-98%: Two Weeks™
    100%: Tada! 

    :D
    Posted 6 months ago by Sturminator i` Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I freakin love this idea!  I agree with Maddie that I start working toward a badge but I either forget how close I am or figure I'm not as close as I thought I was an give up very discouraged....only to realize later I was like one more flip of the frying pan away from a badge!

    Love, love, love it!
    Posted 6 months ago by LilySunshine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • lol Stu sounds realistic indeed :p
    Posted 5 months ago by Lemo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would love to know how close I am to certain badges. Even a hazy idea is better than none!
    Posted 5 months ago by MrsAWiggins05 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Intersting idea. I do have a question: would the message about your closeness to an achievement be player-triggered (i.e., available if you want to actively check your progress), or do you imagine it as a growl of some sort? I get the sense that you were envisioning us having to check but wasn't 100% sure. Generally speaking, I prefer the surprise and am not a grinder, so I think it would be great if it was something we had to actively check.
    Posted 5 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would prefer it to be something we'd check. If it was an announcement I would almost certainly forget, and sometimes I'm not working on badges.

    I'd prefer to go to a page and see how close I am to getting certain badges. But maybe that's just me :)
    Posted 5 months ago by LilySunshine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My original thought was that it would be inside the particular achievement detail page, but that was just a thought. I also like the idea that it be driven by specific player action.
    Posted 5 months ago by Sturminator i` Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd love to see any of my progress. I think it would be really awesome if there was a page that I could go to and see everything I had done in the game (that the counters have been keeping track of, anyways). I'd probably be amazed at some of the numbers... and I might have more of an appreciation for the amount of "work" I'm doing :P
    Posted 5 months ago by Orchi Da Pea Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 love this idea.
    Posted 5 months ago by Vialdana Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for something in-game

    By the way, this tool is actually quite good in the mean time. (I believe it looks for the most commonly achieved badges by Glitchen similar to you that you haven't achieved yet.)
    Posted 5 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Janitch Good tool indeed, unfortunately it seems to be broken lately :\
    It only shows 266 achievements for example on your page
    He used to be reachable by mail, but I can't get any more feedback now...
    Posted 5 months ago by Lemo Subscriber! | Permalink