Give me da suggestions - achievement interface

Do you have types of achievements you want achieved yet or do you want a list from us along with Icons that can fit each one?

I have a few...

I believe the gui should be on a 'glowing' effect-based-system

ie) Using nothing but papers as the icons - When you hover them the lore will display the achivement type, and how to obtain it

when you complete it - it will forever glow - and the name of the item will change to 'complete'

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The titles of the pages could perhaps be on a category basis:

The main page with all of the categories could use individual items to distinguish the categories

for previous/next pages - could have the arrow skulls

Will this have something like a counter? For example: One achievement is to mine 2500 Obsidian blocks. When you hover over that it would show you currently have 1234/2500 to reach goal. Would make it easier to know what you still need for that current goal.

Also love that suggestion from Elite about it glowing once completed.

Will these achievement possible have teirs? Like Level 1: Kill 1 Momentus; Level 2: Kill 5 Momentus, etc with greater rewards to more you do?

This possible addition sounds fantastic and just adds another thing to do on EMC if you get bored of something else.

Categories

Basic ones I suppose but still something that could be added

Farming -- Collect farmable goods
Mining -- Collect ores and gems (includes nether quartz)
Collecting -- Gathering of craftable materials (books, end crystals, anvils etc)
Huntsman -- Combat the mods of Minecraft (collecting mob drops or kill certain amount of custom mobs)
Warrior -- (Could be PVP Arena specific) Kill xx amount of people in the arenas using a specific weapon (swords, axes, bows, heck even shovels.)

Icons to Represent

Farming -- Either Wheat or Bonemeal (everyone uses a hoe to represent this )
Mining -- (While the obvious answer would be a pickaxe) Why not a torch?
Collecting -- Crafting Bench of Course!
Huntsman -- Rabbit Leather (Just cause it looks better)
Warrior -- Iron Helmet Or if the arena already has a noticeable icon then I would suggest using that.

I would suggest them in the tiers that people would do should they have just started over on EMC.

From Left to Right

Mining, Farming, Collecting, Huntsman, Warrior (And so on for other possible categories)

Use them if you wish, I do however think (as Elites stated) that they should glow when completed also Daily Achievement for actual tangible prizes (besides tokens) would be cool, and depending on difficulty the prize would be greater. Even should everyone get random or if everyone gets the same. Also when making achievements team based achievements would be an awesome idea it could perhaps search for how many people are in your group during time of completion.

The glowing idea is great, but I would actually suggest the reverse: have incomplete icons be glowing. I think it makes more sense to draw one's attention to the achievements that have yet to be completed, rather than the ones they've already done.

The lore should have all that information, yeah, but I think the icons should be different, and relate to their achievements in some way. That way you can visually tell very quickly which one to mouse over to, instead of having to hover across each one and read them until you hit the one you're looking for, every time.

Yeah, I like the idea of different, relevant icons. In these examples, though, "Collecting" could also be a chest, since that's what you collect stuff into, and the torch feels like it would be more for exploring than just mining, so maybe an ore instead? Sometimes the obvious answer is totally fine, as well.

Troller - Have somebody say "I hate <playersusername>" twice in one minute in chat
Keyboard Warrior - Get muted three times for language
Sadistic piece of crap - Get banned for griefing
Lord/Savior - Have Aikar actually respond to you in town chat

/rewards
Would pop upt a SC inventory
In it there would be items that represents different categories
Achievements- book and quill?
Basic/exagerated example of category
-would include vote bonus rewards
-defeating end dragon x times
Quest
-daily/monthly quest

These would subdivide in

Quest
Compass-donno name for it
-qould be like go to this coordinates or something(like find and mine x diamond ores(it would track if you placed them or found them yourself)
Stone sword- battle
Kill mobs quest/streaks

Achievements
-voting bonus
-Emc achievments
-pvp streaks?
-vanilla achievements?

Format
If the quest has no reward, has no physical reward(tokens), or has many items represent it as a chest
If the reward is an item put the item, but with the following name/format

Name format
Item name: Name of quest achievement
Lore would include when it expires if it ever expires, and the enchantments the item has? Or the lore of the item

EDIT: example

Item chest
Type EMC achivement

Name of chest: Bob the builder!
Lore: Fix something that Chin broke
Reward: Rainbowchin himself a slave for a day


^awesome, but exagerated example(btw)


I wrote this on my ipad and im kinda dizzy so what i wrote might not make sense at all so....

They were pretty obviously sarcastic lol

And for those people, we bring to you the Killjoy achievement!

This may be a bit off topic, but every time I switch servers & then go home on my res I get the Brewing achievement banner popping up. Is there a way to turn it off?

Also, I'll try to work out a lay-out & get back to you. Are we working with the standard list of MC achievements, or are we adding custom ones too (like Momentus Slayer). If it is a custom set, it would be nice to have a list of achievements. Or are you asking us to come up with the achievements as well?

As stated in the OP He's only looking for interface ideas besides actual achievement details. However feel free to post some in here as I can't see it hurting anything.

Yes, but knowing what achievements and how many they are may affect lay-out and interface design ideas. It is easier to lay-out and design if you know what you are working with.

Another idea for an interface is do what most mods out there do which is add a sort of tab in the achievments window that has a little arrow at the bottom so you can switch over to another set of achievments

Can't do that without a mod.

Main interface, 6x9 slots, can show groups of achievements
and for each group there is an item in the leftmost column representing the group / category,

The remaining slots to the right show the achievements or sub-categories,
but also in a way of "level meter", so it is visually obvious
what percentage of quests from a category was completed.

Alternative design: the "level meter" is shown along with the
last or the highest reached and the next not yet reached achievement.

Perhaps banners can be used to make symbols,
but a good choice of other items can also be very good.

If there are more than 6 categories, then pages and
corresponding navigational buttons are necessary - they can
go into the leftmost column, and the items representing categories
shift into the 2nd column.
I also think arrow skulls are good for navigation.