Dear Kings and Queens,
Today we present you the first implementation of the new long-term gameplay feature: Achievements.
With achievements, we aim at providing more sense of progress in between reaching new ages, as well as goals outside of the game's main progression. It is also one more way to celebrate your progress through the game!
What is also very important, we will use this opportunity to bring player profile to the mobile app*, thus further improving the consistency between both platforms.
Changes to the profile
When you open your profile, you will instantly notice a significant change:
First of all, the window is now cleaner. The avatar, city name and profile text edition were all moved to left. You will notice that due to space limitations on mobile, the profile text can now only have up to 500 characters.
We also removed the rarely used "goods requests" feature.
The majority of the window is now dedicated exclusively to the achievements!
Right at the top, you can choose your favorite achievements to show off. These will be visible to other users when they hover over your portrait on the social bar:
You can also keep this row empty if you don't like showing off.
Achievements
In the very first version, we are releasing 13 achievements and they all come in four levels: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.
You can view them all in the profile window. When you hover over an achievement, you will learn about your progress and the requirement for the next level:
Of course, once you reach it, the graphical representation of the achievement will also change accordingly.
Next steps
The most immediate next steps are of course adding more achievements (we have tons of ideas!). We will also add some single-level achievements that do not get upgraded over time.
In the future, we also plan on showing the profile and the achievement in a more prominent way at different places of the game to make them more visible and therefore more valuable.
If you have any comments or questions, let us know in the feedback thread.
And if you can spot any bugs, please report them in here.
We hope that you enjoy getting achievements
Yours,
Beta Forge of Empire Team
*During the Beta test, as typically, the feature is not yet available in the mobile app. It will come with one of the upcoming releases.