Achievements

[bb-froggy]

A bit related to #60 , there could be achievements that you can unlock. Some suggestions:

• Win against AI level x (for each level)
• Win on map size abc
• Win on huge map without using a baron
• Win on map size large (?) against strong AI without using a knight (or using only a single knight)
• Win on map size large against strong AI without using a castle (or with a single castle)
• Win when starting last (+ some AI and map size conditions)
• Lose against weakest AI
• Destroy 10/50/100 peasants/spearmen/knights/barons/castles (well, maybe less for the stronger units)
• Build 10/50/100 units (of some type maybe)
• Build 10 knights in a single game AND pay the upkeep. Maybe the same for 20 or so spearmen. Or for even more peasants. There should be a turn limit to this.
• Lose 5(?) castles in a single game and still win.
• Have a knight destroyed by a baron
• Win and have two (or three?) separate kingdoms when you do
• Win (enemies give up) and there are still kingdoms of three (more?) colors left (or at the beginning of the last turn, if you destroyed them completely)
• Win against an opponent who owned more than half of the tiles at some point during the game and had more money at the time.
• End a game with stalemate
• Reject a stalemate and then win the game

Some fancy names or even icons would also be cool.

[Sesu8642]

Good ideas! Not a priority for me but I'm certainly open for contributions.

[Cwpute]

Good ideas here :) things regarding capitals would also be fun like:

• Destroy X capitals in a single game
• Have X of your capitals destroyed in a game and still win
• Win a game without having lost any of your starting kindoms

… as well as trees

• Win with X trees or more on your kingdom
• Cut down X trees in a single game

…and fortresses !

• Destroy X fortresses
• Win a game without building a fortress
• Build a fortress right next to an ennemy fortress

Anl other achievements that push some strategies :

• Cut off an army from its capital to starve them (have the units die on the next turn due to lack of salary)
• Have a kingdom last X turns without any change in tile size (early kindoms well protected or well placed but unplayable until later in the game)
• Play a game for over X turns
• Cut the same kingdom twice in a single turn

[Cwpute]

• Control a kingdom larger than X tiles
• Reduce the size of a kingdom by 2 tiles in a single turn without creating a new kindom and with a single peasant
• Lose then win the same hex tile 2 times in a row.

[bb-froggy]

I'll start working on the achievements soon. Each requires its own implementation, of course, and the effort necessary to implement them differs a lot between them. Once I start working on them, I'll get a better idea of which is easy and which is difficult. Naturally, I would try to start with the easier once and then work towards the more difficult ones, possibly even modifying or even discarding some that we've already brainstormed.

The way I have it in mind, for every achievement, I need these things:

• Catchy name
  At some point, I thought using names of famous leaders/conquerors like Alexander the Great, Caesar, Barbarossa, Arthur, ... at least for some of them. But many of them aren't from the medieval era, so they would break immersion.
• Description: This is shown to the user and explains what this is about
• Icon
  We could start with one generic icon, though (a hexagon medal?), and replace it with individual ones where we have them.

We could also allow secret achievements, for which we could hide the description or even name and icon (replaced with a generic one before you reach it). This would be an option for things that can easily be enforced, but is otherwise a bit arcane, yet possible to achieve without knowing what to do. And of course, you could spoil the fun for you if you looked into the source code or perhaps read this ticket too eagerly.

If somebody wants to suggest some specific names and descriptions and possibly even icons, that would be helpful for the implementation.

Next to the "famous leader" idea, maybe there's other ideas on what kind of recurrent themes we could use? Hints at the crusades, famous battles, references to famous movies/series, computer or board games, ...

[Cwpute]

I'm not sure icons are really needed, names are really enough.
Famous battles and leaders (or soldiers) seem like a great pick for achievment names indeed !