Reviving this discussion to better center conversations about achievements we’ve been having on the Discord. Apologies for the timing, as this probably would have been better to have with more time before the release - better late than never I guess.
Here are some achievements Hh had recently suggested:
The Editor - Edit your microbe for the first time
Colony Builder - Form a cell colony
Going Nuclear - Place and survive with the nucleus for a generation
Beyond the Cell - Reach the multicellular stage
Taste the Sun - Generate more glucose than you use through photosynthesis
Cannot Improve on Perfection - Make no changes to your microbe in the editor
Yum! - Engulf another cell
Tasty Radiation - Make a cell that gains energy from radioactivity and gain energy
Vents are my Home - Make a cell that only uses chemosynthesis for energy
There were more achievements spread out through discussion on the Discord, but this was the most immediately accessible list I could grab. If anyone has one they really like, do feel free to post them here.
I’ve been trying to go through the community forums to find achievements. There obviously is a ton of stuff on there that is not relevant to the Microbe Stage or extremely hard to track. But as I said on the Discord, I do think it would be nice to have a choice few achievements from the community - that’s been one of the most active threads across two different community forums and has the voice of many notable users from our community.
I’ll suggest a few here:
- Micro-Borg - Successfully perform endosymbiosis. As far as I could tell, the first ever achievement ever suggested, by Oliveriver nonetheless on the old forums.
- Better Together - Form a cell colony, name suggested by Nein99 several years ago when they was a community member. Hh already suggested this, but this could be another name we choose for it. Otherwise, it can be the achievement for progressing to the Multicellular Stage.
- Winning - Successfully reach 15 generations with the same species. Suggested by blackjacksike, a consistent presence on the community forums for many years and a Patreon contributor. Could be a meta-easter egg referencing our old winning condition once multiple stages are in.
Some rename suggestions if they are more desirable, depending on how easter-eggy or quippy we want the names to be:
- Instead of Tasty Radiation, “G-Cell” - a reference to Godzilla. I think this is an achievement that can have a better name, but I don’t know the legal ramifications of an easter egg name referencing another piece of media.
- Instead of Taste the Sun, “The Sun is a Deadly Lazer” - a reference to the famous bill wurtz video. Though I realize after rewatching that bit that “Taste the Sun” is a reference to that video as well, which I guess means that the Thrive Development Team are a bunch of geeks. “Taste the Sun” can make more sense since you’re actually eating the sun, whereas the deadly lazer part can be more relevant to environmental tolerances.