Ideas for Achievements for inZOI

[Booyah]

I've been giving a lot of thought of achievements ideas for this game. The Sims, a big inspiration, never had Real Achievements, so it's common to think that Life Sims just can't have achievements.

But I don't think that's the case at all! I've been compiling some ideas for good achievements that I think could work for Life Sims, and specifically, inZOI. So I wanted to share those with the community, and HOPEFULLY, get some input from players.

Please, let me know if you have any ideas for achievements. Also, if you see one of my suggestions, and think it should be different, please feel free to suggest that!

NOTE: This thread is about inZOI and achievements. I'm here for opinions and ideas on achievements for the game. Any posts insulting other players, and any attempts to derail the thread from it's intended topic will be reported.

Let's have fun while brain storming some ideas for a future update to the game! I want to hear your ideas!

[Booyah]

Base Achievements

Promotion!
- Have a ZOI reach max level in x, y, z career (this can be several different achievements)

Skilled ZOI
- Have a ZOI reach max level in x, y, z skill (this can be several different achievements)

The Widower
- Have a ZOI outlive a spouse (kinda dark, but The Sims did it, so...)

Popular ZOI!
- Have a ZOI have x number of relationships/friends

Family Matters
- Have a ZOI family reach x number of members

Legacy
- Play a family for x number of generations

Golden Pee
- Hold your pee for 24 hours straight

Not There!
- Have your ZOI pee on the floor

That's Not Nice!
- Have your ZOI pee in a public place

Clean Up On Isle 9
- Slip in another ZOI's pee

Over-Achiever
- Have a ZOI complete x number of skills/aspirations

Rich ZOI
- Gain x number of cash for a zoi family

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So these are some of the base achievements I've thought of, but while putting this together, I found that some achievements kind of clump together into specific categories so, here's some of the categories that I'll have achievement ideas for:

Careers
Skills
"Woo-Hoo"ing
Potty
Family
Friends
Driving

It takes time to format these so please feel free to give your input on some of these ideas, or share your own if you've got some!

[Mike Sholo]

Originally posted by Booyah:

I've been giving a lot of thought of achievements ideas for this game. The Sims, a big inspiration, never had Real Achievements, so it's common to think that Life Sims just can't have achievements.

But I don't think that's the case at all! I've been compiling some ideas for good achievements that I think could work for Life Sims, and specifically, inZOI. So I wanted to share those with the community, and HOPEFULLY, get some input from players.

Please, let me know if you have any ideas for achievements. Also, if you see one of my suggestions, and think it should be different, please feel free to suggest that!

NOTE: This thread is about inZOI and achievements. I'm here for opinions and ideas on achievements for the game. Any posts insulting other players, and any attempts to derail the thread from it's intended topic will be reported.

Let's have fun while brain storming some ideas for a future update to the game! I want to hear your ideas!

Another thread to call attention to from the same user, who keeps people entertained for 600 posts (I hope they close it after the report).
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2456740/discussions/0/599648576857002665/

We have a new one from someone who won't buy the game if it doesn't have achievements.

Don't take the bait again

[Booyah]

Mike, do you have a preferred achievement type?

I'm trying to limit the TOTAL number of achievements to something less than 100, but the skill and job achievements alone could easily get up to the 50s (meaning the "Have a ZOI max x skill" achievements)

So I'm wondering if I should consider condensing those achievements into one. On one hand, it's not feasible to say "Have a ZOI master ALL skills", BUT you also don't want to have 50 different "master x skill" achievements (maybe? maybe you do want 50 different ones)

Personally, I'm all for "the more the merrier" in terms of amounts of achievements, but I would like to get some other opinions, before I take the time to write up every possible skill achievement individually.

Is it worth it to split them up? Or should I try to condense them somehow? If so: what's the best way to condense them into something feasible for players?

[Whoami]

Originally posted by Booyah:

Base Achievements

Promotion!
- Have a ZOI reach max level in x, y, z career (this can be several different achievements)

Skilled ZOI
- Have a ZOI reach max level in x, y, z skill (this can be several different achievements)

The Widower
- Have a ZOI outlive a spouse (kinda dark, but The Sims did it, so...)

Popular ZOI!
- Have a ZOI have x number of relationships/friends

Family Matters
- Have a ZOI family reach x number of members

Legacy
- Play a family for x number of generations

Golden Pee
- Hold your pee for 24 hours straight

Not There!
- Have your ZOI pee on the floor

That's Not Nice!
- Have your ZOI pee in a public place

Clean Up On Isle 9
- Slip in another ZOI's pee

Over-Achiever
- Have a ZOI complete x number of skills/aspirations

Rich ZOI
- Gain x number of cash for a zoi family

---

So these are some of the base achievements I've thought of, but while putting this together, I found that some achievements kind of clump together into specific categories so, here's some of the categories that I'll have achievement ideas for:

Careers
Skills
"Woo-Hoo"ing
Potty
Family
Friends
Driving

It takes time to format these so please feel free to give your input on some of these ideas, or share your own if you've got some!

some of these are ridiculous.

[Booyah]

Originally posted by Whoami:

some of these are ridiculous.

Haha yeah this is really meant to just be a first draft. Like I mentioned in another message, I'm not sure if they should be more condensed, or more "exhaustive" so to speak.

Which do you think don't fit (and why, if you have time)?

[Whoami]

rich zoi because you can cheat in money. the peeing, sounds like a golden shower fetish.

[Mike Sholo]

Originally posted by Booyah:

Mike, do you have a preferred achievement type?

Are you kidding me? Do you really think I'm going to take your usual bait of asking questions instead of answering?

Originally posted by Mike Sholo:

Another thread to call attention to from the same user, who keeps people entertained for 600 posts (I hope they close it after the report).
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2456740/discussions/0/599648576857002665/

We have a new one from someone who won't buy the game if it doesn't have achievements.

Don't take the bait again

I am not interested in achivements in games, you don't own the game and you're not going to buy it because it probably won't have achievements and you have a foolish exhausting thread about this issue. (linked above).

Are you starting a new thread in case the other one is closed? How many more will you start on the same topic?

Your first feedback (and only because people are kind):

Originally posted by Whoami:

some of these are ridiculous.

You score ONE.

So, really you don't have any better to do with your life?

[Xautos]

One day achievements will make it to this game though it won't happen until near release or after release when everything is in place. however development of game content will take a while to filter down the pipeline, it could take upwards of 9 months to a year. so the idea to suggest the types of achievements that could appear isn't too far fetched.


Welcome to AR Company:
Create a new game after Create a Zoi and selecting a city.

AR Entry:
Create a Zoi.

AR Highlights:
Create 10 Zoi's.

AR Library:
Create 50 Zoi's.

AR Encyclopaedia:
Create 100 Zoi's.

AR Database Archive:
Create 250 Zoi's.

AR Repository:
Create 500 Zoi's.

Newbie:
Learned a skill to level 1

Amateur:
Learned a skill to level 10

Average:
Learned 3 skills to level 10

Skilled:
Learned 5 skills to level 10

Pro:
Learned 8 skills to level 10

Expert:
Learned 10 skills to level 10

One Zoi Army:
Have a single Zoi in the household.

Double Trouble:
Have two Zoi's in the household.

Three is a Crowd:
Have three Zoi's in the household.

Quad Damage:
Have four Zoi's in the household.

Full House:
Have eight Zoi's in the household

Until Death do us Part:
Marry two zoi's in your household.

Nuclear Powered Family:
Have a marriage and a child in the household.

Unfaithful Love:
Have the married Zoi's in your household break their marriage, divorce and move away from each other.

Eternally Loyal:
Never cheated on your married partner and both died together while still bound in love.

Why Go? When you can stay a while:
Convince a none household Zoi to come over for a visit to your household lot.

When you can stay with me, tonight:
Convince a none household Zoi in a relationship with one of your household zoi's to stay over at your lot over night.

Misinformation is a weapon of Mass Destruction:
Use your Zoi's smartphone to create a negative karma action on another Zoi.

We need to find courage, overcome:
Use your Zoi's smartphone to create a positive karma action on another Zoi.

Freestyler:
Have your Zoi Dance in front of other zoi's with style while listening to Hip Hop music and changing time compression settings.

We Buy any Car:
Buy a vehicle from the smartphone for your household.

Lap of Luxury:
Travel in your Vehicle for the first time (passenger or driver).

[bryanf37]

Master of Disguise:
Secretly fart in 12 different locations

Repeat Offender:
Go to jail 3 times

Who Needs Skooling:
Get expelled by having 3 unexcused absences

Black Widow/Widower:
Have 3 dead spouses

Master of None:
Gone to work at 6 different jobs.

Welfare Recipient:
Never work a day in your life.

[Booyah]

Originally posted by bryanf37:

Master of Disguise:
Secretly fart in 12 different locations

Repeat Offender:
Go to jail 3 times

Who Needs Skooling:
Get expelled by having 3 unexcused absences

Black Widow/Widower:
Have 3 dead spouses

Master of None:
Gone to work at 6 different jobs.

Welfare Recipient:
Never work a day in your life.

OMG Your Welfare Recipient idea reminds me:

When Sims 3 came out, I made a Sim that was a kleptomaniac, and I tried to survive on thievery alone. Amazingly, I was able to manipulate "friends" so that I could shower/pee/poop in their house, before STEALing their furniture and adding it to my own house. It was rad.

Great ideas, thanks for the input! I will try to work some of these into the list.

[Booyah]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Welcome to AR Company:
Create a new game after Create a Zoi and selecting a city.

AR Entry:
Create a Zoi.

AR Highlights:
Create 10 Zoi's.

AR Library:
Create 50 Zoi's.

AR Encyclopaedia:
Create 100 Zoi's.

AR Database Archive:
Create 250 Zoi's.

AR Repository:
Create 500 Zoi's.

I like some of these a lot. Create 500 seems like a massive undertaking, but then again, they are called "achievements". YOu have to have some that cater to an audience that likes a little challenge/grind/difficulty.

[Syn[a]]

have a family generation of 10 generations, or 100
or 10 x 10 etc... like in the Sims 4. will take a very long time

Reach level 10 of a skill
Reach level 10 of 3, 5, 10 skills, etc.
Reach high affection with 5 other Zois
Paint 300 paintings
Cook 100 times
Cook 25 different recipes
Marry and have 2 children
Read 10, 20, 50 books
Play a household with 7 pets
Play a household with 8 ghosts


Edit: if you really mean it.. If you had made the first thread like this, it might not have gotten so out of hand. Mike seems to have become your arch enemy. lol

[Booyah]

Originally posted by Syna:

have a family generation of 10 generations, or 100
or 10 x 10 etc... like in the Sims 4. will take a very long time

Edit: if you really mean it.. If you had made the first thread like this, it might not have gotten so out of hand. Mike seems to have become your arch enemy. lol

No, no, he isn't taking me seriously or wasting any time on me. I mean, almost all of his posts are following me and responding to me, but not because he takes me seriously. He knows I'm a just a silly troll that he can ignore, that's why he responds to me so frequently.

But yeah something about that other thread was just causing hostility, and there were a few people absolutely demanding that it end, so I figured it would be better to create a different thread, one more focused on a topic that can move forward. There will certainly still be some people who will still be mad, but there's only so much you can do.

I like your suggestions a lot. Some are the kind of things that players will naturally reach through typical gameplay, some are things you'd have to directly strive for, and some are truly achievements: longform goals that players can work towards and feel satisfaction when reaching. Great ideas, Syn!

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Mike Sholo:

Originally posted by Xautos:

One day achievements will make it to this game though it won't happen until near release or after release when everything is in place. however development of game content will take a while to filter down the pipeline, it could take upwards of 9 months to a year. so the idea to suggest the types of achievements that could appear isn't too far fetched.

Man, of course you can do whatever you want, but if you want to join the "dialogue" about achievements in this game, you can join the other "600+ post" the OP started before on another post on the same topic (and see where that takes you):

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2456740/discussions/0/599648576857002665/

As the OP could say: "There's no Steam rule that prevents someone from opening multiple threads about the same topic in the same forum for the same game." Or is there?

But is it really necessary?

PS: @OP -> You score TWO.

the problem with that other thread is that it has ran its course, and it wasn't about suggesting the potential for achievements, it was to discuss why there aren't achievements already in the game.

while i agree the issues are similar, they are still separate on their purpose.

[Booyah]

Originally posted by Xautos:

the problem with that other thread is that it has ran its course, and it wasn't about suggesting the potential for achievements, it was to discuss why there aren't achievements already in the game.

while i agree the issues are similar, they are still separate on their purpose.

I'm glad you understand the difference between the two. Idk why they think I'm "opening the same topic" when it's clear I'm not. But that's Mike for you, you have to just let him do his thing. He's on a mission.

He's banned for a reason.