Christ... the first word should be 'Now' not 'Know'. It's been a long day.

Video game achievements make me want to punch babies.

While I agree with abgemacht that achievements have no place in diplomacy since a solo is its own achievement (already indicated in profiles!), if you are going to introduce achievements, I would recommend no silly ones as they may incline certain players to bad play, and I would start by making them simple things, like "Solo with England" and "Solo with Germany."

Actually, little "medals" placed in profiles to indicate a solo with a particular country may provide incentive for players to go for the solo when they would normally draw. That small marker of achievement could encourage better play.

I was just thinking about this other day. Of course, there are endless permutations of parameters one could put into listing achievements. Also, one may have highly personalized achievements that may be personally meaningful but difficult to compare.
I agree with fortknox and don't think there is a need to administer/validate a centralized listing, but looking at one's achievements is a neat concept to talk about.

Some of my favorite personal achievements were taking a 3-way draw with Babak and MadMarx in one of the Anonymous Blind Invitational games, and 3-way draw with MadMarx and TheWizard at the WebDip Boston FTF Tournament. I'm also quite happy that I came back from 1 SC, lasted several more years, and made it to the draw in the Anonymous Blind Invitational Championship game.

Here are a few general ideas:
(Of course one could customize these for specific/favorite game params, and/or only consider them achieved in legitimate games that aren't ruined by cheaters or quitters, etc.)

=Solos=
(First, 10, 100, etc) solos
Solo before year (1915, 1910, etc)
Solo with each power
Come back from 1 SC to solo (The Czech has done this very convincingly)

=Draws=
Legitimate race-to-line 2-way draw in a WTA game
Come back from 1 SC to draw
Finish in the draw holding only 1 SC

=Stats/Rating=
Maintain >X% (40, 50, 60, etc) Win+Draw ratio over first (25, 50, 100) games
Reach the top (100, 50, 10, 1, etc) in GR
0 (or >1%) Resigns
Complete 1000 games (I think only The Czech has done this, but Lando is getting close)

=Misc/Other/Consolation=
Play at a WebDip Face-to-Face tournament
Win a WebDip tournament
Last for more than one year in purgatory (0 units, 0 home SCs, >0 non-home SCs)

I think having a tournament or number of tournaments on WebDip would be great, and you could be given "Winner of X Online Tourney" or something.

http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/player-of-the-year-award

I think something like what thechuff said, plus what TGM had (above) would be cool.

This could be rather fun, but we should avoid having too many achievements or we will become as soulless as an Xbox page. Maybe keep it to half a dozen or so?

Rainbow Warrior (have a solo for each nation)
Solo Artist (have a win percentage in double figures)
Centurion (get into the top 100 all time GR)
Etc etc

The link could be in the "Help" section, directly under the Mod's email address.

I think achievements should be limited to tournament wins, really. They give those types of achievements in ftf games (best country, first place, etc).

Does anyone have the link to the game that The Czech game back to solo from 1 SC?

I don't think it as much as having a ton as making them difficult to get so people only have a half dozen at most...

and abge already named one of them, "Baby Puncher"... that one must be if abge punishes you for something ;)

@abge - re: [punching a baby] Don't knock it 'til you tried it...lol

I like the Achievements concept....First win, 5x, 25x....Win with Each Country, etc. Would just be interesting to see. I"m curious about my own achievements now.

@abge - if you don't like achievments, do you like the statistics dump that was recently in the threads? Because essentially, "achievements" are just personal statistics put in to badge form. So aren't one of those "kids-shouldn't-keep-score-because-Johnny-might-feel-bad-for-being-a-loser" types are you?

My personal best achievement: "Mega-Troll: Muted by 50 Webdip players! " Woot!

There should be achievements for 'Super-Trolleys' such Troll of the Month award or most hated Troller or funniest, etc, etc. That may encourage more active repartee on the forum rather than just the enticement of a +1, if you could win awards for trolling it may be more fun !!

I would really love to see nation statistics on each player's profile. How often they win as England, Russia, etc. It would be rather neat to find the "best" Italian, for example.

Well, we already have people talking about their Win+Draw ratio, just like those 14 year old shitheads on Cod/TF2/another FPS talk about k/d.

@smcbride1983
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=34872

There should be a "second worst player" award for after (say) 20/50/100 games. I suggest "Second worst" because you could suicide yourself into the worst player slot but getting second worst would be harder. There'd be nothing at all for third worst of course.

Lol, reminds me of that SMBC comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2268#comic

If trolling would be awarded, i will never ever visit the forum again.

Then everyone wins :-)

As an enthusiastic player of a game in which at best only one in 7 win, and more often than not everyone experiences varying degrees of failure, I find the concept of "everybody wins" quite repulsive.

...Come to think of it, why the hell do we play this game?!?

Octavious, the reason we play is for the pacifist variant. That is all that keeps us going. The day we can play that variant in peace.