Medals Guide (Spoiler Alert!)

[DeletedUser14189]

I missed your replies, because I was editing my message.
I than realized I duplicated it, so had to delete the duplicate.
So just now saw your message.

Excellent point. Regarding praying I understand, regarding construction work, do you know anyone that has done HUNDREDS of hours of work, moved on, AND IS willing to do it again, just for an achievement???? :sad:

I would LOVE to be able to have that achievement, but it isn't worth spending MONTHS in order to do it, especially for us "long timers".

Who said the medal requires HUNDERDS hours of work?


Maybe you get it after 10 hours, maybe after 20. but several hundreds will almost certainly not be the case.

 

[DeletedUser1105]

It depends how many hours are needed for the achievement. If it is hundreds, then yes it is harsh that you have to re-do it. Do you know how many are needed for the gold medal?

I know the bronze one is only 2 hours construction.

 

[DeletedUser14189]

Excellent point. Regarding praying I understand, regarding construction work, do you know anyone that has done HUNDREDS of hours of work, moved on, AND IS willing to do it again, just for an achievement???? :sad:

Em yes, me, and not because of the achievement (dont care much about those) but for the next town I build. (You're never really "done" building, are you?)


EDIT: lol, me and EM are sync-posting

 

[DeletedUser]

LOL
IF the top building awards ARE that easy, than I have NO problem with not getting one retroactively, however I would also conclude the developers missed the whole point of achievements.

I always ASSUMED that achievements awards would range from the EASY to the insanely hard, especially for stuff like building, where good builders DO spend HUNDREDS of hours building. I have NOTHING against having EASY builder awards, but there should be ones for the super specialist, too. After all, if I had an award that said something like:
Congratulations on 300+ hours building
I would ALWAYS display that one, just because VERY few people would be able to match it, but maybe that is just me.

 

[DeletedUser14189]

So whats the problem?? There may still be a medal for over 500 hours of construction (platina?). And we'd all have to start from this point. What's unfair about that?

 

[DeletedUser]

Its unfair since ive done over 500h on w9 and w6 already, and ill have to do that again in more towns? Alright... I hope golds only 100

 

[DeletedUser]

Its unfair since ive done over 500h on w9 and w6 already, and ill have to do that again in more towns? Alright... I hope golds only 100

I agree completely and hope gold is 50 hours and even that will cost me $12 grand if I remember correctly.

 

[DeletedUser14189]

Its unfair since ive done over 500h on w9 and w6 already, and ill have to do that again in more towns? Alright... I hope golds only 100

Yes, just like me and all other builders.

 

[DeletedUser]

I disagree with the above statement.

Prayer & construction records are kept for TWO weeks [just look at your reports].

Further as far as I know, construction HOURS and donations to town treasury are PERMANENTLY KEPT with two limitations.
#1. Info ONLY is in the cit(ies) where you did the work/made the donation.
#2. Info ONLY APPEARS IF you are a member of that city, ie if you have left the info doesn't show, but if you go back I am 95% sure the info regarding construction hours & town donations will still be there.

If I am wrong, I am sure someone will let us know, but I know whenever I rotated in/out of a town, it kept a running record of that info.

EDIT: Further I just looked at my OLD messages.
You know how in the past if the player left, instead of their name appearing in the "Conversational partner" column, there was a generic "System-Message" name. Well NOW the actual name is back, ie "Name123 (deleted)". And this is true EVEN FOR ANTIQUE messages, like from LAST DECEMBER. That tells me ALL THE INFO about a character is probably lurking around somewhere.
PS: I wish the (deleted) part was BEFORE the name, rather than AFTER the name, it would make it a LOT easier to see which people are still around & which are not.

Ok - I should have clarified my meaning...

The information is not stored as part of character data.

Yes, there are reports but I would assume that these are simple text values that are stored against the character. The devs could have done a text-matching search on past reports to work out whether you'd previously prayed or completed a building.

With regards to build hours on a town, they are stored per town and not as part of character data. The devs could also have set up something to search every town on the world to see if you had build hours against any of them.

They probably just didn't think it was worth it - and I'd say that they were probably right.

 

[DeletedUser]

Its unfair since ive done over 500h on w9 and w6 already, and ill have to do that again in more towns? Alright... I hope golds only 100

Or...and this is just an idea...you could decide not to bother.

There's no need to get achievements. If you don't have one then you aren't a worse player.

It's not unfair anyhow. Everyone is in the same boat.

 

[DeletedUser]

With regards to build hours on a town, they are stored per town and not as part of character data. The devs could also have set up something to search every town on the world to see if you had build hours against any of them. They probably just didn't think it was worth it - and I'd say that they were probably right.

I completely agree it probably wouldn't be worthwhile to do it THAT WAY.

What I was thinking of, was if someone goes back to their old town & town hall shows they have over say 100 hours of construction [any number NOT easy to obtain], I would like to think the mods could than give your account the medal(s) you otherwise would have gotten.

Since it would be town hall records, NO cheating involved and by putting in a minimum number, I don't think the mods would get swamped with requests [since it is a one time thing]. If they wanted to add a player for minimum X months limit, too that would be fine, also.

Or...and this is just an idea...you could decide not to bother.
There's no need to get achievements. If you don't have one then you aren't a worse player.
It's not unfair anyhow. Everyone is in the same boat.

The problem is we are NOT ALL in the same boat, if you just joined a couple weeks ago, like in world 10, as an example, practically all your time would have counted and YOU could, if you choose, end up with any super high awards there are, while the ones that have toiled & labored, since the earlier world's were founded would get nothing, so I don't believe it is fair to say we are all in the same boat.

Perhaps this is so all the soon to be "stuck level 99 players" have something to do with their money, build ghost towns!!! LOL

 

[DeletedUser1105]

Uhm, I think this discussion should go in a new thread in the Saloon, because we seem to be deviating somewhat from the aim of this thread.

 

[DeletedUser]

my bad

 

[DeletedUser]

I have over 200 hours of building done and didn't receive a medal yet, so this obviously only applies for constructing after the update.

hmm maybe it adds up after your first job on that specific item.

So if you have buld for 200 hours and you build nothing after the update you have nothing.

if you have build 200 hours and build 2 hours after the update you have 202 hours and the achievement

 

[DeletedUser14189]

If you have read Bevoirs post you'd know this is very unlikely. I wouldn't rule it out tho.

Eehhm, I just checked the top constructor of w6, he has the bronze. So he has built after update and still only got bronze...

 

[DeletedUser]

top constructor of w5 has bronze construction worker & builder medals.

 

[DeletedUser14189]

I think the builder is the one for finishing a building looking at the icons. I'll make a screenshot.

 

[DeletedUser1105]

Thanks Dekk.

So the construction one is for doing 2 hours and the builder one for finishing?

 

[DeletedUser]

I agree.

I think you meant leveling up the building [even if it isn't fully built yet].

 

[DeletedUser]

a couple top players in w5 have the first two prayer medals.
Believer (bronze)
Monastery resident (silver)