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Originally Posted by TheGrunch
I don't know, I think it's the way they've been done before that's gamey and rubbish, not the idea itself. To take it away from the restricting it to just killstreaks but more about achievements in general...
Imagine for example, you get a small achievement for making 5 kills AND landing safely. The landing safely part would take the gaminess out of it to some degree. Perhaps you could simply unlock a medal to put on your player model in the game.
Or an achievement for keeping every bomber alive from a whole bomber sortie (as long as there are enemy players on the server  ).
There are lots of things that could be added that would be fun to achieve AND promote people playing in a sensible way. |
Exactly. We fly for achievements that we form in our minds, because we've been at this for a long time, read a lot of books and our purpose is usually to make it look close enough to what's in the history books.
Newer players would benefit from some sort of incentive to think in a similar fashion and pick up the mindset, they can't suddenly accumulate 10-20 decades of aviation history knowledge like many have here. As long as the achievements are stuff that promote flying in a historically accurate manner, they could promote not only realistic flying on a rookie's part but possibly making the jump to higher difficulty settings as well, ie "combat badge III: shoot down 3 fighters and land safely while flying online in a full switch server".
I don't care if his motives are "gamey" and he wants the flashy badge to display on his profile. As long as he doesn't get any ridiculous unrealistic bonus to his airframe for completing it and he has a reason to do it, he will have the chance to realize himself what the real fun is behind it all.