Additional achievements

[paulklie]

I feel like the current achievement system can be improved upon.

Repeatable Achievements

As development has progressed, some newer features do not have matching achievements. I suggest addingthe following additional "traditional" achievements:

Biker

Replaces the existing Cyclists, reusing the icon but also includes all other two-wheel forms of transport, such as motorcycle quests which are currently car quests.

Micro Mapper

Add X "things" to the map.

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Add X "places" to the map.

Feature Exploration

To build up on the tutorial, these achievements are thought as a way to encourage exploring various features in the app.

Buddy Up

Answer a quest in Team mode.

Advanced User

Answer a quest which is disabled by default.

Ooops...

Undo an edit.

Contributor

Help translate the app, or contribute code

Donator

Click a link in the "donation" menu.

One-Time Achievements

Currently, the only way to earn achievement is to simply answer a lot of quests. I feel like this can get very repetitive and boring. I rarely check the achievement screen, since the only thing I can do to answer them is to answer more quests.
I would like to suggest quests that require some genuine exploration, and feel like an actual achievement. These are probably a bit harder to implement, but here are some examples of what I have in mind:

Top of the Map

Survey an object with ele set > 2000m.

Undergrounder

Survey an object with location=underground.

That’s Old!

Survey an object with start_date before 1500.

Arctic Explorer
Survey an object north of 65° North or south of 50° South.

Archaeologist

Survey an object with heritage set.

I Came; I Saw; I Mapped.

Solve the last quest in a large area or a tile.

[matkoniecz]

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

I like the name :) And this may be interesting to track specifically that.

Micro Mapper

It seems to me that "micromapper" is more common?

Answer a quest which is disabled by default.

I like this one! May get a bit weird effect for cases when quest was enabled in past by default and nowadays is not, but maybe it is fine.

I Came; I Saw; I Mapped.

Cool one, but nearly impossible to reconstruct later (necessary to support synchronisation and rebuilding of statistics if needed).

Answer a quest in Team mode.

the same, AFAIK it is not visible from outside the device

Help translate the app, or contribute code

would require linking accounts somehow - also those people are credited already within app

Replaces the existing Cyclists, reusing the icon but also includes all other two-wheel forms of transport, such as motorcycle quests which are currently car quests.

I am not great fan of this one - for me motorcycles are much closer to cars than cyclists (and are rather on side of more problematic fraction of motor vehicle drivers)

[paulklie]

Cool one, but nearly impossible to reconstruct later (necessary to support synchronisation and rebuilding of statistics if needed).

From my understanding we reconstruct the achievements by counting the users edits right?
Could we not add a custom tag to the changesets themselves? For example streetcomplete:achievement:team_mode = 1
This would allow reconstructing by searching for these tags.

would require linking accounts somehow - also those people are credited already within app

Could search https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/master/app/src/commonMain/composeResources/files/credits_translators.yml at runtime for the username and award the achievement if found.

[FloEdelmann]

Could we not add a custom tag to the changesets themselves?

That could probably work, but note that you can answer some quests without team mode, then enable team mode and answer some more, and the answers would all be part of the same changeset. Splitting them up would probably be quite a bit of work. But if it works, I'd suggest recording both team size and team index in the changeset tag, e.g. StreetComplete:team_mode = 2/5.

Could search master/app/src/commonMain/composeResources/files/credits_translators.yml at runtime for the username and award the achievement if found.

But POEditor username, GitHub username and OSM username can all be different.

[paulklie]

That could probably work, but note that you can answer some quests without team mode, then enable team mode and answer some more, and the answers would all be part of the same changeset. Splitting them up would probably be quite a bit of work. But if it works, I'd suggest recording both team size and team index in the changeset tag, e.g. StreetComplete:team_mode = 2/5.

Hmm does that matter though? Since we are only interested if the user has ever used team mode for any quests. What does the amount of team members / quests solved help?

But POEditor username, GitHub username and OSM username can all be different.

Aye, I would convert each to lower case before comparison, but I guess we just have to accept that some would not be credited correctly, (maybe need to add information to our POEditor, to encourage users to use the same username?).