Achievements

Well, Let’s try my hand at this:

The Queen is Dead. Long Live the Queen.
-> As a eusocial organism, take over another colony via fratricide/matricide. (Awakening/aware stage. Midling difficulty)

Oh, Bugger.
-> Mess up first contact with a eusocial species (Space Stage, easy)

The Heavens have Called. We must answer.
-> During a meteor shower or other astronomical event, create a new religion (Late awakening/early society to industrial, easy)

Path of Most Resistance.
-> Change to a new patch every evolution. (Microbe. Hard)

Bloody Migration
-> Survive a reproductive cycle in a patch your organism lost over 70% pop migrating to. (Microbe and multicellular, midling difficulty)

ADADADAD
-> Make your organism move primarily via strafing (Spend more than 2/3 of your time moving sideways. Multicellular to Aware. Easy?)

Orphan’s Dream
-> Generate a social policy that ensures all children are cared for adequately, at minimum. This should be regardless of parentage. (Society to Space. Hard? Midling?)

Together, Even Titans May Fall
-> As a pack predator, kill an animal at least x50 as massive as you (Awakening to Aware. Hard)

Interstellar Lighthouse
-> Have a central shipyard located within the system of a pulsar. (Space. Hard?)

Mend these broken wings
-> As a species that previously became flightless, regain the ability to fly. (Aware to Space. Midling, more interesting as a roleplay push than anything)

Sing me the songs of your people
-> As a species that relies primarily on hearing, achieve successful peaceful first contact. (Space. Hard)

I’m hoping some of these are decent? Shrugs

Edit Let’s just pretend I didn’t confuse the stages, shall we?
Thanks for the feedback!

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wait how will you get policies in aware, when you’re still not that smart as a creature

How do you create religions in aware?

Seems like he confused aware with awakening. I can’t blame him

Religions are more of a tribal stage thing, as you can’t have (semi-)organized religion before your species stick together to form tribes.

Yes that’s what I was saying. The part where you’re a small tribe is called the Awakening stage in Thrive. You’re thinking of spore lol

Oh yeah, I got the name wrong. I meant society stage.

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Do you think religion only appears in the society stage? I was thinking we could at least have something like animism, maybe telling campfire stories to fellow tribe members. That would help introduce some culture-related mechanics before you get organised religions in society.

Probably, maybe. As the stage transition will be fluid there as well, it isn’t a much of a difference whether a shared campfire counts as the first society center, or if that needs to be a more advanced type of building.

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What if it’s an underwater tribe? Their society center starts at hydrothermal vents!

Then for an amphibious species wich one would be their society center?

Smelting metal using hydrothermal vents?

no is not please just no

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Here are more fictional-alien-based achievements:
Core-Hog: Create a creature with mechanical parts that lives on mostly uninhabitable planets (Based on the Grox from Spore)
Moon Monster: Create a society composed of many specialised racial castes (Based on The First Men in the Moon)

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Flying Circus: Have the following criteria met, a weapon named the holy hand grenade, a governmental ministry titled “The ministry of Silly walks”, create a religion based around a guy named Brian, Lose several soldiers fighting a hostile species of a common peaceful herbivore, and use the ability to fund revolutionary groups in other nations to form multiple groups with “People’s Front of (nation)” “(Nations) people’s front” “(Nation’s) Popular front” and “The campaign for a free (region in nation)” as their name
Effects: Earning this achievement causes national happiness to skyrocket mostly because of the permanent damage to your serious game this would cause

Xin Chào says the trees: get in a war with a revolutionary group in a jungly tropic nation
Effects: Helicopter and flamethrower technology research gets a boost

Seem familiar?: Get in multiple wars across multiple nations against insurgent groups in the modern era
Effects: none the natural in game consequences cover it well enough

It really never changes: Have all your 20th century wars parallel the wars that happened in real life (i.e trench warfare then fascist nation tries conquering most of europe then cold war against a former ally then get into multiple wars against insurgent groups)
Effects: Troop morale drops slightly

The lion from the North: Get your ass kicked by a rapidly expanding normally ignorable nation that afterwards shrinks back into ignorality
Effects: in the future that same nation will make a popular store franchise famous for their make it yourself design and meatballs

Now all of China knows you’re here: Make a creature pornographic looking haha now everyone who owns thrive knows you’re a perv
Effects: everyone gets a ping that you got this achievement fuck you

Let’s try that again: Progress through the entire game on iron man mode only to instantly lose shortly upon entering the space stage from a hostile empire being the first one you meet
Effects: The game rewinds back to the start of the space stage and replaces that empire with another one

Maybe i don’t want to be the bad guy: Go from a corrupt fascist dictatorship to a democratic socialist government in a very quick amount of time
Effects: HUGE happiness

Maybe I don’t want to be the good guy: Ditto but reverse.
Effects: You’re going to be overthrown in like 5 seconds tops

Eternal War: Get into a war with another nation that last from awakening stage all the way to space stage
Effects: War support dwindles out of fear that any other wars last as long as this one

The war to actually end all wars: Get into a massive war conquer everyone and then adopt pacifism
Effects: other nations in space stage are less likely to attack you out of respect

Sjinit to win it: Stay as a largely neutral small country for most of the game and end a stage by nuking every other nation with a stockpile you’ve been building up from the start
Effects: General MacArthur approves military support rises from your swift victory

E m p t y: Kill every other faction in your galaxy until you are the only one left
Effects: for a short period of time all game audio completely stops leaving you to ponder in silence for a few moments at what you’ve done

Its Going Hot!: End your nation with your coldwar going hot
Effects: option to retry in a fallout style world (perhaps only accessible if you have a mutator turned on at the start of the game that causes silly stuff or stuff that wouldn’t likely happen in real life to happen ala wild wasteland)

Anti-Climax: End an ironman game in microbial stage before you even reproduce for the first time
Effects: You get asked if you wanna redeem yourself for that embarrassment

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Social stage :

“Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum”: Start a war.
Fall of the Empire: Implosion of his Empire because of decadence.
“Dura lex, sed lex”: Adopt a constitution.

Industrial stage :

The sound of boots : Choosing a Fascist Regime
Proletarians of any country: Choosing a communist regime
War is Peace: Being a Military State
The power of the atom: Discovering nuclear energy.
I am the death the destroyer of worlds: Discover the atomic bomb

Fallout: Causing a nuclear winter.

Space stage :

War of the Worlds: Invade a species from another planet that is still in the industrial stage.

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Big Pink Floyd’s the Wall fans huh? Right? - Become Fascist and go all the way with it
Effects: unhappiness from a percentage of the population
*Loud Sigh * - Name your empire Kekistan and make your main colour green
Effects: none
Hrmm wait a minute - find a race with giant noses (nobody will get the reference haha)
effects: you get a popup warning you of the dangers of Sasquatch aviation within your nation
Spiffing - Have your nation be a neo british empire in name and conquer 25% of the galaxy
Effects: Non visible but an exploit for infinite money has been created in this perfectly balanced game
Real. Mature. - make every single thing you can possibly edit in every single stage look like a dick
including your very cells and buildings
Effects: a main menu trophy displayed for all to see because that is some dedication
Price of a Mile. - lose 500,000 troops gaining 8 kilometres of land
Effects: Tank research gains a massive boost if not invented yet, and troops will have a higher chance of disobeying orders for a short period of time

This is Sparta!: As the King of your city, kill a foreign messenger after he has threatened to enslave your people.

Also, people here often repeat the same achievements. More specifically, communist or fascist related achievements always come back. Why not vote for a name then?

I’d like to nominate “we’re sorry Marx” as the name for the communist achievement and “We did it Marx!” For the actual utopian communist achivemnt.

Polling time predicted