Why does anything exist on the community forums?
This was before I joined the team, but I think the reason why is that the community has really bad ideas, and having to listen to and debate them all the time would sap too much happiness from the developers, which would reduce their enthusiasm for Thrive, ultimately causing them to just leave.
Living Fossil
Beat the Microbe Stage without adding any parts
Thrive-ception
Make a religion about the game
Never tell me the odds!
Declare war on a rival civilisation that is 3x more powerful than you
This is fine
Let a violent revolution take over your capital
Genocidal Maniac
In the aware stage, wipe out all other species on your landmass
Hyper-Parasite
Be a parasite that targets a parasite that targets a parasite
Fast Evolver
Beat the game (microbe stage) in 10 generations
Humble Beginnings
Finish the tutorial
Peaceful Pacifist
Beat the Microbe and Multicellular stage without directly harming another cell
The reason was that having one large forum prevented the creation of a clear dividing line between community members and devs. This led to devs thinking they were being productive by wasting time on some speculation thread (‘I’m working on game design!), and community members thinking that posting a forum game once every three months made them a dev (part of the outreach team, thank me later!)
You Get What You Belgiuming Deserve!
“I prefer world optimization.”
Have more advanced tech than anyone else by combining other nations’ (who are at war right now) tech you stole. Then, without using any violence, take over any and all nations you stole from, and make them become friends. Do this all in [normal time it takes to finish industrial stage/2] and then go to another soler system.
Industrial/Space stage
(This is going to be hard.)
“For the Emperor!”
Conquer a galaxy with a nation that has existed for 40,000 years.
Space stage
“First rule of warfare:”
Make a cloaking device in space.
Space stage
“Also the first rule of warfare:”
As the weaker nation, beat a nation ten times more powerful then you.
Industrial/Society/Space stage
“42”
Perplex a Matryoshka Brain.
Space stage
“Biology says no? So what!”
Beat the Aware stage without any dedicated organs.
Aware stage, duh.
Synthetic Dawn
Populate more than 75% of the galaxy with Synths.
Fair is foul and foul is fair
Overthrow the king and get overthrown yourself
Sefdestructive Tendencies
Create a species that shouldn’t exist
Stick RPG:
In society or industrial stage, switch from Real Time Strategy to First Person control mode, and control a child. Live this child’s entire life.
Stick RPG 2:
“Welcome to paper thin city!”
Attempt to make an ascension gate but fail, only getting someone from another dimension.
Psychic toads and Ur-Quan Masters:
Enslave a galaxy.
Skynet
“Keep it simple, keep it dumb, or you’ll end up under Skynet’s thumb.”
Experience a machine rebellion.
First rule of warfare number, dunno, three?
“Don’t lose while winning, pyrrhic victories aren’t.”
Win a war, but experience more relative damage then your enemy. Awakening through Space stages.
2020
“parents, if you wanna save some money at Christmas, how’s the perfect time to tell the kids Santa didn’t make it through the pandemic”
Experience a pandemic, a transfer of power and a drop in international respect, all with rock bottom citizen happiness. Society and industrial stages.
Life’s race
Live through the extinction of your species.
(Start as a child and be the last of your species)
I will light the fuse!
Destroy an aliens homeworld using Orbital Missiles.
I am the Great Filter
Destroy all other sapient life in the galaxy
(without using ascension gates)
Antz:
Form a eusocial colony organism.
Aware stage.
Karl Marx:
Form a successful communist country. (Note that this has never happend truly on earth, the USSR and north Korea are/was only a halfway communist state and no one has gotten closer) Society through Space stages.
Byzantine:
Have an empire so large it is impossible to govern. Society to space stages.
Great Khan:
In one generation form the largest empire in history. Society stage.
The other Khan:
Have a war between or involving a offshoot species created by genetic engineering.
Industrial/Space stage.
The Player of Babel
Play Thrive in every language included in the game.
I love democracy
Democratically vote that Democracy is flawed and Authoritarianism is better
Hired Revolutionaries
Be hired, by an alien empire, to cause a revolution in a different empire.
Does this unit have a soul?
Become spiritual machines
Giraffes Are Heartless Creatures: Watch one of your own species starve to death while you are not hungry
When Will They Learn?: Quench 5 rebellions
Learning is Dumb: Have the majority of your population have a less than acceptable education
Looking at you LankyGiraffe.
Wait, what?: In society stage, have your nation being conquered by an smaller nation
I don’t think you understand the gravity of the situation: make a creature come out of the sea in a high-gravity world without that creature being prepared for it.
Opportunist: Become a dominant species in your world after a previous dominant species died out
Suicidal Victory
Nuke all other nations on your planet.
I BLEW UP THE MOON!
Blow up the moon orbiting the homeworld of another species.
Al’s singularity: reach the technological singularity. (This is a reference to the fact that I used to think AI meant Al.) Industrial and space stages.
Imploding singularity: discover a black hole. Space stage.
Singularity is not singular: experience a technogical singularity powered by a black hole. Space stage.
That’s not what Dyson meant: make I rigid Dyson sphere. Space stage.
The mobile infantry suck: get to another star system in the aware stage while plating as a critter with castes and exosekelletons. Aware stage.
Spore!: get to another planet in microbe stage. Microbe stage.
Perhaps we could have achievements based around creating aliens from various works of fiction:
Disturbing: Create a creature with no visible sensory organs (based on Disturbance)
Interplanetary warrior: Create a creature which is mostly brain, has no digestive system, and needs life-support to survive (based on The War of the Worlds) (will require a way to edit creatures in the industrial or space stage)
Realistic: Create a creature with leaves, a pouch, and artificial eyes (based on The True History)
Xenos together strong!
Have a tribalistic society with 4 or more distinct species in it.
(A tribalistic society could still go into space, it’ll be complicated though)
