Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24108228-20140330231416

Recently I have been playing less and less 303. The things that amused me before no longer spark my ineterest. I always want to do something new, which is why I love sandbox games (especially ones with easily exploited physics engines), but after 5 months, the supply has run dry.

I want to introduce a community project, called "Achievement Get!". It will be a chance to advertise the wiki, and basically make an enjoyable way of bringing all the community together to make a single page.

The idea is, we create a wiki page called "Achievements". I would love to make it into something less accessible like a forum or blog post, but it needs to be easily edited by anyone. There will be a clear note at the top saying it is a fanmade project and has no affiliation with the game whatsoever, and because almost no pages will link to it, it will come up very low when searching for things using the search bar. Other magic wiki tools may be applied to it so that only if you are directly looking for it you can find it.

Once we have that in place, we will protect it so only auto confirmed users can edit (it may be a community project, but it has guidelines that anonymous contributors will most likely ignore), and make a page that looks similar to this:


 * Mine Mithril, and create all the basic tools (a sword, armour, axe and pickaxe).
 *  Do so in under half an hour, starting from your first spawn.
 * Create a full set of mithril tools (any tool that includes mithril, excluding the regular mithril armour).
 *  Do so in under half an hour, starting from your first spawn.
 * Create an artificial island, from any material. To classify as an artificial island, it must be at least 50 studs in all directions.
 * Create an artificial island from docks or harbours. Same size rules apply.
 *  Create an artificial island from docks, and house a person other than yourself. This includes visitors and refugees, as long as they stay for at least 10 minutes. Same size rules apply.
 * Create an island (size rules apply), housing 3 or more people other than yourself. They can be refugees and visitors, assuming they stay for 10 minutes at the same time. The timer starts when all 3 people are on your island. They are allowed to collect resources during this time, as long as they come back.
 * Create an island measuring over 100x100 studs.
 * Create all the basic bluesteel tools (see first challenge for the basic tool set).

And so forth. This could extend quite a ways, and would provide an almost neverending supply of things to do. There would obviously have to be some rules and regulations, as stated below. These will be on a blog post or forum post to save making too many "spam" wiki pages, and allow for no edits without them being looked at and considered carefully first.

These are the rules and regulations for the achievements page, before making an edit there please read all of these and make sure your addition complies to the rules. Green: Can be done without dedicating an entire game to it. Orange: Can be done if you dedicate a game (or most of it) to the challenge. Red: Very hard, can be done if an entire game is dedicated to it, and it may still fail depending on how hard the challenge is. Also note that this is a personal pride thing. As most challenges will be difficult/impossible to prove without recording two hours of uneventful gameplay, you cannot run competitions or similar. As such, these will not be for bragging rights, rather for the satisfaction of going onto your copy-pasted version of the page that you put onto a blog post, and writing in both sides of a challenge in red. Also, for bored players wanting something new to do.
 * Nothing excessive. If you think "Red is not hardcore enough for my suggestion, it needs a new colour", that is a good sign your going over the top. Try to keep 1-2 red sub-challenges per main-challenge at most.
 * Don't have red main challenges. The main-challenge is a basic form of the sub challenges below, if the main-challenge is extremely hard, try scaling it down and having the red challenge as a sub-challenge.
 * Keep it creative. Don't add countless "Get this many ___" unless the item is of significance and can be varied (such as a pie), and don't repeat the main challenge repeatedly with different numbers, such as "Get 10 people", "Get 20 people", "Get 50 people", ect.
 * When deciding on a colour for your challenge, this is a good guideline:
 * Don't remove content without good reason. If you feel it is highly negatively impacting the page or breaking the guidelines, you may remove it, but only if you are very certain. Grammar and such should be fixed instead of removed.

Why you shouldn't say "No." and lock the thread
From a rather robotic point of view, this may seem like an excuse to make a spam page on our nice main wikispace that is free from anything other than item descriptions. From a different angle, far from it.

It is more of an advertising tool, as well as a fun project. There are many precautions taken to prevent it from looking like it is part of the game, the biggest of which is a fancy coloured note at the top saying "This is not part of the game". Almost no pages will link to it, and it will never show up in the "Read More" at the bottom of a page because it won't have categories. The only way to find it would be to literally type "Achievements" into our search engine, something you won't do accidentally when browsing through our content. The worry it will mess up our content-only wiki pages is rendered invalid because you cant find it unless you look directly for it.

And from that point onwards, why not add it? Its a fun, community project that brings together the community, advertises the wiki, and attracts new contributors.

If a potential wiki contributor comes and sees we are doing lots of fun community projects where they can make a splash in the community and make lots of new friends, they are much more likely to join and share their experiences and knowledge than if they see we are lurking in the forums rather inactively, with all the wiki pages to such an extent any contribution made by someone not a complete ninja in wikia source code and Survival 303 knowledge is outright vandalism. Should we do this? Yes No And if people disagree, I want to know why. No single word posts saying "No.", I've written about 1.5 hours worth of text wall, I want at least a paragraph. That way I can fix it instead of throw another negative comment on the pile. 