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 {{Navigation for Stendhal Top|Contributing}}
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+{{Stendhal Achievements}}
-== Collecting Ideas ==
+== How to add achievements to the game? ==
+{{TODO|describe the steps towards adding new achievements
+* Conditions
+* Tracked data
+* How to check for new reached achievements?
+** Quests needs manual work
+** item looting, zone changes trigger automatically achievement checks}}
+== Development Idea Collection ==
+Within this section you find ideas and concepts on initial development of achievements.
+=== Collecting Ideas ===
 * collect more achievement ideas and nice titles at [[Stendhal Achievement Ideas]]
 ** gives hints for further design decisions
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 * should fulfilling an achievement be rewarded?
-== Client and Website ==
+=== Client and Website ===
 * Should achievements be visible within the game? (low prio)
 ** look action on player could be extended by a title based on the amount of fullfilled achievements
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 ** display medals on character pages; different colours or design in relation to the calculate point
 * Have a log about recently reached achievements on the website? (i.e. player has reached ''Junior Explorer'' achievement)
+** Add reaching achievements to recent events page
 * Have a audio notice when someone reaches an achievement?
-== Design Ideas ==
+=== Design Ideas ===
+There are several things to consider when developing the achievements handling.
+==== Database and Class Model ====
 * database table(s) to display achievements on website
 ** table for achievment types? maybe not needed, strings could be applied in the reached achievements table
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      PRIMARY KEY(id)
  )
+==== Ingame tracking and checking ====
 * check if player has fulfilled an achievement
 ** <del>"polling" every x turns via TurnListener, but could be a bad idea as checking might be expensive</del> approach discarded --[[User:Madmetzger|Madmetzger]] 07:20, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
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 *** <del>key = achievement name, value progress value?</del> statistics should be tracked for everything that might be checked for an achievement --[[User:Madmetzger|Madmetzger]] 07:20, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 *** add data recording that can be checked
+* <del>find a way to conveniently add new achievements</del> using ChatConditions and the factories makes it easy to add new achievements
-**** killed creatures already tracked
+** <del>loading system for achievements like stendhal quest system?</del> AchievementNotifier loads achievements on initialization
-**** number of finished quests already tracked
+** <del>building block system using existing ChatConditions</del> Achievements use the ChatConditions for checking stuff
-***** repeatable quests should all count the completions of a player
+*** <del>categorized by type of event to determine what to check, i.e. killed x creatures of type y condition should only be checked when having killed a creature but not on looting an item</del> already implemented by categorizing achievements and checking only the right category at each event
-***** missing counting: Elf Princess Quest (more missing?)
+===== Quest Achievements =====
-**** looting items (not yet tracked)
-**** putting items into bank (not yet tracked)
+* number of finished quests already tracked
+* repeatable quests should all count the completions of a player
-* find a way to conveniently add new achievements
+* <del>missing counting: Elf Princess Quest</del> (more missing?)
-** loading system for achievements like stendhal quest system?
+* <del>finished x times a quest</del> already implemented
-** building block system using existing ChatConditions
+===== Item Achievements =====
-*** killed x creatures
+* looted items should be tracked in a map for each player with key item name and value number of loots
-*** killed x of y different creatures
-*** collected x items
+* looting items (not yet tracked)
+* putting items into bank (not yet tracked)
-*** finished x times a quest
+* collected x items
-*** killed creature without a weapon
-*** looted certain collection of items
+* looted certain collection of items
-*** categorized by type of event to determine what to check, i.e. killed x creatures of type y condition should only be checked when having killed a creature but not on looting an item
+===== Fighting Achievements =====
+* <del>killed creatures</del> already tracked
+* killed creature without a weapon
+* <del>killed x creatures</del> already implemented
+* <del>killed x of y different creatures --> is extension of existing condition possible?</del>
+===== Zone Achievements =====
 * for zone visit achievements, how to check them:
 ** <del>hardcoded list of zones to visit for the achievement</del> hardcoded zone name lists don't seem to be maintainable
-** exclude all zones including "house", "apartment"
+** <del>exclude all zones including "house", "apartment"</del>
-** zones starting with "int" are interiors, region is within zone name
+** <del>zones starting with "int" are interiors, region is within zone name</del> zones have a method isInterior() to check
-** zones starting with a number >-1 are above ground, region is within zone name
+** <del>zones starting with a number >-1 are above ground, region is within zone name<del> exterior zones have a method getLevel()to check
-** zones starting with a number <-1 are below ground, region is within zone name
+** <del>zones starting with a number <-1 are below ground, region is within zone name</del> exterior zones have a method getLevel()to check
-** use zone level attribute, area is in name/xml file, and add a flag to zone xml for accessibility to all players
+** <del>use zone level attribute, area is in name/xml file, and add a flag to zone xml for accessibility to all players</del> implemented

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