May
7
New Rules, beta thingamajigs
And we’re back! There’s a few rule changes and a bunch of small tweaks that have happened while things were offline.
The big super crazy things you need to know are:- Achievements now cost points. Yes, you heard me. After a couple of weeks of walking around earning achievements left and right, all willy-nilly, now you’re going to have to turn over your points to get them. It happens all automatic-like, the points just turn into an achievement and you get the notification as before. Just think about it as securing those points in a long-term investment. You’ll need it, because…
- There are now player levels. To keep the n00bs in line, and provide some incentive for earning achievements, it’s going to take some effort before you can do certain things. You’ll have to earn 3 achievements for your first level-up, which lets you buy new tags (no more “buy babymommadrama” on the first day of playing). The next level happens at 5 achievements, which lets you…
- Make new achievements. You knew it was coming sooner or later, right? Once you’ve earned 5 achievements, you can make new ones by tweeting: @socialheroes make Achievement Name +# Tag +# Tag +# Tag. So it might look like @socialheroes make Alpha Tester +5 geek +3 cylon +#7 outstanding . You can have spaces in the name, and anywhere from 1-3 tags. The total number of points must be somewhere between 5 and 15. Oh - and this is really important! - you can’t earn your own achievements! No achievement-earning machines in this game, buster!
- www.socialheroes.net/people/TwitterUserName will take you to someone’s personal score/profile page
- www.socialheroes.net/people/all.php shows everyone’s scores (for now)
- www.socialheroes.net/howto.php is the rules page
- blog.socialheroes.net is, well, here. updates will be tweeted, as well
There will also be more rule updates coming, but nothing that will break with the past again - any and all points and achievements you earn are now permanent. Examine that last statement carefully, and you can probably guess what the next rule update will bring.
Most importantly, more players will be coming! Man the tag canons!
And thanks again for play testing! You guys make killer thesis-fodder.
xoA
