What if we divided the Achievements badge category into Achievements and Challenges?

[CraterLabs]

So we kinda have two different sorts of badges in the Achievements category. We have the "classical" achievements which are "make the number go up" badges (get to level 20, deal XXXX amount of damage, heal XXXXXXX amount of damage, gain XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX amount of Influence, etc.), but we also have a sort of more "Modern" version of Achievements, which are usually just special challenges (defeat two enemies at the same time, choose not to use the temporary power that was put in to make the fight easier, beat the challenge without anyone getting irradiated, etc.)

 

I like both of these as achievement types, but it's kind of weird searching for certain achievements, especially when some of the "modern" achievements kind of veer more toward Accomplishments (which would be the kinds of things that heroes would get headlines about, like "Stopped the 3rd Street Scorpions from Robbing the Jewelry Store" or "Rescued a Mystic who'd been Kidnapped by the Circle of Thorns.")

 

As such, while I dunno what kind of coding would be required for it, I think it might help to make the different badge types a little more easily to quickly scan through if we turned achievements into two different things. I wasn't sure what to call this kind of thing, but Infernalectric on Everlasting suggested "Challenges" which... honestly, it fits pretty well. It's all the badges related to going the extra mile and "winning more".

 

Anyway, just wanted to float it out there.

Edited July 23 by CraterLabs

[Psyonico]

Sure, I'm for making looking up badges easier.

 

In the meantime, you could look into the badges popmenu.  This beauty shows all badges and whether they are complete or not in an order that makes sense.

[Bionic_Flea]

Some kind of search function for badges would be AWESOME!!  I frequently forget what section a particular badge is in and end up doing a lot of scrolling.  

 

The BadgeSetList popmenu is a godsend.  While it doesn't have a search function it DOES make it pretty easy to find what badges you have or not.  Very helpful with accolades in particular.

[CraterLabs]

Aye. I'm not a huge fan of downloading mods for stuff like that, but I hear it's great!

 

Admittedly, though, the ability to search badges is more of a side-benefit to what I'm proposing than the primary goal. I mainly just think that it'd make the purpose of the badges a little clearer if we split them into two sets since... well, they kind of already *are* split into two sets.