Zilch Awards page 4

Originally posted by greg:

I’m still undecided about how to handle badges in this game. I’m somewhat wary of doing an impossible badge at all because time and luck override skill so much with this game. I know there are a few other impossible badges on the site that are also like this (to a far lesser degree), but I’m not sure I’m quite happy with the way those badges were done either.

“Hexiompossible Badge” sounds quite more luck-based than Zilch to me actually…

There’s also the issue that this badge would actually be quite easy, even for an unskilled player. They’d just have to put in a lot of time. I can’t say I feel too good about that concept.

I don’t think thats an issue, you certainly will need to know what you’re doing if you’re aiming for some of the awards, and completing all the awards in this game is definitely an impossible-esque feat.

In terms of the 500 games award? I mean, I played for like 40 mins yesterday and that was what, around 20 games? So, thats about 25 nights of a fair amount of time per night = around 4 weeks of fairly hardcore gameplay. But its fun…and I can think of loads of imp badges that are similar if not longer like Dino Run, Amorphous (a bit shorter), Monsters den, Balloon Invasion (much longer!)…

Your wrong KingBilly. It’s much harder and takes much longer. I don’t believe you spend 2 minutes on a game… That’s near impossible. I have played for so many hours now and I got 115 awards. The other awards will cost me like 15 hours or more. It’s by far longer then Dino Run and even Balloon Invasion.

I might have played a bit longer than 40 mins last night…but unless we time ourselves, its quite hard to put one’s opinion against another. Granted you’ve got 115 awards so you’ve played more games, so you’ll have a better idea on how long it takes.

But are you really sure its longer than Balloon Invasion? It might seem longer because Zilch is what you’ve spent a lot of time recently. I don’t know, just saying…I mean, the Balloon Invasion is like the longest badge ever invented by man!

Imo skip the hard/impossibles and just give it a couple of mediums for random stuff. 100 awards is a massive time investment for a hard.

Greg said: “I can always add an impossible later if there’s demand for it, but after collecting 100 awards, I don’t imagine many typical players are going to want to keep going.”

coughs politely Uh, Greg, that’s pretty hard to swallow when you look at Balloon Invasion impossible, which takes weeks of playing… and by playing, I mean ‘hold down the mouse button while pressing 1, 2, and 3 repeatedly’. Or Papa’s Pizzeria, in which the game play doesn’t change. You’ve unfortunately gives us ‘gamekiller’ badges before – a term I use to mean that once you get the badge, you’ll NEVER go back and play that game, because you’ve overplayed it into the ground with no desire to enjoy it again.

Mind you, I’m not suggesting that because it was done for other games, it should be done for Zilch. I thoroughly enjoy the game (played this as a kid with actual dice, so I’m glad to see it in Flash) and regardless of badging I’ll round up all the awards anyway. But perhaps if you use that same philosophy on future badgemaking, we’ll have less of the ‘What was he thinking?!’ complaints, heh.

Back to the topic, I’m sitting on 107 awards at the moment with some focused gameplay over a week or two. 110 won’t be far off, but if you put a Hard badge for # of awards, 100 should cover it IMO. And while the ‘badge collecting fiend’ in me would love to see an Impossible for 120, just because I know I’ll get the 120 on my own anyway (heh), I could live without it for the poor schmucks who think the world is flat, the tooth fairy exists, and the game is ‘rigged’ or whatever.

CREED

Give it an easy badge for getting all achievements, then only people who love the game will get them all :)

Unlock the medium ‘character’: Easy Badge, 5 pts.
Unlock 50 achievements: Medium Badge, 15 pts.
Win 5 games against the medium: Medium Badge, 15 pts.
Win 25 games against the hard: Hard Badge, 30 pts.
Win all the Achievements: Impossible, 90 points.

xD
90 points. =p
Shouldn’t be a bad idea..
Unpossible, 90 points!

Well, just an idea. ^^

Win a single game: Easy 5 points
Win 20 times: Medium 15 points
Get 80 awards: Hard
Get at least 4 rows of awards and get 110 awards: Impossible
get 120 awards: 90 ( nightmare badge )

I think is nice XD

“Award Montego A Goat” award is now only 110 awards gained? What’s the point of that?

Also, is anyone else finding that their zilch-free games are not being reported to the Kong server? I have all the zilch-free awards yet according to the stats tab, I have only managed 1 zilch-free game overall. All my other stats seem to have been reported ok, so it’s not a connection issue.

I think this picture speaks for itself.

i’m guessing either A: cheating…

or(more then likely)B: the gold plated is somewhere around 450.
:]

however, i like the badges.

not worth the 30 points

Hell this whole game is not worth my time. I’d rather be playing poker.

The Zilch Hard badge is intensive in both endurance and skill compared to the other Hard badges. I mean, look at BTD3 Hard for example. I wouldn’t mind seeing more Medium/Hard badges for Zilch for us mere mortals who probably won’t get all 120 but will be looking to chalk up some more awards.

Easiest 30 points up until now. Nothing compared to the impossible it deserved.

Nice MrRubix, you’re the best, 1 one the few people get 120 awards with fair play, I did a days ago 101, And so lucky, the badge is for 100 badges XDD

Thanks cobshape

lol how about the freaking zilch free games in a row. that kills me

the only hard ones are getting the wins in a row, and zilch-free games in a row. the rest are all just endurance awards or easy. like, i’ve gotten 90 awards right now, and the only ones that are really giving me trouble are the ones like “score 500000 points” or “win 100 games” or “play 500 games” because i don’t have a week, haha. but mainly? just try to play cautiously and you should be ok.

if you unlock the third opponent (easy to do, just win 10 games), then watch it’s playing style and try to emulate it and everything should be great.

Um guys, clarification. cobshape said Award Maestro was for 50 awards and above, but I’m on 60 and haven’t gotten it. Has it changed or is it simply a different (higher) number you need to get for Maestro? Thanks.

edit: whoops, I got it… seems like you will only get it the game after you hit 50.

I’ve lost plenty of matches by 10k+, but I haven’t gotten any of those badges. What gives?

EDIT: N/m, I was looking at the wrong thing. =X

Talk with gaby =)

Bug report.

I’ve done everything previous posters have said about the Narcissist Award and I still can’t get it.