Verrucosus
Warlord
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2002
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Achievements in Old World are not as easy to ignore as in most other games, at least not for someone who (like me) enjoys taking a look at the "history" recorded in the game log. During the first few games, it's practically raining achievements, but eventually these entries become rarer.
During a recent game, the log recorded the achievement of "becoming The Old". It's a level 4 cognomen awarded after a reign of 40 years. As I surely had rulers with such lengthy reigns before, this prompted me to pay more attention to the cognomen system. Apparently, once you have a cognomen of a certain level, you can't earn another one of the same (or lower) level. So, becoming "The Old" isn't just about sitting on the throne for 40 years, it's about doing so *without* doing anything that earns you another level 4 cognomen. Given the given the variety of available cognomen (cognomina?), that's not as easy as it sounds. My Persian ruler (whose name I promptly forgot) achieved this amazing feat by getting bogged down in a long-distance war, that was low in casualties and didn't result in any conquests, but didn't leave many orders to achieve much else.
Usually, I don't pay any attention to achievements as a nudge to try different ways of playing a game, but I really liked this effect of nudging me to look at a mechanic that I hadn't paid close enough attention before. With that in mind, I checked the list of achievements. I don't plan to hunt for the missing ones, but there were two that I'm curious about on a mechanical level.
One is "Alexander the Who?" which requires you to "assassinate Alexander as a Leader with one of your characters". In my experience, the spymaster cannot assassinate foreign leaders. There's red line in the tooltip when he tries to. Are there any other assassination missions that I'm overlooking?
The other one is "Royal Couple" requiring to "have Old World's two most famous faces married and ruling your nation". The big riddle is who are those faces. My money would be on Alexander and Dido in which case a lot would have to happen to get them married.
If anyone has interesting game stories for these two (or other) achievements, I'll be happy to be spoiled.
During a recent game, the log recorded the achievement of "becoming The Old". It's a level 4 cognomen awarded after a reign of 40 years. As I surely had rulers with such lengthy reigns before, this prompted me to pay more attention to the cognomen system. Apparently, once you have a cognomen of a certain level, you can't earn another one of the same (or lower) level. So, becoming "The Old" isn't just about sitting on the throne for 40 years, it's about doing so *without* doing anything that earns you another level 4 cognomen. Given the given the variety of available cognomen (cognomina?), that's not as easy as it sounds. My Persian ruler (whose name I promptly forgot) achieved this amazing feat by getting bogged down in a long-distance war, that was low in casualties and didn't result in any conquests, but didn't leave many orders to achieve much else.
Usually, I don't pay any attention to achievements as a nudge to try different ways of playing a game, but I really liked this effect of nudging me to look at a mechanic that I hadn't paid close enough attention before. With that in mind, I checked the list of achievements. I don't plan to hunt for the missing ones, but there were two that I'm curious about on a mechanical level.
One is "Alexander the Who?" which requires you to "assassinate Alexander as a Leader with one of your characters". In my experience, the spymaster cannot assassinate foreign leaders. There's red line in the tooltip when he tries to. Are there any other assassination missions that I'm overlooking?
The other one is "Royal Couple" requiring to "have Old World's two most famous faces married and ruling your nation". The big riddle is who are those faces. My money would be on Alexander and Dido in which case a lot would have to happen to get them married.
If anyone has interesting game stories for these two (or other) achievements, I'll be happy to be spoiled.
