FAQ: new achievements & XP system

[RicardoRix]

Achievements page don't work for some.
https://boardgamearena.com/achievements?id=83865807

"The server reported an error"

[sprockitz]

added this bug report 30 days ago, but with no votes doubt it is getting looked at. thanks for bringing this issue forward.

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=26774

[WiAiC]

Accidentally found this out from my friend's page:
He played 21429 games, and he got a "COMMANDER IN CHIEF" badge, which is for "40000 victories on BGA".

That's so weird..........

In addition:
I've played so many real-time games before, and I still haven't get my "REALTIME GAMER" badge.
I've played more than 10 games before, and I still haven't get my "MULTITASKER" and "MULTITASKING SPECIALIST". I assume these two achievements are for playing that much of turn-based games simultaneously.
I've won more than 50 games overall, and I still haven't get my "50 BGA VICTORIES".
I've sponsored a person before, but no "SPONSOR" badge.

Wondering where are those...

[vigorousRoll]

I just won the NIGHT OWL badge. (it reads: "Are you sleeping sometimes ?")

I'm very proud of that but am still wondering what exactly I had to do to qualify.

[philjackson]

I got it when I logged in tonight. Perhaps you keep late hours like I do? Most of the time I play very late.

[vigorousRoll]

Well, I was wondering how "extreme" one had to get to qualify....as over the course of a month's time, I might make moves in 22 of the 24 hours of a day that are available to me . But now I see that the hurdle to win NIGHT OWL is set as a reasonable height.

[whatshisbucket]

Given that I just got Night Owl, as well as a few other general BGA achievements, I think the requirement for getting night owl is actually quite lax, and we just hadn't gotten it before because the code was broken.

[JCam]

I just reached top 20 in Bobail but didn't get a trophy. Any idea why or how to get it? My elo is above 300 so I know that's not the reason. And I played another couple games to see if that would fix it but no luck. Thanks.

[LeSteffen]

I just reached top 20 in Bobail but didn't get a trophy. Any idea why or how to get it? My elo is above 300 so I know that's not the reason. And I played another couple games to see if that would fix it but no luck. Thanks.

Hi JCam,

I'm currently working with BGA so I might shed some light here.

There are thresholds for the top elo achievements.
In order to gain the top 20 achievement for a game there need to be at least 1000 active players.
For the top 10 achievement the number of required players goes down to 300.

I checked for Bobail and there are currently 945 active players, so you could only get the top 10 achievement or invite 55 friends to play it

[LeSteffen]

Given that I just got Night Owl, as well as a few other general BGA achievements, I think the requirement for getting night owl is actually quite lax, and we just hadn't gotten it before because the code was broken.

Night owl wasn't implemented until a few days ago