Now I know that we already have trophies and awards on this site, but these can be rather hard to get, especially awards since there can only be 100 pets that get an award in each stat. Now I was thinking, what about something a bit simpler, more basic, something for the newbies really? I have seen achievement like things on other websites, and I think they work really well, they give you a feeling of accomplishment.

So my idea is that you can earn achievements from doing simple things around the site. There could be achievements for people that are just starting off, like "Find your first creatu egg" and "Hatch your first creatu egg". Other examples I thought of are:

-Level up one stat when training a pet
-Grow a pet to adulthood
-Adopt a pet from atqueen forest
-Sell your first pet/item
-Put one pet in your showroom
-Put one item in your gallery
-Put tu in your bank
-Read a book to a pet
-Make a pet delighted
-Heal and injured pet
-Make your first forum post
-Find your first secret avatar
-Play your first game
-Post your first blog
-Get a respal
-Customise your human avatar
-Join a party

I think that these sort of simple achievements would help newbies learn there way about the website and how things work. And unlocking an achievement could give a small reward of tu or an item. This could give newbies a feeling of accomplishment for everything they do without having to save up heaps of tu to buy things to get trophies or awards, and will give them some tu to help them start off on the website.

And then these achivements could progress to ones of higher difficulty for more advanced users, such as:

-Hatch a seasonal egg
-Hatch a CS egg
-Hatch one of each findable egg
-Hatch one of each seasonal egg
-Hatch one of each CS egg
-Hatch one of each egg in existance
-Hatch an albino
-Hatch one of each hatchable color
-Hatch 100/1000/10000 creatu eggs
-Sell 20/50/100 items/pets in your shop
-Have over 50/100 pets in your showroom
-Have over 50/100 items in your gallery
-Increase a pets stat 50/100 times
-Read 20/50/100 books
-Have over 1/10/100 million tu
-Get to teir 50 of -insert quest here-
-Dye 1/10/20 pets
-Complete 1/10/20 collections
-Make 10/100/1000 fourm posts
-Have a pet that is over 100/500/1000 days old
-Obtain 10/20/50 secret avatars
-Have 10/50/100 respals

And when the battle system comes back - win 1/10/50/100 battles.

This would add in some interest for things that users just do everyday. It will feel like with everything they do they are working towards an achievement. Every time they hatch an egg they are getting closer to unlocking an achivement. And the higher the dificulty of the achievement, the greater the reward.

It wont be like  users will have to unlock achivements to be able to fully enjoy the site, but it will be something for users to work towards if they wish, other then collecting pets and items they like. And the achievements they have unlocked can be displayed on their profile so they can show off their efforts to others.

And I am sorry about the over kill of examples, I just got a little excited. Feel free to dispute any of the suggestions or add new ones if you wish.

Yus. I love achievement things. They're kind of everywhere, but they're also friggin' fun. :D

There should be some crazy and silly ones too. Maybe.. dump sixty-four (the current limit) pets into the forest at once? Have an entire thread page where everyone has the same avatar? ... Change your signature to say nothing but 'Fat Drindians' for at least an hour? xD