NEWS UPDATE: Coin Miner Achievements & Vault Chat Friends

UPDATE: COIN MINER ACHIEVEMENTS

52 achievements across four tracks, each one paying Shards and Syndicate Tokens. Five new badges for clearing a track, a page that tracks every one of them, and an Add friend button that now works from anywhere on the forum.

WHAT YOU EARN

• Every achievement pays Shards and Syndicate Tokens. Between 10 and 150 Shards and between 30 and 200 ST, scaled to how hard it is to reach.
• Clear everything and that is 4,645 Shards and 6,660 ST. Nothing is time limited, so there is no rush and nothing to miss.
• They also carry Award Points. Every achievement is an "award", so it counts toward your account level exactly like any other award you have earned.
• You are already part way there. These read your existing stats, so blocks you mined months ago and hacks you won last week already count.

THE FOUR TRACKS

• Mining · 17 achievements, 1,315 Shards and 1,910 ST. Blocks found, rigs online, NVC mined, facility and mechanic levels, and how long you keep a session running.
• Dark Operations · 16 achievements, 1,560 Shards and 2,225 ST. Hacks, defences, DDoS, NVC stolen, hacker level, your firewall and antivirus, and each of the three skill branches.
• Exchange · 10 achievements, 950 Shards and 1,350 ST. Trades completed, volume traded, exchange upgrades, infrastructure and the Insider API.
• Supply Drops · 9 achievements, 820 Shards and 1,175 ST. Drops decrypted, NVC and Shards extracted, and drops held unopened.

FIVE NEW BADGES

• Clear a whole track and you earn its badge.One for each:
  • Blockchain Architect · all 17 Mining achievements.
  • Syndicate Operative · all 16 Dark Operations achievements.
  • Market Maker · all 10 Exchange achievements.
  • Salvage Runner · all 9 Supply Drops achievements.
• Syndicate Legend is the master badge. All four tracks, all 52 achievements. Nobody has it yet.

WHERE YOU SEE IT

• There is a new Achievements page in the Coin Miner sidebar. Overall score, what you have earned so far, all four tracks and the master badge in one place.
• Each page shows its own track. Mining on the dashboard, Dark Operations in warfare, Exchange and Supply Drops on their own tabs, so you see what is close to done while you are playing.
• Locked entries show the target and the reward with a progress bar, so nothing is a guessing game.
• Your profile carries a summary, and you can open anyone else's Achievements page to see how they are doing.

HOW THE PAYOUT WORKS

• Nothing to claim. The trophy is awarded automatically and the Shards and ST land within five minutes.
• Shards show up in your transaction log tagged with the achievement name, so you can always see what paid what.
• Each achievement pays once. Ever.
• Once earned, it stays earned. Achievements that ask you to hold something, like 250 NVC in your wallet or 10 rigs running, do not come undone when you spend or sell afterwards.

ADD FRIEND, ANYWHERE

• Friend requests are no longer buried in Vault Chat. There is now an Add friend button on profiles, in the hover card over any username, and under the name in every post.
• It knows where you stand. Add friend, Cancel request, Accept request or Friends, depending on your actual relationship with that member.
• It works without reloading. The button updates in place, the other person gets an alert, and if you have Vault Chat open it appears in your friend list straight away.
• Hover Friends to remove. It turns red and asks you to click again first, so nobody drops a friend by misclicking on a hover card.

ALSO IN THIS UPDATE

• The exchange rate was drifting. The liquidity pool had inflated well past where it should sit, which flattened the market. It now corrects itself gradually toward a sane depth instead of running away.
• Trading fees now fund the treasury, which is what pays out block rewards. Trading feeds mining rather than disappearing.