Change the Military/Civilian research only achievements

Single player->fast research->easy AI->X8 speed->Profit

Going for any achievements in MP (other than the missions one) is pointless. 

I think his main point is there isnt really anything to be achieved by doing this achievement. I agree honestly:p

That can be said for any achievements in the history of achievements. Some are just more obvious about being time sinks than others. 

Not really... I don't even think im going to bother explaining why because I don't feel that I should have to. And you should already know this Achievement is just a time sink and only a time sink.

All achievements are time sinks.

If you got custom race portraits or unique ship skins for getting all of a races specific achievements it'd be worth it.

No not really many of them can be completed through normal actions in the game. This achievement you sink money into tech you normally would never get such as Crew Training.

Completing something through playing the game normally isn't really an achievement (safe for introductory ones like "win your first game" maybe). The current achievements are simple grind achievements with varying difficulty (win against 4 hard AIs lol).

I made a few suggestions for new achivements in another related thread, maybe it's time we turn a thread into a suggestion thread for new ones? Like collecting fun/werid/awesome stuff we managed to do and turn those into achievements?

I fail to see how that is relevant to anything. My point is clearly that the research ones are neither fun nor challenging the way good achievements are.

If you're the kind of person who sits down and laboriously goes through each achievement just to get them then good for you but I have no kinship with you. I want achievements to be like Space Ponies or Go Big or Go Home. Either something you get along the way or an interesting approach to something. Fun or challenging.

Do not derail my thread with an achievements are all pointless rant because a ) you're wrong and b ) I don't care.

No changes needed on existing achievements they are all doable - ive had all but 1 of them in every version of sins (the only 1 i have never got is the one you get by buying up resouces from other players)

New achievements needed like

win a game without losing a titan or capital ship

win a game without losing a single planet

win a game without building a superweapon or starbase

the tricky ones are win a geme without the civilian research - meaning no ice or volcanic worlds

Just play Point Blank and you're pretty much guaranteed to get it.

i got it on a map i made myself but thats a good idea - i dont play too many of the maps that come with the game

to get all the artifacts i kinda cheated i make a 2nd start with 80+ pirate bases and that was that - AI does not may them too much atttention

Good ideas, also worth throwing into the suggestions pot:

* One Titan to rule them all :- Get your titan to the highest level (equiv of Capital Ship Captain)

* Clash of the Titans :- Destroy X titans (value of X should be hard but not impossible)

* Flagship of the empire :- Win the game with a Titan and frigates only (no capital ships)

* Diplomatic Alliance :- Win the game with an ally at max relationship points

* Doomsday weapon :- build max number of super weapons

User45701's last one probably could be split up

* Non-proliferation treaty : win a game without building a superweapon

Would have like to have called the no-starbase achievement "Best offence is the best defence" but that's already taken.

I must admit I've never even bothered to try for the civ/military only research achievements, mainly for the same reasons as the original post.