This is just a rough idea of what achievement diaries could look like. They could be divided into areas and cities inside the area.
There are easy and hard tasks on each city. Easy and medium tasks are combined because you will level up rather quickly at the start so lets just call them easy.

You would be able to follow your progress inside your quest tab. Maybe make it so that you're able to switch between the current tab and achievement diary tab by pressing a button?
All tasks would first appear red but the ones you've completed would turn green.

There are 3 main areas (excluded Wilderness from this) Misthalin, Asgarnia and Desert. All those areas have some cities inside them that contain some tasks you can do. Easy tasks basically being tasks that introduce you to low level content.

Easy tasks could reward you with some starter stuff that helps you at the beginning and help you to progress. Hard tasks could contain something more rewarding and useful stuff. Example reward from Desert hard tasks could be Gloves of Silence which grant you 10% bxp while Thieving. (Desert area being members only area and thieving being members only skill so it would make sense.) After you've completed all tasks in an area (Asgarnia for example) you would get additional rewards perhaps.

Main point of this suggestion is not the list of tasks I wrote, they are just examples. Point is the overall layout of how it would look like. Tasks inside cities while cities being inside a larger area.

Example list of tasks:

Misthalin

Varrock

Easy:
Talk to Aubury
Buy milestone cape 30 from Thessalia
Mine clay at SW mine of Varrock
Make maple shortbow at the ranging store in Varrock
Enter Champions Guild
Enter Varrock Slayer Dungeon
Heal yourself at the Healer in Grand Exchange
Talk to Tyras Guard

Hard:
Pickpocket master farmer at Varrock Palace
Plant a magic tree at Varrock Palace farming patch
Kill Tormented Demon
Fire a magic log at Varrock Fountain


Lumbridge

Easy:
Get a slayer task from Mazchna
Talk to Bob
Plant an Oak Tree to the farming patch behind Lumbridge Castle
Perform a dance emote inside the Lumbridge Castle
Hit a dummy near the General Store

Hard:
Have Bob fix your Crystal Shield
Enter the dungeon in Lumbridge Castles cellar


Draynor Village

Easy:
Talk to Dark Mage
Talk to Brian
Fish a herring
Cut a willow tree

Hard:
Cast smoke blitz to Market Guard

Barbarian Village/Edgeville

Easy:
Complete Barbarian Assistance quest
Have Thomy show you around
Enter rune essence mine
Enter any rune altar via the prismatic SE of Barbarian Village
Talk to any Barbarian
Cut a maple
Kill Chaos Druid in Barbarian Village Dungeon
Get a slayer task from Hundig
Plant potatoes
Mine a coal
Smith an Iron Platebody
Set a new home location by talking to Fish Monger
Use Dusty Key to enter Blue Dragons
Make an attack potion
Pick white berries
Talk to Hunting Expert east of Edgeville

Hard:
Kill Blue Dragon
Plant Dwarf Weed
Enter blood rune altar via Prismaic Altar SE of Barbarian Village
Get a slayer task from Vannaka
Mix a ranging potion inside the main hall at Barbarian Village
Mine a runite ore
Smith a rune med helm
Cut a magic tree


Asgarnia

Falador

Easy:
Talk to Ghost Captain at Falador Park
Plant ranarr at the farming patches south of Falador
Talk to Robe Store Owner
Talk to Party Pete at Faladors party room
Enter Dwarven Mine
Talk to Flynn at Faladors Furnace
Talk to Brian O'Richard at Falador Park
Buy a beer

Hard:
Buy any skillcape from King Percival
Plant torstol at the farming patches south of Falador
Catch red chinchompa
Plant a Spirit Tree to the farming patch at Falador park

Taverley/Burthorpe

Easy:
Enter Warriors Guild
Talk to King Gjuki Sorvott

Hard:
Buy a Barrelchest Anchor from Warriors guild store
Wear a Dragon Defender while talking to Harrallak Menarous

Rimmington

Easy:
Talk to Grum while wearing a Frog Mask
Enter Rimmington Dungeon
Talk to Estate Agent
Enter your POH via the house portal
Enter Crafting Guild
Kill a Moss Giant
Mine Limestone
Talk to Stonemason

Hard:
Kill King Black Dragon
Kill Black Dragon in the Rimmington dungeon
Catch a manta ray at Mudskipper point


Desert (Members only)

Al-Kharid

Easy:
Pickpocket a man within Al-Kharid
Talk to Silk Trader
Talk to Poison Salesman
Enter Kalphite Lair
Talk to Meteora
Mine a gold ore at Al-Kharid mine
Smelt gold ores at Al-Kharid furnace
Talk to Chaeldar
Craft Green D'hide body inside the crafting store at Al-Kharid

Hard:
Steal from Gem Stall
Kill Kalphite Queen
Craft an amulet of fury at Al-Kharid furnace


Kharidian Desert

Easy:
Steal from Silver Stall at Pollnivench
Travel anywhere within the Kharidian Desert via magic carpets
Kill a bandit at Bandit Camp
Enter Smoke Dungeon

Hard:
Complete Desert War quest
Open the smoke dungeon chest with a chest key
Make a steel key ring
Kill a dark beast inside the Smoke Dungeon

Would be nice to have something to do more than just what usual scape game/servers offers.

Would be nice to have something to do more than just what usual scape game/servers offers.

Yeah exactly. What I also realized after I wrote all this is that there should be a few very hard tasks that actually take a few hours to complete because the whole achievement system diary takes A LOT of time to develop. Those kind of tasks are kind of hard to come up with I guess unless it's something like kill 25 Smoke Demon Champions instead of 1.


Here's more detailed, more figurative layout of the concept I was thinking. Green color meaning that part is done and red meaning that it's not done or is in progress and haven't completed every single task.
This list I made below is probably easier to understand than what I wrote earlier.
Combining cities even more would probably be a good option as well because some cities simply don't have much if anything to offer. Combining Draynor Village to Lumbridge or to Barbarian Village/Edgeville for example.

Misthalin

• Varrock
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here


• Lumbridge
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here


• Barbarian Village/Edgeville
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here


• Draynor Village
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here

Asgarnia

• Falador
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here


• Taverley/Burthorpe
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here


• Rimmington
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here

Desert (Members only)

• Al-Kharid
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here

• Kharidian Desert
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here

Getting a third color, orange for example to indicate that, that task or part is in progress (Haven't collected enough white berries for example, (3/25)) would make it even more clearer.

Misthalin

• Barbarian Village/Edgeville
• Easy
• Insert task here
• Insert task here
• Insert task here
• Hard
• Insert task here
• Insert task here
• Insert task here

Not only that, it is good thing to have diaries hard tasks a completion of certain mini-game, for example, Emps-Wars or Pest Control. This also promote group playing even more(from personal experience of doing task for achievement diary) - it could give you additional bonuses to receive bonus tickets/tokens per game as well as rewards exclusive to those who actually will be doing them.
Even if it takes a while I would be very pleased to have diaries in game.
Diary Cape for it, maybe is an idea? You can change Quest Cape for Diary Cape when everything is done to have stats equal to Max Cape and being only alternative to it. It could act as Ava as well.
Tip: There should be medium ones as well for those who struggle to complete hard ones.
Elite ones that requires exceptional skills to do it taking some tasks from two to more hour to get done(Like the one you mentioned - Killing Smoke Demon Champion multiple times).
There is variety of things to achieve in game - mounting Kurask Head in your house, Catch Big Shark or Trade Tokkuls for Jad Pet or Inferno Adze(doesn't count if you have one). You can think for tasks all you want there can plenty made but rewards should be sufficient enough to both fit game and be worthy of time spent completing diaries.

>Tfw no rewards
I'm fine with having them and all but they should be done right or not at all. The last thing we had to encourage people to level up things other than combat was clue scrolls and that kind of failed miserably at it. While it is another step towards introducing completionist cape by adding requirements I don't think it is worth adding if the rewards aren't good. The original rewards aren't bad but you haven't really talked about rewards so idk what you'd want. Offering additional reward for completing a province wouldn't be a bad idea either.

I do hope to see tasks on the more creative side. Maybe some that would involve the player owned house, since people aren't exactly using them too much from what I've noticed.

Diary Cape for it, maybe is an idea? You can change Quest Cape for Diary Cape when everything is done to have stats equal to Max Cape and being only alternative to it. It could act as Ava as well.

Yes let's just give people an alternative route to getting a max cape that is way less intensive on levels and generally is a lot faster to get. Let's also take away from ava even more. This sounds like a really good idea. Having yet another cape added to the game is lovely.

>Tfw no rewards
I'm fine with having them and all but they should be done right or not at all. The last thing we had to encourage people to level up things other than combat was clue scrolls and that kind of failed miserably at it. While it is another step towards introducing completionist cape by adding requirements I don't think it is worth adding if the rewards aren't good. The original rewards aren't bad but you haven't really talked about rewards so idk what you'd want. Offering additional reward for completing a province wouldn't be a bad idea either.

I do hope to see tasks on the more creative side. Maybe some that would involve the player owned house, since people aren't exactly using them too much from what I've noticed.

Quote from: Wg on July 04, 2017, 05:17:01 am

Diary Cape for it, maybe is an idea? You can change Quest Cape for Diary Cape when everything is done to have stats equal to Max Cape and being only alternative to it. It could act as Ava as well.

Yes let's just give people an alternative route to getting a max cape that is way less intensive on levels and generally is a lot faster to get. Let's also take away from ava even more. This sounds like a really good idea. Having yet another cape added to the game is lovely.

If you got idea for Diary Cape, write it here. Also doing diaries is something people should be looking forward to(exploring cities, skills and what can they do) instead of just daily tasks with random number(like, up to 180) to cut magic logs get 50k~ for afking at tree only for pure afking... Rewards always comes within the exploration, just like in clues are.

A whole three weeks later. Seems right on time.

If you got idea for Diary Cape, write it here. Also doing diaries is something people should be looking forward to(exploring cities, skills and what can they do) instead of just daily tasks with random number(like, up to 180) to cut magic logs get 50k~ for afking at tree only for pure afking... Rewards always comes within the exploration, just like in clues are.

My idea for the diary cape would be to not have one. Saves having to make a custom model and trying to find a function for it. We don't need a dairy cape. I personally don't want a dairy cape. I think introducing new items just for the sake of being an alternative to an already existing item is something that should only be done if absolutely necessary. The original rewards for achievement diaries would contain ardougne cloak, it would be kind of weird to introduce another cape to the full outfit and it would be unnecessary too.

Daily tasks with a random number of things to do to get a bunch of bonus experience is a lot more interesting to me or anyone else trying to gain a lot of exp. There are rewards to it so people have a reason to do it. I think you'll find that a lot of people don't do clue scrolls for the sake of exploring but rather do it for the reward or not at all. Given that most people on this server tend to not be very knowledgeable when it comes to locations I think the number of people enjoying exploration would be equal to the amount of people that will hate it, if not fewer. There are also a vast amount of people that seem to be incapable of doing clues, I don't think those will be doing achievement diaries either.

A whole three weeks later. Seems right on time.

Quote from: Wg on July 25, 2017, 07:46:59 pm

If you got idea for Diary Cape, write it here. Also doing diaries is something people should be looking forward to(exploring cities, skills and what can they do) instead of just daily tasks with random number(like, up to 180) to cut magic logs get 50k~ for afking at tree only for pure afking... Rewards always comes within the exploration, just like in clues are.

My idea for the diary cape would be to not have one. Saves having to make a custom model and trying to find a function for it. We don't need a dairy cape. I personally don't want a dairy cape. I think introducing new items just for the sake of being an alternative to an already existing item is something that should only be done if absolutely necessary. The original rewards for achievement diaries would contain ardougne cloak, it would be kind of weird to introduce another cape to the full outfit and it would be unnecessary too.

Daily tasks with a random number of things to do to get a bunch of bonus experience is a lot more interesting to me or anyone else trying to gain a lot of exp. There are rewards to it so people have a reason to do it. I think you'll find that a lot of people don't do clue scrolls for the sake of exploring but rather do it for the reward or not at all. Given that most people on this server tend to not be very knowledgeable when it comes to locations I think the number of people enjoying exploration would be equal to the amount of people that will hate it, if not fewer. There are also a vast amount of people that seem to be incapable of doing clues, I don't think those will be doing achievement diaries either.

Fair enough.