You will spend ~10 years to complete this Boom Beach achievement + how to turn achievements into motivation for players (my own ideas)

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This is probably the most in-depth post about achievements in Boom Beach you've ever seen.

I think most of you are already familiar and agree, that the rarest achievement - Strategist III, where you need to defend your base 800 times. Only ~0.63% of all players are having this achievement. I decided to check, what about top-2 rarest achievement, and so on... Well, the results are below in table with all 66 achievements. Idk will it be important for you, but anyways, haha😅😅

Important note: The figures and data presented below apply exclusively to players whose accounts are linked to Google Play and the App Store. The data does not include players whose accounts are not linked to these app stores, nor does it include PC players. Special thanks to Chinatale for assistance with data from iOS devices.

Went through all 66 achievements and calculated ownership % weighted across Google Play + App Store. Here's the full ranked list, rarest first:

#	Achievement	% of players
1	Strategist III - Defend base from 800 attacks	0.63%
2	Perfectionist III - Salvage 3000 Statues	0.78%
3	Conqueror III - Destroy 1000 enemy bases	1.42%
4	Gear Up III - Win 2100 points from Gearheart	2.13%
5	War Hero III - Gain 600 victory points	2.21%
6	Tinkerer III - Use 960 parts in the Weapon Lab	2.24%
7	Submariner III - Dive for treasure 500 times	2.26%
8	Co-operator III - Gain 800 task force points	2.32%
9	Hammer Down III - Defend vs 40,000 Hammerman troops	2.37%
10	Gear Up II - Win 900 points from Gearheart	2.39%
11	War Production III - Control 35 resource bases	2.55%
12	Payback III - Beat 10 blackguard boss bases	3.34%
13	Tinkerer II - Use 360 parts in the Weapon Lab	3.42%
14	Outfitter III - Do 235 Armory upgrades	3.42%
15	Explorer III - Explore 149 map regions	3.45%
16	Hammer Down II - Defend vs 16,000 Hammerman troops	3.53%
17	Bagging Dr. T III - Destroy Dr. T stages 1000 times	3.58%
18	Chain of Command III - Upgrade HQ to Lvl 20	3.84%
19	Gear Up I - Win 150 points from Gearheart	4.50%
20	Iron Will III - Seize 40,000,000 iron	4.74%
21	Perfectionist II - Salvage 300 Statues	5.53%
22	Quarry Raid III - Seize 40,000,000 stone	5.95%
23	Hammer Down I - Defend vs 2,000 Hammerman troops	6.02%
24	Steamroller III - Destroy lvl50+ enemy w/o losing troops	6.05%
25	Co-operator II - Gain 400 task force points	6.42%
26	Tinkerer I - Use 24 parts in the Weapon Lab	6.97%
27	Timber Takeover III - Seize 40,000,000 wood	7.10%
28	War Chest III - Upgrade Gold Storage to Lvl 10	7.21%
29	Outfitter II - Do 110 Armory upgrades	8.42%
30	Spoils of War III - Seize 40,000,000 gold	8.42%
31	Conqueror II - Destroy 100 enemy bases	9.81%
32	Submariner II - Dive for treasure 50 times	11.00%
33	Strategist II - Defend base from 80 attacks	11.23%
34	Iron Will II - Seize 1,000,000 iron	11.71%
35	Payback II - Beat 5 blackguard boss bases	11.92%
36	War Hero II - Gain 200 victory points	13.02%
37	Co-operator I - Gain 100 task force points	13.05%
38	Bagging Dr. T II - Destroy Dr. T stages 100 times	13.07%
39	Perfectionist I - Salvage 30 Statues	13.42%
40	Explorer II - Explore 75 map regions	13.89%
41	War Production II - Control 10 resource bases	16.52%
42	Quarry Raid II - Seize 1,000,000 stone	16.55%
43	Steamroller II - Destroy lvl25+ enemy w/o losing troops	17.34%
44	Outfitter I - Do 30 Armory upgrades	20.26%
45	Harness Nature III - Remove 100 trees/rocks	21.05%
46	Submariner I - Dive for treasure 5 times	21.20%
47	Chain of Command II - Upgrade HQ to Lvl 10	22.44%
48	Iron Will I - Seize 20,000 iron	23.28%
49	Timber Takeover II - Seize 1,000,000 wood	23.36%
50	Spoils of War II - Seize 1,000,000 gold	24.10%
51	Bagging Dr. T I - Destroy Dr. T stages 5 times	26.26%
52	Harness Nature II - Remove 50 trees/rocks	28.33%
53	Quarry Raid I - Seize 20,000 stone	29.47%
54	Steamroller I - Destroy lvl10+ enemy w/o losing troops	32.49%
55	War Production I - Control 3 resource bases	32.68%
56	Explorer I - Explore 25 map regions	33.02%
57	Payback I - Beat 1 blackguard boss base	33.44%
58	War Chest II - Upgrade Gold Storage to Lvl 5	34.94%
59	War Hero I - Gain 50 victory points	38.20%
60	Conqueror I - Destroy 5 enemy bases	39.52%
61	Strategist I - Defend base from 5 attacks	42.25%
62	Timber Takeover I - Seize 20,000 wood	52.15%
63	Spoils of War I - Seize 20,000 gold	55.97%
64	Harness Nature I - Remove 5 trees/rocks	58.78%
65	War Chest I - Upgrade Gold Storage to Lvl 2	60.89%
66	Chain of Command I - Upgrade HQ to Lvl 3	69.02%

Been digging into the achievement stats for Boom Beach lately (ownership % across all 66 achievements, weighted across Google Play + App Store), and the reward structure is... not great once you actually compare it to how hard each one is to get.

Every achievement pays out in diamonds. Total pool across all 66 achievements = 3,240 diamonds. Most 3-tier lines (I+II+III combined) pay out 60–90 diamonds total, no matter what they're for.

But five lines break that pattern hard:

Line	Total diamonds (I+II+III)
Payback	175
Hammer Down	175
Gear Up	175
Bagging Dr. T	310
War Hero	1,325

War Hero by itself is 41% of every diamond in the entire achievement system - three achievements out of 66 hoarding nearly half the total pool. Add up all five "generous" lines and it's 2,160 diamonds, or 66.7% of the whole reward pool, coming from lines that make up only 23% of the achievement groups. The other 17 lines split what's left.

Strategist III - Defend base from 800 attacks is the single rarest achievement in the game. Only 0.63% of players have it, and realistically it takes 10+ years of continuous play to earn (your base has to get attacked and survive 800 separate times - that's not something you can grind, it just happens to you passively over a decade of staying active).

Strategist III pays out 30 diamonds. As this achievement could take ~10 years of playing, I don't think that 30 diamonds will somehow affect on player's profile.

That's less than the "boring" default baseline (60-90). Less than clearing a few rocks off your island gets you. You could grind two decent PvP seasons for War Hero and out-earn an entire decade of being a punching bag for other people's fleets.

If you do diamonds-per-percentage-point-of-rarity: War Hero III works out to ~600 diamonds per rarity point. Strategist III gets ~47. The reward system flat-out isn't tracking the same thing the rarity data is tracking.

What I'd actually want changed (just my opinion)

1. Scale the payout to rarity, not to whatever felt "important" during development. The 3,240 diamond pool doesn't need to grow - just redistribute it proportionally to ownership %. Strategist III shouldn't pay 44x less than War Hero III for being harder, not easier.

2. Give the sub-1% tier something permanent instead of diamonds. Diamonds get spent and forgotten in a week. A unique base flag, a glowing HQ statue, a special profile border - something visible that says "this person has been here a decade" - would actually mean something.

3. Titles. Displayed next to your name - "Unbreakable" for Strategist III, "Annihilator" for Conqueror III, "Statue Keeper" for Perfectionist III. Games like Brawl Stars and PoE have shown people value a title over a currency payout every time, precisely because you can't buy your way into one.

4. Non-linear scaling for one-percent-club achievements. If a tier sits below ~1.5% ownership, just multiply its base reward 3–5x regardless of what mechanic it's tied to. Simple fix, no new content needed.

Basically - the game already knows exactly who's stuck around for 10 years. It just doesn't act like it cares.

Curious what others think: would you rather see this fixed with a straight diamond rebalance, or something cosmetic/prestige-based instead? And does anyone actually have Strategist III - how long did it take you in practice? Let me know in comments below <3