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type: mechanic
id: rpg-grind--account-unlocks
lang: en
title: Account-wide unlocks
summary: >-
  One character's achievement creates a lasting option for others, reducing
  repetition of an already mastered path.
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  - RPG grinding
  - 'World, community and account'
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  - id: source-342e4c8e2b4d5fc9
    title: 'FTL: Faster Than Light'
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/'
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supersededBy: []
attributes:
  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Account-wide unlocks
    description: >-
      One character's achievement creates a lasting option for others, reducing
      repetition of an already mastered path.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/broad-ftl-06.webp
      width: 1280
      height: 720
      game: 'FTL: Faster Than Light'
      sourceUrl: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/'
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      credit: Subset Games / Subset Games
      rights: © Subset Games / Subset Games. All rights reserved.
      caption: Unlocked ships become available for later attempts
      alt: Unlocked ships become available for later attempts
      markers:
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          label: A locked ship sits beside already available starting choices
    tips:
      - >-
        Distinguish lasting unlocks from temporary upgrades to the current
        character.
    examples:
      - title: 'FTL: Faster Than Light'
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/'
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provenance: >-
  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/rpg-grind
---
# Account-wide unlocks

id: rpg-grind--account-unlocks
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--account-unlocks
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--account-unlocks/

One character's achievement creates a lasting option for others, reducing repetition of an already mastered path.

## At a glance

![Unlocked ships become available for later attempts](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/broad-ftl-06.webp)

[FTL: Faster Than Light](https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/) · © Subset Games / Subset Games. All rights reserved.

1. A locked ship sits beside already available starting choices

- Distinguish lasting unlocks from temporary upgrades to the current character.

- [FTL: Faster Than Light](https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/)

## How it works

One character's achievement creates a lasting option for others, reducing repetition of an already mastered path.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="account-unlocks-options"></a>

- Unlock shared traversal tools and conveniences. <a id="account-unlocks-option-1"></a>
- Build a shared recipe library. <a id="account-unlocks-option-2"></a>
- Earn starting options for new characters. <a id="account-unlocks-option-3"></a>

## Design example

An unlocked glider becomes available to every character on the account.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [FTL: Faster Than Light](https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/) (id: source-342e4c8e2b4d5fc9)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors