No achievments from old characters!

[Mondini]

Hi!

 

Just recently I've came back playing SWTOR... and notice that my old characters (lvl 50 and 37), who were created back in 2011 has no archievements at all.

 

Since the archievments were implemented later to the game... they should be retrocompatible, right?

 

... or is this some kind of bug? There is some way to "trigger" the archievments that my old character should have?

 

Thanks!

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(Don't know if I should post this here or in the Costumer Service forum)

Edited October 18, 2014 by Mondini

[Darth_Wicked]

Which achievements are you referring to exactly?

 

If you are talking about the ones where you killed a thousand NPC's, in any given planet, you have to do those all over again; if you are referring to the ones after you finish any given chapter, you should submit a ticket to CS.

[branmakmuffin]

Hi!

 

Just recently I've came back playing SWTOR... and notice that my old characters (lvl 50 and 37), who were created back in 2011 has no archievements at all.

 

Since the archievments were implemented later to the game... they should be retrocompatible, right?

If you played them before achievements were implemented, how would the system know what you'd done?

Edited October 18, 2014 by branmakmuffin

[Darth_Wicked]

If you played them before achievements were implemented, how would the system know what you'd done?

 

Behave. He's ViP.

[Mondini]

I dont have any achievment on these character... absolutely zero.

 

And yes, they were created before the archievments implementation.

 

I just thought the archievs were somehow retrocompatible, since I've played every single quest back in 2011 and finished almost every Flashpoint and Operation from that period.

Edited October 18, 2014 by Mondini

[branmakmuffin]

I just thought the archievs were somehow retrocompatible, since I've played every single quest back in 2011 and finished almost every Flashpoint and Operation from that period.

And how would the system "know" this? Scout's honor?

Edited October 18, 2014 by branmakmuffin

[GadgetDon]

Achievements are legacy wide (same server/same account). So within the same legacy, everyone will show the same achievements (except some have slightly different names Empire vs. Republic) - in fact multiple characters will all help work towards the achievements, even in the two different factions.

 

When it was put in place, there were some achievements that could be easily verified and so were applied. Did you have a legacy of 50? You got the achievements for building your legacy level. I believe it happened when you logged in. It's possible that some of the automatic checking is gone, so old characters you never logged into might not have gotten the achievements you would have gotten if you'd been active at the time - I'm not saying I'm sure it's gone, but as they're looking to improve performance, I can imagine someone saying "We don't need to do these checks anymore, do we?"

 

There are other achievements you conceivably might have qualified for, some maybe even determinable by deep mining - if you've done certain things, maybe you definitely would've killed enough foes for an achievement - but they didn't do that. So nobody had them in place.

 

So, if it's in a separate account or separate server, all characters in that legacy will be be low on achievements. If you're saying that, when you check achievements on some characters in a legacy and they're there, but when you check other characters they're missing - that's something to file a ticket over because that's not possible.

[LeJarC]

And how would the system "know" this? Scout's honor?

 

It's called a database. You know, a place where information gets stored?

 

Must be pretty naive if you thought that there is no track record in the system of what you have or haven't done.

[Icestar]

Hi!

 

Just recently I've came back playing SWTOR... and notice that my old characters (lvl 50 and 37), who were created back in 2011 has no archievements at all.

 

Since the archievments were implemented later to the game... they should be retrocompatible, right?

 

... or is this some kind of bug? There is some way to "trigger" the archievments that my old character should have?

 

Thanks!

___

(Don't know if I should post this here or in the Costumer Service forum)

 

I am a pre-launch owner of this game and I did tons of stuff before the launch of the achievements. They are gone, and will probably not come back seeing they time they have had to fix it.

 

I have several things I did but never got credit for when achievements launched. I have stopped bothering anymore since I know this will never be fixed, ever......

Edited October 19, 2014 by Icestar

[Deewe]

I am a pre-launch owner of this game and I did tons of stuff before the launch of the achievements. They are gone, and will probably not come back seeing they time they have had to fix it.

 

I have several things I did but never got credit for when achievements launched. I have stopped bothering anymore since I know this will never be fixed, ever......

^ Same boat here.

 

One example: not getting achievement for completing class story on caped lvl 55 char.

 

If I want the class deco I have to re-roll alts of all characters I got caped.

[GadgetDon]

^ Same boat here.

 

One example: not getting achievement for completing class story on caped lvl 55 char.

 

If I want the class deco I have to re-roll alts of all characters I got caped.

 

That's one thing I did get automatically, as I recall, but had to log into those characters. Also, didn't achievements predate the expansion that raised level to 55?

[Darth_Wicked]

That's one thing I did get automatically, as I recall, but had to log into those characters. Also, didn't achievements predate the expansion that raised level to 55?

 

Achievements came at the same time as RoTHC.

 

Also, I experienced the EXACT same issue as Deewe did and Bioware never addressed it. The solution was to level up a new character, which I would have done regardless.

[Mondini]

I've created a in-game ticket and this was the answer:

 

Greetings,

 

I am Protocol Droid M0-T0, Human-Cyborg Relations.

 

Thank you for contacting us about the issue you encountered. This particular case appears to have been caused by a bug within the game that will need to be corrected in a future game update and as such, cannot be corrected by Customer Service.

 

To allow us to identify and correct these issues, we would request that you submit a Bug Report on this issue. Bug Reports submitted though the In-Game Help Center go directly to our development QA team and not to Customer Service. To submit a bug, you can type /bug in your chat window or select Bug Report from the drop down when creating a new ticket in the In-Game Help Center.

 

We also recommend checking the latest patch notes at http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes for information on any fixes or changes in our game updates or our Known Bugs list, located at the top of our Bug Forums which can be found here: http://www.swtor.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=417.

 

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and to thank you again for the valuable feedback you have provided. Please do not hesitate to report any other issues you may encounter while playing.

 

Galactic support is our specialty…

 

Sincerely,

 

Protocol Droid M0-T0

 

I've reported as a bug also.

[ItachiZaku]

if you are referring to the ones after you finish any given chapter, you should submit a ticket to CS.

 

I was told to submit a bug report and there was nothing they could do. So, the only toon to actually completely their class quest chain... "hasn't and won't.

[ItachiZaku]

 

Also, I experienced the EXACT same issue as Deewe did and Bioware never addressed it. The solution was to level up a new character, which I would have done regardless.

 

Yeah, luckily, I am kinda sorta leveling an assassin, so I might end up getting the Inq achievement.

[Deewe]

I was told to submit a bug report and there was nothing they could do. So, the only toon to actually completely their class quest chain... "hasn't and won't.

Well they can certainly edit the DB field value from 0 to 1. But then they have to develop a SQL querry for that

 

But well it's like under even lowest priority atm

[MillionsKNives]

It's called a database. You know, a place where information gets stored?

 

Must be pretty naive if you thought that there is no track record in the system of what you have or haven't done.

 

Sure, they'll pull data out of the database that doesn't exist.

 

Of course they tracked certain stuff, but there's a lot that they didn't. Most of the stuff they did track was properly updated when you first logged in.

 

I've created a in-game ticket and this was the answer:

 

 

 

I've reported as a bug also.

 

I can't tell from your post or the response, but when you submit a bug report it's not sent to CS and they're not going to do anything for you. In order for them to do anything you have to submit it as something else (i.e., not a bug report). If you did send it properly and they still didn't do it then that really sucks and I don't see why they couldn't track and fix that.

[Kalfear]

Hi!

 

Just recently I've came back playing SWTOR... and notice that my old characters (lvl 50 and 37), who were created back in 2011 has no archievements at all.

 

Since the archievments were implemented later to the game... they should be retrocompatible, right?

 

... or is this some kind of bug? There is some way to "trigger" the archievments that my old character should have?

 

Thanks!

___

(Don't know if I should post this here or in the Costumer Service forum)

 

Its a known bug Mon (ignore the trolls asking how it would know, EA themselves admit this is a bug they are well aware of)

 

Problem is they are ignoreing it

If you send in a bug ticket they will tell you known issue that needs to be fixed by a patch and to contact Cust service

So you contact cust service and they tell you its a known issue that needs to be fixed by a patch and to submit a bug ticket

 

So in other words on this topic they just been passing the buck for months and months and months

 

Most of the achievements you can re obtain by redoing the content (yes its a pain and reasonable people know you shouldnt have to but currently the only way to do it)

 

However there is a few things that you can not fix or reobtain (like legacy 50 if you were like me and already legacy 50 before you left, or any achievement that requires legacy 50 as a precursor).

 

Anyways, dont expect a patch to fix this any time soon.

Its a known issue that EA just doesnt think is important enough to fix

Personally speaking come February when The Witcher 3 releases, I may once again close down account and their lack of action on this bug will play a huge part in because Im stuck redoing content I long ago finished and honestly dont have much desire to redo yet again.

 

I think EA making huge mistake not addressing this bug.

At least on the easy ones like (you have a level 55 smuggler so obviously you have done the smuggler storyline fully and shouldnt have to redo to get the acheivements from lvl 1-50. Or you have all the datacrons unlocked in your codex so you shouldnt have to redo every datacron for achievements to recognize them for your datacron master title. Or as I said, your already legacy level 50 and unable to earn any more legacy xp so your acheivements should recognize that rather then listing your account on server as legacy 0.)