I’m not sure if this is a bug, or if there are things being worked on, on the back end.
I set up a small handful of quests the other day (I am new to the creating of quests using the quest system) I have noticed that some quests, either when tracking progress using the quest HUD or checking online at the myquests page do not count some actions to complete a quest. For example, I have a quest set up for gathering 26 dung. For quest testing, to be sure I set these up right, I logged in an alt (the only av logged in at the time for testing) had her gather dung from our 8 rezzed pigs set to colony (the quest is not specific to our region, or any profession, nothing fancy, no pre-req’s etc) only part of those 8 pigs collected from were counted in the gathering process. I sent her to 2 other locations I know to have pigs and gathered there from them. All in all I gathered dung from 32 pigs across 3 regions plus 5 additional of my own I had on hand and rezzed.
Only part of the gather actions counted. Being that avatar is a farmer she had pigs in inventory for breeding, so I tried even requesting one at a time 5 pigs, rezzed them out, set them to either public or colony, and gathered from those as well. Not one of those 5 counted toward the last of the 26 gathers but I always received dung from each of the 32 pigs I gathered from in this process. I now have actually gathered 51 dung, the required items bar of the quest shows the 26 there but the actual gather bar is just stuck at 25. The action isn’t to gather from pigs or harvest, or collect it is simply as seen here:
Is this something I have not configured right for some reason, or is this some sort of quest bug? Website tracking delay? I just don’t have a clue. It makes no sense as to why some pigs gathered from count and some do not track as gathered from. I’m just baffled.
I have had this happen when completing quests from another location as well before. Things just don’t often count toward quest completion even if you have actually collected or gathered far more than is required.
I thought maybe the way I was interpreting how things were entered was incorrect, so I tried a different one of my quests, an apple gathering one, originally I had it set to gather and turn in 64 apples. I started the quest itself and tested the process, I went to one apple tree first, and gathered 2 apples. One counted towards gathered and it also counted toward how many I had to turn in, the second one did not count as gathered. Thinking that maybe in order for the apples to count, I had to set up the quest in a mindset of having to gather 8 apples from 8 trees, and then to turn it in the questers would have 64 at that point to turn in. So I went in, remade the quest under those parameters and started gathering apples again. At first no more apples were counted, so I figured I would give it some time to update and I refreshed the quest page. I moved on to another apple tree, gathered 8 from it, expecting to see I had gathered 2 apples (thinking it meant I had to gather from 8 different trees for the apples to count. When I again finished gathering from the second tree, suddenly the myquests page showed I had gathered 14 apples and had overly completed the gather part, but still had to gain more to get to where I could turn in all 64. At this point, I have zero idea as to why sometimes an action will count, and sometimes it won’t LOL. So I abandoned the quest, and stopped. I’ll try fiddling with it again later but my brain is a bit fried already from spending hours trying to work out why this is happening. I’m determined but confused, LOL
Honestly, this one stumps me, Im going to have to looks specificaly at the gathering part, But when I initialy think it is a Server issue with the Meter hearing the gather, because the meter tracks each gather but our server tracks how many you have for turnin by checking your inventory. Let me do some investigation
Also not sure if this will help but I have noticed this screen pops up when i finish setting up a quest, but the giver still offers the quest. Is this possibly part of the issue?
Missing parameters.
editing this to also include this: don;t know if it matters, I was updating some quest text,
I just wanted to update you on what I have found over the past week in trying to get these quests sorted. I believe that for the apples, and the collecting of dung, we might have been clicking the pigs and trees too quickly in succession, so some of them were not being counted. Now 4 out of my 5 quests that I set up are working properly with a couple of small exceptions that I am not sure how to remedy.
I am getting some odd text glitches in world when the quest is taken from one particular quest giver. I will explain. In this Gyazo, you can see that for some reason the text I entered for the quest is coming through in SL with a keystroke combo instead of an apostrophein a couple of places. Screenshot - 5ccfbf6c7afe32f3b20449992b4f8610 - Gyazo also here: Screenshot - 0231bacb8689c6dfbc30443a5d60a1cc - Gyazo There also seems to be a very long delay between 20-30 seconds from the time the quest is accepted from the quest giver until the text for the quest appears in chat. Until that text appears we have noticed that we need to wait until that chat comes through, or things do not get counted for the quest if we start working on it before the quest chat comes through in local.
I did read through and watch the newly posted videos I had done things the first time as the videos had directed, but had been trying other options to try to fix the issues we were having after initial setup because we had those issues, so I tried changing things up afterward to see if the changes would fix the issues we were having.
The only other issue I am having now with quests is that I have one quest for harvesting herb plots, as seen here: Screenshot - b82d744579b6c06eda0cfcbc9c839fe1 - Gyazo both myself and another colony member have tried doing this quest and no matter how many times we harvest a plot or multiple plots, they are not counted at all in the myquests page or on the HUD. Screenshot - 312cc7a0313aedd6a218676d64ca0844 - Gyazo this is a small example of proof of harvesting: Screenshot - 0c56066a932003c27f5394dba10ee250 - Gyazo This quest (though the text currently says the herbs will be taken) does not actually take the herbs as the text will be fine tuned once I get the quest to actually count the harvests from the herb plots. So I am not at all sure what is causing this one to not count any of the harvests from the herb plots at all.
One last note, another colony member and I have noticed that when using the quest hud, it frequently does weird random things when clicking the arrows to view quests, such as repeats the same message in the quest at least 3 times or more or will not update to match the websites myquests progress page. It just seems to totally bug out if we interact with the quest HUD at all. We have been relying on not using the hud because it just doesn’t seem to work right for us at all, and have instead been checking progress on the website page.
I hope this helps and that you can advise me on these last few remaining issues we are having. It may simply be something I have not set right but from all my looking I do not see why or how I haven’t set this (the herb plots quest) up correctly, as there seems to be only one way to set up the harvesting objective. Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give.
