Could we please get a "Crate of Achievements" on PTS?

MoonPile · July 30

Could we please get something like a "Crate of Achievements" for tester characters on PTS?

So that we can just unlock the ones we need to buy multiple furnishings and old plans (+ probably other uses, others can chime in).

For example, since I don't have the achievements on my EU tester, I can't buy Faustina's plans. Old writ vendor plans don't seem to come in the tester crates. And can only get 1 piece of any achievement furnishing from the crates.

EDIT: sorry, I'm just a dummy sometimes and should've checked it better. I actually do have Faustina's old plans on the tester somehow; Idk which crate they came from. Anyway! It would still be a nice feature for the other items.

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I know it's not the main point of PTS but NA players get so little time. Compared to EU builders who get 3-4+ weeks with all of their own stuff. Otherwise the only way is to spend hours doing writs, then making & deleting tester toons to loot 1 piece at a time – and that has a limit. We also can't get Luxury Vendor items unless someone on the other server is kind enough to share.

Lyterette · August 2

I agree, it's very unfair that the PTS is more EU friendly than NA in every regard. It's wonderful that we can create a max-level character on the PTS and open all those crates to get ALMOST everything, but I do not understand why achievements are not one of those things we have access to.

As an NA player, it is so frustrating when EU builders get sometimes multiple months to build, and NA players are stuck with a couple weeks for each cycle test at a time. It is unbalanced and, frankly, frustrating to be an NA builder using the PTS. Whatever happened to the original idea of changing out the PTS every few weeks consistently? I feel like that dropped off the face of the earth. Now it's gone to change out the PTS about 4 times or so per testing cycle and then it ends on EU and doesn't change for weeks or months.

The only things we do not have access to on the PTS to help balance it out is lux/golden vendor items and achievements. What is the point in giving us a ridiculous amount of gold on our max-leveled characters on the PTS if we have nothing to spend it on?

Please, ZOS, give us achievements and lux/golden vendor items. It would solve these tedious problems for your housing community.

James-Wayne · August 6

Agree with all of the above, they use to do 2nd NA copy 6 weeks after patch went live but maybe they dropped that due to resources.

I'm kind of hoping the server work they have been doing for the last few years will result in us being able to select our server and select it transfers characters across.... I could write that as Python script today if I was allowed

Wishful thinking I know.

Inari Telvanni · September 10

Seconding all of this! I can imagine it'll make it difficult to test out furniture locked behind achievements in future DLC or Chapter releases...