Friday's Daily Endeavour: Complete 1 Weekly Endeavour!

Katahdin · November 15

peacenote wrote: »

I guess I can't specifically remember if I've done this with weeklies, but I seem to remember on more than one occasion completing four or five daily endeavors.

You only get rewarded for three, but the trigger for completing them still happens after you get your three rewards. The additional ones are marked as complete, if you look at your list.

So... technically... probably this is only "impossible" to complete if you've done all three weekly endeavors already.

It's still not a great idea, and I suspect it was a well-intentioned idea that likely had all of two minutes of thought put into it, but likely less impossible than people are assuming. For example, I killed 12 players in Cyrodiil much earlier in the week but I bet I'd get the endeavor if I now went and harvested 100 resources. I just won't get 250 seals for doing that.

The problem with this is once you complete one, there is no way to track progress on the others to even know if your close. It doesnt track it any more so I doubt this is the case

spartaxoxo · November 15

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msetten wrote: »

This is indeed an extremely weird daily endeavor and one that I think the developers really didn't think through. A lot of people probably already have finished the weekly endeavor, just like myself.

Did they really not think it through or did they think it through and decide that that they wanted to "encourage" players not to complete the weekly endeavor so quickly ?

It's also highly possible that a lot of people already do their weeklies on Friday or Saturday because it's the weekend. Thus, they can make an endeavor that awards a significant chunk of their playerbase for an activity they are doing anyway. They would know when the majority of the playerbase completes their weekly.

Two strategies make sense for this

1) On the first day of the week so that everyone can do that particular endeavor

2) On the day most people complete it, so they get a nice surprise in the background.

Given the weekend was selected, my guess would be they chose door number 2.

I don't think either strategy makes sense, to be honest.

If it's a weekly endeavour, don't make it a daily endeavour also. You can't take something people are tasked to do over a week and then require it to be completed on a particular day partway through the week. It doesn't take a genius to work that one out, I see no sense in it whatsoever.

Was it simply a mistake, ZOS_Kevin ?

I mean that pick 100 mats thing is easily beatable in a day.

Edit

The other two as well tbh. The daily quest for BGs is 1000 medal score.

I don't disagree, but what that means is that many people will already have completed the weekly endeavour before Friday, while others may be leaving it for the weekend. Neither set of players will be able to complete it on Friday. It's a nonsensical daily endeavour.

Why wouldn't someone leaving it for the weekend be unable to complete it on Friday?

The New BGs just recently dropped on console. I bet there's a lot of people that play a few matches to try it out today, and get awarded both a weekly and daily endeavor for it without even going out of their way to get them done.

I would certainly prefer they award them retroactively though, don't get me wrong. This way those of us who already did it don't find ourselves unable to complete the endeavor.

It just makes sense to me that players are incentivized to try the new BGs on the first weekend they dropped.

Because they don't have the time? A lot of gamers barely dabble on weekdays and spend most of their gaming time on Saturdays and Sundays when they're not working/travelling. Even if they have some time on Fridays, they've got the other daily endeavours to do as well.

A lot of gamers do this on Fridays too? Aot of people don't do much on Sundays because of work/school the next day. Friday and Saturday are two days I see some of the most activity.

Like I can't see any reason why zos would pick a day that their players are unlikely to be able to finish it. They most certainly know when their playerbase is playing.

madman65 · November 15

The nonsense is when you have already completed one and it does not count.

erebus_79_ESO · November 15

Commenting cause the same applies to me and I'd like to be apart of any fix. I harvested the 100 resources yesterday and this morning there's a daily endeavor to do the weekly which was already completed and can't be done again.

Vhellcat · November 15

Same, commenting to show my dissatisfaction on this "daily" endeavor. I've already completed the weekly *without trying* and I wasn't going to actively avoid harvesting resources even if I knew it was going to be a daily!

Would like the credit for already having completed it.

As someone else mentioned, probably going to see a couple of y'all doing a Harrowstorm

cause that's what I'll be doing!

spartaxoxo · November 15

madman65 wrote: »

The nonsense is when you have already completed one and it does not count.

Yup. If I had known this is coming, I'd have waited a day. I was so close.

I think complete a weekly endeavor has the potential to be a really nice and fun gimme endeavor. It just needs to be retroactive so that those of us who already did it aren't locked out.

Sleepsin · November 15

There is another post about QA employees going on strike over outsourcing. Is this a set up to show how poorly that outsourced QA is performing?

Ingenon · November 15

spartaxoxo wrote: »

I think complete a weekly endeavor has the potential to be a really nice and fun gimme endeavor. It just needs to be retroactive so that those of us who already did it aren't locked out.

I am fine with this daily endeavor if it is retroactive. Folks who have already completed their weekly endeavor get the seals for this daily when they login for the first time on this day.

The way it is now, folks that have already completed a weekly endeavor this week are locked out of a daily endeavor. Not a good look for ZOS.

ellmarie · November 15

I'm lucky this time! Usually, I have done it already, but this time haven't. Strange endeavor. BTW, with daily endeavors, why sometimes you get coin for it, and other times it's just seals?

madman65 · November 15

Sleepsin wrote: »

There is another post about QA employees going on strike over outsourcing. Is this a set up to show how poorly that outsourced QA is performing?

I think it`s those in charge just messing with us to try and MAKE us go back and run one again. There is however the chance of getting more endevors by running another.

Personofsecrets · November 15

harrowstorm it is!

MreeBiPolar · November 15

It just got replaced by "complete 1 quest"

MreeBiPolar · November 15

... Aaaaand, that one is NOT WORKING

JeroenB · November 15

MreeBiPolar wrote: »

... Aaaaand, that one is NOT WORKING

That's odd, it worked for me, handing in some daily.

Tatanko · November 15

MreeBiPolar wrote: »

... Aaaaand, that one is NOT WORKING

Did you already complete the weekly endeavor one that it replaced? I had not completed any daily endeavors yet today, and had already completed a weekly, and the "Complete 1 Quest" worked for me as expected.

LalMirchi · November 15

This was hilarious!

Two for one, never seen that before.

Endeavors seem to be very randomly selected, wonder why?

Syldras · November 15

LalMirchi wrote: »

Endeavors seem to be very randomly selected, wonder why?

Probably they are absolutely random. I somehow can't imagine that there's really a ZOS employee selecting tasks every morning.

DeadlySerious · November 15

A weekly endeavor of completing x number of daily endeavors makes sense.

This makes no sense what so ever, especially this late in the week when most people have already completed the weekly endeavor.

The list of "what are they thinking?" issues keeps getting longer and it's pretty disconcerting.

EcksNDee · November 15

Should have been craft a Vastarie's item instead.

ZOS_Kevin · November 15

Hi all, thanks for flagging this. Just wanted to come in and clarify that endeavor noted in this thread was an error and should not have been there. We have resolved this by switching it out with another endeavor, one a bit more fitting for a daily.

Idinuse · November 15

It's so unfathomably dumb, the only thing I can remotely think of is that is was supposed to trigger retroactively if you've already completed the weekly, but it bugged out.

UrQuan · November 15

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, thanks for flagging this. Just wanted to come in and clarify that endeavor noted in this thread was an error and should not have been there. We have resolved this by switching it out with another endeavor, one a bit more fitting for a daily.

@ZOS_Kevin this endeavor was switched out after I had already completed it, so I went from 3/3 daily endeavors completed to 2/3 completed. I don't keep close track of how many seals I have, would the 15 seals I earned from the endeavor before it was switched out have been taken away? If not and I complete another endeavor, would that be considered an exploit since I was able to get seals from 4 endeavors today instead of only 3?

zaria · November 15

rothan117 wrote: »

If it credited for you already having finished the weekly, it would be fine but since it doesn't it is impossible for me since I had gathered 100 mats Monday.

Same farming 100 materials == clearing out some surveys.
Also the kill humanoids in PvE includes the resource guards in Cyrodil.
No its was no enemy players involved but getting killed by resource guards other guards is an PvP death, you can re-spawn at keeps, PvE deaths as in fall damage or dolmen or delve enemies and you can re-spawn at spot as standard for PvE outside group instances.

DocFrost72 · November 15

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, thanks for flagging this. Just wanted to come in and clarify that endeavor noted in this thread was an error and should not have been there. We have resolved this by switching it out with another endeavor, one a bit more fitting for a daily.

Thank you very much for the response, and thank you to the team for switching this out. Forums can be grumpy, but same day fix is a feat and I'm thankful for the hard work!

Cobble123 · November 15

So I did crafting writs on 9 chars this morning, but apparently I haven’t completed the 1 quest.

Vhellcat · November 15

Yay! No Harrowstorm for me!

Just logged in and it already has the "Complete 1 Quest" checked off for me.

Ingenon · November 15

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, thanks for flagging this. Just wanted to come in and clarify that endeavor noted in this thread was an error and should not have been there. We have resolved this by switching it out with another endeavor, one a bit more fitting for a daily.

ZOS, thanks for fixing this!

Personofsecrets · November 15

Cobble123 wrote: »

So I did crafting writs on 9 chars this morning, but apparently I haven’t completed the 1 quest.

Cyrodiilic collections could always use your help!

ZOS_Kevin · November 15

UrQuan wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, thanks for flagging this. Just wanted to come in and clarify that endeavor noted in this thread was an error and should not have been there. We have resolved this by switching it out with another endeavor, one a bit more fitting for a daily.

@ZOS_Kevin this endeavor was switched out after I had already completed it, so I went from 3/3 daily endeavors completed to 2/3 completed. I don't keep close track of how many seals I have, would the 15 seals I earned from the endeavor before it was switched out have been taken away? If not and I complete another endeavor, would that be considered an exploit since I was able to get seals from 4 endeavors today instead of only 3?

If you earned the seals prior to the endeavor switch, then you will keep the seals.

UrQuan · November 15

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi all, thanks for flagging this. Just wanted to come in and clarify that endeavor noted in this thread was an error and should not have been there. We have resolved this by switching it out with another endeavor, one a bit more fitting for a daily.

@ZOS_Kevin this endeavor was switched out after I had already completed it, so I went from 3/3 daily endeavors completed to 2/3 completed. I don't keep close track of how many seals I have, would the 15 seals I earned from the endeavor before it was switched out have been taken away? If not and I complete another endeavor, would that be considered an exploit since I was able to get seals from 4 endeavors today instead of only 3?

If you earned the seals prior to the endeavor switch, then you will keep the seals.

OK, but would it be considered an exploit to complete a 4th daily endeavor today? Because the only way that "complete 1 quest" endeavor won't pop for me now is if I don't play any more at all today...