Stop golden pursuits adding to quest list?

Danikat · January 24

Is there an addon which will stop Golden Pursuits adding themselves to the quest log in your UI?

I know you can unpin them, but I just found out they'll "helpfully" add themselves back in when you do things which count towards them. I'd already unpinned the one for completing quests, then I happened to dig up a treasure chest and noticed the one for finding treasure chests added itself in.

I'd really like to be able to prevent this entirely. If and when I do want to track a golden pursuit I could obviously turn it off, but until then I'd really like them to leave me alone but can't find a way to do it with the game's default options so I'm hoping someone's made an addon.

Baertram · February 5

Try to add that to any addon's EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED callback function:

    function PROMOTIONAL_EVENT_TRACKER.Update()
        local hidden = true -- Always hide

    --[[ original code here, commented
        if not IsPromotionalEventSystemLocked() then
            local campaignKey, activityIndex = GetTrackedPromotionalEventActivityInfo()
            if campaignKey ~= 0 then
                local campaignData = PROMOTIONAL_EVENT_MANAGER:GetCampaignDataByKey(campaignKey)
                if campaignData then
                    local activityData = campaignData:GetActivityData(activityIndex)
                    if activityData then
                        self:SetSubLabelText(activityData:GetDisplayName())
                    
                        local progress = activityData:GetProgress()
                        local completionThreshold = activityData:GetCompletionThreshold()
                        local progressText = zo_strformat(SI_PROMOTIONAL_EVENT_TRACKER_PROGRESS_FORMATTER, ZO_CommaDelimitNumber(progress), ZO_CommaDelimitNumber(completionThreshold))
                        self.progressLabel:SetText(progressText)
                        hidden = false
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    ]]
        PROMOTIONAL_EVENT_TRACKER:GetFragment():SetHiddenForReason("NoTrackedPromotionalEvent", hidden, DEFAULT_HUD_DURATION, DEFAULT_HUD_DURATION)
    end

I did not really test it but it should hide the total golden pursuits tracker UI on the screen. Always

Baertram · February 6

I've added a setting (and a keybind to toggle) to my FCO CHangestuff addon, to hide the golden pursuits tracker (and maybe more in the future).
The addon also got other helpers but you can turn them all off if you do not like to use them. Nothing is loaded or changed if they are off then so it's pretty stable and I'm around to fix it too.

calitrumanb14_ESO · February 6

Baertram wrote: »

I've added a setting (and a keybind to toggle) to my FCO CHangestuff addon, to hide the golden pursuits tracker (and maybe more in the future).
The addon also got other helpers but you can turn them all off if you do not like to use them. Nothing is loaded or changed if they are off then so it's pretty stable and I'm around to fix it too.

Works beautifully. Thank you!

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · February 6

Thanks for the feedback on this @Danikat! We've passed this along to the dev team.

UrQuan · February 6

Piggybacking on this to say that I really like having the ability to choose to pin a golden pursuit to my screen to track it, but I HATE when it gets automatically pinned to my screen without me selecting it.

msetten · February 6

At least you can actually pin a golden pursuits quest to the main screen. For PS5 it still doesn't work. We can pin a quest, but it just doesn't show up. (And when we claim a GP reward, the message on the screen saying you can claim a GP reward won't go u till you have traveled to a different zone. Luckily, it temporarily hides itself in combat)

Baertram · February 6

UrQuan wrote: »

Piggybacking on this to say that I really like having the ability to choose to pin a golden pursuit to my screen to track it, but I HATE when it gets automatically pinned to my screen without me selecting it.

I'll check if I can do something against that by the help of an addon, maybe there is a way to detect if that particular golden pursuit was finished already and skip selection of the tracker then.

Danikat · February 6

Baertram wrote: »

I've added a setting (and a keybind to toggle) to my FCO CHangestuff addon, to hide the golden pursuits tracker (and maybe more in the future).
The addon also got other helpers but you can turn them all off if you do not like to use them. Nothing is loaded or changed if they are off then so it's pretty stable and I'm around to fix it too.

Thank you! For both the code and adding it into an addon and adding the keybind.

I put the code into Endeavor Tracker (because that seemed logical to me) and it worked.

UrQuan wrote: »

Piggybacking on this to say that I really like having the ability to choose to pin a golden pursuit to my screen to track it, but I HATE when it gets automatically pinned to my screen without me selecting it.

I'm the same. It's a nice option to have if and when I want to do one of them, but I want it to be my choice.

After the event and the last golden pursuit ended I was looking forward to a while of the game letting me focus on my own priorities instead of nagging me to do what it thinks I should be doing, then I found myself once again having to disable them on all my characters.

Baertram · February 6

Baertram wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Piggybacking on this to say that I really like having the ability to choose to pin a golden pursuit to my screen to track it, but I HATE when it gets automatically pinned to my screen without me selecting it.

I'll check if I can do something against that by the help of an addon, maybe there is a way to detect if that particular golden pursuit was finished already and skip selection of the tracker then.

I think I found a way to make that auto-pinnign of unfinished golden pursuits (I wrote already finished above, which makes no sense^^) stop.
Need some more testing and if that works I'll also add it as a setting to FCOChangeStuff.

Edit:
Added setting to disable automatic selection of Golden Pursuits
If the setting is enabled: Finishing that golden pursuit won't select a next one, and upon login with a character it neither selects any golden pursuit.
You always have to manually select any pin from the list.

TaSheen · February 7

@Baertram - you are a PRINCE. Thank you!