[PC-NA] Housing Achievments Resetting

ShellaSunshine

I own all of these homes except the Sugar bowl suite because I don't own the Elsweyr chapter yet. I have visited each of these residencies numerous times on my main character and even furnished them and, yet, every so often the Permanent Resident achievement resets itself.

It started the day after Elsweyr released and two times after the last 2 large patches that came out.

I don't know what's going on but several of my housing achievements have been completely reset. Including all of the decorating ones which I had already completed years ago. I just didn't feel like taking screenshots of every single housing achievement that got reset because it's a lot of them. I'm actually quite upset that now I have to remove everything from my house just to replace them to reclaim the same achievements I had already previously unlocked.

Is anyone else's housing achievements resetting?



As you can see from the screenshot, some of my decorator achievements are incomplete even though I had completed them years ago. The Undercroft one automatically popped when I got back to my house but no the others meaning I have to remove all of my decorations to replace them in order to get them back.

This is such a time consuming thing. Who wants to replace 100+ objects to reclaim achievements they had already unlocked previously?

I'm hoping there's a fix coming because I don't want to waste time removing all of my furnishings just so I can reclaim my achievements in order to buy Achievement Furnishings in the future.

Shadowshire

ShellaSunshine wrote: »

I own all of these homes except the Sugar bowl suite because I don't own the Elsweyr chapter yet. I have visited each of these residencies numerous times on my main character and even furnished them and, yet, every so often the Permanent Resident achievement resets itself.

It started the day after Elsweyr released and two times after the last 2 large patches that came out.

....

I'm hoping there's a fix coming because I don't want to waste time removing all of my furnishings just so I can reclaim my achievements in order to buy Achievement Furnishings in the future.

It is worth bearing in mind that some Achievements are recorded only for each character on which they are fulfilled. But I believe that the Housing Achievements category is for the player, regardless of which character(s) fulfill or participate in fulfilling the requirements for an achievement to be recognized.

The Permanent Tenant Achievement, in particular, has never been recorded reliably or consistently. At least one of my 4 characters has entered each and every one of the "inn rooms" via its respective door. All of them contain at least one furnishing item. However, only the last two on the list are currently check-marked. Also, the one-room "apartment" which I bought in the Sisters of the Sands Inn, Sentinel, is not on that list at all.

Unfortunately, in my own experience, two things about playing TESO have been true:

1. The game system does not reliably maintain the integrity of the Achievements records, in particular, among others.
   
   For example, I had to re-play almost all of the entire quest chain across the five zones of the Aldmeri Dominion to restore the title "Dominion Hero" to one of my characters -- after ZOS/Bethesda trashed his Quest Achievements. Also I had to re-play many other quests in Aklik'r Desert, Bangkorai, and Stormhaven to eventually complete the Cadwell's Gold achievement for that character, too. Frankly, I was surprised to find that I could re-play the necessary quests, and/or that enough quests remained available to satisfy the total number of quests required to be completed for each zone. Suffice it to say that I encountered some quirks while re-playing the same content, and only two quests remain uncompleted in Ghratwood.
   
   
2. The ZOS/Bethesda software developers and "maintainers" (if there are any of the latter) might eventually find the bug(s) which have caused the situation that you describe, and correct the problems. When they do, there might be a brief mention of it somewhere in the Patch Notes for the most recent "patch" or update release -- or maybe not.
   
   However, that does not mean that any records which were corrupted will be restored or the data corrected. It only means that it might not ever happen again to some other player(s) -- or to your position in the game after you have repeated the actions necessary to fulfill an Achievement yet again. The Support staff is of no assistance, and, in my experience, also will not advise you to re-play the game to fulfill the requirements for the respective "former" Achievements. They are powerless, and seem afraid to say much which they could tell you -- but discretion is the better part of valor.

So, I sorrow to be the bearer of sad tidings. Naturally, I fervently hope against experience that these two things will eventually be no longer true. But after almost 5 years, clearly TESO is what it is, and it will never be what it could have become.

Enjoy!

ShellaSunshine

Shadowshire wrote: »

ShellaSunshine wrote: »

I own all of these homes except the Sugar bowl suite because I don't own the Elsweyr chapter yet. I have visited each of these residencies numerous times on my main character and even furnished them and, yet, every so often the Permanent Resident achievement resets itself.

It started the day after Elsweyr released and two times after the last 2 large patches that came out.

....

I'm hoping there's a fix coming because I don't want to waste time removing all of my furnishings just so I can reclaim my achievements in order to buy Achievement Furnishings in the future.

It is worth bearing in mind that some Achievements are recorded only for each character on which they are fulfilled. But I believe that the Housing Achievements category is for the player, regardless of which character(s) fulfill or participate in fulfilling the requirements for an achievement to be recognized.

The Permanent Tenant Achievement, in particular, has never been recorded reliably or consistently. At least one of my 4 characters has entered each and every one of the "inn rooms" via its respective door. All of them contain at least one furnishing item. However, only the last two on the list are currently check-marked. Also, the one-room "apartment" which I bought in the Sisters of the Sands Inn, Sentinel, is not on that list at all.

Unfortunately, in my own experience, two things about playing TESO have been true:

1. The game system does not reliably maintain the integrity of the Achievements records, in particular, among others.
   
   For example, I had to re-play almost all of the entire quest chain across the five zones of the Aldmeri Dominion to restore the title "Dominion Hero" to one of my characters -- after ZOS/Bethesda trashed his Quest Achievements. Also I had to re-play many other quests in Aklik'r Desert, Bangkorai, and Stormhaven to eventually complete the Cadwell's Gold achievement for that character, too. Frankly, I was surprised to find that I could re-play the necessary quests, and/or that enough quests remained available to satisfy the total number of quests required to be completed for each zone. Suffice it to say that I encountered some quirks while re-playing the same content, and only two quests remain uncompleted in Ghratwood.
   
   
2. The ZOS/Bethesda software developers and "maintainers" (if there are any of the latter) might eventually find the bug(s) which have caused the situation that you describe, and correct the problems. When they do, there might be a brief mention of it somewhere in the Patch Notes for the most recent "patch" or update release -- or maybe not.
   
   However, that does not mean that any records which were corrupted will be restored or the data corrected. It only means that it might not ever happen again to some other player(s) -- or to your position in the game after you have repeated the actions necessary to fulfill an Achievement yet again. The Support staff is of no assistance, and, in my experience, also will not advise you to re-play the game to fulfill the requirements for the respective "former" Achievements. They are powerless, and seem afraid to say much which they could tell you -- but discretion is the better part of valor.

So, I sorrow to be the bearer of sad tidings. Naturally, I fervently hope against experience that these two things will eventually be no longer true. But after almost 5 years, clearly TESO is what it is, and it will never be what it could have become.

Enjoy!

Are you even a moderator? Please stop posting in people's threads unless you provide actual help to these problems.

Kodiak709

@Shadowshire

How did you get ZOS to reset your Quest related achievements? I Had the final achievement in the murkmire mainquest bug out on me; limiting me from getting that one along with the Grand adventurer achievement in that zone, putting me at a 60 point loss. I have made a forum post and also many tickets with comm silence on ZOS' end. As a achievement hunter with close to 37000 points on this character (pre dragonhold), I'm sure you can imagine how much this bothers me. Any insight or advice would be greatly apprecitated.

Thank you,

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