newnamtab wrote: »

Thank you for that tip :-)

I was gonna post the bug myself, as I've sofar collected 3 keys, including the one from the quest line.
But when I logged on this morning, the challenge counter said I had 6 keys.

maybe a tip but for me a bug ;/

To add a bit more information to this...

1. Collect a key from any source - it counts as getting a key (expected behavior)
2. If you got that key from stealing, then laundering a key counts as getting a key
3. Depositing a key into the Bank counts as getting a key
4. Withdrawing a key from the Bank counts as getting a key

Basically, it looks like any time inventory (pack or Bank) sees a key coming in, it counts for the challenge as getting a key and that includes the status change from "stolen" to "not stolen."

Quick question about inventory space: I want to bank my Nowhere keys but I know it tricks the 'Collect 10 Nowhere keys' seasonal challenge into progressing.

If I don't actually claim the 1000 tome points until I've legitimately earned all 10 keys via daily favors or other in-game mechanics, do you think there's still a risk of getting banned/sanctioned for it?

WILC0 wrote: »

Quick question about inventory space: I want to bank my Nowhere keys but I know it tricks the 'Collect 10 Nowhere keys' seasonal challenge into progressing.

If I don't actually claim the 1000 tome points until I've legitimately earned all 10 keys via daily favors or other in-game mechanics, do you think there's still a risk of getting banned/sanctioned for it?

I hope not, because so far I've collected 6 Unformed Planar Keys on one server-- 5 from doing the Favors, and 1 more from a Dynamic Encounter-- which completed the Seasonal Challenge prematurely. And on the other server I've collected 5 Unformed Planar Keys-- 4 from doing the Favors, and 1 more from a Thieves Trove-- which also completed the Seasonal Challenge. We are guaranteed to receive 6 from the Favors, but since the last Favor for Lady Arabelle Davaux is bugged, at the moment we can collect only 5 that way-- and if we put each Unformed Planar key in the bank, 5 is enough to complete the Seasonal Challenge prematurely. Also, if laundering a "stolen" Unformed Planar Key causes the counter to increment, the Seasonal Challenge could get completed by finding fewer than 5 actual keys, since finding, laundering, and then depositing 1 key will be counted as 3 keys by the challenge.

Now, if someone completed the challenge with just 1 key by repeatedly depositing and withdrawing it until the challenge mistakenly counted it as 10 keys, that might be seen as deliberately exploiting this bug.

But since a non-exploiting player will complete the challenge early without meaning to by receiving and banking 5 of the 6 guaranteed keys from Favors, and since "stolen" keys can drop from Thieves Troves, the only way to avoid completing the challenge early would be to deliberately refrain from banking or laundering any keys until the bug gets fixed.

However, if ZOS had expected that the majority of players should easily be able to complete the challenge by the end of this Season by receiving 6 guaranteed keys from Favors and 4 more from other sources-- Dynamic Encounters, Thieves Troves, and any other intended sources-- they might decide that anyone who completed the challenge early due to the bug would have completed it eventually, anyway, so "no harm, no foul."

But I definitely wouldn't recommend repeatedly depositing and withdrawing a key just to trigger the bug and complete the challenge as soon as you can, because that would be a blatant exploitation of the bug.