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Sayyadin
Here some short words from me as QA-Manager.
As some might have noticed the majority of the bugs currently in the game are still in achievements.
Although we invested quite some time trying to patch it to fix the problems we have decided to implement a new achievement system instead as some bugs were simply not fixable with the old system.
Decisions like this are never easy, as implementing something new is quite a lot work and still does not ensure that everything is bug free. Our testing so far did show no bugs.
However another reason to implement the new achievement system is that it enables us to implement follow up features we planned which could not be done with the old achievement system as easily.
Those features are i.e. to show in detail what you did already for an achievement or what is still missing. These features however won't be in the first version of the new achievement system.
There are some downsides about the new achievement system as always with new features. Due to the fact that also caused some of the bugs in the old achievement system some things are not properly tracked and therefore can also not be transferred to the new achievement system meaning you might lose some effort in these achievements. Those achievements however are exactly those we can't fix with the old achievement system.
Completed achievements will just be transferred over to the new achievement system and should not be lost. If you lose already finished ones please contact the support immediately. Also if you did lose some part of other achievements except for the following:
The effort on not completed achievements will be lost for the following achievements:
Explorer Grand Wanderer (can not be fixed manually)
All squad and pirate mission achievements (can not be fixed manually)
All built in components in ships that were needed for an achievement and are no longer there as ship or components was sold (can be fixed manually)
The all parsec class ship achievement if you don't own the ships any longer (can be fixed manually)
We are happy to give you this new achievement system which enables us to improve the way achievements are handled ingame.
The PTR will start today with the new version and the current state of Askone. From Monday on we will switch the state to a then current Korell state.
I hope to see you on the PTR: http://pirategalaxy.com/ptr to test this new feature with us.
As some might have noticed the majority of the bugs currently in the game are still in achievements.
Although we invested quite some time trying to patch it to fix the problems we have decided to implement a new achievement system instead as some bugs were simply not fixable with the old system.
Decisions like this are never easy, as implementing something new is quite a lot work and still does not ensure that everything is bug free. Our testing so far did show no bugs.
However another reason to implement the new achievement system is that it enables us to implement follow up features we planned which could not be done with the old achievement system as easily.
Those features are i.e. to show in detail what you did already for an achievement or what is still missing. These features however won't be in the first version of the new achievement system.
There are some downsides about the new achievement system as always with new features. Due to the fact that also caused some of the bugs in the old achievement system some things are not properly tracked and therefore can also not be transferred to the new achievement system meaning you might lose some effort in these achievements. Those achievements however are exactly those we can't fix with the old achievement system.
Completed achievements will just be transferred over to the new achievement system and should not be lost. If you lose already finished ones please contact the support immediately. Also if you did lose some part of other achievements except for the following:
The effort on not completed achievements will be lost for the following achievements:
Explorer Grand Wanderer (can not be fixed manually)
All squad and pirate mission achievements (can not be fixed manually)
All built in components in ships that were needed for an achievement and are no longer there as ship or components was sold (can be fixed manually)
The all parsec class ship achievement if you don't own the ships any longer (can be fixed manually)
We are happy to give you this new achievement system which enables us to improve the way achievements are handled ingame.
The PTR will start today with the new version and the current state of Askone. From Monday on we will switch the state to a then current Korell state.
I hope to see you on the PTR: http://pirategalaxy.com/ptr to test this new feature with us.