View Full Version : [MERGED] Quest Log Enhancement Requests.
KingAndy
10-07-2006, 06:23
After playing the game for many hours, I have the following suggestions for enhancement of the quest log:
#1 - The addition of a list of "Completed Quests" in the quest log.
They can be crossed out, just like completed sub-items in Active quets.
There are so many quests, and I have multiple characters so I have a hard time remembering if I have completed a quest, OR if I haven't found it yet. A "Completed" list sure would be helpful. It also comes in handy for quick reference of what you've already done in addition to what you are currently doing. (Is it just me, or isn't that what logs are typically used for?)
#2 - The ability to tell others in your group either 1) you need a particular quest or 2) you have completed a particular quest. This can be done via control clicking the quest in the Active or Completed quest log.
#3 - The ability to show ALL quests, completed or NOT. This could be via an "All quests" list.
Auntie I
10-07-2006, 13:17
The omission of the "completed quests" has always been a puzzle to me. It would be extremely helpful I think.
Good ideas, a shortened version is already in my suggestion list (see sticky)
Dark Lightning
22-07-2006, 07:30
There should be a tab for already finished quests, so that one can easily know if a quest was finished.
Welcome to GWO
I like the idea, but please read the "sticky" monthly suggestion list first, before posting. This idea is not new (I think I have it in my "Summary" list, which you can also find in the "sticky").
This way we can reduce the number of double posts.
Gorani
Carnius Magius
22-07-2006, 23:07
I like idea of just having the green marker over the NPCs head disappear when he has nothing for me to do.
I was hoping for some kind of flag that would tell me if I completed the bonus or not for each mission. The shields flash on the map for uncompleted missions. Why not flash a different color if the bonus isn't completed.
Avatus Culire
23-07-2006, 15:28
That would be a good idea, but I wouldn't affect anything really
Ishamael Rahvin
01-08-2006, 23:13
I don't know if this has been discussed before but I have been asked alot of questions referring to the storyine latley. What do we think about a Quest Logbook that tracks quests you have completed and you can refer too for storyline. I been playin a long time (3k + hours) and everything is kinda confusing too me now as far as the whole story goes.
Just a thought, keep up the good work A-Net!
WingspanTT
01-08-2006, 23:50
I think it's a great idea. The Q Log could just have a tab called "completed quests"
or maybe some kind of in-game journal.
Spoil of War
02-08-2006, 00:14
That's an excellent idea.
I would love to see a feature like this. There are a lot of times I want to go back through an old quest, especially when I'm helping soemone else. I basically have to ask them to paraphrase the quest for me so I can remember which quest it is lol.
Perhaps this should go in the suggestions forum.
unclesharky
02-08-2006, 04:40
I would love to see a feature like this. There are a lot of times I want to go back through an old quest, especially when I'm helping soemone else. I basically have to ask them to paraphrase the quest for me so I can remember which quest it is lol.
This is true, it would be easier to help others through the quests again.
The other problem I have is using multiple chars at approx. the same spot in the game, so I can't remember which char did which quest. To find out I have to run to the npc that gives the quest just to see if it's already done or not. That's a bit of a waste of time. Nothing major, but it would be nice just to check the "completed quests" log.
Also a great idea for story continuity and keeping all the names straight, especially if you are going to do real role playing or whatever...Good idea OP.
Ishamael Rahvin
02-08-2006, 05:24
Ok I'll post in suggestions forum =)
Scathelock
02-08-2006, 09:24
/signed, for all of the abovementioned reasons.
Since the current quest window can get a little busy as it is, depending on how many quests you've activated but haven't completed, what do you guys think of having a new window entirely? Would it be going overboard to ask for a free-typing journal to be saved on the GW servers? Or would it be best to just stick for another tabbed section labeled "Completed Quests" beneath all the different tabbed Areas in the Quest Window as it exists now?
SylverDragon
02-08-2006, 10:16
Yes, I would love this
/signed
A very good idea, I'm all for it!
Ironworks TDC
02-08-2006, 12:39
/signed. Great idea. I've posted this into a couple of suggestion threads before.
unclesharky
02-08-2006, 15:13
/signed, for all of the abovementioned reasons.
Since the current quest window can get a little busy as it is, depending on how many quests you've activated but haven't completed, what do you guys think of having a new window entirely? Would it be going overboard to ask for a free-typing journal to be saved on the GW servers? Or would it be best to just stick for another tabbed section labeled "Completed Quests" beneath all the different tabbed Areas in the Quest Window as it exists now?
I think it would be a lot to ask for a journal (although it would be cool). Personally, I'd much rather see a "notes" kind of thing for the Friend/Ignore List. Besides, another window/menu item means another keyboard shortcut AND the ability to change that in the "Control" options, etc., etc. Soooo, I think it would be more realistic to have a tab for completed quests as someone earlier had suggested. That way none of the other controls have to change.
Of course, I don't know how anything works internally, but it is obvious that the client already knows which quests you've done and which you haven't, it just doesn't display that text of the old quests anywhere. It probably wouldn't be too much of a strain on the servers, but everything they cut back makes the game more efficient and less laggy (in theory), so who knows if they'd be interested in pushing out that much more text to everyone.
Teridor Blackheart
02-08-2006, 17:26
Great idea :grin: would love this for when Im helping some of my friends who just got the game.
I think this would be awesome, but not just for the sake of following the story line. I think it also needs to show you all the quests and missions/bonuses your character has completed. Especially since the addition of Factions, the series of quests needed to get from point A to point B has grown increasingly difficult to keep track of on multiple characters. A story-line type journal and a listing of completed quests and missions would be awesome. My biggest issue is in Factions when it comes to getting to HzH/Cavalon. I spent three days trying to figure out what I missed. My guildies were trying to help - asking if I had done this quest or that mission - but in the end, it took three days to figure out what I had done and what I hadn't. I think a completion log would have solved the problem in no time. Excellent idea.
/signed.
Ishamael Rahvin
02-08-2006, 19:33
Ya I also meant for it too have a description of the completed quest that way we can follow the storyline better.
bloodsong
03-08-2006, 14:39
heyas;
good idea.
i also like the in-game scribble pad. this could be implemented like the neverwinter nights character journal, which simply creates an ascii txt file on your computer, with the character's name. the 'journal editor' is then just a simple ascii editor in the game interface. nothing too difficult or fancy. (plus, you can edit your journal notes outside the game as well.)
if you dont want more hotkeys and menu stuff, it could also be another tab in your quest log window.
Aiglos Lorien
09-08-2006, 17:34
ok errm i'm not sure whether this has been discussed before.... or whether i'm too blind to notice the game already has one, but perhaps implementing a completed quest log i.e showing those quests that you have already completed...
I know this seems pointless, and could probably just be an excuse to show off, and also it would grow to an incredibly large and confusing size... but i've noticed that i keep forgetting which quests i have already done, and then travelling to 'complete' it, only to find i've already done it.
being able to see what you have done in the game would be errm interesting? Well if you think its a bad idea, please say so, and also obliterate this thread from the face of the earth please.
Auntie I
09-08-2006, 17:40
Merged with existing thread.
Aiglos Lorien
09-08-2006, 17:48
yay, i'm glad ppl think the same (oh and apologies about not looking hard enough for an existing thread, and sorry about wasting your time and everything merging it). I think this should be a 'real' addition, as in being considered by anet atleast... i dont believe for a minute an idea like this would have not crossed their minds at all
The Religious One
29-08-2006, 20:08
It would really be useful to have a list of completed quests that you have completed for each game.
1 for Prophecies
1 for Factions
1 for Nightfall when it comes out..
What you think?
I think that would be really nice. Sometimes it's hard to remember, especially when you have a couple of character at around the same point in a campaign.
LoverOfJoy
29-08-2006, 21:39
I have wished for that since preascalon but I don' think they'll ever do it for existing campaigns. They may not have even kept track. Is there a log somewhere on my account that says I did some quest in preascalon? They probably only make a marker when they want to prevent me from doing it again. They may not keep that marker for preascalong quests since there's no possibility of doing it again anyway. So it may not even be POSSIBLE for them to fix and certainly not worth their efforts on an old campaign they've all but abandoned.
This would be nice to have. /signed
/signed
maybe even a title that says if you have done ALL the quest on the continent
Quintus Antonius
30-08-2006, 03:31
As the Lore Forum moderator, I can say this would be awesome.
As a player in a constantly changing game, I only want to see this implemented if it doesn't take energy away from things like enhanced content or features we are waiting for (like an auction house or reconnect abilities).
quest logs.. been mentioned a few times, basically a list of quests you've done. simple.
a few thoughts in my head to expand it.
purely cosmetic but could we have some sort of parchment or book display for the quest log instead of the standard GW windows? a book would be great as they you could turn multiple pages of quests. still not necessary but would be nice.
the quests in the log should be divided into Campaigns, then subdivided into areas you've visited. on the area you've visited, it should have a number like x/y, basically telling you how many quests you've done (x) over how many quests availible for that area (y). this means you'll always have a rough idea where the quests you haven't done are..
Titles!! on each campaign 'folder' there would be a number of total quests available.. ie all the area totals added up. and once you've done so many of these you earn titles! fantastic.
Might be problematic with the ratio of quests in Prophecies and faction, I'm not sure what the difference in number is. might have to add a few more to balance out the numbers. or alternatively run it on a percentage basis.. (60% of factions quests completed).
not sure what the titles would be.. Generous person of Tyria.. or.. will do what he's told of Cantha.. still.. guess I'll leave that to Anet.
C+C?
Freaking healer II
10-09-2006, 13:11
Would be a cool addition, but not really needed and therefor not on the top of the list for Anet. But I think it would be a nice feature. esspecially(forgive my spelling) a title if you have done all the quests like the protector title, if you done all the missions and bonusses.
aha.. with the revolutionary preview event, with such dense quest lines, I found myself finding NPCs I would of ignored in past, or that I'd already served, with more little green excalamation points.
surely this is the time to put in a quest log? and the respective titles?
I haven't heard Galie Gray or anyone mention this in quite sometime.
It would be nice if they ever did come out with a completed quest log that they would make a new title saying you have done 60-100% of quests for each campaign
That would seriously be awesome; it would be nice to know what quests have and haven't been completed.
I don't even necessarily need the title. But when you've got a bunch of random people in a PuG trying to do several quests, and you don't know who has which ones done because you just don't remember, it can be a serious pain.
It'd be nice to know conclusively whether you had already done a quest or not. I'm not holding my breath, but it would be nice.
D E A T H L I F E
27-09-2006, 08:21
I wonder about that many times too...Have i done all the quests for this particular place or not? .... would be awesome if we had the quest log already filled in with the quests and the ones we did not do or did not get are greyed out and the ones we did complete be in a diferent color.
Nice idea !
I never really gave any thought to it but this feature would be handy if you like to make sure you did absolutely everything available. Especially with the massive number of quests in Factions and what appears to be even more than that in nightfall I would certainly like to have the info. Its hard to track what quests have been done and doing a manual list may not be good if you forget to write some down.
I can't imagine it would take all that much to add. The system already knows what quests we have done so we can't take the quest again unless it is designed to be repeatable. Thus a simple segment of code to populate a list of the ones flagged as completed and a new tab to the quest window named completed is all that is needed.
De Daniel
27-09-2006, 08:28
I played all missions master and all quests EXEPT 1 i need help with that. I believe its kurzick Song and Stone pm me Dean the Dead
Bel Ebih
27-09-2006, 08:29
Yeah, as it stands right now, you don't know you're missing any quests untill you pass by an NPC with the green exclamation point. And you can't check if you've completeted a particular quest unless you remember every single one, or go to the NPC that gives the quest to check if it has the green exclamation point or not.
So a completed quest log, preferably with a % or #/# of quests done for each campaign, is something that would help quite a lot. Who knows, maybe it'll be implemented later on since they did a similar fix to the guild status, for example, so it shows a complete log of the people that leave on their own, which before you had no way of checking.
kamekazis
27-09-2006, 08:38
Well I dont think you can get 100% quest because say people from C1 cant do C2 quest and some times you have to do quest that give you one or the other options.
It would be great if there was a title for completing quests. It would give a goal to well established, high level characters. The quest percentage thingy would definitely take into account quests that cancel other quests and all that sort of stuff.
Auntie I
27-09-2006, 13:01
Merged this topic so that we get a more complete view of what has already been discussed.
I have also been wanting a log since I first started playing, mostly because I can be really particular about finishing everything. Especially now with Nightfall that new quests open up in previously cleared areas as you gain levels/do other quests it may be hard to keep track of what you have done/not done.
I would like to see the quest log (L) to have three tabs: :cloud9:
Active Quests
As today
Completed quest
Basically just move the quest description to the completed tab as you go. The game flags what quests you have done, so the information is already available.
Challenges await you
Not a list of quests per se, but rather a list of locations (areas/towns) where you currently have quests available to you that you have not activated yet. One could maybe have this tab only include quests in locations you have already visited (to avoid spoilers etc.)
For all these tabs the information is already available in the game, it is "only" (of course I have no idea how hard/easy it may be) to make that information available to the player also. I am not too sure about the completed quests titles though, as new quests are added, old quests changed etc.
Frostty1
27-09-2006, 14:37
The amout of quest names you can see at the top of the window needs to be adjustable with a verticle bar. ATM you can see about 4 quests at a time, less depending on how many different quest areas you have on your list.
It's a pain in the butt having to scroll through, when you have a lot of unfinished quests on the list. Especially when comparing your list with a friends.
Challenges await you
Not a list of quests per se, but rather a list of locations (areas/towns) where you currently have quests available to you that you have not activated yet. One could maybe have this tab only include quests in locations you have already visited (to avoid spoilers etc.)
Simple way to do this. For towns you have visited it could show the name of the NPC and town in parentasis as having a quest available for you to take. If the quest is in you to do list or completed then it no longer will show as available. :happy: I'm all for this as well.
Just wanted to post to add my support for this as I've been asking for it since day one, long ago. Also, send this TTT so that it gets some more exposure and hopefully seen by those that need to see it.
Angelus Dominus
29-10-2006, 00:15
#1 - The addition of a list of "Completed Quests" in the quest log.
They can be crossed out, just like completed sub-items in Active quests.
Wonderful idea. I would love to see ANet add that feature.
#2 - The ability to tell others in your group either 1) you need a particular quest or 2) you have completed a particular quest. This can be done via control clicking the quest in the Active or Completed quest log.
Now, this idea seems useless. I have the time to type out which quest I need, completed, so on and so forth. Do you?
#3 - The ability to show ALL quests, completed or NOT. This could be via an "All quests" list.
No, no, and no. If ANet allowed all quests to be shown completed or not then what's the point of making a storyline? Do you read the briefings when you do quests or do you just accept it, do it, then take your reward?
evil cheas
29-10-2006, 06:37
now that we have 3 continents i think we need a new quest log:
it will be diveded not by in wich area u got the quest but also in wich continent.
aswell like the hero window it will have 2 sections:
1. quests
2. finished quests
Angelus Dominus
29-10-2006, 06:42
There's already a thread discussing about this suggestion:
http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=409689
Laibeus Lord
29-10-2006, 08:57
Please allow us to "resize" the "reading pane" of the "Quest List"
OR
allow us to "separate" the "Quest Description" reading pane.
There's already a thread discussing about this suggestion:
http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=409689
::edit:: That thread got merged with this one. No derision was intended.
Please allow us to "resize" the "reading pane" of the "Quest List"
OR
allow us to "separate" the "Quest Description" reading pane.
DING DING DING!! We have a winner!! I don't even know how many times I've tried to grab that horizontal bar to drag it down and make the top part of the window bigger. Even if you collapse the trees of the things you're not doing right now, with 4 or 5 different locations in there, the categories STILL take up the whole "Quest Title" window. Combine that with the fact that it goes back to default (all branches open) every time you close/reopen it, and it makes Jeebus cry!
Auntie I
30-10-2006, 16:53
You DO realize that the threads got merged, and that you just linked back to this same thread, don't you?
You do realise that the threads got merged AFTER the individual you are berating had posted.
FourthVariety
07-11-2006, 08:38
With three expansions and a certain lazyness to complete all quests on all chars, the quest log is somewhat spinning out of control.
Of course there is the option of abandoning them, but there is also the option of asking for a tabbed questlog. It would look rather nice and structure the UI even more.
Blobulator
07-11-2006, 08:46
I too have found this problem. I may leave 1 or 2 quests here and there, but the fact that they are in so many different areas just creates a mass of sub-headings. My only concern is if it became tabbed that there would be just as many tabs.
I'd be happy if they could just separate the quest log by campaigns or something. So we'd have a tab for all Prophecies Quests, tab for Factions Quests, and a tab for Nightfall Quests.
I'd like to see a "completed quests log" in the game.
By accepting a quest reward, the quest would not disappear from the quest log, it would move to the completed quests (with the objectives either checked or unchecked, the checking doesn't have much sense though, a completed quest always has all objectives checked).
It would ease to answer questions, like "Have you completed the quest xyz?" etc. Also, by being able to look up the text of the quest and the objectives it could/would make remembering, what the quest was about easier (without the need to look everything up on the web).
i would like this too.
it would be nice to see what you did after you did it.
huh, just puck "L" and you know....i see no nead for it.
The Pointless
05-12-2006, 21:12
Err... no, you won't know, sorudo... He's on about quests that have been finished a long time ago and the rewards collected.
Err... no, you won't know, sorudo... He's on about quests that have been finished a long time ago and the rewards collected.
Concur, and this brings to mind a new title, something along the lines of "quest completer" to go along with the mission titles.
/signed. it would always be usefull to be able to see what quests you have done, it would make it easyer to remember what you had to do in a quest when helping a friend and maybe even you could click on the objectives in the quest and the star would come up to tell you where to go so that you have the same marker as the rest of the group in a quest rather than running arround blindly.
and if sumone asks you if you have done a quest already you dont have to go by memorie, you can just open up this window and search for it.
they could be sorted by areas, or even alphabeticallly or you could sort them into primaries and non primaries and have the primaries in completion order. and the rest sorted into areas.
Sasha Deathtouch
05-12-2006, 23:47
Great Idea
/signed
Couldn't of said it better myself
/signed
takplayer
05-12-2006, 23:53
I would really like this as well.
/signed
chirthain
06-12-2006, 17:04
You don't wanna know how many times this is suggested...
but /signed.
Kailden Jera
06-12-2006, 17:17
I'm just not signing *again* on a thing already sugested once.
And i believe it was a way more complex sugestion with concept images, pictures and beutiful lens flare special effects i think...
/already signed... Hope someone sticks this posts or something.
NameAlreadyInUse
06-12-2006, 17:42
Concur, and this brings to mind a new title, something along the lines of "quest completer" to go along with the mission titles.
/signed and what iago adds here is a nice idea too...
I enjoy a sense of 'completeness' from my games. If there are quests out there I still need to do I wouldn't mind knowing (You have completed 47 of 218 side-quests or something). Not asking to be told where they are, but knowing they were out there would be neat.
Granted, for a given chapter there would be a bunch that 'out-of-towners' would not have access to, but that is a known, set number and should be someting that could be factored in when setting up a system like this.
Again, not something that is really needed, but it would be a nice addition nonetheless.
Adrianna Wolfsong
06-12-2006, 17:51
Enthusiastically signed!!
I'm constantly reading on the forums about various quests people have done that they enjoyed or that the item reward was really nice, etc. But, if it is has been months. . .(sometimes even days, I have a REALLY bad short term memory) I can't remember if I've done it or not. And I hate to search aimlessly for the quest, only to discover later that I've already done it. This would be most helpful!!
:cutie: -Adri
Ryuho Tyrin
07-12-2006, 02:19
Personally i think this would cause complaints wtih people wanting to find active quests. there are so many quests that the list would end up being way too long. it would be better to put completed quests in their own window. that way they dont interfere with finding a specific active quest.
Would love an updated quest log including more options. :smiley:
Personally i think this would cause complaints wtih people wanting to find active quests. there are so many quests that the list would end up being way too long. it would be better to put completed quests in their own window. that way they dont interfere with finding a specific active quest.
that was the idea :huh:
Luckymofo
28-05-2007, 11:57
I was wondering if Anet would consider adding a 'quest done, check off list system because sometimes I forget which quests I have already done and it's time consuming to run an explorable area to check with an npc.
If not in GW1, I hope they add it in GW2.
Chim Achukma
28-05-2007, 17:14
I agree that completed quests should not disappear from your Quest Log entirely; there should just be an option to filter them out.
Another thing that bothers me sometimes is that I am not sure if I have found all the quests in a certain area. I realize that giving a list of all available quests beforehand kind of defeats the purpose of exploring. However I see an opportunity here to introduce a new Title, displaying the total amount of quests that you have completed in each area or similar to the Hard-Mode map icons used for vanquishing. A problem arises when new quests are introduced to the game though.
Mister Smartypants
28-05-2007, 20:51
I've seen this suggested before in at least one of the big discussion threads, but having it as an actual suggestion in the proper forum is no bad thing. Anyways, it's a good idea, so /signed :smiley:
the best thing they can do is making a window next to the travel window where you can see witch one must be done, so there is not realy a nead for a check list.
Between several PvE characters, it becomes difficult to remember/track which quests you have completed.
I strongly suggest that the Quest List have an expandable list of quests completed on that character.
Thank you,
Zell
The Iron Monkey
17-10-2007, 18:13
Hi. Some of us like to try to get every possible quest, mission, bonus, etc... it is a "completeness" disease. Anyway, I know ArenaNet knows what quests and missions I have completed with a char (they even know how many times I have died!).
My suggestion is a command the user can type in town to request a "Progress Report". The progress Report would have some vital statistics of your character (how old, professions, etc), a list of missions, bonuses and quests completed, a report on titles achieved. The report would be emailed to the home email account.
I know with a lot of patience I can sit down and write most of this down. But why not make computers work for us? The report could then be used by some players to check progress and figure out what is missing to complete their character's progress.
Thanks. :smiley:
Erasculio
17-10-2007, 18:17
Anyway, I know ArenaNet knows what quests and missions I have completed with a char (they even know how many times I have died!).
I'm not sure of this, though. Think about the Hall of Monuments' statues for completition of The Deep, Urgoz's Warren and Sorrow's Furnace: we have to do them after the release of GW:EN, as apparently the game was not tracking if we had done these quests before the release of Eye of the North. If the same thing applies to the other quests, I have the feeling Arena Net does not really track what quests we have done with each character.
Erasculio
The Iron Monkey
17-10-2007, 20:01
I would have to imagine they might not know WHEN it was done, specially on areas that where added after the character was made. But they do take care not to offer you a quest again you already did, so they must know (maybe just a bit with Y/N) on a bitmap.
Another option with this would be to make it something like the books we carry now in EoN, with the dungeons and the quests, but a book you get to keep as a record of your deeds. But that would mean more data storage per char, and maybe they don't want that.
My original suggestion above is merely a dump of the bitmap (interpreted for us, of course) that they probably carry at this time. No added storage required.
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