Butter Audit

Hi,

Apologies if it ain't right to ask here, but, would it be possible to request an admin in the support channel to audit the amount of HQ items a player has crafted?

You see, I'm trying to craft HQ Smooth Butter 10,000 times for the Master Culnarian title. The problem is, I haven't videorecorded my progress up to this point, and I've crafted 36 HQ items beforehand, so I will need to do a victory lap of 200 churns after I get the achievement, just to ensure I've actually made it 10,000 times, and I'll need some way of verifying I've crafted all that butter.

Is this something we are able to request? If not, does anyone know if we're able to request an achievement's progress be reset? That way, I could start again from 0 and videorecord every craft for verification on that second chance.

Current progress btw (minus 36):
https://i.imgur.com/IX0CusG.png

I mean, you can try to contact support and ask them about it, but more than likely you're better off just doing small increments a day so you don't lose track of how many you've made. Screenshot the number if you have to in order to keep yourself sane.

Personally I wouldn't ask to reset the counter and just make small progress every day. The progress bar will fill up eventually. You'll also get the notification when you hit the achievement.

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Originally Posted by Rore

Hi,

Apologies if it ain't right to ask here, but, would it be possible to request an admin in the support channel to audit the amount of HQ items a player has crafted?

You see, I'm trying to craft HQ Smooth Butter 10,000 times for the Master Culnarian title. The problem is, I haven't videorecorded my progress up to this point, and I've crafted 36 HQ items beforehand, so I will need to do a victory lap of 200 churns after I get the achievement, just to ensure I've actually made it 10,000 times, and I'll need some way of verifying I've crafted all that butter.

Is this something we are able to request? If not, does anyone know if we're able to request an achievement's progress be reset? That way, I could start again from 0 and videorecord every craft for verification on that second chance.

Current progress btw (minus 36):
https://i.imgur.com/IX0CusG.png

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I..... I don't get this. You're saying you want the Master Culinarian title. So you're crafting HQ butter to fill in the requirements to achieve that title. And the game is clearly tracking it for you. You're at 5,486 as of making that post. But you're asking for an audit of how many HQ items you've made? When the game is very clearly telling you? Like, the only way I can make sense of this is you're asking for something else than what you're implying.

Nyes, but it's only tracking /any/ HQ item. There's no way to prove I've crafted the specific item to attain the title, unless I videorecorded my progress, or if someone had access to my craft history logs and could officially verify. I've only crafted HQ butter 5,450 times as of that screenshot, but the progress is counting the items I crafted beforehand as well. I need to craft HQ butter 10,000 times, but, I will attain the achievement after a total of 9,964 churns (this is why I need to do at least another 36 churns after getting the achievement).

I know hobbyist developers and database admins for another MMO and they've said there should be a way to audit how many times a specific item was generated by a player. It's in a similar vein to an investigation, where a player's item interaction history would be looked at when they've been flagged for suspicious activity.

I have reason to believe an administrator can query how many times I've crafted HQ Smooth Butter by its item ID; I need to know if they could do that for me, and post confirmation publicly, to canonize my minimum 10,000 churns for the title. If not, then I need to know if they could completely reset my progress- then I could publicize and audit my own churning to prove I'm doing it 10,000 times.

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Originally Posted by Rore

Hi,

Apologies if it ain't right to ask here, but, would it be possible to request an admin in the support channel to audit the amount of HQ items a player has crafted?

You see, I'm trying to craft HQ Smooth Butter 10,000 times for the Master Culnarian title. The problem is, I haven't videorecorded my progress up to this point, and I've crafted 36 HQ items beforehand, so I will need to do a victory lap of 200 churns after I get the achievement, just to ensure I've actually made it 10,000 times, and I'll need some way of verifying I've crafted all that butter.

Is this something we are able to request? If not, does anyone know if we're able to request an achievement's progress be reset? That way, I could start again from 0 and videorecord every craft for verification on that second chance.

Current progress btw (minus 36):
https://i.imgur.com/IX0CusG.png

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The tracker says it right there...

Like, you'll get the achievement when you do 10k Crafts that are HQ. Simple as that. No need to really keep track of it all honestly since it'll come naturally if you craft a lot.

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Originally Posted by Rore

Nyes, but it's only tracking /any/ HQ item. There's no way to prove I've crafted the specific item to attain the title, unless I videorecorded my progress, or if someone had access to my craft history logs and could officially verify. I've only crafted HQ butter 5,450 times as of that screenshot, but the progress is counting the items I crafted beforehand as well. I need to craft HQ butter 10,000 times, but, I will attain the achievement after a total of 9,964 churns (this is why I need to do at least another 36 churns after getting the achievement).

I know hobbyist developers and database admins for another MMO and they've said there should be a way to audit how many times a specific item was generated by a player. It's in a similar vein to an investigation, where a player's item interaction history would be looked at when they've been flagged for suspicious activity.

I have reason to believe an administrator can query how many times I've crafted HQ Smooth Butter by its item ID; I need to know if they could do that for me, and post confirmation publicly, to canonize my minimum 10,000 churns for the title. If not, then I need to know if they could completely reset my progress- then I could publicize and audit my own churning to prove I'm doing it 10,000 times.

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Support also isn't meant for doing things like this unless there's illicit activity(i.e. Cheating, Third Party Tools, etc.) involved. This would probably be tossed out and denied since that would involve publishing FFXIV's data.

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Originally Posted by HyperiusUltima

Support also isn't meant for doing things like this unless there's illicit activity(i.e. Cheating, Third Party Tools, etc.) involved. This would probably be tossed out and denied since that would involve publishing FFXIV's data.

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That's fair, but what about resetting achievement progress?

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Originally Posted by Rore

Nyes, but it's only tracking /any/ HQ item. There's no way to prove I've crafted the specific item to attain the title, unless I videorecorded my progress, or if someone had access to my craft history logs and could officially verify. I've only crafted HQ butter 5,450 times as of that screenshot, but the progress is counting the items I crafted beforehand as well. I need to craft HQ butter 10,000 times, but, I will attain the achievement after a total of 9,964 churns (this is why I need to do at least another 36 churns after getting the achievement).

I know hobbyist developers and database admins for another MMO and they've said there should be a way to audit how many times a specific item was generated by a player. It's in a similar vein to an investigation, where a player's item interaction history would be looked at when they've been flagged for suspicious activity.

I have reason to believe an administrator can query how many times I've crafted HQ Smooth Butter by its item ID; I need to know if they could do that for me, and post confirmation publicly, to canonize my minimum 10,000 churns for the title. If not, then I need to know if they could completely reset my progress- then I could publicize and audit my own churning to prove I'm doing it 10,000 times.

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This is exactly what the support team should be devoting it's time to tbh. I suggest filing a ticket after every craft and then at the end ask them how many tickets you've sent them.

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Originally Posted by ClayyLmao

This is exactly what the support team should be devoting it's time to tbh. I suggest filing a ticket after every craft and then at the end ask them how many tickets you've sent them.

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Don't listen to this guy. I can tell you're new but seriously: Don't.

If anything you could get suspended by doing this.

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Originally Posted by Rore

That's fair, but what about resetting achievement progress?

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The only time they've reset achievement progress is when cheating has been involved, namely only related to Ultimate content where cheaters used Third Party Tools to roll their way into World First, only to then have both their Weapons AND their Titles revoked due to this along with punishment. They won't reset your Achievement progress over things you've been doing just because you haven't video recorded it, and honestly it's a really dumb way to use Support. Don't file any tickets with them unless it's for one of the reasons stated in the Support Desk - that's what it's there for.

It's just a bit of butterbanter, I got it, no worries.

I may just need to craft 10k butter on livestream.

I could remake all the butter I gave away, but that's at LEAST 500 stacks of high quality smooth butter. My lala is already leaving a trail of ghee wherever she goes, and there's no point in getting the "Master" Culnarian title from just churning butter if I can't prove it.

This is gonna be an even longer and more arduous churney than I thought.

And don't let my wordplay fool you, I am deadset on /chearning/ this title by just making butter. >:)

Thank you guys.

Well...you do you I guess. You're going to get it anyway eventually since 10,000 HQ Crafts isn't a big deal if you craft often. I don't even see the point of crafting that much on a stream tbh since it's a waste of time aside from your own obsession with it.

Unless you're going for an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records you shouldn't worry.

The achievement is stated plainly "Craft 10,000 high-quality items as a Culinarian". Your screenshot indicates 5,486 HQ items towards that goal. There are no requirements that it be 10,000 of the same item, just that you craft that number of HQ items as culinarian.

So, 4,514 more HQ items to go. Butter, bread, soup, whatever. All will work.

I uh, should've mentioned I'm only level 36 CUL atm. I've taken this challenge on at around level 10 and I've been doing nothing but churn butter with 3-4 actions per craft for the past 5k+ churns. I haven't even don't the level 10 quest "Dodo It Yourself". The whole meme is that I'm getting Master Culnarian before level 50, making nothing but butter.

https://i.imgur.com/Sk5OX3m.png

You have a point, later on it'll be very trivial. Maybe at later levels I can go for 1,000,000 churns...

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Originally Posted by Rore

I uh, should've mentioned I'm only level 36 CUL atm. I've taken this challenge on at around level 10 and I've been doing nothing but churn butter with 3-4 actions per craft for the past 5k+ churns. I haven't even don't the level 10 quest "Dodo It Yourself". The whole meme is that I'm getting Master Culnarian before level 50, making nothing but butter.

https://i.imgur.com/Sk5OX3m.png

You have a point, later on it'll be very trivial. Maybe at later levels I can go for 1,000,000 churns...

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My guy - you are going to burn out before you even consider that. If anything, go try something else and don't churn yourself into butter for god's sake.

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Originally Posted by Rore

It's just a bit of butterbanter, I got it, no worries.

I may just need to craft 10k butter on livestream.

I could remake all the butter I gave away, but that's at LEAST 500 stacks of high quality smooth butter. My lala is already leaving a trail of ghee wherever she goes, and there's no point in getting the "Master" Culnarian title from just churning butter if I can't prove it.

This is gonna be an even longer and more arduous churney than I thought.

And don't let my wordplay fool you, I am deadset on /chearning/ this title by just making butter. >:)

Thank you guys.

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How could you gave away 500 stacks of the butter and are only half way through the achievement? To get 500 stacks you would've needed to craft 100,000 times. You get only 50 stacks (+ 50 individual) of butter if you craft it 10,000 times.

Also your crafted butter has your name tag on it. You could just record how you hover over your 50 stacks of butter with your name tag on it.

Just use best fren Arty and do something else in the meantme

You are hilarious af
https://tenor.com/3pDu.gif

Don't listen to these people, they don't appreciate a HQ cryptid when they see one. I support your noble quest to be the most unhinged butter manufacturer in Eorzea lol


It might be time to pull out the good ol' spreadsheet and manually keep count of how much you craft every day. I'd store all the butter in a retainer and put it there at the end of every crafting session so you can simply write down the amount in your inventory every time. Sucks to start all over, but at least you can keep track of it nicely if you decide to do so.