Guild Wars 2

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Did you change maps at any point? That will reset your progress. (So players can’t abuse it by switching to another map when they’re about to die.)

Suddenly I felt like playing some PvP cause I had the daily left on it and got mad when my achievement didn’t continue after that.. ._.

So what if you use the portals in la?
You have to be able to do the dailies somehow without ruining the achievement :I

Hi,
I’m still missing my lifetime survivor achievement since the achievement-problems several days ago. Any news about this problem?

Thanks in advance

I would also like to know what’s up with this. There was a big thread somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it.

Okay so… you have to get all 500k experience in one sitting, without logging out or changing the area. That is the single most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, but it explains a lot.

I got my first tier earlier, and got to 64% before leaving an area. Since then it hasn’t progressed in the least and it’s been driving me insane, despite having earned well over 500k experience since it stopped progressing. Good to know it’s an inane implementation and not a bug. That’s… that’s just great.

I understand that this is an old topic, but I’m siding with a lot of these players, here. This NEEDS to be added to the mouseover description of the achievement. I spent the whole kitten day trying to figure out why I couldn’t get this, and no one could give me an accurate answer.

Frankly, this shouldn’t be implemented at all. If you survive 500k experience’s worth of battle or whatever, then you should get it. Zoning out should NOT matter for this. I haven’t logged off to prevent death, or run through a portal to prevent it. I lost 64% of this title just because of a ridiculous mechanic that punishes honest players for nothing.

When in doubt about how something might work in-game, you can often find answers in the wiki, thus preventing a loss of a whole day’s game-time.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page

Hope this will be helpful in the future. =)

Johnny Whoa.8126:

Okay so… you have to get all 500k experience in one sitting, without logging out or changing the area. That is the single most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, but it explains a lot.

I got my first tier earlier, and got to 64% before leaving an area. Since then it hasn’t progressed in the least and it’s been driving me insane, despite having earned well over 500k experience since it stopped progressing. Good to know it’s an inane implementation and not a bug. That’s… that’s just great.

I understand that this is an old topic, but I’m siding with a lot of these players, here. This NEEDS to be added to the mouseover description of the achievement. I spent the whole kitten day trying to figure out why I couldn’t get this, and no one could give me an accurate answer.

Frankly, this shouldn’t be implemented at all. If you survive 500k experience’s worth of battle or whatever, then you should get it. Zoning out should NOT matter for this. I haven’t logged off to prevent death, or run through a portal to prevent it. I lost 64% of this title just because of a ridiculous mechanic that punishes honest players for nothing.

For the record it was never actually “so players can’t abuse it” The early responses I always got from support regarding this were that it was a known bug without a fix timetable. At some point they decided it was just not something they wanted to fix so it became “abuse prevention”

Or…different people have different ideas about it, like say the designer and the developer who implemented it… And despite having different ideas on it, they can both be right, yet they then communicate different messages to support.

Pure speculation, mind, but I face the same at my own job. One person designs it, another implements the design, filling in all the blank lines in the design spec (‘Cheating Countermeasures’ …cheating, cheating… How exactly does one cheat at this….?) a third person writes the documentation, and an entirely different department supports it. Unless there’s an insane level of communication between all 4 parties, the fine print can get lost in the cracks.

//Portable Corpse
(‘Update hazmat shipping papers’. Shipping paperwork… Don’t we need a ship-from and ship-to address on this?)

Srsly?

People are complaining about this for at least a year, by the dates on the posts, and you haven’t even added a “Must be in one zone” disclaimer to the mouseover? I’ve been posting bug reports for 3 days now, because I was seeing it start then stop, and having no idea why. YES – I realize checking here is pro (which is why I’m here now) but there was no reason to think this was an intentional thing. For the love of Grenth, I had 604K exp – all written down – at my last death, and that was rounding down and NOT counting individual mob kills, just events and significant exp. And Im finding this out now :*(

Why would you leave this so unclear? I can understand early on but these posts are a year old and the SAME thing is happening to people.

Logic > you, Anet

/disapproval on

I will say that knowing about the zoning thing made the achievement significantly easier to acquire. Having not explored the whole map, I took a couple or exp boosters to a map my character had never been to and cleared it all out, killing everything in the process, and I managed to get it.

However, I tend to go between areas pretty often. Staying in one zone for long enough to build up that much experience is kind of a rarity.

So again, Anet. PLEASE add that to the achievement description. It is a MASSIVE pain losing progress on that achievement and not knowing why.

This needs an update, even after one year. Just update the tooltip and you will save countless souls suffering (including me).

Also, you can totally cheese this out by using 3 tomes of knowledge between the levels of 70-77.

This is so unfair. Don’t you think you must put a description to the achievement that you must stay on the same map to do it. I’ve learned about that when i came here to post for a problem, when i’ve changed the map and it stopped to count on 95%.
Now simply i don’t have the patience to try to do it again. Absolutely stupid.

OMG, why don’t just write that “one session,one map” thing into the tooltip?

I created a whole new character just for that achievement (okay I needed a guardian anyway ) and reached level ~36 by now without dying. But I ve not even got Tier 1 -.-
That means, I kinda wasted a lot of time because at these lower levels you need to go from level 1 – 39 for 500k EXP…. yeah I’d like to see that on one map in one session -.-

So I m doing this crafting thing with my 80 now, which feels waaaaaay more like cheating to be honest, but obviously the achievement isn’t about surviving at all.

Could someone Pin this thread or email it to all Players please?
It would save them from a lot of frustration

I cant understand why getting this title seems so hard for other players.
I have 2 accounts – one on usa servers and other is on euro servers , the euro one had very little done on it and to my surprise i got the survivor title without even trying or even thinking about it – and no im not boasting or anything as im just a normal casual player not a die hard fanatic with the uber best skillbar/armor etc.
The only help i can offer those who are having problems – use xp scrolls + food + tuning crystals and do events or champ trains in queensdale – im sure many players when in the train are able to keep alive long enough to rack up the xp needed.
nadefang – survivor never really meant much since gw1 had eye of the north and you could make a survivor from scratch an dwarf box the title in a few hrs.
GW2 survivor title is like the rest of the titles – no meaning or use and the only benefit to players is the achievement points you get from doing them.