Habitica: Weird that users can get the Veteran pet(s) without the Veteran achievement

[khipkin]

In the aftermath of the APIv3 site migration, I (along with anyone else who "weathered" the storm :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:) received the Veteran Wolf pet but not the Veteran achievement.

I think that this was intentional, but in my opinion, either one should be renamed or they should be a package deal. Until I checked just now, I assumed I had the achievement because I had the pet. I can't possibly be the only user who thought that.

Relevant string from maintenance.json:

"veteranPetAward": "At the end, you will receive a Veteran pet!"

Relevant strings from generic.json:

"veteran": "Veteran",
"veteranText": "Has weathered Habit The Grey (our pre Angular website), and has gained many battle-scars from its bugs."

[Alys]

My opinion on this is strong, highly subjective, and biased, so keep that in mind as you read. This is my personal opinion, not me speaking as a mod or admin.

I don't think they should be a package deal.
It also feels odd to rename the Veteran achievement since it's been around for so long, but that would be a better option than giving the pre-Angular achievement to newer players, if you don't want to just leave things as they are now. My vote would be for leaving things as they are. I haven't seen any other questions about this and I've read almost all the posts in the Tavern and Newbies guild since the v3 upgrade. But maybe a name change makes sense.

The Veteran achievement is special. The original website was SO buggy - much more so than anything we've seen recently - but we persisted with it because we loved it. In the very early days, it would lose tasks very regularly. I got into the habit of saving the tasks page as an HTML file several times a day so that I could recreate tasks more easily when I lost them. I even wrote a Perl script that parsed the tasks out of it and compared them to the previous saved version so that I could have an automatic list of what had changed. For any other task list application, I would have abandoned it instantly if it showed that many problems but I persisted with Habitica because the concept was awesome. The Veteran achievement really means something.

[crookedneighbor]

I completely agree with Alys.

[khipkin]

That makes sense! I just think it's weird that they're named the same thing since they don't go together.

[ghost]

@Alys You've been quoted in the 👂 Overheard Somewhere in Habitica guild. Please let me know if you want me to delete my post quoting you. Well,.. you can surely just delete my post if you don't like it there =)

[Alys]

Ha, thanks @GitHubSphinx, that's cool. :)

[lynxlynxlynx]

I have no problems with this either. The report can probably be closed, since there seems to be a consensus.