Chronicle - Mission/Quest Tracking

I decided to finally do some of the quests in this game, but instead, I ended up making an addon to track the progress of missions/quests with a full UI, providing in-game walkthroughs, searching, filtering, sorting...

I have yet to do any actual quests.

Anyway, here it is:

https://github.com/jintawk/ffxi-chronicle

You can find install/usage instructions in the README

Disclaimer:

Due to the very large nature of missions/quests, I can guarantee there will be issues with some of the quests. A lot of edge cases had to be handled, such as the quest "The Rivalry/The Competition" which is actually 2 separate quests as far as the game is concerned, but you can only complete one. I imagine there are other such edge cases I am not aware of. Please let me know of any issues here or via Github issues.

There are also a lot of quests in the game data that you cannot complete, such as the "Mystery of Fire/Water..." quests, which were interesting to read about - they still exist in game data but cannot be completed. These are ignored by the addon.

Walkthrough info was gathered from BGWiki which I believe is fine so long as I credit the wiki for it, which i have done in the README.

Cheers

Super freakin cool! Nicely done!

This is really good. Thank you for building this.

Small update pushed

1.1.4

• Mutually exclusive quests "Her Memories" / "Elder Memories" now supported properly

• Mog garden quests now tracked, previously they all reported uncompleted

Thanks to HiPotion for reporting

Elder Memories is exclusive with The Old Lady, not Her Memories iirc(?)

Yeah that's right, I just didn't explain myself very well

The addon supports these 3 mutually exclusive quest groups:

1)
"The Rivalry"
"The Competition"

2)
"Elder Memories"
"The Old Lady"

3)
"Her Memories Carnelian Footfalls"
"Her Memories Azure Footfalls"
"Her Memories Verdure Footfalls"

More info: here

nice addon.. only issue i have is my mouse isnt shown when i hover over. so i have to guess where i click :)

Interesting issue! I have seen something similar occasionally but usually refocusing / clicking elsewhere on the screen brings the cursor back. I'll keep an eye on it though. Thanks

I'm working on a similar project but not just an Addon but a whole ecosystem with a web application and other features.

Your addon looks impressive though, good work :)

Sounds cool! I have had similar thoughts about that, looking forward to seeing it.

For this addon, I just specifically wanted to not have to leave the game (alt-tab out) when questing. It's kinda nice for that.

It shows for me:
* All missions done
* 4 missing Provide Coalition quests - Can't go back in time; I checked.
* The Swarm as incomplete - I have the title, but maybe it never marks itself complete?
* A Moonlight Requite - cannot be completed right now, afaik

Thanks for that. I'll be adding the provide coalition quests to the ignore list in the next update. And I'll investigate the other cases too.

I'm fine with it showing the Provide quests and The Swarm, which are both legit, but A Moonlight Requite is debatably a game bug and it might as well be hidden.

Anyway, awesome work!

So i was having this issue with mouse based addons and it turned out it was because I was full screening in windowed mode, If you "restore" your window to its original size (the little squares next to the X top right of the window) the mouse works as expected for me, the scaling does something funky to it.

Also what a cool addon! Thanks for making it. Was hoping i might uncover something I hadn't done yet, but was fun to see all those gold trophies nonetheless :)

Another thing it could be is that you dont have hardware mouse enabled in windowers settings.
To check this, open the Windower launcher, select Edit (pencil icon), navigate to the Game tab, and click enable the Hardware Mouse option.

Some missions and quests never get "marked" as completed, I've had to be little creative and based on step or what is "current" to determine where you're on. Several expansions were little tricky for when you're technically on the last mission but it never set as completed.

Yep, that's right. This addon handles all the ones I knew about via a "active means completed" concept. E.g. "The Last Verse" shows as completed rather than permanently active. If I missed any they are easy to add. Cheers

I was gonna bring up some of the stuff Byrth mentioned but yall beat me to it.

Is there a reason it flags "Coming Full Circle" as Incomplete?

Just because I have "Forging a New Myth" re-flagged? I've completed multiple mythics already


I'd like to also bring up The Swarm. I also have the title. I've done it many times, mainly from VanaBout last year. If anything I thought this was a side-quest not an actual quest, because I didn't think it showed up in the log?

And I agree it's fine to keep the Provide Coalitions listed because some people have them and others don't.. That being said, is there any way to force them to become available again? or it is just, you had to be the at the beginning of seekers and if not too bad? (similar to losing besieged titles). Are they sometimes available on "Dead" low-pop servers? It's never been available on Asura the 6.5 years I've been here

Unfortunately those coalition assignments are just impossible to access now. Their purpose was to construct the frontier station in those areas and after they've been constructed they don't dissappear on dead servers.

Will give it a try. Ty for the input

Doesn't outpost warping stop working if no one does any of the frontier coalitions for a while?

I don't think it gives you a quest, it just stops working. On small servers there's half a handful of people that do these and if they take a break.. outpost warping breaks for a while.

Incredible work ! This is game changer for me to follow all those missions and quests I needed to complete for Mastery Rank. Thank you :)

New version pushed

1.2.0

• "A Moonlight Requite" added to the list of "Active means completed" quests

• Uncompletable quests no longer appear by default (E.g. "The Swarm")

• New command "//cr uncompletable" toggles visibility of quests that cannot be completed

• New filtering option for uncompletable quests (if the new setting is on)

• Some quests that were entirely hidden before now appear as uncompletable, E.g. The Sahagin's Key, Mystery Of... quests

More info and screenshots here:
https://github.com/jintawk/ffxi-chronicle/issues/3

It really is. This is beautiful and incredibly user friendly.

Awesome addon!

If you're collecting quest issues, the quest text for the crystal war quest "A feast for gnats" cuts off the last two steps (re-examine the abandoned mineshaft and enter the battlefield, as well as the return to Windurst S and speak with Dhea Prandoleh).

Additionally, the "*requirements" section for "A forbidden path" (also crystal war) has a bunch of overlapping text. Not sure if it's related to scale or not (I used the //cr size + command to increase my window size a few times).

This is so awesome!

Recently downloaded this and it is amazing. Brings the feel of a modern MMO/questing to the game, where I have a clickable widget that shows me what I have to do instead of drilling through a menu UI. I have low motivation to click the Quest/Missions menu because it is a relic and is quite clunky to navigate. But this addon makes questing a bit more engaging because it is active on my screen and can be sorted based on what you have flagged/yet to do/completion bar etc. Great work.

New version pushed

1.3.0

• Added extra walkthrough text to 105 quests and missions that had their full walkthrough cut off. Fixes the issue with "A Feast For Gnats" reported by Siven - Thanks!

• Fixed issue with disappearing mouse cursor. Mouse cursor behaviour feels much more stable now. Reported by multiple people - Thanks!

• Fixed overlapping display of requirements in the walkthrough screen when the requirements spanned multiple lines. Fixes the issue with "The Forbidden Path" reported by Siven - Thanks again!

• Fixed error that was logged to console when unloading the addon

Also thanks for the kind words about the addon. Really nice to hear people are getting some genuine use out of it. I'll continue to support it and resolve any issues you guys find. Feel free to report here or on Github issues. Cheers!