Game Info Submission Archive: Mass Effect 3

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Guidelines for Submitting Game Information

Related game: Mass Effect 3

  • Will072Will072284,884
    Posted on 09 May 12 at 20:41, Edited on 23 May 12 at 06:53 by Will072
    The Game Information Submissions system allows you to submit a number of types of information with great ease:

    - General Game Information (release dates, game titles and tiles, official site and more)
    - Genre Information
    - Achievement Flags

    Please make sure to check the threads for the game you want to submit information for so that duplicate submissions are not received and to avoid suggested changes that have not been made previously for any reason

    Achievement tiles and secret achievements can still be submitted by following the instructions in their current threads which are located within this board:

    Updated Secret Achievements
    Games With Missing Achievement Tiles


    If you want to submit information for a game or for a DLC item, please click on this image which can be found on the game page underneath the game image or the DLC image.

    You will now find yourself on a page where you can submit either general game information or genre information for the main game and general DLC information for DLC items. There are various options here along with a notes box so you can provide additional information or sources for your suggestions.


    If it is flag suggestions that you want to submit then click the link at the top of the page as directed and you will then be redirected to the achievement flag submissions page. Depending on whether the game is already flagged or not, you will be presented with one of two options:

    - A grid with checkboxes for the achievements
    - An achievement list with the current flags

    As you may already have gathered, the grid is for when a game is unflagged so that you can add multiple flags suggestions at once with ease. There is also a notes box at the bottom in case there is anything important to note regarding your suggestions.

    The other is for when the game is already flagged and just a few suggestions may be needed. With this view, you just check the box for the achievement which will then provide you with a notes box for your suggested flag change and reasoning.

    Flag changes can only be suggested by people who have won the achievement(s) in question, if you make flagging suggestions for a game that hasn't been flagged then we only accept them if you make the suggestions for all achievements in the game. We want to add every relevant flag for each achievement so this means that every achievement should have two flags (unless unobtainable or discontinued), one to show whether it is online, online/offline, offline only and one to show which mode it can be obtained in: single player, co-op or versus. Many will have more than just those two types.

    A full list of flags including descriptions can be found here: https://www.trueachievements.com/flags.aspx


    Note: You can see which games you have on your own list that are unflagged by going to My Achievements and choosing "Unflagged" from the achievement type dropdown filter.



    When you are happy with your suggestion, you can submit it by clicking the button at the bottom of the page. This will then create a thread in the forum showing the details of your submission ready to be handled by the Game Information team.


    To confirm, there are three types of submission: general game information, genre information and flag information.

    You can submit both general game information and genre information suggestions on the same form as you can probably see but it will create different threads to help keep threads clear and easy to follow.

    The created thread will automatically be added to "My Threads" for you to track it easily and you can use the dropdown in the board to select the game you have submitted or want to submit information for and check threads from there as well.

    Again, please make sure to check the threads for your game before submitting a suggestion to make sure it hasn't already been suggested or the suggested change has not been made for a specific reason previously.

    Once your submission has been handled by the Game Information team, it will then be moved to the archive. Any subsequent submissions will pull this thread out of the archive automatically along with previous discussion.

    If you have any questions or comments regarding the process then please feel free to post in this thread.

    Enough with the talking...enjoy the system! smile
  • mooglessmoogless229,868
    Posted on 19 May 12 at 09:31
    oooooooh shiny new things! just one question, is this what you guys used to add the flags before?
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  • SashamorningSashamorning3,580,152
    Posted on 19 May 12 at 09:53, Edited on 19 May 12 at 10:09 by Sashamorning
    I updated some info for Dragon's Lair, but it didn't automatically add it to My Threads. The flags for Millionaire did, though.
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  • Will072Will072284,884
    Posted on 19 May 12 at 10:09
    We use pretty much the same system moogless.

    Sasha - if you submit changes for an entire game, you have the grid. Clicking the icon of the flag at the top of the grid will select it for all achievements. smile
  • SashamorningSashamorning3,580,152
    Posted on 19 May 12 at 10:12
    Will072 said:
    Sasha - if you submit changes for an entire game, you have the grid. Clicking the icon of the flag at the top of the grid will select it for all achievements. smile
    ...

    Well crap. Was that infobox there at the top 30 minutes ago? Oh well, I'll know for next time.
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  • AhayzoAhayzo1,773,545
    Posted on 23 May 12 at 02:29
    Where do I submit related games?
  • HemogoblinSSHemogoblinSS900,161
    Posted on 23 May 12 at 03:19
    alklein92201 said:
    Where do I submit related games?
    We're still working on that aspect of the submissions. You can PM them to me in the meantime.
    Where there's a Will; there's a way.
  • AhayzoAhayzo1,773,545
    Posted on 23 May 12 at 04:58
    W1LLYMAN said:
    alklein92201 said:
    Where do I submit related games?
    We're still working on that aspect of the submissions. You can PM them to me in the meantime.
    Oh you have no idea how big of a mistake you just made requesting me to PM smile (not really, right now it's just a few)
  • MMMDIMMMDI1,219,523
    Posted on 18 June 12 at 05:17
    Not sure if this has been brought up, but some valid dates are missing from the dropdown boxes on the "submit game info" page. The 360 launched on 2005-11-22, but on the submit info page... ie,

    https://www.trueachievements.com/submitgameinfo.aspx?gameid=...

    ...the earliest release date you can enter is June 2007.
  • Will072Will072284,884
    Posted on 20 June 12 at 21:14
    MMMDI said:
    Not sure if this has been brought up, but some valid dates are missing from the dropdown boxes on the "submit game info" page. The 360 launched on 2005-11-22, but on the submit info page... ie,

    https://www.trueachievements.com/submitgameinfo.aspx?gameid=...

    ...the earliest release date you can enter is June 2007.
    We are aware of it already and hopefully it will be fixed in the near future. If you could use the comments box when submitting this type of info in future to clarify then that would be great. smile
  • Posted on 24 July 12 at 23:23
    Just a heads up, but All of the online achievements for "skate." are marked as offline required/buggy. Though this is true, it should still say that the achievements have been discontinued because getting the online achievements to pop offline is still extremely rare and most likely won't happen for a while. I would hate for a completionist to see that the game has no discontinued/online achievements and think the game is easy to complete, when it fact it is not.

    I don't really understand how to fix it, so that is why I am posting this here, but I will see what I can do (I take it the flagging system is now put together by users?)

    Again, the discontinued online achievements are showing as offline achievements, which can be a very bad thing!
  • HemogoblinSSHemogoblinSS900,161
    Posted on 25 July 12 at 01:48
    Flags can only be changed by the staff members of the Game Information team. We can't flag achievements as discontinued if they can still be unlocked legitimately. We have noted all of the former online achievements as buggy to note the potential problem in getting them to unlock now.
    Where there's a Will; there's a way.
  • Posted on 25 July 12 at 11:10
    But it's not buggy in the sense of buggy, it's buggy in the sense of pure luck.
    When I think of a buggy achievement it would be like Gears of War where it might not unlock at exactly 100 kills or something of the such, but buggy should not be considered when the requirement is to play online and just out of pure luck, the achievement might pop on a kickflip.
    It's to confusing in this sense and many more achivements would have to be labled buggy. Has another flag suggestion beeen put into thought for such discontinued/buggy achievements? The bug requires to play offline and a lot of players want their time stamp, and this bug does not allow it. The achievement flags really should be up to date with the current title update on the game. The flag for such achievements just seems to vague.
  • AhayzoAhayzo1,773,545
    Posted on 26 July 12 at 02:12
    This achievement may either fail to unlock when it should, or unlock before the requirements have been met
    Buggy achievements are those which do not behave as expected... others will unlock after performing a completely unrelated task
    From the buggy flag description. These achievements fit that perfectly. Regardless of what how it's buggy (luck, incorrect description, etc.) the fact is that it its buggy. It's not vague at all.
  • EmDeeGeeEmDeeGee1,493,178
    Posted on 17 August 12 at 15:41
    I have a question regarding updating achievement tiles: there is this "My secret Achievements" link in the OP from Van Uden at the appropriate thread: this links to this page: https://www.trueachievements.com/mysecretachievements.aspx

    When you go there, however, there is also a checkbox that says: "Include missing images". When I click that, I get a whole range of achievements that already have a coloured tile. There is a GoW1 achievement in there for crying out loud! Surely, these tiles don't need to be updated, right? Or do you need the high-res pictures for those?

    I'd be happy to help out if that would be the case.
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  • HemogoblinSSHemogoblinSS900,161
    Posted on 17 August 12 at 23:05
    No, they don't need updated, that's a known bug. There are several achievements on the site that have the same locked and unlocked images on file. This tricks the system into thinking that the images have not been updated. Rich knows about the problem, he just hasn't had a chance to fix it I guess.
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  • xPut Name HerexxPut Name Herex1,704,455
    Posted on 17 August 12 at 23:09
    The issue is known. The following is what I believe is occurring, but the specifics may be slightly off as I don't know too much about coding.

    Basically, we have two fields for an achievement tile, Unlocked and Locked. For the "Include Missing Images", the code checks the Unlocked and Locked, and rates it as true if the URLs match and false is the URLs don't match (since the Locked URL will default to the Unlocked URL before the link is added). For the colored tiles that incorrectly show as missing, the Unlocked image URL was at some point inserted into the Locked URL field, so the code checks and sees them as identical, and decides that for the field of missing achievement tile, the answer is "true" for that achievement.

    So that is the issue. There may be a fix, and you will be kept posted if it arises.
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  • EmDeeGeeEmDeeGee1,493,178
    Posted on 17 August 12 at 23:37
    Thanks for the info guys, I shall refrain from spamming them in the Achievement Tiles thread then.
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  • xPut Name HerexxPut Name Herex1,704,455
    Posted on 26 August 12 at 03:34
    Those who once were concerned with Colored tiles showing up under "missing achievement tiles" should check that page once again wink

    I take no credit for this
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  • EmDeeGeeEmDeeGee1,493,178
    Posted on 27 August 12 at 07:36
    Checking now!

    --> wow, that does look fixed. However, an achievement should show up for me when I press "Not yet won" and the missing tiles box, but that one is empty too. I intend to get that Lode Runner achievement someday :P
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