[2021] Day 3 of being locked out of Daily Challenges as a skiller

Just to note, if you've created your new ironman skiller that recently, and would rather start over than wait for a fix... as of the daily challenge update on Monday, any new accounts will get the new basic challenge onboarding, which I designed to be skiller-friendly. (You don't get any basic combat/prayer challenges in the new batch.)

As you've noted, basic challenges don't expire and can't be rerolled (AFAIK this was also the case before Monday's update).

After completing the 9 basic skilling challenges, since non-basic challenges get replaced with new ones every day, you'd be able to let the skills you don't want to engage in get replaced each day, or reroll the ones you don't want with vis wax.

Since you created your account just before Monday 15th, looks like you unfortunately still have the old set of 5 basic challenges, which include a combat challenge and a prayer challenge.

So if you stick with this account, and don't want to complete your current basic challenges, you'd have to wait for a Monday patch note to change how the challenge system works to accommodate you. (The issue you're having isn't something we can hotfix.)

We're working on solutions to accommodate skillers, but managing expectations, realistically the first of them probably won't release this Monday, and maybe not the next. (We're close to the cut-off for Monday's patches to be release-candidate tested, and the QA testers on our team are currently helping out another project nearing release.)

I hope that information helps with weighing your options!

(The post in this thread I intended to reply to seems to have been deleted. So I'll add the reply to it I wrote anyway, in case the info is useful to someone.)

"Not currently, but this evening I finished implementing a patch to bypass specific basic objectives that have been cause for concern, and remove their completion XP reward.

Fresh from the oven so needs to go through review, QA and release candidate testing, though.

To clarify, is it specifically the Basic Combat and/or Basic Prayer challenge you want to bypass?

And basic challenges don't expire, so unfortunately, no, waiting it out isn't currently an option."

Not currently, but Thursday evening I finished implementing a patch to bypass specific basic objectives that have been cause for concern, and remove their completion XP reward.

Fresh from the oven so needs to go through review, QA and release candidate testing, though.

To clarify, is it specifically the Basic Combat and/or Basic Prayer challenge you want to bypass?

And basic challenges don't expire, so unfortunately, no, waiting it out isn't currently an option.

Hopefully the above fix in progress solves that for you, if the XP from the Basic Combat and Basic Prayer challenges are where the problem lie for you?

Or is there another basic challenge that's problematic for OSAAT?

I see. I guess I could do the same thing to the new 9 basic challenges that I did to the old Basic Combat and Basic Prayer challenges, and give them all a chat option to skip them, and make them not reward XP when you claim them.

Does mean henceforth all new players won't get XP from basic challenges because of your One Skill At A Time Account. Are you okay to have that on your conscience? ;)

Or do you have the old set of 5 basic challenges from before weekly rewards were added? (Fishing, Woodcutting, Mining, Combat, Prayer). If so I could focus on just those 5, since new players no longer get them..

Thanks for being so nice about it. :)

Did you create your account before Monday 15th? If so, it'll have the old set of 5 basic challenges that include Basic Combat and Basic Prayer. (Even if you can't seem them on your challenge list, as we now display 3 challenges at a time.)

Eh, I wrote the fix for combat/prayer skillers in a modular way that could be easily applied to other basic challenges, so it's not a hassle on my end.

I'll ask my team on Monday if I can reopen it and apply the same condition to all basic challenges.

Means all basic challenges won't reward any XP any more, but it might be better for a truly new player to initially engage with the core loop of skills without modifiers anyway. :)

As mentioned above, definitely not tomorrow Monday.

The patch specifically for the combat and prayer basic challenges is undergoing QA testing.

And I may reopen the issue tomorrow to accommodate the OSAAT edge case above, depending on whether doing so gets a yay/nay from my colleagues.

How soon a patch releases after it completes WIP QA depends on a number of factors out of my control, including the release team's capacity for patch notes after completing testing of that week's headline updates, and the priority of this patch compared to others that are ready to merge.

I'd lean your expectations more toward 2-3 weeks, so you get a nice dopamine hit if we exceed expectations and do manage to get it live next Monday. ;)