Quest stage refuses to go down in number, only up

[sgtmcbiscuits]

Disregard this, I now know that's how it's supposed to work.

Edited April 16, 2017 by sgtmcbiscuits

[Lisselli]

Yeah but you probably don't know the proper way to reset a Quest - this was mind boggling in Skyrim for a while. It needs to stopped first, then call Reset() and then you set the quest to what you want. Anytime you need to go backwards, you need to stop the quest and then call reset.

[werr92]

No. That's a disinformation. If you have several 'equal' stages in a quest and want to swap between them freely back and forth, you don't have to reset the whole quest. All you need is to have your quest marked as 'Allow Repeated Stages' in the Quest Tab (where you type the quest's name and stuff).

[vkz89q]

I just tested it. Quest with 3 stages, 10, 20 and 30. Each with debug message. I tested with both papyrus setting stages and console commands.

 

First test: no allow repeated stages ticked in ck.

 

I went to stage 30. Debug message plays. I do SQV quest to see current stage: 30.

 

I setstage to 20. Debug message plays. SQV shows current stage 30.

 

I setstage to 10. Debug message plays. SQV shows current stage 30.

 

I setstage 30. Debug message does NOT play, because allow repeated stages is not selected. Current stage still 30.

 

Test 2: Same but with allow repeated stages.

 

Everytime I do setstage, debug message plays but current stage is always 30.

 

So, you can go back with stages. It will fire fragments and mark the stage as done, if you do IsStageDone or GetStageDone. But the current stage is always the highest stage quest has ever been.

 

So, if you want to use stages for conditions, you should always use IsStageDone or GetStageDone, and it works "perfectly".

[Lisselli]

No. That's a disinformation. If you have several 'equal' stages in a quest and want to swap between them freely back and forth, you don't have to reset the whole quest. All you need is to have your quest marked as 'Allow Repeated Stages' in the Quest Tab (where you type the quest's name and stuff).

Most of my responses are based on Skryim as the two aren't that much different in a few areas. And unfortunately, the Skyrim CK 64 is just a visual copy-cat of Fallout 4's more superior CK. Now if you are saying this is true for Skyrim, then that is info only a handful of people know and never made it known on the wiki, as this has been the only way I know to go back stages, even with that checked.

Edited April 17, 2017 by Lisselli