Can't re-enable achievements

[Dij]

One of my saves has the achievements disabled. I played with a mod once with this save, but I knew mods disabled the achievements. Later, I turned the mod off. It's been several months since I last played, but I noticed the achievements for this save are still off. Why? If I turned all mods off, why aren't the achievements re-enabled?

[Darth Schumy]

I'm not an expert at this game, but I'll make my suggestion nonetheless! I might even be correct, but if I am, it's pure luck and I take no credit for it!

I believe once you've enabled a mod, then saved the cities' progress, it's game over man, game over for achievements for that save! Any future saves based on it, are alien fodder as well. You need to start from scratch!

I've noticed when I load my game saves, it tells me if I can earn achievements with it. Perhaps start a new game, save it and see if it's fine when you load it. If so, there's your answer.

[grapplehoeker]

Darth is correct.
Any game saved with an active mod will disable achievements for that save. Why? Because, at the time of the save, the mod was active and that presence was saved, so it won't matter that you later attempt to load the save without any mods active. It's after the fact.
No worries though, just go for the achievements on a new city and just remember to deactivate your mods before saving.
Most of the achievements are easiest to do on a new build in any case.

[Darth Schumy]

No, Darth is lucky, not correct!

[Elleve]

Have you tried the achievement enabler mod?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407055819

[Ivo]

Originally posted by Elleve:

Have you tried the achievement enabler mod?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407055819

Use this mod and it will fix!

[HoneyMonst3r]

So thats why, kinda silly and enough to make me decide to pirate any of their upcoming titles. Yarr!

[Mokum]

Originally posted by KayeStar:

One of my saves has the achievements disabled. I played with a mod once with this save, but I knew mods disabled the achievements. Later, I turned the mod off. It's been several months since I last played, but I noticed the achievements for this save are still off. Why? If I turned all mods off, why aren't the achievements re-enabled?

easy the save is tagged as modded

just use logic if it says it deactivates achievements that u activate mods why on earth would they reactivate them if you remopvbe those mods again ?

pure logic make a new save without mods and voila

[Dij]

Originally posted by Mokum:

Originally posted by KayeStar:

One of my saves has the achievements disabled. I played with a mod once with this save, but I knew mods disabled the achievements. Later, I turned the mod off. It's been several months since I last played, but I noticed the achievements for this save are still off. Why? If I turned all mods off, why aren't the achievements re-enabled?

easy the save is tagged as modded

just use logic if it says it deactivates achievements that u activate mods why on earth would they reactivate them if you remopvbe those mods again ?

pure logic make a new save without mods and voila

Jeez, alright. It's not like I play a lot of Steam games. That's not how it works with anything else I play.

And it would make perfect sense to re-activate something that's only restricted under certain circumstances. It makes less sense that the achievements don't re-activate.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by KayeStar:

Originally posted by Mokum:

easy the save is tagged as modded

just use logic if it says it deactivates achievements that u activate mods why on earth would they reactivate them if you remopvbe those mods again ?

pure logic make a new save without mods and voila

Jeez, alright. It's not like I play a lot of Steam games. That's not how it works with anything else I play.

And it would make perfect sense to re-activate something that's only restricted under certain circumstances. It makes less sense that the achievements don't re-activate.

It does make sense if you stop thinking of it as a temporary restriction.
The achievements are meant to be earned by completing them without the aid of any mods. They rely on your skill alone. In fact, the tasks are pretty much tutorial exercises that show you how to deal with certain situations or teach you how to do things. For this reason alone, it makes them worth doing if you are learning to play the game.
And of course, if you cheated by using a mod to help you complete the task, where's the achievement in that? You learn nothing either.
So... the moment you use a mod and save the game while it is active, you immediately make that save ineligible for achievements - forever, final, no re-activation.
There is no way without cheating (the Mod Enabler Mod) to make that save eligible again.
The logic Mokum mentions above is flawed. If you save a game that is already ineligible, without a mod active, the save remains ineligible. It does not make it eligible again, so no voila's I'm afraid.

Once again, I stress, it's no biggie. Build a new city to be played strictly in vanilla, hell, build lots of them. Use these to get your achievements.
Then build another city with as many mods as you wish to create whatever you like with the aid of mods. Just not for the purpose of getting the achievements.
Hope that makes more sense ;)