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Bugs Again!
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turtledove
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods
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Feb-23-2013 11:19
Yesterday I started an AI for my VH. I opened a case, the screen went white for a split second, my case disappeared and I ended up with a FA. No, I did not report it because admin always assumes that FAs are the result of personal mistakes and they don’t bother to follow up, so I won’t waste my time.
Today I’m still on my VH. Since the Barber in Delhi had a book I needed to pick up I visited him and to my surprise my Nemesis hunt task was updated. I was supposed to go see the Waiter in London and give him a Fine Leather Briefcase. Not only did I not visit the Waiter in London but I also lost my Dagger of Horus in the process.
Has anyone else been experiencing bugs lately?
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turtledove
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods
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Feb-26-2013 05:54
Thanks SS.
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Breitkat
Pinball Amateur
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Feb-27-2013 00:17
And yes, Eden, FA bugs have actually happened before. And Admin has confirmed it. Once. That I can remember in seven-odd years. As far as I know, FAs are rarely checked (personal experience speaking there), even less commonly reported back on (NEVER happened with me, ever, with any bug report I've ever made) and even more rarely reversed. Even for computer-caused or other non-human errors. Don't get yer hopes up. Sorry. :-/
Wish things were better on the hope front. :-.
Breit
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Eden Zweig
Nomad
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Feb-27-2013 17:22
Haha, thanks Breitkat. That cleared it up for me. I have no problem if they check it or not. I was rather trying to figure out the conditions under which they will check fa cases, that is if/when they do.
So... sounds like there are no clearly defined rules that I don't know of. Then I'll go on with my screenshot idea, just in case. (I don't think I'll ever need it if this happened once in seven years, though. It will turn out a stupid mistake I made more than 99.9...% of the time.)
Thanks again, it's nice to have people with 7 years of experience share what they know :)
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Vampiric Smile
Safety Officer
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Feb-27-2013 22:18
It is obvious that after nemesis addon the game is having many bugs. FAs bugs can be severe and even descourage a player for staying in the game so my proposal is either take a look on them or if that is time consuming cut the Shady character prizes to 1/3
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Sophie4
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods
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Feb-28-2013 05:33
Is this a new bug?? About 10 days ago my nemesis task was to accept 5 bribes for quitting cases. I've had this one before without problem. This time however I have not gotten that particular twist but I have quit 2 cases and had my nemesis task updated. My problem is I am not seeing the offered bribe so I don't know which cases to quit. In theory this task could go on for weeks if not months because the twist is not popping up.
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Mar-1-2013 17:32
Yeah this all sounds icky. I'll try hassle Ben again.
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Sophie4
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods
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Mar-1-2013 20:18
Thanks SS - I appreciate any help. I'm starry eyed looking for that twist and it just ain't happening.
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Vampirion
Old Shoe
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Mar-4-2013 22:58
Stupendously hard case
All physical evidence-> point real alibies !
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Sophie4
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods
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Mar-5-2013 04:43
Vampirion, my first thought is you are missing a suspect in your lineup. If you can't find that last suspect quit the case, he's the guilty person.
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Breitkat
Pinball Amateur
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Mar-5-2013 11:57
That's possible, yes, Sophie. But Vampirion's been around too long (and VS trains his people well enough) that he should know about using the Fortune Teller by now. If all the evidence is pointing to real alibis (i.e.--nothing's coming up false), something's either missing, someone's missing, or there's something wrong.
Vampirion's got the experience to have basic thread and hair analysis, let alone experienced. (Besides which, if he'd run into this before he wouldn't be bringing it up now.) So that's not it.
$20 from the Fortune Teller would've told him that he had all 9 or 10 suspects (and like I said, VS trains his people too well for them to NOT use this). So that ain't it.
He didn't get a Spyce error this time, apparently, so the system didn't go completely berserk. So that ain't it.
My guess (for what it's worth), Vampirion, is you ran across an incredibly rare, bad-egg of a case (and yes, there are a few of them out there). Out of the tens of thousands (or more) of cases that we have, there are a handful (probably no more than a dozen) that have something wrong with them. I ran into one last night. (All cases are supposed to have suspects with unique first names. I had a case with two suspects, both with a first/Christian name of "Ruth". If I hadn't been paying attention, I could have falsed VERY easily. It's why every random mystery is s'pposed to ALWAYS have only one person with one particular first name)
Any chance you sent a Bug Report to Admin, or remember the Case Name, suspect list (full list of all suspects), took one of those pics of the screen at some point, or something like that, Vampirion??
And Sophie, I'm not trying to downplay or criticize you. I simply think there's more to this than meets the eye. And I think it's worth looking into.
Breit
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