No Credit Bug

[Jalia]

I reported this but I thought I'd mention it here to warn others (or to see if anyone can duplicate it).

I was soloing in MM, trying to work up my throw. Sparkleberry came along and was helping me and working on her own tasks. In several fights she used gags that overmatched the cogs... specifically, she used a berry pie on a 3rd level cog and then a creme pie on a 4th level cog. I was using appropriate-level throw gags at the same time.

I noticed the problem when after one fight, I'd reached 1900 in throw from 1894, and on the next fight it showed me moving from 1894 to 1898. After that I checked my shticker book, and I was still at 1894. On a subsequent fight I used a level 3 creme pie slice while Sparkleberry lured (level 3 lure) on a 4th level cog.. at the end of the fight it showed me moving to 1897 in throw, but when I checked my book I was at 1894 again.

I'm assuming the bug was introduced when Sparkleberry used high level-throws against low-level cogs, where she normally would not get credit for her attacks... before that point I'd been doing just find levelling up my throw.

So... something to look out for or maybe to try and replicate.

[Bunny Summers]

I found that it's the same with elder tasks: Unless I let the lowbie toon snag the cog first, it wouldn't give me credit for the elder tasks I defeated. Nor would it do the same thing in a building. It would count down & say Complete but when I got out it said I still needed 5. It took me awhile to figure out that she needed to get the cogs first. Fortunately she was a sf of mine who was helping me finish those tasks and was willing to help me figure it out.

[Pinks]

Apparently the same is happening with trap. A friend just finished LOM and got his bike horn..but just before that we had been working on his trap. He wasn't getting credit for the trap, but when he got his bike horn, he already had almost 200 pts. We guessed that his trap pts. were going towards sound. Can't really think of what else it could of been.

Odd.

[Jalia]

I'm not actually sure how this bug is working yet. Tonight when I got on I went into a building with 2 others (well 3, Sir Oh Bread got dropped halfway through). In the end I was awarded my creme pie, but discovered when I went to talk to Cleff that I hadn't been awarded it after all. So I solo'd a few cogs to get back to above 2000 in throw.

Then Good Ol' Z.Z. Biggentwist (who is also stuck on the creme pie now... and nearly 700 points away) wanted to do another building, so we did a 2 story law. I matched him on lures and throws, except once when he lured and then I used squirt. But in the end, I had credit for my used gags, but he didn't get any credit for anything he did.

I'm hoping those missing points really will show up when I get my sound gag line finished. That would be nice, I hate working up new gags. But in the meantime it's messing people up whenever you're working with other toons.

How does this bug work exactly? Is only the first toon to snag a cog getting credit (at least, credit that is not going towards a gag you don't have yet?)

[Bunny Summers]

I know it was the opposite on my elder tasks. I didn't get credit unless my newbie friend snagged the cog first. It may be the opposite but it's kinda getting irritating. But I did a building with another newbie friend of mine last night & it worked ok. Weird.

[Sarath]

I actually had something like this happen to me today. I was trying to build up my new sound. And I was fighting a level 3 cog with level 1 sound. I had hit the cog and then a high laffer (50 i think, im 29) jumped in and started helping. Anyway, to make a long story short, I got counted for 7 sound points, then when I went to fight another cog with the 50 laffer, it started counting but minus the 7 i had just got. What gives?

[Pinks]

I'm not sure how this bug is working iether. I tested the trap in a bldg. to make sure it was not giving credit for it, and it wasn't. Just fyi, make sure you check your skill credit AFTER the bldg. Most of us know this, but some may not. Skill credit does not show for Bldgs. until the Bldg. is defeated.

I then tested trap in the street and did get credit for it.

I reported this lovely feature, but it remains to be seen if they will rectify the pts. or if I'll just see my trap points show up in my sound category once I get it. Or perhaps they'll fix the bug and I'll get nothing >.<

[StinkyFrecklefi]

we had something similar last night, Silly Huddles was helping us with some lawbot bldgs. At the end of one Sir Spike gained his squirt gun, and ran off to turn in his triggers for a task. When he got there he discovered that he was thrown back as if never doing the building. After Ma nad I checked our books, I had gained roughly an extra 50 in toon-up, and Ma was up 30+ points in lure. Something is rather goofy there, but havent seen it happen enough to formulate an opinion or even duplicate the issue.