I've lost a caravan
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Topic: I've lost a caravan
Posted By: Johnnydub
Subject: I've lost a caravan
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 09:43
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Hi Guys,
I have a lvl 5 marketplace so 5 caravans... however in game I only have 4 today.. so I fgiure one got attacked maybe.. tried to build another but got the message that I can only run 5 caravans.. so any idea where the fifth one has gone?
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Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 10:03
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Maybe 1 is in trade? Did you have trades up? Isnt 1 gathering resources? Check your mail. |
Posted By: Johnnydub
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 10:39
| I sent 5 out on resource gathering last night when I went to bed; only 4 seem to have come home??? |
Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 10:40
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Well if you are really sure that it isnt a player error or a normal game mechanic that your caravan is missing. --> Make a petition ingame. |
Posted By: waylander69
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 11:30
| Try to make a new one..if you can them something has happened to it, if not then its lost and as wuzzel said use the petition tab |
Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 13:02
| He already tried to make a new caravan waylander69. |
Posted By: waylander69
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 14:26
 really should read his whole post.....
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Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 15:17
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Yup, we do have an issue that we haven't yet tracked down whereby players who have caravans out gathering resources appear to "lose" the caravan occasionally. It basically disappears but doesn't decrement the marketplace "total" count; and so cannot be rebuilt. There are 5 players ingame who are affected by this bug, and we're working to resolve it. Whilst it's easy to add the caravans back ingame, we'd like to make sure that we've fixed the underlying cause and so we are looking at some commonality between the effected players. We're not finding it currently, as it is definitely occurring in only very limited circumstances - but we're going to carry on looking at it. Many apologies for the inconvenience to those effected players. ------------- GM Stormcrow | http://bit.ly/rLKfoT" rel="nofollow - Twitter | http://on.fb.me/uvfajA" rel="nofollow - Facebook | http://bit.ly/rBzlzf" rel="nofollow - G+ |
Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2010 at 16:57
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Alrighty - we believe we have finally tracked down and closed this bug. This was the weirdest, limtied circumstances, bug we've ever run into tbh. Essentially, it only effected players who: 1. Sent caravans out to gather from a square that already had other caravans on it, where 2. The square had less than 1 caravan's worth of resources left on it, or the arriving player had sent enough caravans to gather all the remaining resources on the square with capacity to spare, and 3. The other player's caravans had harvested *more* than half the remaining amount left on the square prior to the arrival of the new player, and 4. The arriving player pushed the previous player off the square, or alternatively another newly arriving player pushed the (new) existing player off the square after the zero-point where the square should have run out of resources after subtracting the sign-opposite of what resources were actually left on the square when the first player was pushed off. What would essentially happen is that the system would not take into account what the "pushed off the square player" had already harvested when calculating how long the newly arrived player's caravans should remain. So when it came time to send the previous player's caravans home, the system would say "You harvested (eg) +25 resources which were there, but then you stayed on the square harvesting (eg) minus 50 resources that didn't exist, so let's send your caravans home now with all their wonderful resources oh wai..." Which is, of course, obvious when you think about it.  Anyway, we think it's resolved. |
Posted By: Corual
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2010 at 00:48
| nice find! that is kind of odd tho :X |
Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2010 at 08:00
| Well, we heartily thank those players who petitioned it - they were the ones who really found the issue. |