Bug patched today

[Lee]

Got a reply today from support about the bugs causing loss or gain of ammo and bombs/mines, mobs getting healthy too fast while shooting, etc.

"Hi,
Thank you for reporting. These problems you are describing are most likely related to an issue which influenced the display of decay values. A fix has been implemented today. More information about this can be found on the News section of the Entropia Universe website.

If you come across this problem again please send a support ticket and add the approximate time and any other information which might seem relevant to solve the issue.

We thank you again for the time you have spent in reporting this. "

Following that info this is from the website news section:

" VU 8.4.2 Update
14 Jun 2006

The Entropia Universe has been updated with VU 8.4.2. The following enhancements (amongst others) have been implemented:


The development team has located and squashed a bug, which under exceptional circumstances, could temporarily misinterpret decay values. Although often rectified by relogging into the Entropia Universe again, the misleading values disturbed the In-World enjoyment of some participants. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Even though this visual display bug affected the Client, the integrity of our server systems remained intact, and ensures that no participant will bear any loss as a result. MindArk will continue to maintain the level of quality that we, and our community, expect of the Entropia Universe."

[Edit-sorry I missed that this was already posted on and discussed in the general section today. I will leave this post anyway just to share the response for support on my ticket. Have not yet logged in since this update, so will be curious now whether I have more or less ammo and mines, as I had given up on keeping track )

[Hulyss]

Hi,
I have seen my account of 400 ammos growing to 24700 ammos one weak ago.
I m not sure but i think it a tt bug.
For exemple, the 5 last weeks , after buying ammos, the account was wrong in my inventory. Always 400 or 500 ammos less. I needed to relog every time. After reloging, the ammos was back. But, for the bigs growing ammos account, i think some Players never look realy the account of what they buy in tt. the problem is here but they dont see. After some weeks, the bug have a short interruption and , in this time, all the less ammos come back and : "Woww" >> Surprise !!

For Mobs, its true, they getting healthy very fast lol. i seen a bercy old recover the 3/4 of his health in less 1 minute. = run my friend.( its a ghost mutaded bercy ?)

For the decay of material, i seen it on all weapons have "good" in durability. GOOD ??? " they have a strange idea about the word good in EBN ..."
Mediocre is better. Very fast decay. U seen it after some hours of hunting, when u go to repair ur tools, whith ur ugly peds looted. = Surprise too !!!
(for ppl who remember the olds versions, whith same material).

This problem is serious. Money is in game. So i will post u replys about it if will see another troubles.

[rupie]

Originally Posted by Lee

"Although OFTEN rectified by relogging into the Entropia Universe again, the misleading values disturbed the In-World enjoyment of some participants. We apologize for this inconvenience."

i find this typical. The misleading values didnt disturb MA in a bit it was just a few players. If there wouldnt have been massive complaints MA wouldnt bother to fix it.

So does anyone have a proposal for what bug we are going to have MA fix now? If we all send complaints they will fix it.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by rupie

i find this typical. The misleading values didnt disturb MA in a bit it was just a few players. If there wouldnt have been massive complaints MA wouldnt bother to fix it.

So does anyone have a proposal for what bug we are going to have MA fix now? If we all send complaints they will fix it.

Interestingly the patch or fix has not resolved the issue with bombs and probes for me, but so far it seems it has with ammo. I still can't get the number of bombs I purchase from the tt, usually get about half of them, and relog does not change this. Instead, I now get double the amount of probes I buy, so basically it evens it out, but it is a tad inconvenient to try to plan my mining budget while keeping all that in mind. Am now trying to start a collection of screenies with date and time to send to MA if this continues, specially as I don't want to be accused of using an exploit if the darn thing goes back to being unbalanced in the way the bug serves up tt purchases