HawkFain
03-03-2009, 04:20 PM
<span style="color: white;">First off, we apologize for all the frustration, confusion and inconvenience this has caused any of you in regards to the recent avatar bug corrections. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Here's a post from Gedden, hopefully it will shed some light on the situation.</span>
As you all know there was an issue in pox that for about 6 hours (between 3:00am and 9:00am on the 26th) where players received a gross amount of bonus XP on their avatars. The problem was not that players got extra XP, it was that players could get XP in 2 second games (start quit, start quit). There were 53 players that decided to just level-up their avatars to 10, and because there were just so many who exploited the bug so much, we decided it was something we could not let slide.
So today we put up a patch where we wanted to remove the bonus exp for players who played during this time. Major note: Only players who played during this time were effected by the patch. If you were not online and playing games during the period of time with the bug, you were not effected in any way.
The problem was there was a bug in this patch where *some players did not get credit for all the xp they had before the bug occurred. It was effectively arbitrary, some players did get their proper level, and some players did not quite get enough xp. No need to worry: we have a fix for this. We did not want to bring the servers down for this fix, but the avatar xp update cannot occur while players are in games. We have a task that is running every hour or so and will fix the problem for players that are not in games. In fact, chances are very high that by the time you read this post your avatar will most likely have already been updated.
Sorry for the trouble, and happy poxing.
~Gedden
Here's a post from Gedden, hopefully it will shed some light on the situation.</span>
As you all know there was an issue in pox that for about 6 hours (between 3:00am and 9:00am on the 26th) where players received a gross amount of bonus XP on their avatars. The problem was not that players got extra XP, it was that players could get XP in 2 second games (start quit, start quit). There were 53 players that decided to just level-up their avatars to 10, and because there were just so many who exploited the bug so much, we decided it was something we could not let slide.
So today we put up a patch where we wanted to remove the bonus exp for players who played during this time. Major note: Only players who played during this time were effected by the patch. If you were not online and playing games during the period of time with the bug, you were not effected in any way.
The problem was there was a bug in this patch where *some players did not get credit for all the xp they had before the bug occurred. It was effectively arbitrary, some players did get their proper level, and some players did not quite get enough xp. No need to worry: we have a fix for this. We did not want to bring the servers down for this fix, but the avatar xp update cannot occur while players are in games. We have a task that is running every hour or so and will fix the problem for players that are not in games. In fact, chances are very high that by the time you read this post your avatar will most likely have already been updated.
Sorry for the trouble, and happy poxing.
~Gedden