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Independence crew pack is bugged
Automaton_2000
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When I click the 650 dilithium button, it rewards 1000 dil and 500 vip points. Does the same after restarting client.
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The merit icon is actually for VIP.
https://imgur.com/T8KGshu
https://imgur.com/T4jq8qs
edit: 3rd s/s https://i.imgur.com/vKQ76Yb.png
I thought for once that DBRNG was actually on my side for once but my hopes were dashed.
I'm guessing that DB givith and BD taketh away will apply
Yeah, had to fight the urge to keep pushing the button
I kept pushing until I realized there was nooooooooo way I could be THAT lucky and exited to see that it really was the portal pack
Like when purple and gold crew first got added to faction stores, and there were instances where gold crew were 1500 dilithium instead of 15000? One has NEVER seen DB fix a bug SO fast.
Anyone who bought this could have potentially 100,000+ free dilithium.
This will hugely skew events and player power.
Same here
I'm sure there were plenty of people who gave in to that urge and mashed until the pack was pulled. How long was that? 10-15 mins? There could be players who hit the portal 100 times!
I'm green with envy, but I don't begrudge them their dilithium. Free premium currency is fantastic, and perhaps to prevent creating more dillionaires in future, DB will put some effort into QA
Agree. Give free dil to everyone or correct this error. The game is skewed enough without this.
This is going to be an ugly solution. I don’t envy DB’s choice here. Either way, they are likely to alienate a chunk of the playerbase. But they definitely couldn’t keep that pack up in that state without declaring bankruptcy in a very short timeframe.
Exactly... either way, this is very very bad
And then what?
Bad enough the intended rng makes those getting unlucky streaks feel lousy but now we gotta put up with buggy packs making those not blessed become cursed by the power imbalance all that free dil is going to cause.
https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/6196/independence-crew-pack-is-bugged
some players had access to a pack that cost 650 dil, but awarded 1000 dil for every purchase.
they got free dilithium.
The only logical conclusion that I can draw is that it was sabotage by one if not more departing employees.
My question is, what if someone got a bunch of dilithium from it and then spent it all on speeding up shuttles, extra cadet tickets, portal pulls, faction store purchases, guantlet refreshes, etc. and had no dilthium left? They can't take back dilithium that isn't there so this is going to be hugely messy.
This is my situation. I made several pulls including after restarting clients and to take screenshots. But It was clearly a bug so I didn't spend a drop of Dil.
For the people that spent DIL on packs, it would be nearly impossible for DB to track that down and sort it out. I "risk" having all that ill-gotten DIL removed from my account by not spending it, but it's the right thing to do.
Just hope they don't ban the guy who reported the bug for abusing it.
Merged your thread as there is no need for a new one.
I can understand QA missing that a certain crew didn't drop if they only pulled a few packs, but you can't miss when only 2 items drop and none of them are crew. That means there had to be literally zero attempts at buying the portal by QA before putting it out live. That's a head scratcher.
I'm actually surprised that someone in the DB office doesn't pull some portals in the live production environment the moment it is out there so they can catch things like this instantly even if they don't QA in advance