Crush wrote:When those first 4 people who are currently known would receive a free towel, how many people would appear who claim that they were also victims of this bug? I don't want to imply that all of them would be liars. It is very likely that there are indeed several other victims. But there is no way to tell who is lying and who is telling the truth. Why should those 4 people be compensated just because they had the luck to be mentioned here, while several others are not?
I think that the only one who should definitely get his towel replaced is Nard, because he was the one who made a proper bug report with the exact conditions which lead to the problem (the reports by Jael RD and nelson6e65 were very misleading). Without that bug report it would not have been possible to find and fix it.
Seriously, good bug reports should be held in high regard, because a good bug report can save hours of development time.
You are totally right, Crush. But, I had not "made a proper bug report" because that was not my intention;
I didn't lost a Towel. I was just making a mention about another friend which has the same "problem".
Nard wrote:Thank you for your trust, Crush. I think the report by Jael RD and nelson6e65 was misleading because they had several actions in short time interval, which was not my case. surely, they saw the problem some time after the action, an misinterpreted the initial condition.
var wrote:If there's a recent backup before the bug was introduced, take it and count the total number of towels owned by the players in the database, dyed and non dyed, it would be N, then count the total number of towel that are actually in game N-Nlost, the difference N - (N - Nlost) could be (if nobody delete the char or throw the towel in the floor after the backup, which is hard to believe) the total number of people that lost the towel due to that bug so give just to that players the towel back. It should be 4 or whatever, you can even know who owned or didnt own a towel as well. Stop with this we cannot tell who owned the towel, if you want you can know.
This is possible, DEVs/Administrators?
var wrote:Now this has been a fault of the developement team so the developement team must take the responsability of it, do not punish the players for your fault.
I'm agree with you... but Nard is quite right:
var wrote:(..)I know this game is open source and relies on goodwill, and nobody is perfect. The decision of replacing or not is up to Administrators. If I am offered one I will not refuse (..)
I love this game! I appraise the job of Dev's team. All problems have fix/solutions.
Go ahead!
But, would be unfortunate that players stay away only (or become embittered) for an error/bug not solved for they.
Regards!
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PD: I hope you can trust in me: Players who I know with Towels are: ferskelletor, AlucarD, Akiraz and Cannuto... because they are in my party (No-Name-Worms).