Ice Monday or The next big Ice Age

[Rachel]

i dont think so....

[162]

What was the glitch, anyway?

[Rachel]

there were quite a few. you could visit the tombola unlimited times, and get as many scratch cards as you wanted.

there was also stuff going on with the shops where they were restocking every minute, and stuff kept changing (the codes etc). at one point the shops were eaten by a chomby

[twinklyspangle]

Wow, I bet some people were having a field day over that! It seems totally unfair that I'm never online when the cool stuff happens.

[everconfused]

I don't think the fast restocks should be an issue as far as a "glitch" or mass freezing goes. Unless you were using an ab. Which I think may have been the case with the stocked shops and nothing buyable - if the honest players couldn't get in to buy but you were getting items, then you've got a problem - and you should!

The daily/scratchcard glitch is something different. It says on the dailies once a day. So if you go more than once, you're taking a big chance. If you, like some people did, keep going back over and over or went and bought 20 scratchcards, well, you know there's a glitch, you're trying to take advantage of that glitch and that is cheating.

R4chel, I can't confirm or deny, but I have heard of such a thing as a daily program that will get your bank interest and do the dailies for you. Kind of ridiculous I think. How lazy would a person have to be to use something like that?!

[Morningstar]

Then there's alot of people afraid of being frozen because they restocked! I highly doubt that would happen to the honest players (thinks about an empty site as everyone was trying to restock yesterday). Only in the case of someone who used an ab during the constant restocking. Especially when no one could buy anything, yet some of the really high priced, rare items were disappearing from the shops. That was absolute brilliance on the part of TNT if they did that deliberately (which I'm guessing they did). I think the whole constant restock was one big test to see what system would work to stop the ab'ers and seeing who was in fact using one.

everconfused, I had that same thought when the restock-a-minute marathon began. However, when all of the other glitches occurred, particularly the unlimited freebies one, I had to wonder if any of it was planned. I actually thought that it was a disgruntled computer tech having a little fun before he quit his job with Neopets.

I honestly don't think TNT would purposely set the freebies to be unlimited--it's too tempting to littler folks who might not have the capacity to realize the severity of the consequences. It's kind of like putting a big bowl of jelly beans on a table and telling a little kid not to eat any while you are gone. We adults know better and hopefully most kids over the age of ten know better, but does a 7 year old kid who just started playing because he got a Neopets toy in his Happy Meal? Those are the very same little folks who "up" the number of page views per month, buy the Neopets trading cards, and go to the Disney movies that are immersively advertised on the site. I doubt that Neopets would want to get rid of those players--their bread and butter so to speak--due to a glitch.

[everconfused]

Then there's alot of people afraid of being frozen because they restocked! I highly doubt that would happen to the honest players (thinks about an empty site as everyone was trying to restock yesterday). Only in the case of someone who used an ab during the constant restocking. Especially when no one could buy anything, yet some of the really high priced, rare items were disappearing from the shops. That was absolute brilliance on the part of TNT if they did that deliberately (which I'm guessing they did). I think the whole constant restock was one big test to see what system would work to stop the ab'ers and seeing who was in fact using one.

everconfused, I had that same thought when the restock-a-minute marathon began. However, when all of the other glitches occurred, particularly the unlimited freebies one, I had to wonder if any of it was planned. I actually thought that it was a disgruntled computer tech having a little fun before he quit his job with Neopets.

I honestly don't think TNT would purposely set the freebies to be unlimited--it's too tempting to littler folks who might not have the capacity to realize the severity of the consequences. It's kind of like putting a big bowl of jelly beans on a table and telling a little kid not to eat any while you are gone. We adults know better and hopefully most kids over the age of ten know better, but does a 7 year old kid who just started playing because he got a Neopets toy in his Happy Meal? Those are the very same little folks who "up" the number of page views per month, buy the Neopets trading cards, and go to the Disney movies that are immersively advertised on the site. I doubt that Neopets would want to get rid of those players--their bread and butter so to speak--due to a glitch.

Hmm, I never even thought of the "disgruntled employee having a bit of fun" theory. I thought the fast restocks, especially when the shops were full of high rarities but no one could get into the shops, was all part of some kind of test to see what is and isn't working as far as allowing people to restock, but stopping ab'ers from getting past a code. Either way, it should not affect anyone who honestly restocked or restocked just at the Igloo - the place so many dial up players go (no code to sit and wait for).

The daily/scratchcard glitch? I do think that was a glitch, there have been glitches with dailies before - fruit machine I know it happened with and alot! of people got frozen for that one. While I see what you're saying about younger players or new players not really understanding the consequences of going to tombola over and over, for the most part from posts on the boards I saw, those are not the people who took advantage. It's people who can read (the once a day notice on all the dailies) and know to not take advantage of a glitch. I'm not talking about someone who goes, say 2 times...when I did the dailies (stopped awhile ago since I share a computer with someone who has their own account, but I know she does some of the dailies -- no getting frozen for multy'ing if we can help it) I would sometimes forget if I went to, say, tombola and would go there. And get the you can only play once a day page.

If you're not getting that page (due to a glitch), it's completely possible to think you didn't go and go again. But after that, you're not forgetting, you're deliberately going back to try to get more stuff. Unless you just joined within the last few days, aren't in a guild or go to the boards where someone can tell you it's wrong, you know you can't do that.

And it seems to be the people who DO know better than to exploit glitches who are now worried because they did keep going back, and some of them were earlier bragging about how many faeries/codestones/etc. they got.

TNT I don't think is going to sit there and go through each account to see how old (physically and on the site) someone is if they've got a log of someone using the dailies/buying multiple scratchcards, they're just going to freeze them regardless of age.

[Dag]

Wow, I bet some people were having a field day over that! It seems totally unfair that I'm never online when the cool stuff happens.

I know! The one time I'm away all this stuff happens

[Morningstar]

While I see what you're saying about younger players or new players not really understanding the consequences of going to tombola over and over, for the most part from posts on the boards I saw, those are not the people who took advantage. It's people who can read (the once a day notice on all the dailies) and know to not take advantage of a glitch. I'm not talking about someone who goes, say 2 times...when I did the dailies (stopped awhile ago since I share a computer with someone who has their own account, but I know she does some of the dailies -- no getting frozen for multy'ing if we can help it) I would sometimes forget if I went to, say, tombola and would go there. And get the you can only play once a day page.

If you're not getting that page (due to a glitch), it's completely possible to think you didn't go and go again. But after that, you're not forgetting, you're deliberately going back to try to get more stuff. Unless you just joined within the last few days, aren't in a guild or go to the boards where someone can tell you it's wrong, you know you can't do that.

And it seems to be the people who DO know better than to exploit glitches who are now worried because they did keep going back, and some of them were earlier bragging about how many faeries/codestones/etc. they got.

TNT I don't think is going to sit there and go through each account to see how old (physically and on the site) someone is if they've got a log of someone using the dailies/buying multiple scratchcards, they're just going to freeze them regardless of age.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I agree totally with you--and I am sure they will freeze regardless of age. I just think it is a shame that a little kid playing for a few weeks should get the same punishment as those much older who knew better but did so anyway--and bragged on and on about all of the freebies they were getting.