Zapper minions not working.
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This is the second time I've noticed, but probably not the only two times. I've been zapping Puriel for the minions and on occasion it doesn't... actually change the minion. The first time I noticed this, it said the minion turned into the And just now it said the minion turned into They did not change.
Are you sure the minion actually didn't change? If you are looking at the pets.php page, it's on a cache so it might not update with the correct minion for a couple minutes.
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That's why I didn't report this the first time. I zapped a minion I needed (at the time, but have since gotten it again), but it didn't change. I waited a few minutes, searched my account, and then thought 'well, maybe if I remove the minion it will snap it into being right' or something. It did not. I moved on thinking something may have just been off and I goofed on taking it away from the pet. No real harm. Now fast forward to the 11th. It zapped. I checked it. It didn't change. It's been 4 days and the minion hasn't changed. This is the pet. I don't need that minion, FYI, just reporting this because it's become clear this is an ongoing glitch.
Thank you! Just wanted to double-check before I pass this to (I'm assuming this is one of the problems cropping up after site downtime)
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No, actually, the first time it happened was before the site was taken down. I'm sorry I don't remember when exactly it happened, but it was before Morostide. Aside from that I can't really be sure.
Have you experienced this again?
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I can't actually give an answer, sorry. I haven't zapped in months. I was trying to catalog the zaps and double check it each time, but it got away from me. I'll start doing it again now.
No worries :) just trying to clean up some older boards.
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I was actively zapping in between holidays and can confirm that this does still happen and isn't a cache thing. The site did crash a few times though.
Has this happened recently? Do you think it may have happened due to site lag?
...I just zapped a testing pet a few dozen times (with a debug setting to make it always choose the "change minion" option) and I was not able to run into this problem. It even changed it into the specific minions in the first post a few times successfully.
After looking at the code, I think it's likely that this was due to lag or some other database error. I've made an edit to the code that it will double-check and tell you if the minion change failed for some reason, instead of saying the minion changed when it did not.
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I don't zap when there's holiday currencies raining down into my Inventory, so I don't know for sure. When the Masquerade is over I will know better.
I have not had this issue recently, though my zapping has been limited because I have been trying to check everything to see if anything else fails. I don't remember lag while zapping those times, but it could be.
It's been a couple months without reports - Has anyone noticed this happen recently? We have made several changes to the website that may have resolved this as a side effect since the last report.
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