Adventure 0 Play Bug.

Nevermind it seems to be fixed now, so I guess it isn't permanent (yay!).

I'm getting bored of bumping this all the time with no reason, since March 2014 and no response from ANY staff from EA or the Spore Team. It's just silly. I know this can be fixed easily because it's a server issue and not an in-game problem where you need to patch it. I would go as far as saying that Galactic Adventures is broken because of this bug because many users cannot get enough Spore-points to get tools and such for their captain because every single adventure past 2011 has been suffering this issue where all adventures give only 15 Sporepoints and are locked at it, not to mention that the play counter is permanently stuck FOR ALL adventure, meaning that Spore points are PERMANENTLY stuck, which also means the difficulty counter is PERMANENTLY stuck because you get Spore points depending on how HARD that adventure is. One bug caused a chain reaction and I know what this cause is, I am almost sure what causes it at least. The play-counter is stuck which triggers this issue in Galactic Adventures. I'll explain it again.

1. Player plays an adventure. The server detects this.

2. Player either fails or wins at the adventure, meaning that the Sporepoints will go up or down depending on the difficulty (will go down if it is easy, will go up if it is hard)

3. Player can rate adventure if they so choose so.

4. Player ends the adventure logged in or not (you need to be logged in to trigger it, and you can manually do so before).

And where does this issue come from? The very first step. The server somehow cannot detect that players are playing adventures, which causes step 2, 3 and 4 to not trigger, the server is unaware of this because of the bug in the server that thinks players are playing a certain adventure. Meaning there MUST be an issue with server detection and not actually in-game, for two reasons.

1. Said above.

2. It happened 2 years after the 1.51 release patch. 

I'm going to report this to EA to make this much, MUCH more clearer. 

Alright, I went to EA Live Chat, here is the paste of our conversation:

Why don't you try contacting a game advisor? At this point they can possibly escalate your case. This is a peer to peer site that doesn't get much input from EA. You could also try contacting Maxis possibly since they actually make the game.

Spore is several years old. It doesn't get a lot of updates or attention. I wouldn't be surprised it it wasn't even if active development any longer.

@Sharples65 and everyone else. I have now cleaned this topic to the max. Such spam sprees are not tolerated and for that reason I have removed all spam posts and posts that did not contributed to the problem.

If another spam spree happens, those that participate in it, may have future actions taken against there accounts.

Also, if it happens this thread will be locked, or removed altogether just like the posts now, so I dont what to see this happen again.

I know you are all frustrated, but this behavior is still not tolerated.

@Sharples65  I have also removed the locked thread link, from your main post, please dont like threads, that have broken the same rules.

Answer HQ forum rules, can be found here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/help/faqpage/faq-category-id/faq-rules-guidelines#faq-rules-guidelines , I suggest you all take a good look at them and have a read, before making a new post.

Now about the problem itself   I have passed this thread along for future review and will see if I can get more information on this and a possible reply/solution/fix etc. Do not break the rules again, while that is being done.

Thank you all for your patients and understanding.

This is NOT A SPAM THREAD. The bumps are legitmate AND HAVE BEEN MADE OVER A PERIOD A MONTHS. This is because if you do not bump a thread, the developer may not see it And I'm not going to allow my thread to be unseen. What you did was inexcusable and I can't believe you would do such a thing. 

From March 18th To September 18th this thread was up an it got NO ATTENTION from you or any other EA Employee. But when I made that sub-thread you immediently deleted that one and then started removing posts from this one. This action is completly unnacceptable.

I do not visit Spore forums that often, as this is not my area of expertize. 

I will quote this, from the forum rules, however for details, please read the whole page:

1. Spamming - Spamming includes bumping questions, asking questions with the sole purpose of linking to another question, excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberish, asking the same questions multiple times, repeatedly posting the same question in different places, "in before the lock" comments or repeatedly posting useless information or smilies only.

As a Hero/Moderator, I have to make sure all posts and threads follow the forum rules, there can sadly be no exception to this.

EDIT: Also, if you what to be 100% sure some important thread gets noticed and it cant wait, feel free to PM me or any other hero/mod, CM or anyone of as. Our names are in blue bold, so you can notice as this way.

I have been here for 7 months trying to help the community and only the community. I bumped these threads so other community members could view this, and see how long it's been and so the developers can see it. Do you honestly expect any developer to look at a thread that is, let's say 22 pages back? 

I give up now. This bug being fixed is not going to happen. So therefor, I'm not replying on this thread again, well I won't be able to anyway even if I wanted to because the enforced rules means you can't do anything at all.

That is not true @Sharples65 .

You can do much. Posting stuff that contributes to the problem, possible workarounds, future details to the problem, details about your setup and so on... pretty much anything that can help in the escalation and the resolution of the problem, this is perfectly fine and ok and should always be done.

Posting bumps, spam, rage, rule breaking content and anything that does not have any contribution to the problem at hand, or the topic, or escalation of the problem and so on... now that is not ok and is not wanted here.

Posting like first line, will get a much better chance at an answer and a possible resolution faster too. 

Posting like the second line, will get you nowhere here and this will significantly lower a chance at a reply or a resolution and will increase a large chance at moderation actions being taken at the thread and your account.

Always follow the forum rules and always be productive and make contributions to the threads you create or participate in and this increases its chances at a success by VERY FAR. Be the best you can be, in short and not the worst.😕mileywink:

As this thread has now sadly gone to far, in the discussion of moderation, I shall close/lock it down for now and temporarily so it is not derailed again and strained away from the main subject and topic. When future information is available, it shall be posted and then the thread may be unlocked.

I will also temporarily mark it as solved, so this post can be better seen and for better visibility.

Also, if anyone is interested, here is the Answer HQ forum rules like again: http://answers.ea.com/t5/help/faqpage/faq-category-id/faq-rules-guidelines#faq-rules-guidelines .

Thank you all, for your patients and understanding.

I have no option left. I've already gone through everything possibe. No more information needs to be added onto this bug. I have explained to those people over and over and over again about the bug. Unless someone from the EA department comes up with an ETA to fix this bug, it's going to be the exact same copy and paste replies that I have been doing from EA Live Chat and bumps.

And I'm only bumping this thread because I don't think the developers will view even page 2. In-fact, when was the last time they even came here?

I'm trying to agree with the forum rules. But when you have no option, what is the use?

So, does EA just, like, not care about this?