Piñata party 5th December, festivus causes crashes

Somebody turned my attention to the fact that in the wiki, there are no rewards listed for the period Dec 05 - Dec 13. These tables are produced automatically - i.e., I have a Python script that reads the data files of the game and creates these tables based on what it sees. So, if something is missing, it's either missing from the game, or there is a bug in my script.

So, I took a careful look and, guess what? It's not a bug in my script.

For the Pinata Parties during this period, the game defines a reward table named lod_feastivus_2022. Too bad, no such table exists. There are tables named lod_feastivus_2022_1, lod_feastivus_2022_2, lod_feastivus_2022_3, and lod_feastivus_2022_4. My guess is that somebody at PopCap meant to use the name lod_feastivus_2022_1 there but maybe had some eggnog too much.

Also, I am now inclined to believe that this is why today's Pinata Party is crashing when the time comes to grand you the rewards - it is referring to a rewards table that doesn't exist. If I am right, the Pinata Parties will keep crashing for a whole week, unless this is fixed ASAP.

We've had such a problem in the past, which is why I keep nattering that PopCap needs to hire some real programmer to write a data consistency checker for them. To err is human but there ought to be tools that catch such kinds of errors before they slip into production.