Possible bug fix for my 1.5M gauntlets issue
Original issue posted here.
Not sure if anyone from the EA dev team will see this but I will post it here anyway. This fix may have been suggested before. I am not sure as I am new to this forum.
I understand if EA does not have access to the saved profiles in Google Play Games or on their own servers. Or maybe manually editing every single profile with issues would be a "tech support" nightmare. In any case, there can be a programmatic approach to resolve it.
This may also be a deterrent for using hacked accounts in addition to fixing bug victims like me.
So here it is: Why not use a cap-and-threshold scheme?
Let me explain further: Use a cap on coins, mints, seed packets, etc. Let me expound: If a cap is set to 100 coins then no further coins may drop from zombies and battlez will show "x0" for coins if the cap has been met. There may be instances where a player reaches 99 coins and a silver coin (worth 10) will drop. A soft cap may be applied, where the player can still have 109 coins but no further coins will be available. This cap should be set to a value of the maximum possible value a normal player can achieve. In my case, I have 490M coins. You think that it is humanly possible for a barely-2-month old profile? I think not. Anyway, this will be the first part of the scheme.
The second part will be the threshold. This is the value where if this is reached, the capped item will be set to the max possible value or set to zero. The threshold value should be significantly higher than the cap value. For instance, if the coin cap is 100 and the player is at 99 coins and several gold coins were dropped (worth 100 I think), this should be acceptable and should not trigger the threshold routine. So like I said, the threshold value should be significantly higher than the cap value.
It looks easy on paper: I know. But I do hope they implement this. I really want my issue fixed as I fear that it might corrupt my profile and loose the plants I worked hard on leveling up...
- I think my profile is at the edge of corruption... I really wanted to play PVZ on my phone but it was the culprit in this duplication bug. And my battlez streak was reset again! Just 6 hours before the tourney ended!! Good thing I was able to get enough crowns to get promoted to wood league.
Now I'm hoarding the tablet just to play this....
Coins, gauntlets, and mints are now set to 2.1B. If I pick up a coin, goes to zero then stuck at zero even after getting more coins. Same with mints and gauntlets. Zen Garden sprouts stuck at 31k. Same behavior as coins. But if I go back to the first screen on PVZ, those zero resources revert back to those astronomical amounts.
As for power ups, mine shows 4.7M on vase breaker. No plans of testing if it's the same behavior.
However, my gems seem to be unaffected by this reversion. Currently at "only" 70M, it retains the amount when I use it. Probably because it's not yet maxed out.
Soooooo.... I'll stop complaining and will patiently wait for the fix. Meanwhile, hello M200 plants! Gotta use those gems! Well, maybe I'll stop at M100... I'm still thinking about it...
