I noticed you guys moved the "Investigating Higher than Maximum Upgrades" bug into the resolved category. I'm confused as to whether or not you guys "patched" it already. The team balancing things were resolved recently. I'm assuming the upgrade count bug has also been dealt with seeing that it's in the same area as the team swap ones. This is an image of a battle arena match I was in this morning. Just wanted to let popcap know we can still abuse this bug and that it isn't patched 😕

@chogath_player Recently I had the same loadout with the Sunflower. I removed all upgrades and tried to reequip those but it didn't work. I guess the bug is resolved for the players who now create new loadouts. Old ones are probably still bugged.

@ippigYes, I found the same. It should be addressed in some way for those who haven't changed the slots since the change.Have there been other characters who might be affected by similar upgrade cost changes?ADDED: @chogath_player Maybe this should be reported in Bugs???

I had this when they first made this big patch and I had fixed it manually. Maybe I should've just left it as I really liked that build. XD

@TheSprinter85 Indeed nice to have for the player, a reason to rage for the opponent though 😉

I don't think this is technically a "bug".When they changed the cost for a few upgrades to eliminate the more powerful combinations they seem to have allowed for existing upgrade selections to be preserved which means that a percentage of players will have combinations of upgrades which are now "illegal" but which are maintained because they were grandfathered in due to the fact that they were already in place at the time of the change.Grandfathering these upgrade combinations is the friendliest, and probably easiest, way to address this sort of situation where you are changing the costs involved on upgrades which are already in use. Using this method you just wait for the players will "illegal" combinations to change them voluntarily after which they must adhere to the new cost structure.The alternate method would be to forcibly purge the upgrade chosen which would require everyone to reselect their choices and would force everyone to immediately adhere to the new cost structure. Depending on how the system is set up they may not be able to single out "illegal" combinations to be purged, meaning that they need to purge everyone's upgrades or it may just be considered difficult to do the purging on the backend or too inconvenient or upsetting for the community.

I still have more than 7 upgrade slots spent

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ippig
6 years ago
@chogath_player Recently I had the same loadout with the Sunflower. I removed all upgrades and tried to reequip those but it didn't work. I guess the bug is resolved for the players who now create new loadouts. Old ones are probably still bugged.
ToastedSarnie
6 years ago
@ippigYes, I found the same. It should be addressed in some way for those who haven't changed the slots since the change.

Have there been other characters who might be affected by similar upgrade cost changes?
ADDED: @chogath_player Maybe this should be reported in Bugs???
TheSprinter85
Hero
6 years ago
@chogath_player I think your best bet is to unequip all upgrades for that character and put on different ones that cost a total of 7 or less. Putting it in the Bug Reports section is probably a great idea as well, to let the developers know of your issue, like @ToastedSarnie stated! 👍
DeAtHaDDiCtiOn5
6 years ago
I still have 9 upgrade points used for my Sunflower (the same as the picture above). I honestly think once you reach Grandmaster 5 with any character, you should get some kind of advantage for the hours it takes to achieve that rank. But I guess PopCap has a different idea.
TheSprinter85
Hero
6 years ago
I haven't noticed - do you get coins for levelling up between master and grandmaster? Even then, it's not a particularly helpful reward to most people - is it? 🤔
Iron_Guard8
Legend
6 years ago
I had this when they first made this big patch and I had fixed it manually. Maybe I should've just left it as I really liked that build. XD
TheSprinter85
Hero
6 years ago
It's annoying that you can no longer use Cocoon and Blossom with a Sunflower at the same time … I really like those two and should have equipped them when I had the chance!
ippig
6 years ago
@TheSprinter85 Indeed nice to have for the player, a reason to rage for the opponent though 😉
TheSprinter85
Hero
6 years ago
@ippig Hmm … you're right! It gives you or others an unfair advantage (depending on who's making use of extra upgrade points)! 🙂
realitysquared
6 years ago
I don't think this is technically a "bug".
When they changed the cost for a few upgrades to eliminate the more powerful combinations they seem to have allowed for existing upgrade selections to be preserved which means that a percentage of players will have combinations of upgrades which are now "illegal" but which are maintained because they were grandfathered in due to the fact that they were already in place at the time of the change.
Grandfathering these upgrade combinations is the friendliest, and probably easiest, way to address this sort of situation where you are changing the costs involved on upgrades which are already in use. Using this method you just wait for the players will "illegal" combinations to change them voluntarily after which they must adhere to the new cost structure.
The alternate method would be to forcibly purge the upgrade chosen which would require everyone to reselect their choices and would force everyone to immediately adhere to the new cost structure. Depending on how the system is set up they may not be able to single out "illegal" combinations to be purged, meaning that they need to purge everyone's upgrades or it may just be considered difficult to do the purging on the backend or too inconvenient or upsetting for the community.