Not only does the XP counter lose track if you survive getting a bunch of XP over somewhere between 3 and 4 million, where it loses track of at least one round of rewards you earned and it pays you at least one less reward than you are owed, it gets worse . . .At level 939 ( anything lower I've not had the time to test ) then if the game ends up reloading or synchronising for any reason and your XP earned and showing in the counter and the amount you really earned but it hasn't showed you yet is over 2 million XP it will mean all you will get is a counter reset to zero and an apology bonut round.It means if you tap SkyFinger or collect everything yourself and then shut down or head to the friends maps even without the dreaded Bart screen, you will not get all those XP points you worked hard to earn if you played well and earned a lot.If you get the BSOD or choose to reload or pop to neighbours you will lose out.Good news, the cash counter works if you haven't already hit the 4 and a bit billion maximum but the XP is a total wash out until EA can borrow a kid from a nearby coding club to make a working counter.PLAN B - EA count it all and give everyone 3 donuts for every million of the wasted XP and time when the server goes pop or they get fed up of waiting for the What I Collected junk icons floating all over the screen to clear

Yup! It's been doing this to me for ages, I just couldn't figure how to communicate it as clearly as you @1-Graham-S.I'd open my game up in the morning and get a bonut spin & XP bar set to zero and I thought: "Wow! free stuff, the elves must've had enough of making shoes and they've been in my game earning xp while I sleep."Then I went through a spate of Bart attacks so decided to sync the game regularly and I noticed the same thing occurred when I did this, but now that I sync before I shut down I don't get the morning bonuts anymore. I started to suspect then that it wasn't free stuff after all but actually Bart pickpocketing me without actually booting me out.Sure enough, I stopped using the sky finger & cleared my town by a; 4 taps, sync, rinse, repeat method and got about twice the haul of donuts than I had been getting before, but it did take about an hour to do this way. As you said, there's a discrepancy between the rate that the cash drops in compared to the XP, but I can't help but suspect it's deliberate. If it was the coding that couldn't handle the totals then the cash would be affected even worse as those amounts are an order of magnitude higher than the XP.I'm currently waiting for my xp collider to run out, cos I was going to check whether that would cure the issue, if nothing else it should speed up the clearing up of all the crap icons off the screen. I'll report back on my investigations, when I know more.

I can't wait for the "evil & cunning plan".....Does it involve a turnip?I'll probably still let my collider run out just to improve the visuals, my bonus isn't huge but I have 35k spare donuts so I'm not running out any time soon. It's just the principle; I earned 'em, so I want 'em.Really? What's wrong with the word: c u n n I n g?Someone needs to adjust the woke filters.

If you really feel this is spam then go and add a post in the spam threads thread - Here's the link - meanwhile I've got far more interesting things to do than worry about a conveniently large number of spam flags appearing in a very short space of time. Maybe I'll get a new badge ?!? :)

@1-Graham-S Hi neighbour.I for one have found this thread interesting. I have lost a ton of donut boxes to this and it has always seemed such an easy thing to fix. Unfortunately some simple things, like don't flag a post just because you don't like it or the author, are not so easy to fix.

"1-Graham-S;c-2190531" wrote:@Willy9292 thanks.If you can keep the total you earn under 2 mil and wait for rewards. If you can't, say tapping SkyFinger, then collect just enough tasks to tip over and get the counter as low as possible - I aim for under 50k - and than pop to friends towns as a precaution against Bart. You'll end up with a reset counter and one round but it's better than having it happen when you get close, say 999,000, and that all goes to waste !!Very true. I watch and try to get it over the million before collecting large things. Adds a few boxes to the daily haul.

Wonky EA counter - the sequel to the sequel

1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
In case you're lower level or lower bonus and think I don't get it . . .
I started a second town a short while ago and I also still remember in that monster town of mine when I blew months worth of earnings on trucks to get a single offering from the store and the moment I stopped buying trucks and started to collect - I hoped - the server screwed up and weeks worth of grinding goes pop thanks to Bart.
It doesn't matter if you lose out on a single level up or bonut round or you get to where I am or beyond and you lose one truck or a hundred - you still don't get what you earned, and that is very not right
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
The cash counter works because you've either hit maximum or it just displays every dollar you got.
The XP counter works when the game doesn't crash because it drip feeds and pays Rewards as it goes.
It doesn't work if it has to reload because it can't handle owing Level Ups.
It is a very easy fix, a simple While Loop that runs on re-load :-
Get the total amount of XP Earned, include the XP displayed in the counter,
While XP Earned is greater than zero run a Loop,
Get the Target XP needed for a Level Up Reward,
Check if XP Earned is equal or greater than the Target XP needed for a Level Up Reward,
If yes - pay Reward, check Reward paid, subtract Target XP from XP Earned, re-run the Loop.
If no - set XP displayed in the counter to show XP Earned, set XP Earned to zero and stop the Loop.
Simple and easy.
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
I wanted to make sure EA see this so I've added an Answers post.
I've also emailed them a link to that as bug report feedback.
Let's see if they fix it at last, it really is so simple a child at a coding club could do it.
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
@Willy9292 thanks.
If you can keep the total you earn under 2 mil and wait for rewards. If you can't, say tapping SkyFinger which holds back some XP, then afterwards collect just enough tasks to tip the counter over and get it as low as possible - I aim for under 50k - and than pop to friends towns as a precaution against Bart. You'll likely end up with a reset counter and one bonut round but it's better than having it happen when you get close, say 999,000, and that all goes to waste !!
anastasios_p
4 years ago
"1-Graham-S;d-270945" wrote:
Not only does the XP counter lose track if you survive getting a bunch of XP over somewhere between 3 and 4 million, where it loses track of at least one round of rewards you earned and it pays you at least one less reward than you are owed, it gets worse . . .

I think it is worse than that. Even though I have a bonus of 2940% which should, at level 939 with the collider on, get me two bonut boxes when buying a single Bloodmobile, I only collect one. Similarly, 8 Bloodmobiles only gets me 12 boxes, nowhere near even 15. ☹️?
TheRealTiminato
4 years ago
It appears that your link no longer works @1-Graham-S, I'm guessing that the answers EA people didn't like you calling them on their scam & quietly swept you under the rug when nobody was looking.

"What's that? Over there!" ......... (Frantic brushing sounds).
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
The link here was messed up - http . . followed by https . . !?! - weird, but easy fixed.
1-Graham-S
Hero+
4 years ago
The Rise of the Robots update hasn't fixed this. Just checked and posted as such on Answers.
( my silly rich A town has got itself a milk glitch, so I fired up the collider and tested the counter )
lucienleon519
Rising Rookie
4 years ago
"TheRealTiminator;c-2190206" wrote:
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I'd open my game up in the morning and get a bonut spin & XP bar set to zero ...

In recent months, just for amusement, I've been trying (not too hard) to hit an XP value of exactly '0'. The closest I've got to date is 12, but yesterday I opened the game and the counter was exactly '0'. I thought the coincidence was too great to not be a glitch but I was still excited enough to take a screen cap :D
TheRealTiminato
4 years ago
"1-Graham-S;c-2191001" wrote:
The Rise of the Robots update hasn't fixed this. Just checked and posted as such on Answers.
( my silly rich A town has got itself a milk glitch, so I fired up the collider and tested the counter )

And just in time for the new update my collider has finally run out, I've gotta say I wish I'd done it a year ago.

I could actually use my skyfinger statue this morning without getting ripped off, OK so I went from earning 5 donut turns of which I would actually receive 2 or 3 on a good day to just the one now, but I'm lucky enough to have plenty stored up so that really doesn't concern me.

What a breath of fresh air it is not to have all those ugly, giant, blue XP symbols cluttering up my screen, and it definitely seems to collect them all in pretty much as quick as I can tap now.
My % bonus obviously isn't as HUGE as yours @1-Graham-S, and it'll probably always rankle me that the problem still exists and that the solution is so simple, but it looks like switching off the collider has dropped me below the threshold where it is a problem.

Still not keen on the pink XP bar though, I'd forgotten about that. ?