Double Lethal Duels!

Fallen London
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I’m sure this isn’t meant to be, but I seem to now be fighting not one, but two lethal duels at the same time.

I invited someone to a lethal duel, and someone else invited me to the same. I accepted, and then the first person accepted my invitation. Ergo, two duels. Apparently, while you can’t invite someone who’s already in a duel (at least, I think you can’t) there is nothing stopping you from accepting an invitation from someone who got into a duel after inviting you.

How I think this will work out:

  1. I’m basically going into my second duel with &quotBouts won: 1&quot already. This would not be an issue if I’d lost the first bout of the first duel, but now, the second duel could potentially end in a tie. (Do we want to see what happens??)
  2. Assuming one duel manages to conclude normally, this will wipe out all my &quotBouts won&quot AND the &quotLethal Twist&quot marker, meaning that the other duel will no longer be lethal. And that I will almost certainly lose it.

Does anyone know anything more about this situation? Are there, in fact, measures in place to accommodate it?

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The same happened to me about a month back, only with friendly sparring. As you discovered already, cancelling the duels fixes the problem, but it seems the only way to prevent it is by being careful not to accept a challenge sent to you if you’ve got an outgoing invite as well.

Interestingly, this double duel of yours came right on the heels of my own weird duel bug experience:

http://community.failbettergames.com/topic27269-bug-lethal-duel-turned-into-friendly-sparring.aspx

Before I started dueling you I had &quotSparring: A Lethal Twist 1&quot, and after the duel started the quality increased to 2, which was rather odd. You cancelling the duel dropped it back to zero, though, so now it seems to be back to normal. Still no clues as to why that earlier duel of mine suddenly turned non-lethal, though.

I submitted a report to the support email about my bug, you should probably do the same about this. Hopefully they’ll eventually get back to us.

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My guess is your earlier duel was with someone who’d just done the same thing – got into two duels at once, but finished the other one first so they lost the “Lethal Twist” marker. So I guess this is somewhat more widespread than I thought!

Cancelling the duels didn’t completely fix the problem, though. I thought it did, so I re-initiated one with you. But then it turns out that the other duelist still had the option to respond, and suddenly I had “Sparring: Bouts won 1” again despite not being involved in anything other than the invite sent to you. (I think I owe them something for the confusion…)

Anyway, I’d already reported the bug, so I just woke up to see our re-initiated duel cancelled and, hopefully, everything finally cleaned up.

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I don’t suppose you’ve received any reply on your support ticket? I haven’t on mine.

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Yes, within a few hours of the report. They cancelled all the duel-related stuff I was in. I guess cancelling erroneous markers was easy enough, and I had a pretty good idea of how it all happened, so no need to figure anything out there.