hwoosh
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7/19/2017
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I was on a hiatus for a couple of months before this, so apologies if this has been discussed already.
I've noticed that these days, whenever I view FL, in whatever browser, the timers for both the action candles and the opportunity deck display nonsensical figures, usually in the mid-20 or 30 minutes. Sometimes the action timer just displays "00:01" forever, and the candle count doesn't update until I play an action or refresh the page. As far as I can tell I still get a new action/card every 10 minutes as intended, but the display to be seems very confused.
Previously, I would pretty often notice the timer halting at "00:01" until I refreshed (the latter behavior I described), but the nonsensical figures greater than 10:00 are new to me. It seems like something either on my end or FBG's end has changed since I was previously active (May, I want to say?).
Is this a problem other people have? Is there a known fix? Should I file a bug report?
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Whisky
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7/25/2017
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Guess I'm gonna have to find another hobby.
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Plynkes
Posts: 631
7/19/2017
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Seems to me that it is slowly getting worse and spreading. It began with the action and card timer and that would right itself upon refreshing the page. It has since spread to the cards themselves (sometimes it shows no cards waiting when in fact you have some) and often (at least for me) multiple refreshings of the page continue to show erroneous values. I was having problems last week with it not showing my menaces correctly too (i.e. not showing ones that I actually did have), which could be rather dicey if one enjoys sailing close to the wind where menaces are concerned.
I do hope the old thing isn't dying entirely, it certainly feels like it isn't very well.
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Hark DeGaul
Posts: 208
7/19/2017
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I've had a timer telling me I have 40 minutes until my next action at points. It doesn't seem to actually affect the time it takes to generate new moves and if you use a move it will often correct itself (your number of moves jumping from 2 to 4 for example) so I don't think it's a serious problem so much as an amusing mistake. I would recommend sending a bug report though.
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Gillsing
Posts: 1203
7/19/2017
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As annoying as it is when the timer doesn't show things correctly, it seems as if it's slightly beneficial in that it seems to 'save' cards and Actions behind a curtain, so even though I might have a full deck after being away from the game, I can still get up to two cards 'extra' if I draw a couple of cards and discard them instead of playing them. Playing cards and storylets and switching equipment seems to usually update the deck and candle, as if the game is saving some CPU-power and/or bandwidth by not automatically doing so every ten minutes.
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DonaghyLogan
Posts: 205
7/19/2017
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I've been having this problem quite a lot, too. I think the biggest problem it could pose is in discouraging new players, who might become easily confused and frustrated by the incorrect times.
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Lallinka
Posts: 138
8/2/2017
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Is it possible they fixed the timers? So far they've been working reliably today, never exceeding the 10:00 mark.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
7/19/2017
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This problem has been around for a few months, as best I can recall. Sometimes I have to refresh the page several times before it updates to the correct time. I agree with Hark that it's not a serious impediment to players.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
7/19/2017
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Failbetter recently hired a new web developer to work on this issue, iirc.
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Gillsing
Posts: 1203
7/19/2017
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Plynkes wrote:
I was having problems last week with it not showing my menaces correctly too (i.e. not showing ones that I actually did have), which could be rather dicey if one enjoys sailing close to the wind where menaces are concerned.
Menaces and other stuff in that sidebar always seem to update when I switch equipment, and I'm fairly certain that it used to be that way before the more recent problems with the timers.
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
7/24/2017
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I haven't noticed anything wrong with the Goat Farmer's Browser Extension, but if something was up with it it'd be an issue to bring up in the extension's thread.
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