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during 'rock in a hard place' I gained 5 boxes of offcuts which gave me shards in my star, just started 'altered state' and again I was given 5 mystery boxes, I opened one, no problem, but then tried to open a 2nd and the game just kept spinning, after a refresh the 3 remaining had gone and there was no extra shards other than from the first.
As there is no or very little info about it, I have no idea what is a bug and what isn't, should i have got five mystery boxes or not
King_Jarmo
01.02.24, 10:10
same.. allowed me to open the first one, but the second one kept spinning and then they all disappeared..
For a lvl80 players this whole quest line is nothing more than just an endless pit to drop valuable resources into without getting anything useful back (usually completing those quests will give 1-2 star coins). I was hoping it will get somewhere at some point, but it doesn't, so..
on testserver each level up of forerunner gave a mystery box with star shards - maybe that is bugged here on live if more level-up-boxes in star at same time.
altered state again giving 5 mining boxes but only allowing one to open and the other four vanish after a refresh
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Romarius2109
16.02.24, 15:04
By me the same problem the second time just now was the second I have a ticket ready, and it is ridiculous how long it takes to get answers I want
a compensation for this in form of 5000-star shades and this is, the bug will be finished at least we are the people what take care of the salaries by BB
when we're buying your gems, so I think it is fair to handle us also fair thanks romarius2109
Upgrade: now 5 times like that and no answers on my ticket, I don't know what can says to that it shows a really very bad character from site the
BB support team, sorry I have other education receive from my parents to respect other people and answer there question and help, it shows as well
the score what BB have against other game provider, I think there is now some work to do, to receive back the trust of the gamer ...!!!!
i also had 5 boxes in my star menu, opened one, the rest vanished, did not return to star after clearing cache and logging out for an hour :(
rattlesnakeuk
17.02.24, 18:58
ive had the same problem 3 times now its a joke
JasonBrack
17.02.24, 21:29
i had the same problem as the OP
Tinfoilhat
21.02.24, 13:51
I had a similar issue, I was able to open all 5 boxes but when I went to add them to my storage only 100 shards were added the only 600 or so diasppeared.
The same thing has happened to me the last two times when I got the 5 boxes. First one opens and gives me 100 star shards, but on the second box I get a spinning hour glass and all the remaining boxed are gone after that.
food_for_toughts
01.03.24, 19:49
Same here, happened first time 2 weeks ago
Same thing happend here. Two times.
+1 happend 2 times for me
Romarius2109
09.03.24, 11:20
By me the same problem the second time just now was the second I have a ticket ready, and it is ridiculous how long it takes to get answers I want
a compensation for this in form of 5000-star shades and this is, the bug will be finished at least we are the people what take care of the salaries by BB
when we're buying your gems, so I think it is fair to handle us also fair thanks romarius2109
Upgrade: Now is it 5 times like that and no answers on my ticket, I don't know what can says to that it shows a really very bad character from site the
BB support team sorry I have other education receive from my parents to respect other people and answer there question and help it shows as well
the score what BB have against other game provider I think there is now some work to do, to receive back the trust of the gamer ...!!!!
and It's same not the way to block the edit for the Tread sometimes is to respect critic and to see for make it better regards...............
food_for_toughts
12.03.24, 12:51
On top of that moving shards from star to mayor is a loss most of the times. they are going into a black hole. Lost more than 3000 that way (at least the ones I observed), plus those lost when opening crates.
PS: @Romarius most of us know already that tickets and support is almost non-existent. We just leave comments here for the Time Capsule ! After centuries someone will fix al these bugs.
Mortisferoth
12.03.24, 13:39
Same thing just happened to me as well...
temporary solution to problem from german forum ( google translated with small corrections)
1. the explosive charges btw resonance suppressors build in the forerunner.
2. Occurrence 1 blow up btw resonance suppressor lay.
3. Don't continue with the remaining 4 deposits, but first open the star and the one box you received.
4. Immediately place the contents of this box on Mayor (make sure that it is also listed)
5. Now do the 2nd deposit, stop blasting/laying reso again and open the next box, put the contents back on the Mayor.
6. proceed in the same way with deposits 3 - 5.
It is important to put the contents of each individual box on the Mayor so that it can be counted in the storage. It is not enough to open the boxes one after the other, because it has already happened that the contents of all the boxes could not be placed on the Mayor later. ( ed. error alreaddy happens when boxes are stacked in star - not when opening ) ,REALLY TREAT EACH OCCURRENCE INDIVIDUALLY AS DESCRIBED ABOVE AND THEN ONLY BLOW UP THE SECOND TO FIFTH BTW WITH RESO. In the somewhat cumbersome way, everyone gets their boxes with splinters opened and the contents also in the storage, where the correct calculations is done.
I lost boxes three times, sent 3 tickets with no reaction. Thanks for the tip, halv12 :)
i just did the quest "rooting out the problem" . completed it , and it gave me 5 crystal fruit baskets. i opened them and i got 5 x 200 shards. they where in my star menu, i saw them. now i wanted to add them to my mayors and they are gone , and they did not go to my stack in normal storage. they just vanished
Mortisferoth
16.03.24, 10:07
i just did the quest "rooting out the problem" . completed it , and it gave me 5 crystal fruit baskets. i opened them and i got 5 x 200 shards. they where in my star menu, i saw them. now i wanted to add them to my mayors and they are gone , and they did not go to my stack in normal storage. they just vanished
I got 2x400 and 3x200... All gone... I opened a ticket but... you know...
jessica031
16.03.24, 11:21
i just did the quest "rooting out the problem" . completed it , and it gave me 5 crystal fruit baskets. i opened them and i got 5 x 200 shards. they where in my star menu, i saw them. now i wanted to add them to my mayors and they are gone , and they did not go to my stack in normal storage. they just vanished
Similar with me. I did at least get 1x 100 out of it but 4x 200 went to 'planks' tab on star menu then disappeared when I tried to add them to mayor's house. I have also had the problem with only being able to open 1 out of 5 boxes but not recently. Maybe they fixed the latter but introduced the former, I dunno. Can't be bothered wasting time raising tickets.
I finished "Rooting out the problem" today. I had 5 baskets with chards in my star when I finished
I opened 1 - it contained 200 shards that did end up in star.
I refreshed - before opening the next - because I had heard others ending up with spinning hourglass and nothing
Now I only had 1 basked left, and it had 100 shards
- in total all I got from that quests line besides the exp- is 300 shards.
Not the first time baskets with shards have vanished from my star.
Please either fix it or remove the quests.
you should know by now that player inputs and bug fixing that don't crash the game and only have a negative impact on the players will get little to no attention,
Stuff like the infamous missing ghost ship as it ghosted into the wild blue yonder -
they put stuff on test but then put the same stuff on live servers - so any comments/request/improveemnts and "minor bug fixes" get ignored
So the message they are projecting out here is "We don't give a hoot about the players really and we will do what we want as we know best anyway- even though we don;t play the game or hardly play the game- We are the superior Beebees and we play lipservice by pretending we care and fix stuff
you should know by now that player inputs and bug fixing that don't crash the game and only have a negative impact on the players will get little to no attention,
Stuff like the infamous missing ghost ship as it ghosted into the wild blue yonder -
they put stuff on test but then put the same stuff on live servers - so any comments/request/improveemnts and "minor bug fixes" get ignored
So the message they are projecting out here is "We don't give a hoot about the players really and we will do what we want as we know best anyway- even though we don;t play the game or hardly play the game- We are the superior Beebees and we play lipservice by pretending we care and fix stuff
I actually do know :) I just pretend I don`t, that way I can say I did do what they tell us in Global. Even though I know from experience, that it does not make any difference.
I finished "Rooting out the problem" today. I had 5 baskets with chards in my star when I finished
I opened 1 - it contained 200 shards that did end up in star.
I refreshed - before opening the next - because I had heard others ending up with spinning hourglass and nothing
Now I only had 1 basked left, and it had 100 shards
I came to report the same. Lots of resources spent on the quest, then all 1k shards disappeared when I tried to move from star to warehouse. (I opened all 5 boxes with 200 each.) 1000 k appeared in star, but was not added at all to normal storage but deleted from star at the same time.
Me too, got 3 fruit baskets with 1400 shards. When I moved them to mayor's they disappeared !
BB_Trafffer
21.03.24, 10:51
Hello Settlers.
Thank you for all the reports. The team is aware of this issue, I will update this thread when I have more details to share.
jessica031
30.03.24, 12:05
This workaround, suggested by a guild mate, seems to fix the 'Between A Rock And A Hard Place' problem :
During 'This Will Be A Blast', after creating 50x Chem Blast Charges, apply to 1 Otherworldly Hard Rock only. This will create a crate of leftovers in Misc tab of Star (the rightmost one). Open the crate to reveal some shards and (optionally) a mining guide buff. Then pick up the shards from Resources tab of Star ('planks') and drop them on Mayors House. Works correctly.
Rinse and repeat on each of the 4 other Otherworldly Hard Rocks one at a time.
The above procedure worked fine for me when I just tried it. Previously I've been applying all Chem Blast Charges before opening any crates, which seems to mess things up.
Shards from Rooting out the Problem vanish into the ether when applied. Quest is not worth doing.
I am stuck on the Plants need food too part of the quest. Buffed my 5 trees with fertilizer and now got 5 otherworldly fructiferous trees. quest won't finish so i cant go on to the next one and harvest the fruit. I completed all the other parts. says I don't have any trees. yesterday I had 4 showing in the quest.
[QUOTE=andi13;374082]during 'rock in a hard place' I gained 5 boxes of offcuts which gave me shards in my star, just started 'altered state' and again I was given 5 mystery boxes, I opened one, no problem, but then tried to open a 2nd and the game just kept spinning, after a refresh the 3 remaining had gone and there was no extra shards other than from the first.
This has happened to me 3 times too, last time last night where i lost another 400-500 shards after only the first box opened properly, this has cost me around 1400-1500 shards now.
[QUOTE=andi13;374082]during 'rock in a hard place' I gained 5 boxes of offcuts which gave me shards in my star, just started 'altered state' and again I was given 5 mystery boxes, I opened one, no problem, but then tried to open a 2nd and the game just kept spinning, after a refresh the 3 remaining had gone and there was no extra shards other than from the first.
This has happened to me 3 times too, last time last night where i lost another 400-500 shards after only the first box opened properly, this has cost me around 1400-1500 shards now.
this is not really a new issue - it has been documentend time and time again.
You have 2 choices really: accept the bug and the 1 box and continue doing it or stop doing it till it is fixed. Continue doing the quest and expecting a different outcome on retry number 3 or 4 is a fools errand
First_Lord
04.04.24, 22:25
Just cut it. Bench it for 2-3 years, send devs to uni, so they can learn proper HTHML5, new DBs, scream on Ubi to get you some proper sysdevs. set up monitoring, I mean proper monitoring over OIDs with values into DB say every 30s, for all equipment (server, networking, etc), so you can see what`s the hell going on. And then pretend to be software company again. Maybe put some 500euros a month to some kid testers. Frak. If no german fella in middle school will take 500 a month, do some adverts in serbia or whatever.
Edit: did read on some forums, plenty of folks in east asia working for AI developers feeding data are now jobless, so maybe find your testers there, based on reports, they have been paid peanuts over there, one gem pack will pay you couple. (red the rates have been under 1c per respond/problem solved)
P.S. if you guys need to google up what OID in monitoring means, just give up and close the shop.
I'm now opening my crate shards a box at a time, a credit of 100 shards appears in the star, i move to Mayor house, nothing credits, the number held stays static. But at least the spinning round and disappearance of the other crates has stopped .... still no further forward.
ADDENDUM - Logged off and on again, now my 3 remaining unopened crates have disappered from the star, but a mystery box appeared with 150 shards in, so i'm only 350 shards down, plus the 1400-1500 from before...
Lost another 500-550 today, system refreshed when i was opening a seperate crate, i got 100 shards from that but the unopened 6 boxes just disappeared out the star menu. 16 4 2024.
i have a samo problems, from start starfall,
on that way i lose minimum 3000 star shards ,probably more.
i honestly don't know u can be surprised by this, it has been plastered on forums and chats for months now -
Best read up on some work arounds or accpet that this is what it is or don;t do it till it gets fixed
If its been known for months why isnt it fixed? Designers busy with new skins no doubt instead of doing important stuff, or testing properly before release. Just saying , bit fed up...
Yes that is a good question.
But it is an issue that has been around for a long time- Bugs are known but do not get fixed or get fixed very very slow
Whatever the reason, bug fixes do not seem to have the same priority with devs than with players or at least the selection of bugs to fix/prioritizing of fixes doesnt seem to match what we would like to see
The same with game improvements- many would have preferred to see mass explorer sending rather than starfall etc etc
The same with game improvements- many would have preferred to see mass explorer sending rather than starfall etc etc
Absolutely agree with mass explorer sending, it is utterly tedious currently especially in events. Lost another 400 odd shards yesterday, first box of 100 worked, second again span around and then they all disappeared, i'm not clicking the boxes in star again, hopefully they will store up and work in 10 years when its fixed. I think this lot have moved onto the New Allies game and we here are now just an inconvenient legacy.
Lost_Ollie
23.04.24, 19:20
Had the spinning issue also once. Now did open them one at the time and move from the star directly to the mayor's house. No spinning, but all 5 boxes (200 shards each), none of them being added to the warehouse.
Absolutely agree with mass explorer sending, it is utterly tedious currently especially in events. Lost another 400 odd shards yesterday, first box of 100 worked, second again span around and then they all disappeared, i'm not clicking the boxes in star again, hopefully they will store up and work in 10 years when its fixed. I think this lot have moved onto the New Allies game and we here are now just an inconvenient legacy.
My experience is that they disappear if you do not open them. Look here on forum for workaround instead.
Same issue. Several quest chains that ends up with 5 boxes, only first can be opened.
Last was the "Rooting Out The Problem".
Hope BB keeps track of everyone that does these quests so we can all get compensated once the bug is fixed.
Same issue. Several quest chains that ends up with 5 boxes, only first can be opened.
Last was the "Rooting Out The Problem".
Hope BB keeps track of everyone that does these quests so we can all get compensated once the bug is fixed.
HHAHAHAH- Best joke of the year
That would be a first in the history of TSO, individual compensation after a bug fix
The way it works at BB is either no compensation or a mass compansation to everyone - never individual mass compensations - it is already hard enough to get compensation from support in individual cases, even if that would solve the problem in that individual case - Don't expect them to keep track of all the people that logged a ticket with the same/similar issues and then revist all these tickets in the future- it just won;t happen
I opened 5 boxes - got a total of 1400 shards - went to put them in my Mayors house and they never registered and have now disappeared. Refreshed and restarted but still nothing. So I have lost 1400 shards. Have sent a ticket but ........................
GamleGimli
07.05.24, 09:18
These mystery boxes are really mysterous last 2 times they have bugged in different ways - today they opened fine and I was awarded 1400 shards - but when I wanted to put them into Mayers house they disapered puff 1400 shards gone. last time when I tryed to open the mystery boxes it bugged Thinking with the hour glas for 3 hours and when I reloaded all the mystery boxes was gone in my starmenu.
Pls fix this shit or remove the Q line - I'm feeling laughed at by the game
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