At 12/14/16 03:15 PM, Shantom wrote:
At 12/12/16 04:59 PM, HerbieG wrote:
At one point I had a feeling that Nijsse had enough of me urging for this all the time ;-)
Speaking of Nijsse, I know that actually the API Moderators can do something about it.
We can reset medals for any user. It may fix the problem for that user only but it won't fix the main problem.
Also, Nijsse can access deleted games, maybe he can do something about it.
So he can even do that? Well, he must be a first-class moderator then :-)
At 12/12/16 05:05 PM, NeonSpider wrote:
Simply put this medal is not going to unlock for me, and that's not fair. It is broken and should be removed.
I know what you're saying but it unlocked for me (2 days ago). I don't know what went wrong on your side but the medal is working. I think we need more people to confirm this.
I also remember my problems with this game, with the 5000 medal I think, I had to replay the game, but it finally unlocked. As far as I remember NeonSpider was using Linux, maybe it is causing some problems with that?
The main problem is how do we define a broken medal? A medal that is not working for everybody - that is obvious. But what if it works for some players and for others it doesn't?
There are plenty of examples like this on Newgrounds. I recently asked about this game:
EdyKel answered that it is working for him, while for me after the preloader there is only black screen. I cannot make it work on any browser and I tried on XP and 8.1. It even doesn't work on gamezhero website - and obviously they did not care to answer - or fix the problem. Judging from ionrayner's review I am not the only one experiencing that problem.
There is also this game:
I finished it twice already - and did not get the medal for 3 stars on every level. What's more, I had once a talk with crankbait about that problem and he had to replay the game 3 or 4 times to finally get it! But people ARE unlocking it, so it cannot be considered as broken.
From the other point of view: if we were to remove medals that are partially not working it could lead to possible exploitation of this fact. One could say: "I suck in this game, cannot get that medal, so I will declare that it is broken. If I cannot earn it, nobody will".
So if I am usually radical in my opinions about removing the broken medals then in this situation I say that those medals should not be removed.
If you're going to remove *any* medals from that game, start with the actually broken "Circus Saved" medal.
This medal works but requires a certain condition. You have to click on the circus after you beat the final boss. Keep clicking until you get it.
I don't quite remember now, but I think it unlocked for me even without doing this.
At 12/13/16 07:16 PM, HerbieG wrote:
Looks like we got some problems with the game/medals here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/598376
For me the main game even did not start, it got stucked on the tutorial. Last medal unlock: over a year ago.
The game works fine over here (reached level 5) but can someone confirm the broken medals?
I'll try it again, maybe I did something during the tutorial that crashed the game.