Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38946466-20190922140756/@comment-35508590-20190922234340

75.100.64.94 wrote: Howard says:

The XP double subscription used to double everything after a play was completed. The tally didn’t appear in the play results, it was just doubled when added to your total XP. This meant that wherever XP points were earned, including stacked talisman, they got doubled.

Then Mytona wanted to do a big promotion of the double XP service WITHOUT fielding a lot of questions like “I don’t see my XP being doubled in the play results.” So they re-implemented the XP doubling code, very poorly. They only doubled the base experience points for each play. And they eliminated stacked talisman to de-complicate the math. Torrents of abuse were unleashed upon them. Subscriptions were cancelled. The promotion was a fiasco.

Many complaints and two bug-update releases later, they had finally plugged the holes in their code and restored XP doubling to all the places where XP points are awarded. They replaced a couple lines of code at the end-of-play routine with a kluge of patches upstream. A few things they never did get right. And stackable talisman were a side casualty. But the doubled XP points now show up in the end-of-play display which is nice, if you have the subscription.

Yes, Howard, you remember correctly, I‘m assimilated like everybody and I still hate the Borg for what they took from us.

My idea was more like "Imagine it's war and nobody goes to it." If we iPad users would not use the subscription, as long as it's not available on other platforms ... well, a naive and idealistic thought ... but imagine ... and it‘s not their code. Look how well it worked with their code, remember?