The Old Switcheroo

[DaDeeDum]

Ok, so I’m in the process of switching over my trials build to the Juggernaut set. I need a few more 77’s including a BoM with shockwave. To make do I’ve rolled just any shockwave that comes along and used that to make my final push. Easy enough. The problem is that when I go into a trial my low level BoM shockwave suddenly turns into a low level BoM shield slam. Permanently. This has happened to me twice! The first time was about 10 days ago just before the latest event and I thought, did I make a mistake? The second time was about a hour ago and I was very - eyes - wide - open - but the same thing happened. I mean come on!! I can’t throw away mats and hope that the next one sticks. And what happens if I bring a final gear BoM shockwave over from the next event? Is it gonna switcheroo too?

Anyways. Here are the particulars:

— ipad9
— iPadOS 16.3.1
— Eternium ver 1.5.95
— I am not drug addled
— I am currently not drinking
— nor am I delusional (last time you checked) (who said that?) (not me) (SHUT UP!!!)

Seriously though, wtf!

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

Any chance you have steps to reliably reproduce the issue, so I can walk an engineer (who may not play the game) through it?

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

Thanks for trying to figure it out. Feel free to get rid of the extra BoMs. Without reliable steps to reproduce the issue, all I can do is file a ticket and see if QA can get it to happen.

I have an idea about what is happening and why it's rare to see. I'll attempt to recreate the issue later (3:43am and I need sleep). If it is what I think, I'll email the steps to Travis because I think it's related to some anti-exploit stuff which can result in a mis-match in an item between the client and server and ultimately the server item will replace what you see on the client side - hence different bonuses, item levels and stat values. If it is that, then maybe one of the future updates for Eternium could be a proper re-work of the crafting process, since multiple "sticking plaster" patches have been applied in the past making it much harder to accidentally find / deliberately execute without properly addressing the core underlying process flaws. Anyhoo, sleep now and rabbit hole later

All I've been able to do is confirm the crafting exploit is still there, but I knew that already! I may have been mis-remembering an old bug where items going mail due to a full inventory would then come back with worse stats - I do wonder if there is still an underlying code problem that caused that problem, and the easier fix was to just not allow crafting once the Inventory was full...