Violent Delights: Is the game buggy?

I can’t seem to get past the first screen to buy The Playground. I increase my bid a few times, the game says “* YOU ARE WINNING *”. The ticker ticks down… and then I lose, even though “MY MAX. BID” is greater than “CURRENT BID,” even though it still says “* YOU ARE WINNING *”, still, the game says “Damn. I was actually kinda looking forward to that thing.” There’s a “Shut Down” button that ends the game, and that’s it.

Here’s the bid with 4 seconds to spare…

“YOU ARE WINNING” “UNSUCCESSFUL”. What a paradox! :roll_eyes:

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Strange. I don’t remember coming across that while testing and I specifically went to check if I can replicate it now. The “current bid” didn’t show my bid but I still was successful

Thanks for this, I am investigating. My guess would be that you were outbid but it didn’t tell you that for some reason. But I’ve gotta be honest, the code for the auction segment is chaos and I have no idea how it works. Hopefully I don’t have to rewrite it…

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Okay, I have managed to reproduce what you did. Seems like something’s fishy with the bid submission thing. I will investigate further…

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I think I’ve managed to fix it. (I thought I had, and then during final testing encountered it again.) Turns out the code I’d written meant that if your bid was lower than the enemy bid, it didn’t update the current bid to be 1 more than your bid, so it looked like you were winning when actually you weren’t. Updated version should be out soon!

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