Aug 8, 2014

Secret District Bugs & Workarounds

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It’s been a while since we’ve had a Secret District so a reminder post of how to workaround some of common bugs is in order. For some reason Secret Districts encourage half page loads. If and when it happens to you, use the Full Page Spocklet. This script is awesome because it eliminates the need to refresh and in just a few clicks you can view the whole page and go on about your business. Another bug which which affects many players is the mastery bug. On the front end things appear to be mastered but on the back end the game doesn’t recognize that mastery occurred. It's very noticeable when you can't move on to the next level but when it happens on the ruby level many don't even realize it and miss out on the rewards. About 2 and a half years ago Zynga attempted to fix the mastery bug but their fix was like sweeping dirt under the carpet instead of into a dust pan [1], [2]. By changing the rules for job help requests they were able to reduce the odds of this bug occurring but as many can attest they certainly didn’t resolve it.  The workaround for this is pretty simple and all you need to do is click on the job in which you made a help request one time. Mastery will kick in as soon as you do. If you don’t remember which job it was, click each job one time until you get your mastery popup. If you look at the image below there are several things very wrong. All jobs appear as if they are mastered and the boss fight is complete but the ruby star is not all the way filled and there is no reset purchased button. You would think that Zynga would fix this because if you technically haven’t mastered the district you can’t pay to reset it. This bug also happens in the permanent destinations and the workaround is the same. Thanks to Trevor Fougere for the screen shot and to Yvonne Kearsley Manning for reporting this issue on our fan page.

No Mastery?
Click Each Job Button 1 time Until the Mastery Popup Appears
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4 comments:

  1. no trouble for me yet,but loot drops not even, i am throught chapter 3 and only 20 of the thrid item and over 50 of the others

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    1. Use x2 loot, I'm on gold and already got 50 of each

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  2. How do you get so many x2 loot drops? Can you ask for them after the secret district is gone or something..

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    1. We posted the cloning glitch and after that I was added to the lists of many cloners. It was fixed but Zynga never rolled anything back.

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