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jmucchiello · Joined: 14 Apr 09 Posts: 80 Location: NJ

NONE. I though I was buying stone. Why can't I go back and change my purchase from X farmers to Y farmers? It hasn't subtracted the gold yet? Why isn't it possible to change your mind at this point?

Knave · Joined: 28 Jun 08 Posts: 258

This is not a bug, rather, it is a feature request.

I am pretty sure that development has stopped on this site, and in my 100+ games I think that I have only made "takeback" mistakes 2-3 times, which really isn't all that bad. Think of it as a good lesson in reading carefully Smile

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If we were going to have development, I would like the harvest and scoring phases to be simultaneous, that would be of much greater help than a "are you really sure you want to do what you just did" button.

Bugs are something along the lines of "I now have $32000 because I managed to get a negative number of escudos in Santiago"

Nemesis · Joined: 12 May 09 Posts: 32 Location: Ajax

I would like this changed as well despite what happened to me.

In one game I wanted to build 5 stones and no farmers in round 6 in a province to clinch most pyramids. Instead I clicked on 5 farmers. I was hopping mad. I couldn't back it out. So I had to live with it. As it turned out those extra five farms netted me an additional 15 gold and I got 6 points for most gold instead of 5 points for most pyramids and won the game by one point. Of course the same result would have happened if I simply bought nothing since 5 farms cost 15 gold. Go figure.

jmucchiello · Joined: 14 Apr 09 Posts: 80 Location: NJ

I'm just annoyed because it happened to me twice in a week. Someday I'll make a play by web site of my own with different quirks someone else can complain about. (Yeah, right.)

jmucchiello · Joined: 14 Apr 09 Posts: 80 Location: NJ

Oh, and no, it is a bug. In a f2f game I can say, "I'm gonna buy 3 farmers." Then when I go to put the farmers on the board change my mind. As long as the gold is still in my hand, I haven't bought anything. In this case the game is at a point where I need to distribute the farmers I have not yet paid for. So it is a bug to not be able to go back.

gische · Joined: 12 Oct 05 Posts: 186 Location: San Carlos, CA

You don't understand the term "bug" if you think that is a bug.

jmucchiello · Joined: 14 Apr 09 Posts: 80 Location: NJ

I program computers for a living. I know that bug and feature request are nearly interchangeable terms: http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_21.html#TAG597

Knave · Joined: 28 Jun 08 Posts: 258

jmucchiello · Joined: 14 Apr 09 Posts: 80 Location: NJ

Nemesis · Joined: 12 May 09 Posts: 32 Location: Ajax

I prefer the definition in Wikipedia;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

In my opinion this is not a bug. I would call it a design flaw. This does not cause the program halt or produce unexpected results.

And yes I am a software developer and have been writing programs for 35 years.

jmucchiello · Joined: 14 Apr 09 Posts: 80 Location: NJ

Nemesis · Joined: 12 May 09 Posts: 32 Location: Ajax

In the end I agree that a player should be able to back out at that point. To the admin; is there anyone maintaining the code? Will this change be considered?