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[investigating] non-creepy stalking badge

Lag seems to keep making this achievement unattainable for me. Two tests ago a player was able to follow me for 3 streets to earn her badge, but I was unable to follow her. When I tried again to follow yesterday it failed again (with a different player).

Maybe I was created not to follow.

Posted 23 months ago by rothko Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Hey rothko! When you attempt to follow, can you describe what happens? Is there success in getting to the menu and clicking through it? And you just don't go with them?
    Posted 22 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This most recent time, I tried to follow Hburger. I asked first. I clicked follow on H's player menu. H went to a street sign, disappeared, a disconcerting lag intervened, then I made a disjuncted appearance onto the next street. H nowhere in sight. The follow no longer seeming to be active. H had been farther along down the street. H came back into sight.

    The time before, i tried twice to follow Mina. The first try what happened went pretty much the same as above. The second try I appeared to follow Mina for more than 3 streets, but it didn't satisfy the quest.

    Before I tried with Mina, Mina was able to follow me and satisfy the quest. There was a lot of lag in how long it took her to appear behind me, but I just ignored the lag and kept going.

    An additional frustration was IMing the other player while following appeared to disable the "follow".

    Hburger & Mina might have something more to say. Maybe you should have me follow one of the devs next test-- to see how disconcerting the visual lag becomes.

    Thanks, kevbob.
    Posted 22 months ago by rothko Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sounds cool, feel free to hit me up next test and we can try it out. :)
    Posted 22 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You mentioned that if you talked, it'd make you unfollow.... I can chat and will still continue following. Sounds like that might be connected?
    Posted 22 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There are so many variables. It could be the amount of following and lag. I've followed players for 1 street or 1 teleportation and had it work (though still with some disorienting amount of lag).

    Chatting & not chatting was something Mina & I tried. IMing appeared to be connected to whether "follow" stayed activated or not. It could've been coincidental.
    Posted 22 months ago by rothko Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ok, you and I ran through this to test and I can see we ran into a problem. I've got some good stuff for the bug report, thank you!
    Posted 22 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink