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Bug fix: buying brain capacity cards now *a*ffects the learning time of the skill you are currently learning

I just shaved a day and a half off my time to learn Master Gardener by buying two of the "Increase by 1" cards. And, it should work now for everyone, and on all new skills going forward.

HOWEVER, I also bought 3 cards on the weekend and those didn't count and will not — ultimately, there is no way for us to know what the BC was before the skill started being learned and how much it was sped up before, and whether it was paused, etc. — this fix only applies to newly purchased cards.

Posted 4 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Awesome! Well, I kinda just maxed my Brain Cap...lol
    Posted 4 months ago by Osiris χ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wooo...I've had a card queued to buy, hoping a fix would happen soon. Thanks, Stoot! =D
    Posted 4 months ago by TransplantedEntwife Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you!
    Posted 4 months ago by Patricia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My brain is full (my big, full, sweaty brain), but I'm glad to see this bug squashed. Thank you, everyone who was involved!
    Posted 4 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *smacks at rogue E and replaces it with a nice, well-behaved A*

    Edited to add:

    I'm sorry! I'm a word nerd. I'm sorry.

    *hangs head*
    Posted 4 months ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like Stoot's rogue E. It means he's hum..er, glitchy, like the rest of us. ;)
    Posted 4 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the bug fix!!

    @Sirentist -- don't apologize! I have lost count of how many times I've seen effect and affect used wrong over the years.
    Posted 4 months ago by kastlin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • NIce, Thanks TS and stoot *Hugs* All :D
    Posted 4 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Excellent news! I was so disappointed when i realised the +3 brain capacity card I bought (which was rather expensive) would not count towards my potions 3 skill...

    Now to gather a heck of a lot more iMG so I can afford the next one that comes up!
    Posted 4 months ago by Arietty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you Tiny Speck!
    Posted 4 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Damn... I knew I should have waited to max out my capacity... (which if you ask me is too low anyway)
    Posted 4 months ago by Zanahoria12 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Augh! I just bought 2 cards yesterday! Good for the next ones I get at least :D  Thanks stoot!
    Posted 4 months ago by Deee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Don't worry, Sirentist. You're not the only word nerd around this place. I have also been unable to stop myself from correcting others (one of which may or may not have been stoot) on that account in the past.
    Posted 4 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Asterisks always look like little kisses to me. I'm sure that's what stoot means by them, right?

    *smacks reflexively at kissy asterisks*

    NO KISSING.
    Posted 4 months ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woot
    Posted 4 months ago by Phineus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks! 
    Posted 4 months ago by Retribution Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Am I the only one who this non retro active brain buying card capacity screwed?  

    I plugged away starting Saturday with high 30s brain capacity and am almost at 60 ~this is after I started learning the P3 skill.  Am sad to know that there is nothing for which can be done to make the card(s) I purchased work for skill(s) I am/was currently learning.  After donating the max that I can through shrines (am now learning as fast I can no more faster there) Potionmaking III is 18 days out.  I am going to get the last brain capacity card and then pause this skill ~ start learning the Master Gardener and then finish up with this grueling P3.  *spits nails*    

    Thanks for listening, I feel a tad better now that I vented.
    Posted 4 months ago by Sayuri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hehehe Siren, thanks for being my funny thing of the day:)
    Posted 4 months ago by Fernstream Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Sayuri:  I have 29 days left on master gardener (the skill im working on now).  I have 32 days on potionmaking III (i had 61 before i bought the cards - then switched to master gardener)  
    Posted 4 months ago by Cat A. Tonic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love stoots correction in the post now lol. Awesome :D
    Posted 4 months ago by Nytician Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Sayuri and Cats-I say crap and a half also! I wasn't much concerned about it taking 16 or so days to learn my current skill (NOT the MG or P3 skills as I don't even have them showing up on my list)! But knowing that I purchased cards which were essentially useless, I feel sort of cheated. I thought they would help. I thought it was a bug. I heard they were working on capacity cards. Bummer :(
    and PS I think the yellow crumb I'm imbibing isn't worth snot on the current skill either.
    Posted 4 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Holly--yellow crumb, shrine donations, and time quoins only work on skills you're currently learning.

    Also, yey for the brain card fix :)

    @Sirentist--did you just make-out...with yourself?
    Posted 4 months ago by M<3tra, obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Siren, that's not how Kurt Vonnegut used asterisks.
    Posted 4 months ago by Pale Queen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Laughing at "rogue E" and stoot's correction.

    Love this game.
    Posted 4 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • M<3tra: Maybe I should file a bug cause nothing seems to be working as far as the crumb. I therefore haven't even bothered with donations or emblem spending.
    Posted 4 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • brainnnnnnnzzzzZZzzzZzzzzzzzzzz

    *shuffles off*
    Posted 4 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *gets into boat with Cats1524 and Holly Waterfall and starts rowing*

    Thank you both for your posts :)(:
    Posted 4 months ago by Sayuri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sooo... Will someone give me the tl;dr version of how this change affects us with max skills learned and 60 brain cap cards bought? Or did I spend a whole lotta iMG for nada?

    ETA: Nvm. Arietty and some folks in global helped explain it to me.
    Posted 4 months ago by Tonya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • VERY awesome. It cut my PM3 to 50 days from 58... NEED MOAR BRAINS!
    Posted 4 months ago by OPP Subscriber! | Permalink
  • First, awesome and thanks TS for fixing this, though it'd be nice if I didn't have only one skill left that will benefit from it. ^_^

    However, I wouldn't mind that tl;dr version since it's all been  bit confusing for me (too much math) and I don't have access to global right now.  (can't play on my computer and Mom's room is off limits for the next few days)

    As it stands, I see the difference, but I'm not sure what I'm seeing except for "less" progress.  The first day the skills were out, I started with a 40 day timer on PM III.  I was able to donate and yellow that down to 37 days before I gave up.  I bought 4 extra brain cap but never saw a difference.  But supposedly according to this, that is normal and I never will see a difference on this skill for those.  

    However, it is a bit disheartening, to look at the skill chart and see the time for PM III say 35 days 3 hours total time.  I am at 34 days 10 hours right now.  Considering the original time of 40 days ?? hours, I'm probably where I should be, but now my bar looks like I have made NO progress at all and I've made less than 1 day of progress over the past 3, despite all of the favor/emblems/yellow I consumed to shave 3 days of the top of the skill.

    So, I dunno, it's kinda disheartening to see that not only do the brain cap cards used during the weekend NOT help out what you're currently learning, but they negate all the time and effort that I have put into the skills over the weekend.  It's like I wasn't even learning anything the entire time.

    Is this the way it's been for everyone since the change?
    Posted 4 months ago by Kaelyn Renai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think from what I understand of it, any bonus brains you bought this weekend didn't help now, but will be corrected for next time you upgrade?  Is that correct?  Like, if you had 45/30 and were learning at 150%, and bought 14 brain slots over the weekend you'll still be at 150% but with your next purchase you'll drop down to 100% the way you should be.   (all numbers are completely made up for the purpose of imaginary math.) 

    I know you can't account for time bonuses bought various ways over the weekend, but I wish there was a way to reset brain capacity % to what it should be based on the skills to capacity ratio.  
    Posted 4 months ago by Tanaise Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Argh, I bought a bunch before it was fixed and before I knew it was borked. ><
    Posted 4 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've not not seen any improvement in my learning times, on the contrary my times appear to have increased by a day or two. =[
    grumbelgrumble maybe I should go back to bed.

    eta: my BC is at 60, which is nowhere near the 101+1 skills avail, can we, please, increase our BC?
    Maybe we could get some Super BC Cards?
    I shudder at the thought of un-learning anything, it's a novel thought, but goes against everything a 
    scholarly super brain believes in.
    Posted 4 months ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just bought brain cap 1..it only knocked 5 hrs off my learning..but I was already learning as fast as I could...so I am assuming that it effects how much of the current learning skill we have left to learn.
    Posted 4 months ago by Cryztal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hoo boy, I need to get me some Brain Capacity. PM3 is currently 63 days out, and MG is 25 or so. 
    Posted 4 months ago by WarrenPeace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wish I could get a RL brain capacity card! So confusing!
    Posted 4 months ago by bayBi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Does the Growing Learning Speed V upgrade card speed up the new Master Gardener skill? It's not listed on the card as one of the ones it speeds up, but seems like it oughtta. Any empirical evidence on that out there?
    Posted 4 months ago by justpeace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pulled the trigger and answered me own q: Yes, the Growing Learning Speed V upgrade card speeds up the new Master Gardener skill acquisition.
    Posted 4 months ago by justpeace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for more brain capacity, beyond the 60 it currently is. Make it damn expensive img wise, but please TS, give us something to work towards. I bet new skills are going to eventually be released, and waiting 4 - 5 weeks just to try something out might not be very appealing.
    Posted 4 months ago by Heatseeker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for more brain capacity, beyond the 60 it currently is. 

    You can speed up your learning substantially by just unlearning some other part of the skill tree that you don't use or care about as much.  There are already people who have learned PM 3 and Master Gardener, and they did it at least partly by not insisting on having every skill. .  
    Posted 4 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *Hovers protectively over already learned skills muttering something that sounds a little like "Presssioussss" and glares defiantly at 1047% time penalty*
    Posted 4 months ago by Reni's Mum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WalruZ, I'm in the same boat with Ima here... *hovers even more protectively over the already learned skills*
    In the past I used to unlearn those skills with low learning times, like bubble tuning, gas thingy, and such. Might do so again in future if the waiting time becomes frustrating. And I'm staying away from the zen part of the tree.
    Already learned MG, 4 more days until PM 3. Thanks to the emblems :)
    Posted 4 months ago by Heatseeker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • so i just bought another upgrade and it seems to have added another day to my learning skils. i think i will stop buying these.
    Posted 4 months ago by Cat A. Tonic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • YESSS! I didn't know about this until I bought a 5 Brain upgrade card just now and shaved 4 days from PM III. EGGCITES!!!!
    Posted 4 months ago by Juniparr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Isn't there any possible way to refund the img from the cards we bought while we were learning the skill before it was fixed?  I can see how fixing the time itself could be harder, but refunding the spent img seems easier.
    Posted 4 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Go forth, and learn more - as well as making the game more fun, each new skill is a brick on the road to ultimate awesomeness."

    Anybody remember this?

    Apparently the definition for ultimate awesomeness has changed in the world of Glitch.

    I liked the idea of "becoming an indisputably commensurate polymath," but 21 d 19 h 41 m 51 s to learn PM3 feels pretty punitive.  And that's after the BC upgrade I purchased last night.
    Posted 4 months ago by LynnieR Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Has this bug been even FURTHER tweaked? It seems like just yesterday my skill had 12+ days but now it is down to 9+. Have the brain power and potions finally caught up or am I just imagining things?
    Posted 3 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Do you have some missing time, Holly? Maybe abducted by aliens recently? You should look into that :). Seriously, though, I'm not perceptive enough to know if my learning time skipped ahead or not. Or maybe my memory is shot, which I already knew to be the case.
    Posted 3 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Still pissed about not getting refunded the img, QQ.
    Posted 3 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LOL sheperdmoon, it could be just me. I wasn't on much yesterday so maybe I just lost track.
    Posted 3 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Are we REALLY learning these skills? I believe they are learning us!
    Posted 3 months ago by bayBi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just finished learning MG and have now begun P3 with a 19 day wait ahead of me.  
    Happy Happy Joy Joy
    Posted 3 months ago by Sayuri Subscriber! | Permalink