You Know a Quest is Bugged When...

Shamarah

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

Yeaaah... sure.

It worked even though I only did the normal amount (10). The text originally said 0 while I was doing the quest, but I knew the real number. Then when I talked to Old Mac, it suddenly changed to this. Weird.

Screenshot below.

Than

Than

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

UGLY

Me/N

Wow, those must be really good...

pfb

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

UK

I had similar - it said I needed 0, gave 7 and got the same number in the Quest Summary once Joe had eaten...

Drakharran Zealot

Drakharran Zealot

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Kanada, eh?



I haven't fed him anything.

Canook

Canook

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Toronto, Canada

Saints of Sin [SAS]

Mo/Me

thats nuts...never happened to me

Rhombus

Rhombus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Don't remember the name

R/N

lol, talking about a hungry devourer . I do know some other buggy quests: bring some guy his recruits, in post-searing ascalon. I bring the recruits, but they die during the quest. he tells me I failed the quest, but i talk to him again and I made it

Judas Hawksriff

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Guardians Of Gwen

W/R

lol OMG classic programming error - obviously using an unsigned int to represent the count instead of a signed one (so when the count goes less that zero instead of saying that it wraps round to the highest number).

unsigned_____hex_______signed
4294967295 = 0xffffffff or -1
4294967294 = 0xfffffffe or -2
4294967293 = 0xfffffffd or -3
4294967292 = 0xfffffffc or -4
4294967291 = 0xfffffffb or -5

Its probably got a check in the code as well like;
if ( count < 0 ) count = 0;
But, again, because its unsigned its never actually less than zero nice

Rhombus

Rhombus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Don't remember the name

R/N

says the programmer...