Honestly, it's too early to tell. I would expect that any gifts prior to completion of the fix will no longer work, based on the fixes we're having to make.
If we can keep the requests, we will, and are working hard to figure that out.
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Honestly, it's too early to tell. I would expect that any gifts prior to completion of the fix will no longer work, based on the fixes we're having to make.
If we can keep the requests, we will, and are working hard to figure that out.
cool thanks dave, thought as much but does not hurt to ask :)
As this has happened multiple times before, would it not make sense to create a daily "Facebook Check" from your side instead of having to have players report it? Proactive vs. reactive. As best as I can tell, the issue has been going on for some time now, but you all only reported being aware of it today.
The problem won't be corrected until someone figures out a way to exploit the facebook gift system into giving you unlimited gifts and someone makes a youtube video on how to use the exploit.
Until then, it'll continue to be buggy, because there's no underlying reason (read: financial benefit to Evony) to correct the issue.
While it is "only gifting", like many other "free" things, it has an intangible dollar value assigned to it.
At any rate, my understanding is that Facebook changed elements of their API. When I searched around earlier, I did see some other sites stating that Facebook does make changes with little or no notice. That's bad business practice by Facebook, but it is what it is, and so long as Evony wishes to remain on their app / platform, they have to remain flexible with respect to Facebook API issues.
If a daily check of the Facebook API as it pertains to Evony was created, it would serve as an "Early Warning System". A failure could trigger an email to a developer and/or manager, and the ball could get rolling quicker on posting an advisory to customers, as well as getting someone involved in scoping out the problem, making an assessment and trying to work on scheduling the corrective measures needed. This is a proactive approach, rather than the reactive approach of having customers report the issue, with several days passing by before it bubbles up onto someone's radar.
Most of the gifts (not be be confused with the buffs you can click on, e.g. speech texts, which we discussed in a different thread) are useless. When you get to prinzessian status you can gift one another amulets, which is what virtually everyone does. So, you can pick up 20 ammies a day for spinning. 75% of those yield 200k stone.
This excuse from evony might hold water, except the "this is not your gift" error repeatedly happens, at periodic intervals, and has existed for as long as I have played A2, which is almost 2 years now.Quote:
At any rate, my understanding is that Facebook changed elements of their API.
well, it's been five days now, for me, just wondering how far up the priority list the fix is? While I understand things cant be corrected in an instant, 5 days seems to be a reasonable amount of time. While ammie packs are intangibles, prinz,furstin etc reinforcement packs are not. :attack:
Nevertheless, some people still see it as an issue, else nobody would post about it, right?
I did mention I saw references to Facebook changing the API without notice on sites other than Evony right? :bunny:Quote:
This excuse from evony might hold water, except the "this is not your gift" error repeatedly happens, at periodic intervals, and has existed for as long as I have played A2, which is almost 2 years now.
In any case, what I've mentioned doing would apply no matter if it was a "legitimate excuse" or not. Systems that have a process monitoring them to make sure that they are performing as expected are proactive measures and part of numerous "Best Practices".
In fact, here's a link to a document from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oe...ons-130521.pdf
About half of my FB gifts it tells me 'This is not your gift'. I thought this was supposed to be fixed?:confused: The ones it keeps telling is not my gift are usually the amulets....:( I'm tired of not being able to get my amulets!! :flame: