Kirn Just a curious question are there 5 contests? for the task list it says 5 so just curious

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=53017&page=25#250 Author: Emberjewels Time Posted: 11/13/2017 at 9:25 PM I know I'm a little late but, will the pets we brew turn out with those exact traits or are those just examples?

The Traits shown are just examples.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=53017&page=26#251 Author: Katelynn4545 Time Posted: 11/13/2017 at 9:27 PM Kirn Just a curious question are there 5 contests? for the task list it says 5 so just curious

What do you mean?

This is just a question involving the leaderboard contests.

I've noticed the last few festivals that somehow some players have already racked up points into the thousands even though the contest hadn't even been going for more then 5 minutes.

How is this possible?? It's happened more then once and I've been wondering if maybe the game is counting battles and nurtures before the contest even officially starts. During the first rounds of the contests for this fest I noticed that I had been counted in nurturing as well as the battle contests even though I had not done any battling or nurturing when the contests had started. I HAD however done some battling and nurturing a few hours BEFORE those contests had started!
Is this a glitch?? I know my clock is correct and I go by the in-game clock as well so I know when the contests were supposed to start.
It just seems a bit strange that I was counted into a contest that I hadn't even done anything to get points for yet.
And it also seems strange that someone managed to wrack up 1500 nurture points within the first 5 minutes of a contest starting, and ALSO that there are not enough pets of that species out there to nurture to warrant that many points. The same goes for battling. I find it would be impossible for someone to have already gotten 10,250 battle points within 5 minutes as well.
This only started happening in the recent festivals from last and this year and because of it I haven't been participating in those last contests. I also think you should allow up to 10 people to win 3 vis pets and 15 people should be able to win a 2 vis pet. It would make the contests less stressful and wouldn't eat data as much. (One whole contest of nurturing used up 3 GB on my phone)

Anyway I just thought I'd ask about this since the third session of contests is about to start.

If I notice this happening again I'll try to screenshot it along with the time if you aren't able to figure out what is going on

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=53017&page=26#254 Author: Kitzune Time Posted: 11/14/2017 at 6:14 AM This is just a question involving the leaderboard contests. I've noticed the last few festivals that somehow some players have already racked up points into the thousands even though the contest hadn't even been going for more then 5 minutes. How is this possible?? It's happened more then once and I've been wondering if maybe the game is counting battles and nurtures before the contest even officially starts. During the first rounds of the contests for this fest I noticed that I had been counted in nurturing as well as the battle contests even though I had not done any battling or nurturing when the contests had started. I HAD however done some battling and nurturing a few hours BEFORE those contests had started! Is this a glitch?? I know my clock is correct and I go by the in-game clock as well so I know when the contests were supposed to start. It just seems a bit strange that I was counted into a contest that I hadn't even done anything to get points for yet. And it also seems strange that someone managed to wrack up 1500 nurture points within the first 5 minutes of a contest starting, and ALSO that there are not enough pets of that species out there to nurture to warrant that many points. The same goes for battling. I find it would be impossible for someone to have already gotten 10,250 battle points within 5 minutes as well. This only started happening in the recent festivals from last and this year and because of it I haven't been participating in those last contests. I also think you should allow up to 10 people to win 3 vis pets and 15 people should be able to win a 2 vis pet. It would make the contests less stressful and wouldn't eat data as much. (One whole contest of nurturing used up 3 GB on my phone) Anyway I just thought I'd ask about this since the third session of contests is about to start. If I notice this happening again I'll try to screenshot it along with the time if you aren't able to figure out what is going on

Results for the leaderboard are tallied per action and it's only 1 point at a time. There isn't a script that counts other things or anything like that. So each valid action will only, at most, increment 1 point at a time.

Additionally, everything is all based off of the same database timestamp. The displayed start time on the contests page and the actual timestamp that determines when points count is the exact same entry. So it is not possible for it to start counting - before it starts counting.

Also, the leaderboard contests show results the second they are there - it's in real time. If players had points prior to the contests starting, those points would be visible. Atm, the table for the contests is completely empty and that's why all of the contests are blank with no players.

Sorry if that seemed argumentative - I really don't mean it to be! I am just trying to be as clear as I can so you can hopefully understand the mechanical process behind the code to see that there is no way for points to count early or count outside of the listed contest time schedule.


That said, if you think players are racking up thousands of points within 5 minutes of a contest starting, please screenshot said suspicious info and PM me it to me.

As far as I am aware and when I have observed, I have not detected anything suspicious as of yet.

I dont know If something happened, but I had used four (2 carried) vampire dusts on my Lighira cata, but it ended up not having any carried traits.

Here he is

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=53017&page=26#256 Author: Galexiadraws Time Posted: 11/14/2017 at 8:33 AM I dont know If something happened, but I had used four (2 carried) vampire dusts on my Lighira cata, but it ended up not having any carried traits. Here he is

When he was a brew, i had bought the vamp dusts and used them on him (he was on greater) and I got an exceptional blood, which I think negated his carried traits? I didnt use the three (or 6), but only two (4) vampire dusts on him. The only reason I had him tested was because I know I put carried traits on him.

He has 2 hidden carried Traits - the Traits in purple with 2 letters. That is what using Vampire Dust does. =P

The faded is showing on him though? I copied his url and put him in the generator, both regalia and faded are both showing as visible traits. Im am really confused!