by Dukasaur on Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:48 am
Cod, I've played with you and I respect you, but I think you're a little paranoid.
If someone wanted to cheat their way into a tournament, do you think it would be benga?
Anyway, if you want the explanation, I will explain. Whether it's a "technical error" or not is debatable. More like a logical consequence of the way the inventory system is designed. In these automated tournaments, the same inventory item is used year after year. The same hearts are used in every year's Valentines' Day event, the same clovers are used in every year's St. Patrick's Day event, etc. After the event, items not spent sit in your inventory until the following year. So, if like benga you had enough to join the finale last year but didn't actually join it, those unused clovers just sit in your inventory until the following year gathering dust. The night before the next event, BW runs a wiping routine that wipes out that inventory item so that on the morning of the new event, everybody starts at zero.
Every year, before an event like this, there's someone who is given false hope. "Oh, look! I've still got 20 clovers from last year!" It's false hope. As surely as death and taxes, the wiping routine runs before the next event launches.
I suppose BW should probably run the wiping routines a month before the event instead of the night before the event, to avoid these false hopes. So to that degree it is a technical error. But rest assured, when the new event dawns we will all start at zero.
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