That was certainly the most pressing bug to fix. Good job, bug-fixing-team/guy(s)!

Other, less important bugs, like this one:

Well, take your time, guys. Who wants to start another order war anyway? Or leave an order to join another one? Unimportant stuff, and not high on anyone's agenda, now that we're all busy resolving the clues-that-work-again, that have been giving us so many sleepless nights for weeks.

First, there's another weekend to enjoy. And this order-war-bug is probably kinda tricky, so let's better work on it later, maybe next week ... or next month. Players won't mind, they're very happy with the exciting results of the big server merge and with the clues-that-finally-work-again.

Notice something off here?

These are two example of, what I call, "individual bugs", i.e. bugs that interfere with the success of the individual player (by denying him certain rewards).

While they're annoying, I am more worried about, what I call, "interactive bugs", i.e. bugs that disrupt the interaction between players, which is so essential in these first days and weeks after the merge, until everything has settled.

The well-known order-war-bug is one such bug, but another one that I just found 2 days ago and that has apparently been introduced some time after the merge by a faulty bugfix-patch, is just as bad: The question-mark-bug. That's because it prevents the communication between players via PN in many cases.

Most players who encounter that bug won't even realize it is just the question marks in their text draft which prevent their message from being sent, but will just give up trying to send their message after receiving some cryptic error message instead of the usual "your message has been sent". This means that communication between players, which is so important right now, is not happening as it should. Together with the order-war-bug that has the potential to kill activity on these new servers quickly. This has to be fixed urgently ASAP (and it's proably just a typo in the lastest bugfix-patch ^^).

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I actually discovered that if you unequip the pegasus and then equip it again then it actually works fine.

Would you have to unequip and equip it every time you go to a different location though?

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These are two example of, what I call, "individual bugs", i.e. bugs that interfere with the success of the individual player (by denying him certain rewards).

While they're annoying, I am more worried about, what I call, "interactive bugs", i.e. bugs that disrupt the interaction between players, which is so essential in these first days and weeks after the merge, until everything has settled.

The well-known order-war-bug is one such bug, but another one that I just found 2 days ago and that has apparently been introduced some time after the merge by a faulty bugfix-patch, is just as bad: The question-mark-bug. That's because it prevents the communication between players via PN in many cases.

Most players who encounter that bug won't even realize it is just the question marks in their text draft which prevent their message from being sent, but will just give up trying to send their message after receiving some cryptic error message instead of the usual "your message has been sent". This means that communication between players, which is so important right now, is not happening as it should. Together with the order-war-bug that has the potential to kill activity on these new servers quickly. This has to be fixed urgently ASAP (and it's proably just a typo in the lastest bugfix-patch ^^).

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I also recently saw a bug in PMs, I was unable to quote the message, it did contain a question mark and it just gives the page stating: "

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

"

Can you please tell me if you have still issues with tournaments?

All the tournament results are looking fine these days

if i see any weird/wrong ones i'll post them Paso

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I'm not sure. I've had the pegasus equipped since before the maintenance on all my accounts and I noticed I hadn't had an air fight for ages, It's usually a very regular thing, and then I happened to change one today and then changed it back and I instantly got an air fight, so I did it on all my accounts.

I haven't really travelled too much with them to notice.

just thought it was interesting.

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my pegasus works

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I also recently saw a bug in PMs, I was unable to quote the message, it did contain a question mark and it just gives the page stating: "

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

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Yes, that is the new question-mark-bug that I have discovered last Friday and reported here in the BK forum last Saturday. It seems the team has yet to acknowledge its existence (which is a necessary pre-condition before we can even hope for a soon-to-be-fix of that nasty little new bug).

BTW it not only appears in PMs, but also prevents any posting to the ingame-order-forum which contains a question mark.

I hadn't indeed seen this bug. It's reported now, thanks!

Hi there is a bug on mercenary. Although i had made all the battles i paid with 0 silver... I made 9/9 battle rounds and paid with 0 silver. How is this possible??? This is a huge bug ... Plz fix it as soon as possible !!! Thank.

https://prnt.sc/_pAVQVmi2n4b

nah there are enough people , without any knowledge that are buying ever 5 levels a new shop armor , thats more worth than the merged ones lol

Result of the stupid server merge: You're starting to see more and more messages like this one, coming out of the blue:

*****

Hello everyone,

the server merge is now here and even though there is some activity, it's not the same as it used to be. I've been doing a few missions a day for the last few years, but I've never really played the game itself. The point of the game was to chat with each other, live out medieval customs, sometimes even arrange to meet up in RL. It was a great time, but it's just not like that anymore. The server merger led to a problem: The individual servers were all dead, some people were still maintaining their chars, but without much interest in the game. Now the big chars are just bigger and the small and medium chars have to make ends meet every day with massive attacks. I have painstakingly built up my character over the years and will now delete it, even if it is difficult for me. I'm not going to give my account away. I've invested too much in it to simply pass it on.

I would like to thank everyone for their time at BK and also here in the order. I'll still be on for the next few days. Feel free to write to me, I look forward to every message from you.

Yours sincerely,

xxxxxxx

*****

This is an authentic message from a dear friend who is now going to delete her 5-year-old level 160+ account

even 5 years ago this game was maybe not death but it was far away from being crowded.

i have started playing BK in 2006 and i was struggling to be in top 250, everyone was attacking everyone

on the old death server i was 7 in the table and noone attacked me for few years (!). now on the merged server i have 1000th place, ppl are attacking me, BUT at least something happens

if your friend started crying, because someone is attacking him in the ONLINE mmo that means this guy is weird

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Result of the stupid server merge: You're starting to see more and more messages like this one, coming out of the blue:

*****

Hello everyone,

the server merge is now here and even though there is some activity, it's not the same as it used to be. I've been doing a few missions a day for the last few years, but I've never really played the game itself. The point of the game was to chat with each other, live out medieval customs, sometimes even arrange to meet up in RL. It was a great time, but it's just not like that anymore. The server merger led to a problem: The individual servers were all dead, some people were still maintaining their chars, but without much interest in the game. Now the big chars are just bigger and the small and medium chars have to make ends meet every day with massive attacks. I have painstakingly built up my character over the years and will now delete it, even if it is difficult for me. I'm not going to give my account away. I've invested too much in it to simply pass it on.

I would like to thank everyone for their time at BK and also here in the order. I'll still be on for the next few days. Feel free to write to me, I look forward to every message from you.

Yours sincerely,

xxxxxxx

*****

This is an authentic message from a dear friend who is now going to delete her 5-year-old level 160+ account

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i dont know - on German S50 you kinda just get bashed in the wrong order or when you're a big perma farm.

I have several accounts and i get attacked not a lot.

Kinda disappointing, thought my knights will pe perma-dead the first months...

but im happy.. tournaments starting way faster - competition in it is higher - theres no this ONE knight that wins, lots of variation of tournament winners.

When they fix the bugs, and implement the advanced highscore - The merge worked pretty well and brought life on the merged s50.

Everyone thats crying about attacks shouldve played BK back then 15 years ago - It was standard getting attacked 5-8x a Day in 12h cycle from some guys.

If you do that nowadays people just quit. I've seen it on german S49. There, i attacked for +EP every 2.5h guys that were bigger and had more Looted Silver than me - and i was flamed for it.

BK these days is all about "lets chill and do missions i dont want to fight orders" - but thats pretty BS in my opinion.

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even 5 years ago this game was maybe not death but it was far away from being crowded.

i have started playing BK in 2006 and i was struggling to be in top 250, everyone was attacking everyone

on the old death server i was 7 in the table and noone attacked me for few years (!). now on the merged server i have 1000th place, ppl are attacking me, BUT at least something happens

if your friend started crying, because someone is attacking him in the ONLINE mmo that means this guy is weird

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