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sh8888
posted: 2012-04-20 11:45:22 (ID: 36482) Report Abuse
This sounds nuts and also impossible ...but it did happen, so as it seems to be a bug I'll post it here .....

This morning, I was watching the bidding war for the CornerBack between Turtle and dark_wing. I was viewing the player page and occasionally using 'reload' to see the price rising.
I hit 'reload' and the page displayed was the 'free agent signing' page i.e. "Since your team uses the contract mode you are allowed to enter negotiations with this player. On successful negotiation the player will enter your Senior Team no matter of his age."

To say that I was surprised would be something of an understatement !

with hindsight I know that I should have (a) taken a screenshot (b) taken a copy of the page source (c) signed the player as a free agent ! (joke !).

unfortunately, by the time I noticed the "contract screen" I'd already hit reload and the page reloaded back to the 'normal' player page.

btw...this is not an April Fool's post...it did happen.

I do use contract mode ...but I think you already worked that out.
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posted: 2012-04-20 12:17:10 (ID: 36487) Report Abuse
sh8888 wrote:
This sounds nuts and also impossible ...but it did happen, so as it seems to be a bug I'll post it here .....

This morning, I was watching the bidding war for the CornerBack between Turtle and dark_wing. I was viewing the player page and occasionally using 'reload' to see the price rising.
I hit 'reload' and the page displayed was the 'free agent signing' page i.e. "Since your team uses the contract mode you are allowed to enter negotiations with this player. On successful negotiation the player will enter your Senior Team no matter of his age."

To say that I was surprised would be something of an understatement !

with hindsight I know that I should have (a) taken a screenshot (b) taken a copy of the page source (c) signed the player as a free agent ! (joke !).

unfortunately, by the time I noticed the "contract screen" I'd already hit reload and the page reloaded back to the 'normal' player page.

btw...this is not an April Fool's post...it did happen.

I do use contract mode ...but I think you already worked that out.


I believe you. I just don't know how this "split" was created. It seems a single doublelick during the bid process creates this. I am aware of the problem, since sanco's post at the beginning of this week. Any additional comments from anyone? Feel free
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sh8888
posted: 2012-04-20 12:23:54 (ID: 36492) Report Abuse
pete wrote:
sh8888 wrote:
This sounds nuts and also impossible ...but it did happen, so as it seems to be a bug I'll post it here .....

This morning, I was watching the bidding war for the CornerBack between Turtle and dark_wing. I was viewing the player page and occasionally using 'reload' to see the price rising.
I hit 'reload' and the page displayed was the 'free agent signing' page i.e. "Since your team uses the contract mode you are allowed to enter negotiations with this player. On successful negotiation the player will enter your Senior Team no matter of his age."

To say that I was surprised would be something of an understatement !

with hindsight I know that I should have (a) taken a screenshot (b) taken a copy of the page source (c) signed the player as a free agent ! (joke !).

unfortunately, by the time I noticed the "contract screen" I'd already hit reload and the page reloaded back to the 'normal' player page.

btw...this is not an April Fool's post...it did happen.

I do use contract mode ...but I think you already worked that out.


I believe you. I just don't know how this "split" was created. It seems a single doublelick during the bid process creates this. I am aware of the problem, since sanco's post at the beginning of this week. Any additional comments from anyone? Feel free


This might/might not be relevant ....

I think (not 100%) sure that I had a total of 3 tabs (firefox) open at the time;

one tab was -TOG-(maybe -TOG-is sabotaging RZA ), the third tab was RZA ... but I can't remember what ...maybe Mails/inbox or something like that. Don't think being in multiple tabs will make a difference, but I thought I'd mention it.
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Turtlemania
posted: 2012-04-20 17:11:58 (ID: 36535) Report Abuse
Had this before too and tried to place and sign directly

although no bid was placed in the meantime at least system checked the error and did not give me the player

So it seems that no one can "steal" away a player thats why i did not care
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sh8888
posted: 2012-04-20 17:25:16 (ID: 36536) Report Abuse
Turtlemania wrote:
Had this before too and tried to place and sign directly

although no bid was placed in the meantime at least system checked the error and did not give me the player

So it seems that no one can "steal" away a player thats why i did not care


LOL .... don't worry, I knew that I wouldn't be able to "steal" a $113 Million player for no fee in the middle of an auction without the whole of RZA knowing about it

but I reported the bug because (a) it's a bug therefore needs reporting (b) I thought that a manager who is new to contract mode may get very confused/frustrated by this bug.

However, I was slightly worried about reporting it because it seemed so unlikely (similar to the "no cost" for scout reports bug).
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Turtlemania
posted: 2012-04-20 17:35:53 (ID: 36538) Report Abuse
In case i would have got the player into the team the other time, i would have reported it

But so it was no bug for me, just an incosistency, so i did not care because it could not hurt me or others
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posted: 2012-04-21 06:56:18 (ID: 36588) Report Abuse
Turtlemania wrote:
In case i would have got the player into the team the other time, i would have reported it

But so it was no bug for me, just an incosistency, so i did not care because it could not hurt me or others


The question is where this inconsistency starts, I was not able to track it down so far...
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Turtlemania
posted: 2012-04-21 08:52:25 (ID: 36592) Report Abuse
I only noticed it everytime withij last 2 minutes of bidding

it happend when bidding myself as also when not bidding but just reloading to watch development of bid war

mostly i do reload by use F5
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