The billion crystal combo?

[overspeed]

Was playing tonight after downloading update, presently on speed level 62. Blocks were getting close to top of grid so I started swipping randomly all over hoping to hit some matches and save the round. Well I ended up getting a 9x combo involving a furrie then something weird happened. The round ended ... I wasn't even close to finishing that round ... and I looked at my available crystals in the store and it said 27.8 million. When the last round started I only had 65k crystals. When I go to the smith, I have over a million of each resource type. So many that the numbers can't display correctly. Ideas? Bug or just super wicked combo?

[thod]

I think this is just wrong

I've been gathering my resources one by one - slowly getting forward. Now I've started to shake the iPhone. And suddenly the same happens.

Not in the millions - but suddenly I have some 72K crystals from <4K before. And I also have some 52K of Shadow - seems no big changes on the other ones - all are <5K and I had at least a few left before the game.

It just feels like cheating when this happens.

Can't this be just capped. Why not just cap it to 1K max. I don't think anyone can do a legit/planned combo with >1K in a single go (or <2sec of game time).

Before I had a largest combo of 34 and most blocks popped 40 with esitmated <<200 crystal when I managed that using alchemy and clearing out nearly a full screen.

Thod

[thejuggler]

This sounds very much like the bug that existed in 1.0.0.1 where a furie tool plus an alchemist tool used together would create the number of resources ^3 rather than x3 If you have a lot of the resource that the alchemist tool removes, the resources and crystals gathered is huge.

[eliu87]

Hmmm...something similar happened to me too, I was reaching the top, moved a few blocks around, didn't get any multipliers other than x2 and x3, and then I quit and got 3M crystals?

[anery]

I've been playing with this for a day and a half. I rotate my wrist in a figure eight. If I hear a ticking, I randomly swipe to clear some rows.
I was having problems with the game locking up, so as soon as I saw my crystals were 20-30k I'd quit then return to the mine.
I was disappointed since I am maxed out on levels... Now, I guess I'll see if I can hit 72 million crystals =P

[Avaia Carasel]

Hmm...interesting.

[Avaia Carasel]

I was able to hit 640 million on one mining attempt, and 193 million on another. Don't know how it happened, but I just kept spinning the phone around. I'd feel bad about it if I didn't spend so much time losing crystals to crashes over the last couple of weeks, and dumping resources down the drain trying to solve Molten Lava.

Now I wonder what will happen when I hit 1 billion resources mined...

[Avaia Carasel]

OK! Now I've managed to hit over 2 billion in a single mining attempt, and I've apparently overrun a buffer or something. I'll post a couple of screenshots in a few minutes. If you're looking at my .sig right now, you can see it shows 2k resources...

[Avaia Carasel]

Here's my 194 million shot:



Here's my 2+ billion shot, actually (2^31-1, probably a signed 32-bit variable?):



My summary just after, note that all the resources seem to be the same number:



And my summary after going back to the map, note the negative total:



One last shot, the total crystals in the store:

[eliu87]

What you probably did was turn the phone around, which is a known technique that's on the borderline of downright cheating, exploiting the game, and a sly technique. It's actually called 'swirling'.

[cxdx]

i had a similar thing happen to me...

i didnt sirl the phone or move it in any different manner than needed for game play, i had just begun the level and was playing it fpr about 30 seconds when i hit a X5 combo then the level suddenly finished and leveled me up, then when i seen my totals all resources were over 750k, and i had 3.2m crystals.

its kinda odd, but somewhat welcomed as i like many others have spent countless resources trying to beat molten lava.

~J~