Situation: Partway through pwning a forum, as I refreshed it to clear the standard ‘error’, the entire forum refreshed (meaning that it acted as if I had just entered the forum for a new visit, including the reminder about how many forum visits I would have left after my first move)

This is how it happened.

I’ve been using the Spoilerpedia List of Forums page to choose which forums to attack to gain Cred as fast as possible. Since I was Level 12, I chose the Level 13 Forum Trident Media (Theramin Edition). As it turned out, I needed to finish that particular Mission anyways, so it was the perfect choice.

I entered the forum through the link in the Spoilerpedia, and began to pwn away. Near the end of the 6th (with about 2 threads left to go before the forum was fully pwned, IIRC), I fired off an attack that was more than enough to kill the thread. Before it fully resolved, I got the ‘refresh forum’ popup. Nothing odd there, so I did as normal, clicking on the link in the bottom right of the battle screen. After a few seconds, I got the header reminder of how many forum visits I would have after my first move, and now it seemed that there were six threads in the forum. That was more threads left than should have been, but fewer threads than were there originally. It was like I had started the whole battle over again. But my Ego & Tears totals were not at 100%. I went ahead and finished out the forum, and sure enough, as I finished the next thread, it had reset my counter for number of threads consecutively pwned. After pwning the forum, I checked my forum visit log. Sure enough, it shows that I pwned the same forum twice in a row. And I used two visits doing so. And I missed out on a little bit of cred, since there were about 2-3 threads left on my first run when it occurred.

My guess is that since I was on the 6th thread and when I beat the thread and saw the ‘new’ forum with six threads, perhaps the random forum thread number hourly reset occurred right as I was finishing the sixth thread, and when the page was trying to refresh to update my battle screen, it saw that the total number of threads in the forum should be 6, and I’d beaten six, so that counted as pwning the forum.

Never seen or heard of this bug before, but it could explain some weird stuff that I have heard about.

BTW, not really upset about this, since I wasn’t making a consecutive visit run, and the cred/visit loss was minimal.