First and foremost, the symptoms of the bug I am describing here are as follows:
Under completely random, and in many cases, even fresh-from-refresh circumstances, battles of all kinds fail to load properly. This results in the player not being able to command his or her army during battle, potentially resulting in an unwanted loss or casualties to his or her army.
In addition, the problem also extends to playing back of epic battles; more or less all battle situations are affected by this bug.
This bug has also been rare, if it occurred at all, before the Blood Fort update, but has been extremely common ever since.
With the explanation done, I am not sure if anyone else has been affected by this bug in particular ever since the Blood Fort update. However, I personally have gotten this bug almost everyday since Blood Fort was installed on the servers. Today was particularly bad: Battles broke down in the middle of a guild instance and five complete refreshes+cache clearing failed to resolve it. My arena round soon after was also affected and I was handed an uncontrollable loss. Most recently (just several minutes ago) I was blocked out of my arena round immediately after a fresh start of the browser and two cache-clearing refreshes were needed before it was resolved.
I am not sure if anyone understands the consequences this bug entails, so I will spell it out so everyone understands: This bug defeats the entire purpose of HoG. HoG is first and foremost a war game, conflict (be it against players, in and out of arena, or NPCs) is the central theme and the literal core of HoG’s gameplay. This bug strikes at that very core by actively discouraging the player from engaging in battles. Right now, I am afraid I will get losses I don’t want fighting high level NPCs or losses in arena I could have avoided because of encountering this fatal bug.
Is there anything being planned to fix this critical, game-breaking bug, or is this bug being handled like the rest with “just refresh” as the response? Many people have stated that HoG shouldn’t be played like Simcity, but I’m in a situation where that is more or less unavoidable.
