I think I caught a Missingno......

[Mordecham]

(Apologies for all the images; the words alone left even me confused, and I wrote them...so I thought illustrations would help.)

I was playing the Bug Catching game, and came across a Paras (strength 2,144,328,929). This was stronger than my current catch, so I went for it.


At the screen where I caught it, the link for the hourly gift popped up, so I clicked it and got some breeder experience.


When I clicked the link to return to where I was, I got an explosion of confused coding jargon, something about headers, and it said I'd caught what appeared to be a broken link of some kind...I didn't have the opportunity to catch it, I apparently did catch it.


That Paras I'd caught was strong enough, at the time of this post, to put me in second place. Instead, when I checked the leader board, I didn't place at all, and when I entered the contest again, it said I hadn't caught anything.


Now, admittedly, this is a pretty specific set of circumstances...but it doesn't seem like grabbing the hourly gift should be able to vaporize my poor contest bug.

[WhoKnows_WhoCares]

hmm... odd - i'm not entirly sure what to do with this - i know that message usually means change that field in the database from int to varchar... but when i do that, the results table doesnt work properly (first place was the LOWEST strength, not the highest.)

[Mordecham]

I think the issue is that it returned me to the URL that ends with "catch=yes" (or something like that; unfortunately, I didn't think to keep the addresses in the images). Since I was "catching" something without actually finding something first, I think the coding had some kind of fit, and just gave me a bunch of zeroes and null sets instead of any actual data. That's my guess, anyway.

[Pikachu3828]

hmm... odd - i'm not entirly sure what to do with this - i know that message usually means change that field in the database from int to varchar... but when i do that, the results table doesnt work properly (first place was the LOWEST strength, not the highest.)

Have you reverted it back? I just checked and the strength field is INT. Please absolutely do not touch the database structure without asking me first, this problem is entirely different to the one you're thinking of and editting something like that on a live database is never a good idea.

As for the bug, it's harmless since you can just catch another bug but thanks for letting me know about it so I can fix it in a future update.

[WhoKnows_WhoCares]

yes, i switched it back to int instantly