What is a Star Shard, and how do we get them?

[Jnsolberg]

After this afternoon's data push, we can now craft Helath Potions!
All we need is 5 Star Shards.

IPassButter, how about a heads up on this

[Krissy]

A 1/20 drop rate I bet. Ha ha ha.

[Pophai]

Further information would be welcome.
Especially how long will this crafting be available?

[Laura TCK]

You all know info is always short in coming, don't ask just do it, this been done before and will not last long we know why so just craft

[rutty]

Have a look in the Dwarven Mine - there's a little dragon flying around called a Star Shard Guardian.

Kill this. Repeatedly! Shards will emerge in a profligate manner :)

[The Battle Mage]

Have a look in the Dwarven Mine - there's a little dragon flying around called a Star Shard Guardian.

Kill this. Repeatedly! Shards will emerge in a profligate manner :)

You are indeed a Nincompoop, Sir !!!

[belgario]

The ability to get Shards and craft them is now gone

[DragCro]

The ability to get Shards and craft them is now gone
Big shock that they removed it.Not.
When you all announced it how and where and what....
Thank yourself and dont thank gree that they removed it

[truthteller]

The ability to get Shards and craft them is now gone

Yes

GREEdy read this thread and right away made a data push to take them off the craft shop

[Monteverdi]

Have a look in the Dwarven Mine - there's a little dragon flying around called a Star Shard Guardian.

Kill this. Repeatedly! Shards will emerge in a profligate manner :)

I guess Gree pulled the plug...

[Scubdog]

Dear Gree,
Could you possibly suck at iOS game development anymore than you do already? Nothing but crickets and denials when an "error" is in your favor but when errors like this come to light - almost instant correction. But not before a few players take full advantage while the rest of the community misses out - and more leave the game forever continuing to shrink the game into oblivion. Congrats on another daily screw up.

[DragCro]

Dear Gree,
Could you possibly suck at iOS game development anymore than you do already? Nothing but crickets and denials when an "error" is in your favor but when errors like this come to light - almost instant correction. But not before a few players take full advantage while the rest of the community misses out - and more leave the game forever continuing to shrink the game into oblivion. Congrats on another daily screw up.
There you are right .
If it benefits the player the bug then gree fix it for a moment.

But when it benefits the gree and not the players then the problem remains and no changes occur to help guilds or players i meant on quests as haste to make them possible to finish and for eu players,or lower quest requiretments for raid boss to finish guild event that 60 members need to participate in quests and that is not fair for guilds that doesn't have 60 member or for a player that is busy with real life at that moment.

And looking to this we see that Gree can fix things fast when they want..

But they are not listening to us or to our feedback if that in someway benefits us

[dpille]

This is pretty unacceptable. Obviously, since the dragons took like 10 energy and seemed to have at least a 25% drop rate, some people just got tons of battle refills, but others of us got squat. Way to keep the game fair, Gree.

[DragCro]

This is pretty unacceptable. Obviously, since the dragons took like 10 energy and seemed to have at least a 25% drop rate, some people just got tons of battle refills, but others of us got squat. Way to keep the game fair, Gree.i am still playing hero part of iltq so i didnt have time to hit that dragon or to get a refill.

[The red Baron]

A bug on which all players can participate is nice, a limited time bug is bad as only a part of the players had an adavantage, unfair for those sleeping or working.

[War player]

Ok, GREE. Are you now going to take away the battle health that folks got by using an obvious error?

You have set the precedent.

[stooper]

How about the "increased stat" items that we paid for, then gree realized they stuffed up then changed, WITHOUT REFUNDING cash

[War player]

That's exactly what I'm referring to.

[Debonair]

No changes should be made - it's less than 24 hours before war - to many potential issues could come up. Let it go is my thoughts

[Shadows]

Have a look in the Dwarven Mine - there's a little dragon flying around called a Star Shard Guardian.

Kill this. Repeatedly! Shards will emerge in a profligate manner :)

You'd think you'd have a better idea of what to post in this forum with 170 posts.. guess not -_-

[dpille]

No changes should be made - it's less than 24 hours before war - to many potential issues could come up. Let it go is my thoughts

But see, they already made a change, like 29 hours before the war, by removing this. If they do nothing more, this war WILL be unfair. They can't make it worse than it already is- even if they can't make anyone else happy, they could at least change who is mad about it.

[stooper]

How about the "increased stat" items that we paid for, then gree realized they stuffed up then changed, WITHOUT REFUNDING cash

I'm sorry that this post caused you grief gree, please except my humble apologies ( would of inserted pic of infringement notice but couldn't)
Stooper

[Frostpocket]

Was this quest really a GREE error? I knew not of its start time, but it did end at 6pm dead uk time. Could it have been an 18 hour quest (or more) and was there for those of us who spotted it? Please don't all shout at me. I'm simply offering another alternative. It's not a quest that GREE would run for days because it would inhibit spending real money, but maybe GREE put it there for us to figure out. Not saying that I necessarily agree with it, but just asking the question, that's all.

[dpille]

Well, that would have made it 19 hours- definitely an odd number to pick- and I don't think it was done on the hour. More like 5 after if my chat logs are any indication

[rutty]

Just trying to be helpful - guess it's too much to assume that a change like that was done on purpose.

At least they haven't discovered the bug where if your game crashes you get some nice duplicated units

[Ryosaeba]

but it did end at 6pm dead uk time.

6pm UK is 10am in California. They probably just got to work and shut it down'

[Monteverdi]

Just trying to be helpful - guess it's too much to assume that a change like that was done on purpose.

At least they haven't discovered the bug where if your game crashes you get some nice duplicated units

Rutty, you did well, by exposing the loophole you gave everyone a chance to take advantage of it, not only a few insiders. My guess is that it was some kind and of beta-testing for an upcoming event that got public.

[Zepson]

GREEdy read this thread and right away made a data push to take them off the craft shop

This proves that...
1. Gree reads this forum very regularly. (but will only respond if it's in their interest to do so)
2. Gree can fix things very fast. (but will only fix things that are in their advantage and not the players')

Some glitches are in the game for months now and still not fixed... because they only disadvantage us, not them.

[Metsrock9931]

This proves that...
1. Gree reads this forum very regularly. (but will only respond if it's in their interest to do so)
2. Gree can fix things very fast. (but will only fix things that are in their advantage and not the players')

Some glitches are in the game for months now and still not fixed... because they only disadvantage us, not them.

If this whole thing was in error, then it should be removed in whole. However all the glitches should have the same standard that many of us have posted on this forum. Additionally Gree should provide a response to all of us regarding this error and a list of all issues on what they are doing with them and a timeline with dates they will be fixed. We are still waiting for our skill points to be fixed in which 3/30 it was supposed to, but now is silent from Gree with it not being fixed. Gree that is one example, you have to do some explaining on many of these types of issues. Stop selecting what to respond to and show us support by responding to all of our posted issues.

[War player]

Some glitches are specifically to take your money. They show a prize, you spend to get the prize, and they take them away. When folks ask to get their money back, they are told to send in tickets. The response to those tickets is "we are not authorized to give you anything".

Some glitches are true glitches, so when they get exploited, there is no action taken to remove the rewards.

If they don't take the health positions away, this theory will have proven to be correct.

[Hobbs]

Some glitches are specifically to take your money. They show a prize, you spend to get the prize, and they take them away. When folks ask to get their money back, they are told to send in tickets. The response to those tickets is "we are not authorized to give you anything".

Some glitches are true glitches, so when they get exploited, there is no action taken to remove the rewards.


If they don't take the health positions away, this theory will have proven to be correct.

We don't know if it was a glitch and whether it was or not I think GREE should just accept it and take no further action.
Some would have taken advantage...some may not have done,it is what it is.
Unfortunately I didn't get the chance as I was working but I would have crafted these potions if I got a chance,there has been many times it has swung the other way and events finished early,or guilds have lost placing unable to declare in last hour of war,or prizes are changed after you win them ETC,ETC,ETC....
TO Remove items EARNED would be hypocritical and would have many implications such as:
Used energy
XP gained
Used energy refills
Gems bought for those energy refills

This would create many tickets and even complaints to Apple about money spend and Bait and Switch tactics by GREE.
GREE HASNT EVEN SAID IT WAS AN ERROR,all quests are affected by time zones,it's no different then euros missing speed goals.

I say if you managed to get a few potions while it was live,good for you.
If you didn't(like me) suck it up and move on,it will all balance very quickly and maybe that quest is just around the corner for ALL.