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    LerryJawler's Avatar Senior Member
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    weird donkey scoring issue/bug

    Ive had a couple weird issues but one just happened that was really problematic.

    I was racing flaming freeway to get platinum so i choose den.fuchs ghost to race. Their time was 23.332. I managed to beat them by .1xx but instead of getting a time of 23.2xx I shot up to 20.xxx which put me in first place. I didnt notice at first how different the times were until I looked at the leaderboard afterward so I have no idea what my actual time was on my run.

    Afterward I decided to race my ghost to see what it showed and the ghost I raced was definitely not mine. In my run I front flip over the penultimate obstacle whereas this ghost did not. Fortunately I managed to beat this ghost and get a 19.xxx time so my current score is at least legit but im really concerned with what happened with that first time.

    Another issue I have noticed is if you are running a track for the first time and instead of accepting your run you hit the back arrow to try again it still registers your time to the leaderboard but doesnt show. So when you run the track again if you dont beat that time you just made it wont register and your time will not show on the leaderboard.
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    I see odd things with donkey ghosts too; always have. My initial investigation is documented in the posts here:
    http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...ghlight=donkey

    Do this... take note of the time on the ghost you are about to run against. Then run the track and calculate from the diff between your time and the ghosts time what his time actually was. FOr me, the times rarely matched (which means the ghost you picked isnt the one you are running), and the time for the ghost you ARE running is sometimes not even on the Donkey LB. The riders uniforms will match, but the times wont. As you noticed, you can go back and run your own ghost and... its NOT you. Once I raced myself, lost by .5 seconds, and IMPROVED my overall track score. But from what I can see its not because our times are being calculated/stored wrong... they seem accurate. Its that the ghost used was actually much faster than my old ghost, and so it was possible to lose but still improve times.

    This has made improving my times.... difficult. I never really know whether I am running against a better score or not; I have to keep picking people and checking times.

    By the way, on IOS I still cant ever see the "The Lift" Donkey Leaderboard...I get the "uplay connection is down, Butch did it" message. I assume you are on Android these days? Can you guys see your version of the Donkey LB for The Lift?
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    LerryJawler's Avatar Senior Member
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    the lift leaderboard wont show on android either.
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    Originally Posted by sriskus Go to original post
    the lift leaderboard wont show on android either.
    Even worse; I made a run with the Donkey on The Lift and not only is there no leaderboard, but I received no global points for the run (yet it seems to be aware of my Plat time in later runs).. Did I just throw away 750K points?
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    totally on this with you guys - donkey LB and everything related is pretty screwed. the other day I was improving my donkey times throughout tier I tracks, funnily enough, racing against many xitooner's ghosts this is what I noticed:

    1. track time difference between your time and other friend's time is inconsistent, shows different one all the time. when you don't have a donkey run on the map, it will compare your usual time to donkey time of your friend
    2. if you race the same players ghosts, it gives you inconsistent runs/ghosts - most apparent at the start, where at different times I could either pull away one screen ahead with no effort or could barely keep up
    3. if you race the same guy, each time he rides the track differently LOL

    however! when I improved my time, it did give me the improvement ticker, more points etc. so it's not totally glitched, IMO
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    This isn't encouraging me to unlock the bike and/or use it. It's been out for a while, where's the fix?!
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