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Horse competition flawed?

Hi All,

I'm sure I'm not the first to whom this is happening, but this time I took a screenshot.
So the same player challenged my horse twice, both for a show jumping, at the same time, which I "won" once narrowly while the other I lost by a clear margin.

 

I hope I've blackened enough the name of the player, who's not to blame for this clear flaw, to respect his privacy but believe me, it was the same player twice, not another with an almost similar name.

So what explanation would GGS have for this?
Visual error? Yeah right...
Put it under the carpet ("it's only 4 ranking points and there are many more to win") because priority is on introducing new ways of digging gold out of our wallets? Fair enough, GGS is not a charity and why fix something which isn't entirely broken...

If the horse competition feature was relatively new, bugs would be expected. But this is running for quite a while now, so it should be smooth and flawless.

If I was a bunny, I surely wouldn't be happy right now, but in fact what am I? Just another customer, so who cares?

Comments

  • That's not unusual. I often have the same horse come up on my list right after I just challenged it & it only takes a couple of seconds for a challenge, so if you did challenge the same one again, the times would look the same. I have also found that if I do challenge the same one twice, I will win one & lose one, so I only ever do it if I lose lol :)
  • Elco (GB1)Elco (GB1) Posts: 103
    @RunsWivScissors (GB1) I expected more or less something along those lines, but based on the "well documented" pool of 100 players we potentially can compete against, 50 above/50 below, the unlikeliness of having the very same competitor presenting himself/herself again for the next round, is... baffling to say the least.

    It has never been mentioned, so it isn't the case, but there should be a cooling off period to potentially having the same competitor showing up again.

    Odds of 1% (or is my maths wrong?) and yet it falls on me more often than I wish it would. The result is that I feel the horse tournament is somewhat flawed.

    Should I play the lottery with my luck and already plan how to spend my fortune? How about buying shares in GGS?
  • Having the same opponent come up happens at least once every time I compete (when I have 60 or more fuel). I found it would almost always end in one loss and one win. For that reason, I try to mentally keep track of who I race as I go. If I lost to them in that same session, I race them again for an almost guaranteed win. If I won against them, I do not race them right away, or I compete in a different area (like dressage or jumping) for a chance at a win.

    Yes, it is a flaw. But, it is one I can work with.
  • Elco (GB1)Elco (GB1) Posts: 103
    @AlabasterGamer (US1) I probably could too, following the exact same reasoning as you but in this case, I was offline so it is even more frustrating when I had no power/choice whatsoever on this.

    End of the day and what have I to show? One win = nothing. One loss = -4 points.

    The same would have happened against 2 different competitors, but it feels extra bitter when this regular flaw (again, what are the odds? Extremely low! Yet...) happens.

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