Hello my wonderfully loyal readers. I do apologize for neglecting you this past week, for I have been making the adjustment from school back to working full time in a facility where I do not have access to internet, personal e-mail, full twitter, or (*cries*) Pottermore itself. That being said, from hence forth weekdays from 7 am to 4 pm EST I am almost completely disconnected. I have limited Twitter communication in the sense that I set it up to text tweets to my work phone and allow me to text tweets FROM my phone. However it is unreliable and sometimes you might tweet me and I might not see it until much later when I get off of work. I will however respond when I get it.
That being said, if during those hours if you see Pottermore has added the new chapters of Chamber of Secrets and you are one of my twitter tweeps I need you to tweet me until I post that the new chapters are up. I need you guys to be my eyes and ears. On whatever day it opens I will be doing another live blog of my play through like I did for Chapters 1 – 4 on that day starting at 5pm EST (provided traffic cooperates). Now, on to…
This is the eleventh edition of Ask Elm and I am getting record volumes of questions. As a result I’m no longer really answering the questions in order necessarily and am trying to get repeatedly asked questions up first. I will endeavor to answer ALL questions that are submitted to me as quickly as is possible. If you have asked a question and never received a response there is ALWAYS the chance it got lost. I will not be upset or put out if you send the question in a second time. If I notice I have duplicates I will pick whichever one is worded better and run with it.
If you have a question to ask CLICK HERE.
“Hi! I just finished chapter 4 of the Chamber of Secrets, and chapter 5 is still locked. I was hoping you know why and how long I have to wait, or what I have to do to unlock it. Thanks!”
-FlightCharm
Answer:
Right now, only the first four chapters of Chamber of Secrets are open. We have no concrete word from Pottermore about when we might expect to see the next “section” of the book which will contain chapters 5 thru 11. Many have speculated that September 1st is the day as it is also the day Harry would go to Hogwarts in the books. We are quickly approaching the one year mark of when Beta users first gained access to the site and I can’t help but think that the release of this important section has to be coming soon. One year of the same potions and spells is long enough wouldn’t you say?
“when i look at the point total at the top of the screen one time, it will read one thing. when i go to a new page, the point total will sometimes raise itself drastically, or lower itself what is going on??????”
-FlameCauldron
Answer:
The total points for each individual house jump up and down due to a server cache system that Pottermore uses when loading pages. As each house is approaching a million members, it’s a lot of points coming in for the score to try to collate live on site. Unfortunately the site doesn’t cope will with this when the servers are busy. There is an excellent site that is tracking the Pottermore House points I like to visit called HouseCup.Info for a nice graph and reliable read on where the House Points stand.
“With all the spells in the books that we have access to now (not including The Standard Book of Spells Grade 2) why are we unable to use something like the levitation charm or the smokescreen charm?”
-RiverCharm
Answer:
I suspect that Pottermore has something planned for the others spells in the spell book that do not, necessarily, pertain to dueling. We already had to use Alohomora in the story, so perhaps these other spells will be needed later on? At the moment we really don’t know why some spells are inaccessible. Spells from Standard Book of Spells (Grade 2) will probably not be accessible until more of Chamber of Secrets opens.
“How do I set up my pottermore nickname? Do I just add it to the end of all my comments or is there more to it?”
-WolfThestral
Answer:
Nick names are a user invented system in which users place a nickname of their own choice at the end of their posts in the Common Room or Great Hall. The system came into creation for a number or reasons. First, because Pottermore will not allow you to type a username into a comment. Forcing people to write out user names or address people by another nick name. Since Pottermore did give us the ability to put nicknames in for friends it became easy to keep track of your nicknamed friends and to address them in a much shorter manner.
You can pretty much pick what you want, so long as the moderation screen will allow it to post in a comment and no one is actively using the name. Most character names have been nabbed multiple times by multiple users.
“How does one put forth a suggestion for improvements to PM wizards.
I wish there were a better way to scroll through the friend list or dueling list for example. you scoll through 10 or 20 pages, take an action on a name and the system pops you back to the beginning of the list again. Why can’t the system take you back to the page you left off? Why can’t they put in a feature to sort by house. or joined date? would be convenient.”-YewDraconis
Answer:
To send in an e-mail message to Pottermore, whether it be to report a bug or make a site suggestion, you will need to visit the Pottermore Help Page and then click the OTHER heading followed by WHAT’S NEXT? and then NEED MORE HELP? to bring up the e-mail form. I wish it was not buried under so many headings.
The navigation of the friends page and dueling interface are among my list of complaints as well. I hope that they plan on changing dueling at the very least with new spells in Chamber of Secrets. (Please please please)
“is there a way to get into knockturn alley like you did with the chamber of secrets?”
-PotionSun
Answer:
Despite everything that I’ve tried just to extricate the LINK to Knockturn Alley from the coding of Pottermore, I have not found anyway to get in. I was disappointed because I had HOPED that Knockturn Alley would unlock when Harry visited Knockturn Alley in Chamber of Secrets but that did not happen. 
“Hey i was wonder how to receive the next badges? I’ve gotten all three, but im not to clear on how to get the others. Thank you. xo”
-LumosFelicis
Answer:
Right now those three seem to be the only badges available. I suspect that more badges will become available when they open the next section of Chamber of Secrets.
“Do you know anything about the house points from the first book? I remember reading that they would be restored to use “in good time”…but do you know anything or have any ideas if they will be put somewhere? Thanks for your help! I really enjoy your blog.”
-MidnightGlow
Answer:
The message above which showed for a couple days and then vanished has never been fully explained by Pottermore. It was my belief that this meant they would be placing something on our profiles to show our previous point total before the House Cup wiped them to zero. Since this notification vanished about a month ago they have not made any reference as to how they intend to restore our points to our profiles.
“So I took this screenshot of this one Ravenclaw dueler named PhoenixPurple202. We both did the same spell. I was excited to win a few points for my fellow snakes from those wretched eagles and I lost…badly. My score was 141 for Full Body Bind. He did the same spell…except his score was 161. I know the max score is 145….How is he doing it?! Is he cheating? How do I send you the screenshot? Thanks! Oh and on your HP Restrospective, you never told us your reaction to finding out that Snape was always good and was in love with Lily! Let me know! And help me bring this cheater down! Thanks!”
-LumosPhoenix
“I just dueled PhoenixPurple202, a Ravenclaw. He/she scored a 161. I’ve seen others in our Slytherin common room that have had the same experience. Glitch or another cheater? I did report it to PM.”
-MarauderSpirit
“Is it possible to get a 161 on a full body bind curse? I was just dueling with PhoenixPurple202 and s/he got a 161. I didn’t think you could get more than 145. Hmmmmm”
-SilverHolly
Answer:
PhoenixPurple202 is using a cheat to alter the maximum potency of the spell’s they cast to raise them above the standard max of 145 points. Example below:
This basically makes them unbeatable in duels. I urge you all that if you encounter PhoenixPurple202 in duels, or PP Overkill as I have nicknamed them, to send a message into Pottermore thru the Pottermore Help Page (click OTHER then WHAT’S NEXT? then NEED MORE HELP?). You can include the “view” link to the duel. I myself have already sent in countless messages and I am sure many others have as well.
Pottermore needs to sort itself out in regards to cheating in dueling if you ask me, but the only way they are going to do it is if a multitude of users complain about the issue. I myself have hardly dueled since the end of July because the cheaters have sucked the fun out of it for me. I don’t want to duel computerized bots and people who’ve hacked the game. I want to duel other users such as myself on a level playing field again.
Until that happens I report, report, report. I encourage all of you to do the same.
PS – NO I WON’T TELL YOU HOW TO INFLATE THE SCORE ON YOUR DUELS. So don’t ask.
That’s all for today. Remember if you have any questions for Ask Elm you can submit them by clicking here.
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why don’t we
- stop dueling (there are many other fun things to do on potter more)
-let the cheaters duel with themselves.
-just make potions
-whenever we find a cheater, we should just post it on your blog so that everyone can complain
I have stopped dueling & brewing. I’m not the only Gryffindor who has stopped either; many others have too. Conveniently for Slytherin house because they have taken the lead again. I want to know, Elm, if you have pursued leads on cheaters from your own house.
I refuse to duel now because I went from averaging 143 to now averaging 140 despite hitting on center most every time. Yes, sometimes the ring is not as large as others but I spent a long time learning to duel & brew without using help sites & I usually scored 143 & up. But, lo and behold, my average dropped, yet Slytherin & Hufflepuff almost always manage to have people who score 144 or 145 every time I open duel against them? Not likely. Clean up your own house first before you ruin it for everyone except Slytherin.
First of all, I have investigated cheaters in all houses including my own. Second of all, people scoring 144 and 145 does not mean they are cheating. In fact I scored several 145s the other day with my glitching duels. It is possible with practice and determination. I get plenty of 144 and 145s back from Gryffindor too. So just because you can’t pull the scores does not mean that people who are pulling the scores are cheating. I think you know very little about the current cheating methods on Pottermore and should watch where you point fingers with out any evidence what so ever.
Actually, I used to duel frequently against all houses. I happened to notice when I am challenged by someone I won against, that they always score 144. I am good, but I can’t score 144 every time I challenge someone like almost every Slytherin challenger against me. That’s fishy no matter if you don’t admit it.
My chief complaint is that the glitch affects me personally when I try to duel by lowering my score and unfairly so, just because I used to log on often throughout the day, it seems. Now I refuse to duel, because of that and my house suffers the loss because of it. And by the look of it, many others of my house aren’t dueling either.
One of the main reasons you fell behind was because your top user was cheating using a bot and now no longer can. The glitch you speak of affects many including myself. I hardly duel because of it. So please stop acting as if Gryffindor is being individually affected. Because that simply is not the case. Those you see scoring better easily have switch browsers or computers until they found one thy works. I know several Gryffs who can pump out a 145 on command. E
Would that be the bronze bat? Say it ain’t so! I challenged him several times and won a few against him. In fact, I challenged all house leaders at some point before the first house cup was won. I didn’t win against every single one but I tried them.
I open dueled against Slytherin and scored 145 several times before the cup was awarded. I won against Cat Skull with 145 but that duel magically disappeared from my score card. Hmmm.
Also, a user on your leader board (I am friends with several) wanted me to tell you that when they fixed the CAPTCHA to prevent bots four of your leaders stopped dueling because they were more than likely cheating. She is WitchSpirit on your leaderboard. She also said you can send her a challenge if you don’t believe Gryffindors can pull high scores. I was refering to RiverSpell. I’m not sure who BronzeBat is.
Bronze Bat = Pipistrello? How long has it been since you looked at your leaderboard? But no. Pipistrello is a beast dueler and was not cheating.
I noticed when he stopped dueling; I perfected my score dueling against him before dueling against other houses. I’m very happy he isn’t a cheater. As to the other 4 leaders, to tell you the truth, I only looked for the bronze bat = pipistrello bronzo, one of my fave leaders (back when I still dueled). Despite not dueling I log in every day to check for new chapters and put in some practice (on several different browsers; I already concluded I need to get myself a new PC/laptop for X-mas this year.)
“So just because you can’t pull the scores does not mean that people who are pulling the scores are cheating. I think you know very little about the current cheating methods on Pottermore and should watch where you point fingers with out any evidence what so ever.”
I can and have pulled those numbers as I clearly stated in my first post. What I said is that I can’t pull those numbers on demand and especially now with the glitch or whatever it is that’s making the numbers drop, which is clearly not affecting Slytherin house, judging by their numbers. Why is that, do you think?
And I point at your house specifically because I have reason to. I was practice dueling with members of my house and one person in particular more than others. Suddenly that person is gone but I continued dueling against my house only when out of nowhere I get challenged by someone from Slytherin who I had never dueled against and didn’t know from anywhere. That happened on several occasions, so yeah, I point at your house.
Well you point in the wrong direction. As I said your glitch is your computer I can get non glitching duels on better computers than my own. This is not cheating. And also those practicing are not your best duelers. As I said I duel many Gryffs with loads of high scores who are obviously getting them the same way As the Slytherins.
Well, seeing as how I have 116,000+ points, throw 144s like candy at a parade, and have probably handed her her hiney a time or two, I must be a cheater. I must sit at home every night and look for ways to magically send glitches and hiccups to other houses and ensure that epic duelers cannot be good any more. Hmmm, and every time I get a 145 from someone, they have to be cheating, too! They can’t just possibly have thrown a better duel than me. And if heaven forbid I EVER throw below a 143 there must be someone out there somewhere who has their finger on the dump button to ensure that my human moment is not seen by any mere mortals.
HawthornHazel29159, Ravenclaw #4, last place with dignity and furious on behalf of Slytherin and all of their hard workers. Slytherin is the ONLY house I never have to wait for duels. They are winning because they haven’t run and hid with their tails between their legs because they might run into a) a cheater or b) a better dueler. I can always rely on my friends in green for a good fight. How dare anyone blame the failure of their house on the success of others?
Elm, my apologies for ranting on your Blog. Love your face.
-Professor
Have you tried changing browsers?
Back in July, through a lot of hard work/dedication and 7 months practice, I was able to throw 144 and 145′s; not on command but enough to add up points. Then late August, early September, my duels crapped out and it was all I could do to muster a 143. My scores ranged from 140-142. I was using Google Chrome. I was getting really depressed because all the duels looked alike and I could not tell the difference and why some were a low score. Then I switched to Firefox, and I got my groove back. Each time I start dueling for the day, I try out Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome to see which one does the best.
Now for the duel challenge out of no where… since a lot of times Slytherins have a duel lag, some members of the house challenge people who post in the Great Hall. Have you posted there recently? I don’t think they are trying to pick on you, I think they just want a fast duel response and are looking for warm bodies at the end of the keyboard.
I’ve got all those browsers and used to just switch to another. It’s gotten to the point that I’m too frustrated to try anymore. I need a newer/different computer, I think.
The challenge out of nowhere was someone with a Gryffindor account from Slytherin. This was before the cup was awarded, hence the accusations against Slytherin cheaters back then. I don’t know if you remember that furor in the Great Hall before the cup was awarded, but that was why. It was at least that one person, who has probably closed the account since. I don’t post in the Great Hall nor in the common room anymore.
I practice with my house to make sure my score is as high as I can get it and so members of my house can practice/improve or meet their goals whatever they happen to be. Sorry that I want my house members to score as high as they possibly can Ravenclaw Professor! And no, not every Slytherin cheats, I am aware of that. I may not be an epic dueler, I have a life and I used to duel in fits and starts, a half hour here and there, maybe less, but I wanted to make sure I won a heck of a lot more than I lost. What can I say, I keep track of my scores and I damned sure keep track when someone is fond of using their ‘back’ button to keep from losing a duel. I have already explained what I meant about the scoring; it’s no use beating a dead horse. Think what you will, I really don’t care.
And oh yes, thanks Slytherin; you are the ONLY house who actually duels back immediately.
I can only speak for myself (as a Slytherin) but my duels don’t glitch as much as I hear from others, probably because I don’t live in the US and our servers aren’t as full? (Just a guess).
It’s right that in Slytherin you almost NEVER get an immediate response when duelling so I sometimes go to the Great Hall and pick out people from the comments section or from “Recent activities” (also in our Common Room) just to have something to do.
In my eyes the reason that Slytherin is in first place again is that we have the highest rate of internet nerds. xD I’m not trying to offend. We just seem to have a lot of active members who are also quite capable duellers because we spend a lot of time duelling. That’s why you get immediate responses.
Also, only speaking for myself again, I never press back when duelling. Even when my cat walks across my keyboard mid-duel. ;D So it does happen that I send a 68 or something. But that’s ok since my next score will probably be something from 142-145, so I just let it go.
Sonia, if I may, there could be a wide variety of reasons why your scores are low, and why Slytherin is in the lead currently.
For your scores, I’d suggest a browser switch, to internet explorer, clear the cache and cookies, defrag the computer, and get as much junk data as you can off. This should speed you up. Chrome has recently been a bit meh with duels, so that may be your problem.
Though, as you mentioned, you’ve been dueling less, so if I had to give a guess, assuming all your electronics work perfectly fine. You’re over thinking it. To give a hint, there’s a rhythm to dueling, and if you don’t have it, it becomes exceedingly hard to score anything that would resemble a good score. I’m going to say this though, the bad rhythm is probably the reason. I’ve been on the leaderboard during the first round, and I know a lot of the former leaderboard people (as well as some of the current ones). There’s a cycle that varies, person by person. Sometimes, you’re just off. You want to think it’s a glitch, but it’s not. It’s you slipping, and that’s when you need to practice, focus, and practice more, and develop a technique that allows you to remain at a constant level of excellence (this is what separates those who can compete with the leaderboard people, and even compete with some of the bots and cheaters, with those who are still developing).
Furthermore, as to why slytherin took the lead. Elm gave one of the most likely reasons. The top lion was using bots to duel, and with them out of the race, everyone else has to pick up that slack. In addition, I’d also say from what I know of how all the houses are structured on Pottermore, Slytherin is particularly good at group efforts and teamwork. So I wouldn’t say so much that one house is better than the other when it comes to skill, but Slytherin seems to be very good at getting their best duelists out in droves and keeping their best potioneers well stocked. I can’t quite guess for the lions, but I would say that that would be the major issue in why they haven’t kept up very well (of course this could be do to a myriad of other reasons, perhaps more lions are students than Slytherins, perhaps lions have a lower participation rate, perhaps, like you, they believed that Slytherin was cheating and decided to “quit with honor” rather than compete till the end.) Though it’s important to remember that correlation wouldn’t necessarily mean causation in any case.
In short: Your dueling problems are probably computer related, or due to being rusty yourself. Slytherin is in the lead because they (and I may be a bit biased) seem to have a better ground game than the other houses, and they can get their people out faster, and this could be the reason they’re in the lead (or it could be equally likely that Gryffindor was highly slowed down after their leader could no longer duel).
As one other side note: I’d say Elm is probably one of the more knowledgeable residents of pottermore when it comes to cheating, without being one of the offenders, and she’s probably one of, if not the most vocal opponent.
-Runemarauder63
Professor…I love you! haha.
Sonia, well I am a Gryffindor, defending the colors of our house, but I think you’re wrong on your point of view, since in duels to get 144-145 just have to practice, RiverSpell spotted our house with his “bot “but not all we are in the top are cheaters, although there are many ways to fool Pottermore, which have been discovered, not by the way that you mention, Slytherin has very good players, Thestral, ElmSparks, NightQuaffle , Willow and others, which almost always have these markers, but they are no cheaters are good duelers that simple, I’m in that range and I’m not cheating, better make a good team for duels, and we can meet……
on the other ElmBlade side good article, and I found this part fun “PS – I WILL NOT TELL YOU HOW TO SCORE ON YOUR Inflate The DUELS. So do not ask.” lol
P.S.
It’s not big science to use a cheat or modify hex values
Gryffindors face a number of Potter-related problems. We are the most celebrated house in the books, and therefore some of our members think we SHOULD win, even if it means cheating to do so. When we don’t win, we have guilt complexes (Did we let JKR down? Did we not live up to the standards of the Golden Trio?) There are cheaters in every house, and yet Gryffindors face the most derision when ours are exposed, because Gryffindor is supposed to be the house of honor and chivalry. As ridiculous as it sounds, the pressure to win mounts for us and sometimes it’s too much for some users. When all this is taken into consideration, I feel a heightened sense of pride for those of us who refuse to give up, who refuse to cheat, and instead push on against the odds. We are not the hip house like Slytherin is. We are the Hector of the story in contrast to the Achilles. The best of us strive and strive, only to come up short, and yet in many ways such circumstances enable us to become the most interesting characters in the tale of Pottermore. Our finest members inspire me to live up to our own ideals, of bravery and honor, and I hope this influence is felt by all who don the crimson robes. Perhaps if those lions who have given up look to those lions who haven’t, more enjoyment and satisfaction can be cultivated from being a Gryffindor.
It’s moments like this when I wish there was a way to install a “like” feature for the comments on my blog.
i think all housess have cheaters
The cheating while dueling on Pottermore is really a shame. I was practicing against my House and was getting 140 and 141 pretty consistently, but I would be no match against a bot so, I’m afraid to challenge anyone to a real duel.
Hey elm,
Have you seen all of these badges:
http://assets.pottermore.com/site/css/images/notificationBadge-sprite.png
there are lots but we can’t unlock most of them yet!
I think that we should also focus on the Ravenclaw sorting bug, and not just the cheating. The cheating is a serious problem, but so is the sorting glitch.
People who choose Italian, Spanish and German are cheated by the unfair sorting, have been ever since April 15th, and no one pays enough attention to it because it doesn’t concern the English-speaking users (by the way, I also use English). Some have sent reports to Pottermore, but they usually get the standard reply. Imagine what it would be like to find out that you were wrongly sorted into your house!
I think that both these “cheatings” should be dealt with. I would rather personally wait for Pottermore to first sort this problem out and then open the remaining CoS chapters. I don’t like the fact that some Potter fans are being disappointed like this.
I’ve messaged Pottermore for the first time myself about the cheating issue. Unfortunately I just got a standard reply back, however I found it a bit amusing that I explicitly mentioned how the continued cheating and their inaction sucks the fun out of the site and makes it utterly unenjoyable- and they replied back with a message that ended in ” We hope you are enjoying your Pottermore experience.”
It reminds me of how in the books sometimes there would be letters from official channels that sounded equally ridiculous, such as the ministry letter Harry received in Cos after Dobby dumped the cake on that lady: “Hoping you are well…” – no, quite obviously not…!
That said, although the focus seems to be on Ravenclaw at the moment, no one is blaming you guys as an house. I’m actually confused why no one has mentioned Gryffindor yet, considering there seems to be something quite fishy going on on their leaderboard as well. I don’t want to name anyone in case I am wrong, but this person has had significant point increases that don’t seem normal/human/possible to me.
Not to mention that the problem in Hufflepuff hasn’t been dealt with either.
I honestly hope Pottermore is working hard on a solution for this, because it’s really hurting the site, it’s no fun to be there, trying to earn points when you know it doesn’t matter because some (enter not very friendly words here) is just cheating for thousands of points anyways.
*or Slytherin for that matter, although I’m less knowledgeable about any possible cheating going on there, simply because it’s my house. Didn’t mean for this to sound as if I was leaving Slytherin out of this
First of all a big apology to everyone on behalf of Ravenclaw that we seem to house so many cheaters. But I would like to assure everyone that most of us are honest, hardworking Potter fans who are just as appalled as everyone else by cheaters. I hope the other houses won’t punish all of the Claws because of a few (add unladylike descriptive noun of your choice) try to game the system. Even if it does mean losing a lot of points for my house, I hope PM finds them and punishes them. How pathetic do you have to be to cheat on this kind of thing?
Oh, wow. That sucks. Since I’m a Claw myself, I’ve never encountered that. But that siriusly sucks
As a Claw myself, this is appalling. Why would anyone use bots and cheats to hack a /kiddie/ game? Because that’s all it really is. These cheaters ought to be ashamed of themselves. It’s really hurting Ravenclaw House’s reputation and trustworthiness. We have the least members, but we had to work thrice as hard as every other house just to get in last place. And now that I see we’ve been in /second/ place for over a month, I have a nasty feeling in my stomach that we didn’t get there through the skill and persistence we’re so well known for.
Oh that stupid, horrid, no-good, lying, cheater! Well, looks like another report is going to be made… l:(
Hi there! Thank you very much for writing this blog. It is thoroughly enjoyable. In regards to the dueling, I have scored 152 on Full-Body Bind. These scores were achieved when I first started Pottermore in April and spent a good amount of time there. I didn’t score the 152 consistently by any means, but I did achieved scores higher than 145. I am on a pc and use the mouse and am not computer savvy enough to know how to cheat. I recently just tried my hand at dueling and failed miserably. That then was a reminder to me how much time I had spent on Pottermore perfecting my dueling skills. Do you know why I was able to to achieve those high scores, if 145 is the highest score without cheating? I assure you that I did not in any way cheat and/or enhance to achieve a score higher than 145. Again, thanks for the blog and hopefully for an answer to my question.
I’m not sure what to say here other than to say that 145 has always been the max potency for Full Body Bind. So unless during opening there was something weird going on …
Love it! another amazing blog. you are my morning news paper . LOL
with your current lack of communication at present may I ask. what cell phone you currently have ?
I has two phones. An iPhone for personal use and a flip phone with no camera on it for work use. I can not have a camera in the facility I work in for security reasons. So during those work hours I have an old school flip phone with no camera as my only means of communication.
And that is one of the reasons why I refuse to duel Ravenclaws. I can deal with the constant 145s from WalnutEye and the ass-whoping from EscudoAccio. At least they seem to be great duelists… but another Ravenclaw bot? Hell no!
Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever had the, er, pleasure of encountering PhoenixPurple202… but then I have the bad habit of not looking at my duel list unless there’s a challenge to answer (and that’s definitely on my wish list for site improvements – give us the ability to sort challenges to the top!). Guess I’ll have to start looking for them, now. Joy.
You’re right, all this cheating does suck the fun out of the game. I mean, I’m glad I know about it. But it was much more fun when I was labouring under the delusion that all of my duels were being met by a human who might at any moment cough, sneeze, laugh, or have a parrot scream in their ear and cause them to cast a less-than-stellar spell. Not that any of those ever happened to *me*. Ahem.
Hi,
First Thank you for your blog Elm – I enjoy it very much.
Second – Modred – yea it’s fun when something unexpected happens while you’re dueling – like your cat jumps on your lap and wants you to pet him!
LOL! They always seem to sense the ‘perfect’ time to demand attention, don’t they?
I think it’s horrible that people like Phoenixpurple and the other people that you’ve talked about on here would be doing things like this. And just like you said, it’s sucking the fun out of it for normal people who just want to have a little fun. Honestly, don’t people have anything better to do? Plus the fact that this really stinks for us Ravenclaws, because when these Ravenclaws who are cheating get punished for it, Ravenclaw loses thousands of points, more probably.
As a Ravenclaw myself, I agree. Add to the fact that many people won’t duel us now, but I wonder if the Claws have the most “bots”, or… Oh well. We probably won’t win the House Cup anyway because of our limited population, however the problem with PhoenixPurple is just making it worse. We have two choices: report the duelers and lose house points, or don’t report them and cheat. But I’ll do the right thing and keep my eyes open for any Gryffindors/Hufflepuffs/even Slytherins that get over 145 on full body bind.