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yesterday i tried to beat the land ho challenge like a million times without success, after i got bored of getting ass kicked, i tried the avatar challenge in set 1;when i started the duel and i got the message "you have unlocked Gemstone mine" and got kicked of the game.
I tried to replicate the bug after that, and i been success, problem is that any challenge u fail in set 2, after failing u go to set 1 and choose the avatar one, you end up unlocking the cards.

the only card set i noticed that was in set 2, i tried 3 and 4 but the bug dont happen there.

For more info on the Challenge mode read the wiki here :
http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Challenge_Mode

If you need some help on beating challenge there are several threads in this section, a good start is peeking here :
viewtopic.php?f=57&t=3790

do u even read what i posted? im saying that its a bug that let u get the cards without winning the challenges...
im not asking for help on the challenges, i guess the fun of the challenges are figure them out not get a deck someone else built.

so to resume the bug report is like this

u choose a set 2 challenge, autolose it, choose avatar vanguard challenge from set 1 autolose it too, u get the card from the previosly selected set 2

Great!
Finally I can use Gemstone Mine in Draft!!
But sorry for the quality of the Challenges. I'll be still trying them. My motivation has not been diminiched by the unlocking.
I tried, if it's perhaps the second avatar (1st group) that unlocks the second set of challenges and the third (1st group) that unlocks the third set of challenges. But that's not the case.

i was happy about the gemstone mine too, been trying to unlock it for a while u_u
and also im still try the challenges they are the funnier thing in the game. =D

It is not recommended to play more than one Challenge per game session, as instability or bug may occur. It's good for you that you had a card unlocked that way but you will mostly crash for most of them.
When you win or loses a Challenge it is recommended to exit and restart Manalink.

good to know! thank u, i noticed that i had lots of crashes when playing challenges, also sometimes they mix up

even worse for me :
sometimes I go through crashes and unlucky hands until the 10th round, but my game crashes when it says "you have unlocked the card".

Please Jatill, do something for those that can't even unlock one card.
Problems with challenges are not due to difficulty but crashes and game slowness.

I´m not sure if Challenge mode requires the Game Engine Card.
Try to disable Game Engine in your config.txt , that fixed the performance issues for me.Might work for you.
Just make sure you don´t use cards that require the Game Engine Card (like Flashback cards etc.).

Browse to c:\magic\config.txt (or wherever it is) and change
GameEngine:1
to
GameEngine:0

It's required.

It doesn't really work, I unlock street wraith thru this method and even tho I get the message that street wraith was unlocked, it's still locked when I want to play it.

Either it doesn't work, or my game is compeltely fucked up on the challenges and I demand a satisfaction since I spent months unlocking these cards and they get locked again with every update

Check your PMs
Sorry i didn´t know it was required (like i´ve said above).So ignore this.

I had a different challenge bug, but I'm just going to piggyback on this thread. I completed Challenge 1-6 (Banned!) but after round 10, instead of popping up that I have unlocked a card, it gives the failure message from the first round of the 5:1 challenge.

I saw that someone else had the same problem, and he was told that he had a corrupt Magic folder, and he should do a clean reinstall. So I did just that, and just encountered the same error. Other challenges unlock cards as normal for me. Any suggestions?

By the way, now that I've registered to be able to post, THANK YOU to the whole Manalink 2.0 crew for breathing new life into my favorite game.

Edit: Um, well, so. It turns out that all I had to do was play one full turn in the 11th round to get the unlock. Although I swear I played through that 11th round the first time I had this problem. FYI.

Wronskian wrote:Please Jatill, do something for those that can't even unlock one card.
Problems with challenges are not due to difficulty but crashes and game slowness.

It's both imo, but whatever, I'm not going to beg him because it's obvious to me he finds them easy and no doubt looks down his nose at those of us who can't win.

frankzappa wrote:

Wronskian wrote:Please Jatill, do something for those that can't even unlock one card.
Problems with challenges are not due to difficulty but crashes and game slowness.

It's both imo, but whatever, I'm not going to beg him because it's obvious to me he finds them easy and no doubt looks down his nose at those of us who can't win.

Dude, if you hate this game THAT much, why do you hang around to keep talking shit about the developers? Go download MWS and stfu! All your whining is getting really old.