Wiggle Lock on puzzle 625

Started by Susume

Susume Lv 1

I have 23 mutable segments on puzzle 625, and the 12th one cannot be moved by bands during wiggle. Even strength 10 bands will not budge it in any direction. This is especially frustrating since there is no move tool on this puzzle. Closing and reopening the client did not help. When I delete residue 91 (the locked one), then residue 90 is locked instead.

Possibly related is the fact that wiggle is extremely slow on this puzzle.

devprev, Win 7

tokens Lv 1

Also wiggle seems to get easily stuck on this puzzle. Even wiggling at CI 0.00 often does nothing. You have to pull the protein to reduce the score about 200 points before wiggle will start working.

brow42 Lv 1

I also notice this. My puzzle currently has 3 added residues…83 is wiggle locked. If I delete 83, then 82 becomes wiggle locked. Tested by applying bands to locked segments and noting that wiggle score change is identical to no bands. On previous puzzles, this has made it very difficult to move entire loops. The alternative was pull tool with rubber bands guiding the pull, very coarse. We can use scissors, but there is no move tool.

If I now use the scissors tool on 82, then 84 is wiggle locked. If I then cut 84, then 83 is wiggle locked.

infjamc Lv 1

Even bands of strength 10 are not effective for this puzzle… I would be tempted to re-rate this as Priority 1 if it weren't game-breaking in the "program can't run at all" sense.

infjamc Lv 1

Oops, there's a typo– obviously, I meant to say "if it WERE game-breaking in the 'program can't run at all' sense" (it's not).

On a side note, there is a partial workaround: banding to empty space.

Susume Lv 1

Banding the locked segment to empty space does not move it either. It can be pulled by hand, or rebuilt to a new position. I find the puzzle unplayable, though clearly some people are playing it.

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

Hopefully we can figure out what is going on before the long Labor Day weekend… but our apologies if we can't!

Seth Cooper Staff Lv 1

I've updated the puzzle, wiggle should be much more responsive now. You'll need to re-login to the game to get the update, and you may get an error the first time you try to start the puzzle, but it should load the next time.

Bletchley Park Lv 1

resolved-> open. I do not experience any improvement despite having restarted a new client and reloading the puzzle (and indeed getting an error the first time reloading). Even with cl - 0.08 wiggle does not move the thing.

Am I missing something ?