This is the new Forces of Darkness strategy, in order for them to not lose so horribly, they have decided to not play the game at all.

Scrubs.

Hang on, what's the deal with favour items? How are you LOSING items? I thought you just earned favour points which you then used to be able to buy favour items ONE per round in each game? Can you actually get items and keep them through it or what? i don't get it..

*edit - dont get it as until present have barely ever been able to actually get into a pantheon game with humans.

My points get erased no matter what I do . They won't even go up anymore, i win and get 150 favor and still have 20 after. So depressing, I was falling in love with the mana leech assassin favor hehe. I'll try playing only customs and see how that goes I guess.

Deepjay, once you buy a favor item you are supposed to have it forever, and can use it again for free. At the beginning of the matach you can pick one favor item that you've unlocked, or pay to unlock a new one.

I played a single player tourney on easy, got the favor item I wanted, then went straight to pantheon, just pantheon mind you, and I've kept my item thus far. I don't know if there are different things you could do to keep your favor items, but this one worked.

awww *sob sob sob* it will be fixed in time, just be patient...

This just happened to me too.  Played single player for a bit then decided to try Pantheon, got into the game and the favor items where gone, figured that would be seperate anyway... bought the 2nd favor item with what points where avaiable, won the game and got 190 favor points.  The acheivements listed something like 245... before it was around 2000 from single player.

Went to play another pantheon game and got crushed, got 50 points and now that's all that shows up.  Went to go play single player and had nothing but 50 points.  (no favor items)

I had a number of items and playtime into the single player... reallys sucks to have it all disappear.  I hope this is fixed soon, don't mind playing to get it all back as long as it all doesn't dissappear again

My achievements and favor have gotten broken after pretty much every game update no matter which game type I play. This time it got stuck at -1375 (cost of the last favour item I bought, and the only one I have left) when I started playing a custom game.

This time it's stuck at -1375 and achievements keep resetting every game. After a game is finished I check game.prefs and the negative points value has gone down, but the next game I play it goes back to -1375 at the start. That part's new for me.

Also, editing the game.prefs won't "stick" anymore, I can get it to work for one single player game then it reverts back to -1375.

Yeah, I thought it might be another AoK rant too, I came in here to groan at the new lows of humanity then saw an actual issue.

Been playing around some more with it trying to unstick. Oddly if I play a couple of custom games the negative favor in game.prefs will keep getting smaller by the amount of favor I earn, but the displayed in game favor doesn't go up.

In single player I can earn favor and the displayed number will go down, and I can play with game.prefs to get favor back, achievements and delete/add unlocked items but as soon as I play custom it reverts back to -1375 with no achievements and the one item I unlocked last, and will be like that for single player matches again.

I've tried deleting LastGame.DGReplay (My Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Demigod\replays\[Profile Name]) since it seems to store details of your favor from the last game in there too but still doesn't un-stick my favor.

It's like there's a backup of my favor stored elsewhere now which will overwrite game.prefs and that's gotten broken to the point won't even update at the end of games anymore.

@ OP, Welcome to the club.  I'm just now starting to get out of my -700 favor slap down (Still only have 1 favor item, and lost the 5 that I purchased prior... ).

It seems like it's a bug that happens when you switch between skirmish or pantheon games to custom games, but I don't really have details (I do all 3).

O' and don't bother trying to dig yourself out of your negitive favor hole, I did it once (with a -500 favor ding) and got out, repurchased 2-3 items only to have them all removed but the one I had chosen to use that game.

@SD, I believe it's at the end of a game.  You get in, have all your favor item options.  I was saving for more, so I picked an item I already owned.

When I start a new game, I'm at negitive favor, and only item that is availiable is the item I last used.

What if each one is different? So like say single player, then multiplayer skrimish, Pantheon, and custom games?

yeah, stupid crybabies, expecting things to work and all...

same thing happened to me. played the SP tournament through with 7 of the demigods, amassed a ton of favor and items, decided to try pantheon, played one game, bought one item in the game, and after the game had -950 favor and no items.

didnt bother to try to re-earn the favor, i just edited myself 10k favor points and re-bought everything. but i for damn sure wont attempt multiplay again, and the SP game (if you can call it that) is played out so... i guess im done with DG until we get some new stuff.

Would have been nice to have seen the warning in the OP put in-game by the devs about a week ago...so that those of us who are already victimized by these bugs could have opted to avoid them before it's too late. 

The OP says "you have been warned", but that only applies to people who didn't get fubared by these bugs already.