Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:54 pm
how about a 100 credit research for adv sup, in case of being captured, its available? anyway, that pretty much ruined my strategy from there on, although what an epically funny way to lose
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Issue with bios capping bases
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:17 pm
We need more bugs or atleast random exploding objects just for the lols
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:29 pm
This has always been around and it's not a Bios problem. If you go any faction, get adv Sup and Adv exp, lose the adv sup and cap a basic sup, you won't be able to upgrade the basic sup. Bios is the only faction that has this bug happen regularly because it's the only faction that always have triple Adv tech.
There might be a workaround by messing with the core, but it sounds like a code problem to me.
When you get a new devel, there seem to be a check on everything to see if an upgrade is available. All the bases and constructions options gets updated at the same time when the upgrade devel is completed, but there seem to be no check when a base is capped.
A $100 upgrade option for bios wouldn't be that great. It would not fix the problems for other factions and even for bios, it would only work once.
Example: Your enemy went Adv tac with a basic sup(for AB2). You cap the sup. You pay the $100. You get an adv sup. They SB their old sup and buy a new one(Which won't be Adv). You cap their new sup and you're stuck with a basic sup that cannot be upgraded again(cause you can't buy the Upgrade sup devel twice).
The best way to fix this would be a code change that makes a newly capped base check for an available upgrade. Since the game usually manages to upgrade bases that should be upgraded by itself after a while, I guess there's a check every x minutes or so. So anther option would be speeding it up (I guess waiting 2 mins instead of 10 wouldn't be too bad).
There might be a workaround by messing with the core, but it sounds like a code problem to me.
When you get a new devel, there seem to be a check on everything to see if an upgrade is available. All the bases and constructions options gets updated at the same time when the upgrade devel is completed, but there seem to be no check when a base is capped.
A $100 upgrade option for bios wouldn't be that great. It would not fix the problems for other factions and even for bios, it would only work once.
Example: Your enemy went Adv tac with a basic sup(for AB2). You cap the sup. You pay the $100. You get an adv sup. They SB their old sup and buy a new one(Which won't be Adv). You cap their new sup and you're stuck with a basic sup that cannot be upgraded again(cause you can't buy the Upgrade sup devel twice).
The best way to fix this would be a code change that makes a newly capped base check for an available upgrade. Since the game usually manages to upgrade bases that should be upgraded by itself after a while, I guess there's a check every x minutes or so. So anther option would be speeding it up (I guess waiting 2 mins instead of 10 wouldn't be too bad).
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:14 pm
some admin want to move this over to the dev forums for them to chew on?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:17 pm
IMO, no codechange needed.Psychosis wrote:QUOTE (Psychosis @ Dec 15 2008, 11:14 PM) some admin want to move this over to the dev forums for them to chew on?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:11 pm
Um...I have a solution (If any1 cares)
How about not having pre-Adv sup for Bios instead make it like $1...ooo but sum of u go...
"Bios has 10 mins research and I don't want to wait 10 mins for Adv sup"
Well ig u think about it u can pay for Adv sup asap and beside it will take u 10 min to Enh tech anyway; so u can pay for ADV sup and by the time AdV Sup is up u wud have just about finished ENh tech....Sorry if this make no sense I lack writin communicaion skills
How about not having pre-Adv sup for Bios instead make it like $1...ooo but sum of u go...
"Bios has 10 mins research and I don't want to wait 10 mins for Adv sup"
Well ig u think about it u can pay for Adv sup asap and beside it will take u 10 min to Enh tech anyway; so u can pay for ADV sup and by the time AdV Sup is up u wud have just about finished ENh tech....Sorry if this make no sense I lack writin communicaion skills
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:51 am
...or the ability to read.
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:39 am
xD
It is a code issue from what vly stated. It prob isn't that big a deal since it's (more than likely) a function that does the check as vly implied.
I think this should be brought to the devs attention, even if it's on the low priority to-do.
It is a code issue from what vly stated. It prob isn't that big a deal since it's (more than likely) a function that does the check as vly implied.
I think this should be brought to the devs attention, even if it's on the low priority to-do.