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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0004514 | AI War 1 / Classic | Crash/Exception | Oct 2, 2011 6:51 pm | Oct 4, 2011 8:39 pm | |
| Reporter | Fleet | Assigned To | keith.lamothe | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 5.017 | ||||
| Summary | 0004514: Unhandled Error | ||||
| Description | Playing. Suddenly game threw some unhandled errors. Got "Waiting for Players" but game kept running. Think it tried to divide by zero. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
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Whoops, I wasn't checking the second operand in the division in the new feedback-attrition mechanic. Fixed for 5.019 :) |
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Is it safe to keep playing with attritioners with the bug, until the fix is released? Thanks for prompt action. |
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It's... sort of safe. Basically they're fine until you get down to nearly zero attritionable targets. If the last attritionable targets die then it's probably going to run into the bug: it has feedback damage to distribute, and counts up the eligible targets (result = 0) and then tries to divide the damage by the count of targets. I'd say it's safe to play without the attritioners, but probably not with them. In theory as long as you got the attritioners off-planet before the last eligible targets died you'd be fine (the accumulated feedback damage is all "spent" that same frame, not carried across frames), but that could be tricky to pull off. |
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Oh dear, and I am already using attritioners on my chokepoint planets. Guess I'll have to move them away until this patch is released. :( |
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Just a question, if I somehow do trigger this bug by keeping my attritioners on the front line, what is the danger? Do I risk the game crashing, or worse, corrupting my game state? |
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The exception will cause that simulation frame to terminate at that point, meaning that no other planets will be processed that frame. It will continue to happen each frame until there is a valid target on the planet to soak up the feedback damage. That will probably cause some fairly odd bugs if allowed to persist. The exceptions and logging will also slow the game to a crawl. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Oct 2, 2011 6:51 pm | Fleet | New Issue | |
| Oct 2, 2011 6:51 pm | Fleet | File Added: UnhandledErrors.txt | |
| Oct 2, 2011 6:52 pm | Fleet | File Added: Tom Ed Coop.sav | |
| Oct 2, 2011 7:37 pm | keith.lamothe | Internal Weight | => New |
| Oct 2, 2011 7:37 pm | keith.lamothe | Note Added: 0015353 | |
| Oct 2, 2011 7:37 pm | keith.lamothe | Status | new => resolved |
| Oct 2, 2011 7:37 pm | keith.lamothe | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Oct 2, 2011 7:37 pm | keith.lamothe | Assigned To | => keith.lamothe |
| Oct 2, 2011 7:40 pm | Fleet | Note Added: 0015355 | |
| Oct 2, 2011 7:44 pm | keith.lamothe | Note Added: 0015356 | |
| Oct 2, 2011 10:51 pm | TechSY730 | Note Added: 0015373 | |
| Oct 4, 2011 8:29 pm | TechSY730 | Note Added: 0015682 | |
| Oct 4, 2011 8:39 pm | keith.lamothe | Note Added: 0015683 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Bug - Crash or Exception => Crash/Exception |
