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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0021091AI War 2GUIApr 22, 2019 9:14 pm
ReporterRocketAssistedPuffin Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product VersionBETA 0.852 Directness Is Better 
Fixed in VersionBETA 0.853 An Officer And A Bunch Of Fleets 
Summary0021091: Misleading Mismatch in wave notifications
DescriptionSituation:

 A wave is announced, and it says it is of Strength 1, with 72 Sentinel Gunboats.

Logging shows the AI has spent 1440 Budget on this, which is correct (72 x 20 (the cost of a Gunboat) = 1440).

When the wave arrives, the Strength shown is now 2, specifically 2,448 internally.

The result is the game is lying to you about how powerful incoming waves are, by displaying notifications using the total budget of the wave, instead of the total Strength. This also makes it seem as if it is cheating and sending far more than it should.

Proposal: Notifications use the total Strength when displayed. This was not a problem before, because Strength was also what the AI paid for the unit.

Addition Edit: Repeated experiment with same result.
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BadgerBadger

Apr 21, 2019 8:56 pm

manager   ~0051254

This is because of the changeover to no longer use Strength for AI Budgets

Chris_McElligottPark

Apr 22, 2019 11:27 am

administrator   ~0051271

Thanks!

* The strength of waves that are incoming should now be correctly stated, whereas before it was not since we switched the AI costs and strengths to be two different things.
** Some internal variables have also been renamed to be more clear.
** This has not been tested, so it might still be wrong.

RocketAssistedPuffin

Apr 22, 2019 11:39 am

reporter   ~0051273

Quick test - it is giving very odd numbers, which are not correct.
Notification.jpg (402,927 bytes)

Chris_McElligottPark

Apr 22, 2019 1:00 pm

administrator   ~0051286

Savegame? Then I could test out that a bit better.

RocketAssistedPuffin

Apr 22, 2019 2:28 pm

reporter   ~0051295

Should be one in this.

Chris_McElligottPark

Apr 22, 2019 9:14 pm

administrator   ~0051323

Thanks!

* Fixed a bug where the incoming wave notifications had strength values that were laughably tiny and wrong. It was only tallying the strength of the first ship of each type, which meant that if there were 1000 ships in a wave, it was 1/1000th the value it should have been.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Apr 21, 2019 6:31 pm RocketAssistedPuffin New Issue
Apr 21, 2019 6:38 pm RocketAssistedPuffin Description Updated
Apr 21, 2019 8:56 pm BadgerBadger Note Added: 0051254
Apr 22, 2019 11:27 am Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Apr 22, 2019 11:27 am Chris_McElligottPark Status new => resolved
Apr 22, 2019 11:27 am Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => fixed
Apr 22, 2019 11:27 am Chris_McElligottPark Fixed in Version => BETA 0.853 An Officer And A Bunch Of Fleets
Apr 22, 2019 11:27 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0051271
Apr 22, 2019 11:39 am RocketAssistedPuffin File Added: Notification.jpg
Apr 22, 2019 11:39 am RocketAssistedPuffin Note Added: 0051273
Apr 22, 2019 1:00 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0051286
Apr 22, 2019 1:00 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status resolved => acknowledged
Apr 22, 2019 2:28 pm RocketAssistedPuffin File Added: NotificationWrongValue.save
Apr 22, 2019 2:28 pm RocketAssistedPuffin Note Added: 0051295
Apr 22, 2019 9:14 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status acknowledged => resolved
Apr 22, 2019 9:14 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0051323