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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2579] SB etemp issue: case closed...?
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:12PM -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:06:37PM -0400, Dave Ahn wrote:
> >
> > clue games will t/p more than in pickup), it's possible that some people
> > are mistaking the docked ship cool rate penalty for an actual bug with
> > the server in INL mode.
>
> BZZZZT, thank you for playing.
Well, some old time veterans didn't know about docked ships reducing the
cool rate (I won't mention names :).
> When the starbase etemp bug hits, you gain etemp, at warp 2, with
> NO SHIPS DOCKED.
I've personally never encountered this bug in the hundreds of SB hours logged.
Very strange.
> The problem is likely an improper decrement of docked ships, maybe
> when they're killed, or tractored off, or something.
As James pointed out, it has to be something more obscure. We scrutinized
the code to no avail last night.
> I'll see what I can do. It seems to happen to me more than to the regular
> base players, so it may have something to do with a particular sequence
Let's try to get this on a recording. If we know the circumstances around
the bug, we might be able to reproduce it.
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