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Mineral upload / download (Re: Known Bugs (JRC3)) Thu, 05 August 2004 18:22 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Micha

 

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Registered: November 2002
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Mineral Upload:
Stars! allows you to upload minerals to any fleet in orbit that does not belong to you. You can even do this if that fleet does not have a cargo hold. This causes the minerals to "disappear".
People have abused this bug to deny the salvage of a battle from their enemy by uploading the minerals from the surface to the enemies warfleet/bombers.


I've been testing mineral upload/download ...

The idea is to find out what happens when uploading more minerals than the cargo space of the transports can hold. And what happens when you try to download/remove the minerals that you just uploaded (before turn generation).

Setting:
2 races. Race A uploads 300kT from the surface of a planet he controls to the transports in orbit belonging to race B. Those transports are 2 separate fleets of each one priv with a cargo hold of 250kT.

[- 01 -]
300kT upload by race A
=> next turn 50kT disappeared, they don't fall back to the surface

[- 02 -]
300kT upload by race A
save+submit
*close turn*
*open turn*

50kT download by race A
=> next turn 50 kT is back on the surface, 200kT in ship, 50kT disappeared

[- 03 -]
300kT upload
*not closing and opening turn*
50kT download
=> next turn 50 kT is back on the surface, 250kT in ship, no loss

[- 04 -]
300kT upload to fleet#1
race B merges fleet#2 with fleet#1 but target stays fleet#1
=> 300kT in fleet, no loss

[- 05 -]
300kT upload to fleet#1
other race merges fleet#1 with fleet#2 and target becomes fleet#2
=> all minerals back on the surface, 0kT in fleet, no loss




What happens when splitting fleets?

Setting:
Race A uploads 300kT to fleet#1 consisting of 2 privs with each 250kT cargo space (500kT total).

[- 06 -]
race B splits fleet#1 into fleet#1 and fleet#2
=> next turn fleet#1 has 250kT in cargo, fleet#2 is empty, 300kT missing on the surface, 50kT disappeared

[- 07 -]
race B splits fleet#1 into fleet#2 and fleet#3
=> next turn both fleets are empty, 300kT missing the surface, 300kT disappeared

mch


[Updated on: Thu, 05 August 2004 18:22]

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