Problem with ships

[Raes]

I've been frustrated by this many-a-time

Okay, so I buy retro-rockets on my warbird, and then it says the usual

Thruster upgraded MAX

speed downgraded 72%

 

so then I'm flying along all happy and free and someone kills me. (not the problem)

 

so then I come out of the safe again and notice I'm a bit slower at accelerating, so I type ?status

 

and it says:

Recharge: 84% Thruster: 77% Speed: 62% Rotation 94%

so I'm thinking: "what the heck? I just payed a bajillion dollars to have my thrusters maxed, now they're lower then when I got the retro-rocket."

so I sell the retro's, but something else, and buy back the retro's and type ?status

 

and it's back to:

Recharge: 84% Thruster 100% Speed: 72% Rotation: 94%

So I think it'll stay that way, and zoom out of the safe ready to sink my pulse bullets into the nearest thing that moves.

 

later on I die, and type ?status to see if it's still the same and this shocks me

Recharge: 84% Thruster: 77% Speed 62% Rotation 94%

 

uhhhh... what's going on?

[Dr Brain]

This is a "bug" with the way continuum 0.40 handles ?status items after a settings packet. It was slightly different in 0.39, and the difference is causing this bug.

 

I know about it, but I haven't had time to implement a fix (as it's kind of a pain to redo).

 

EDIT: You'll have the real effects of retro after you've died. Directly after you buy it you've got what I like to call the "demo version" of retro.

Edited October 2, 2007 by Dr Brain

[zephoid]

also, when u sell an item, it often will not deprize you right and u keep the stats of the old engine+new for 1 life.also works with reactors cuz i had maxed nrg on a wzl when i sold quantum and bought esper

[BlueWyvern]

Zeph, you are mistaken on that, you can't stack this bug. The glitch is only a 1 time thing and when you sell items you lose your upgrades. Edited October 2, 2007 by Dr Brain

[cdrom]

the glitch is that whatever u buy for engine/reactor it doubles all + and all - as well(so u can lose 2x speed)