zone bug, crashes zone

[cxc]

found a bug.

 

If you die 5 times w/o shooting the systems auto specs you.

 

If you have a turret when this happens, zone crashes.

 

I was able to repeat the crash 2x with lancaster and ripper turret. I then tried with wb and no turret, it speced me w/o crashing.

[Dr Brain]

Interesting. Removing the auto spec may be simpler than finding and fixing the bug.

[spidernl]

Odd. Does auto spec not send a shipfreqchange callback or something?

[cxc]

If the number of deaths before spec is a variable could set it very high. After you die you arrive in safe so the auto specing has no value. In svs it removed afk people from the game.

 

not sure if any other forced specs, like speced for not flagging will crash it.

[spidernl]

I think it's actually just a matter of a small check or lock somewhere, judging from the backtrace.

 

Probably won't be hard to fix.

[Jareth]

Has this been fixed yet? Zone crashed 2-3 times in one flag game earlier. Not sure if somebody was causing it or if it was just bad luck.

[spidernl]

Fixed. Also, Ripper Turret's awkward firing habits have been fixed. Odds are some other fairly quickly-firing turrets will fire a little more constantly.

 

Edit: Reference for those who care: https://bitbucket.org/drbrain/hyperspace_modules/changeset/6e3813ea6b0725ff8ecb5248b918204e7a5f9a4f

Edited October 17, 2012 by spidernl