Planetfall PBEM Tech Thread

[Sareln]

So it looks like 8:00am is available for everyone else. I can be around then, if that's when we want to hold the Blitz.

That's 8:00 AM Sat, UK time?

[Mist]

Yes.

[Sareln]

Hey Maniac, I've got a bug for you wrt: stockpile energy mechanics.

I think all of us can agree to not use it here.

It's a variation on the build-culture-double-count bug, where you can add "Stockpile Energy" to the queue of all the bases that qualify for it behind some other project. Then you remove the other project for the base and the stockpile check isn't done again. This means you get to run stockpile energy with it's 1:2 ratio in *every* base with production < 1/2 your maintenance costs.

Additionally, I have the nagging suspicion that every base that gets automatically switched off of Stockpile Energy after the turn is processed also double-counts its production.

I'll post a link to my test game in my own thread.

[Bobchillingworth]

Hey Nic, you've still got the turn.

[Bobchillingworth]

Just a reminder that we have a blitz in 12 hours

[Selrahc]

Hope my internet is behaving better then. It's been taking me literally minutes to load pages today.

I'll be around regardless.

[Sareln]

Just a reminder that we have a blitz in 12 hours

Confirming receipt of reminder.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Charles Selrahc Shut Up and Play: Gaiden

Come on and slam, welcome to the jam!

[Bobchillingworth]

Hey guys, a visually spectacular storm has broken out where I live, and I've lost power three times already, including once while typing this message. If I'm not online for 20 min going into the blitz, figure I may have lost power for the night.

[Sareln]

Hey Maniac, another bug for you; I actually know the solution to this one. It appears that when you build the Unity Library in PBEM, you don't get your free tech & a message telling you you already grabbed your free tech. I ran into a similar problem in EitB, it came in with some code from the unofficial patch that set a flag when someone got granted a free tech and then cleared it when it granted the tech. The problem is, this flag isn't saved to the save-game, so in PBEM you never get a chance to pick before you get the default flag which says you get no Tech. Should be a 2 line fix.