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July 17th, 2003, 07:53 PM
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Upgrade bug in AIC??
...or is it everywhere?
The thread "Proportions Question" and its discussion about upgrading fac's got me thinking about a bug I seem to have in my current AIC (that's about the only way I play Proportions).
The bug seems to be in the upgrade procedure itself. I can fill a construction queue with, let's say, Towns. Let's also say I have 5 Towns in said queue. Complete the construction of just 1 town and then add an Upgrade to Cities item to the bottom of the queue. Let the queue finish building the other 4 Towns so there are 5 towns total. Don't touch the Upgrade item and it will complete and upgrade ALL 5 Towns at the cost and time it takes to upgrade 1 Town to Cities.
Did anyone catch that? I'm sure someone has seen it before, haven't they? I'm not on my home computer right now but I believe I'm running Gold 1.84 and the lates ver of AIC....
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July 17th, 2003, 08:17 PM
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Re: Upgrade bug in AIC??
Would it not take less time to upgrade than to build?
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July 17th, 2003, 08:28 PM
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Re: Upgrade bug in AIC??
You're correct - it would take less time to upgrade than build. That's not the problem. The problem is that I can upgrade 5 facilities for the time and cost of upgrading 1 by just putting the upgrade in the queue as soon as possible! Doesn't matter if I'm going to Cities, Megalopolis, etc.....
Does that now make sense?
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July 17th, 2003, 08:29 PM
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Re: Upgrade bug in AIC??
That's not the point. He's saying it would usually cost 2.5 times the cost of building the better facility to upgrade 5 facilities.
However he says that since there was only one completed lesser facility on the planet when the upgrade was requested, that the upgrade was carried out for the price of 0.5 the cost of building a better facility, but ended up upgrading all 5.
5 upgrades for the price of 1.
I checked for this, and thought the upgrade was labelled as upgrading one facility, and believed it. I hadn't confirmed that the actual right cost or effect was used in the situation described.
If true, it's a rather evil bug, especially for games with serious upgrades like Proportions has.
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July 17th, 2003, 08:31 PM
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Re: Upgrade bug in AIC??
PvK has it correct. I can reproduce this every time....
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July 17th, 2003, 09:19 PM
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Re: Upgrade bug in AIC??
Send in a bug report with a savegame (preferably in unmodded SE4) to MM.
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