Bug: Possibly artillery bug?

[DRG]

Originally Posted by cyberdisc

This bug should affect also spww2.

p.s This bug is not a my "discover", but come from another member of NWI (see signature).

I'm not sure where to look for the signature of the player who discovered this but thank you for reporting it. In doing so you gave me one the rare times in the last few years where I actually discovered something really "new" about the game.

Yes, that's a bug and a nasty one too. It goes right back to SP2 and exists in a slightly altered form in SP3. The fact it's never been reported before and Andy and I hadn't caught it either is nothing sort of amazing. We both thought all the true original game bugs long fixed.

I can only imagine how many veteran PBEM players have been sitting on this little gem for years.

The problem is fundamental to the code and would require re-writes the save game code as well as big chunks of artillery code all because the original code used the same two variables for observer's fire-mission coordinates AND artillery FIRE coordinates.

Not fun and not going to happen

What will happen for both games in the next release is on map arty units will not be allowed to spot. This squashes a rather nasty bug and cheat without ripping the game code apart

Thanks Again

Don

[cyberdisc]

Originally Posted by DRG

I'm not sure where to look for the signature of the player who discovered this but thank you for reporting it. In doing so you gave me one the rare times in the last few years where I actually discovered something really "new" about the game...

Thanks Again
Don

In my signature you will find only the link to NWI. The nickname of the NWI member that discover the bug is Basileus Romaion.

bye
cd