Cause of scale-loss bug found! - Page 4

Hadrian_II · #31 November 28th, 2007, 06:23 PM

I played the game on my pc, and the scalbug happend 4 out of 5 times, so its quite reliable, i attached the output from:

./dom3_x86 -dddd > scalebug.txt

i hope you can use the file

thejeff · #32 November 28th, 2007, 06:27 PM

And there is an "unrar" available for linux if that's the issue.

IndyPendant · #33 November 28th, 2007, 06:33 PM

...And I just finished figuring out how to do it, too. Heh. Never done it before.

Hopefully my last upload. I've used WinRAR to convert the files to .zip format; please let me know if they don't work for you, K.O.

Aezeal · #34 November 28th, 2007, 06:54 PM

in Winrar you can just select to save as zip (well in my version atleast, maybe it even came with vista?) though zip produces a bit larger files..

It is strange though that the inferior program is used here while winrar is just as easily available..
strange pplz here

Nikolai · #35 November 28th, 2007, 07:24 PM

WinRAR may be better than WinZip, but I have been using PKZIP.EXE since 80s... and picked WinZip from first batch of graphical user interface heirs. I'm sure that many are like me :-)

And I prefer WinZip's interface to WinRar's interface.

But no, we are not strange. We are old :-) (I'm over 60, and too damn old to learn good English, or change my programs with no good reason)

Lord_Bob · #36 November 28th, 2007, 08:56 PM

R'yleh with cold executes a non-standard Income temperature scale function.

Patala, Lanka, Abysia?, and some others will also call a "temperature adjustment" function that is non-standard.

Has anyone experienced the scale bug on a race with normal temperature scales?

Sir_Dr_D · #37 November 28th, 2007, 09:10 PM

I have ran into the bug with machaka.

More severly In a game I am in now, I ran into the bug as eary age r'lyey, and the scales have not come back to what they should be, and it is past turn 60. I was supposed to have order 3, but had to play the entire game with order 0, misfortune 2. (And I did have cold 3 for the record.)

Lord_Bob · #38 November 28th, 2007, 09:40 PM

Machaka prefers Heat Scale +2

Lord_Bob · #39 November 28th, 2007, 09:52 PM

Since it must occur on the first turn, and the first turn is early spring, I suspect that Cold-3 would more likely flip the switch. But Heat-3 might do it as well.

It may be an overrun to Cold-4/Heat-4 that does it, maybe for races with a Non-Standard Income for temperatures. This triggers a not so heavily tested function.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #40 November 29th, 2007, 03:30 AM

I use 7-zip, or TugZip.

Free is good!

I've never had a scale bug with Agartha or late-era Atlantis.
The first doesn't have a special interaction with heat, the latter does...

I wonder if I can produce the scales bug on my machine. I've never had it, but my sp 'try-out-a-new-nation' games often involve scales of zero all around and a random pretender.

I'll have to try a race like R'lyeh.