Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2579] SB etemp issue: case closed...?

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:12PM -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:06:37PM -0400, Dave Ahn wrote:
> > 
> > clue games will t/p more than in pickup), it's possible that some people
> > are mistaking the docked ship cool rate penalty for an actual bug with
> > the server in INL mode.
> 
> BZZZZT, thank you for playing.

Well, some old time veterans didn't know about docked ships reducing the
cool rate (I won't mention names :).

> When the starbase etemp bug hits, you gain etemp, at warp 2, with 
> NO SHIPS DOCKED.

I've personally never encountered this bug in the hundreds of SB hours logged.
Very strange.

> The problem is likely an improper decrement of docked ships, maybe
> when they're killed, or tractored off, or something.

As James pointed out, it has to be something more obscure.  We scrutinized
the code to no avail last night.

> I'll see what I can do.  It seems to happen to me more than to the regular
> base players, so it may have something to do with a particular sequence

Let's try to get this on a recording.  If we know the circumstances around
the bug, we might be able to reproduce it.


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