Prelaunching Bug - game mechanics abuse
1. I'm making this post in behalf of P_D_Templar, as he is no forum person himself.
Appearantly it is possible to prelaunch your fleet before an eta research is done. If your eta-research then finnishes before the actual launch your fleet will still be launched with the original eta.
This leads to stuff like this:
Hostile
201 We have detected an open jumpgate from SMS?, located at x:x:x. The fleet will approach our system in tick 212 and appears to have 2000 visible ships.
Hostile
201 We have detected an open jumpgate from MMS?, located at x:x:x. The fleet will approach our system in tick 211 and appears to have 2100 visible ships.
2 fleets being launched in the same tick with different etas. Now i gather how you can launch a FR fleet at CR eta, but afaik CR/BS are the slowest ships in the game, and hence at the moment of the launch (tick 201) the fleet landing at tick 211 can not hold CR/BS (as it is faster then the fleet landing at tick 212)
The fleet landing 212 tough was launched in prelaunch before eta -research was done, the other one was launched after the eta-research was done.
This resulted in the following BR tick 211
Gnat 0 0 0 0 750 0 0 0
Beetle 0 0 0 0 44000 0 0 0
Viper 0 0 0 0 63049 0 0 0
Widow 0 0 0 0 8060 8060 0 0
Mosquito 0 0 0 0 5000 0 0 0
Wraith 14997 0 2301 0 0 0 0 0
Dreadnaught 25500 0 4188 0 0 0 0 0
Illusion 1300 720 1300 0 0 0 0 0
Mirage 1100 1100 1100 0 0 0 0 0
Haunt 3700 0 608 0 0 0 0 0
Buccaneer 0 0 0 0 54 54 0 0
Assassin 0 0 0 0 9405 9405 0 0
Caravel 0 0 0 0 1000 934 0 0
Totals 46597 1820 9497 0 131318 18453 0 0
Values 279462 5205 50004 0 359247 122761 0 0
(Yes, i know this is not 1 fleet attacking, the 2nd planet launching showed a similar pattern)
Now this to me seems like an obvious bug. Not so for PA supportteam appearantly:
<SpacedMonkey> seriously it's done on purpose to stop people having to work out launches. It just means you can pull this trick
Now, imo prelaunching doesn't have as intent to be able to pull this trick, it was brought into the game to be able to prelaunch.
The manual also does note this as a 'feature' in the manual
I think rather then comming up with 'tricks you can pull off' pa-team should put action into work to solve this issue. Giving popup notices when a research will be finnished before you launch, ...
I remember something like this happened in paX (you could click back in your browser and get your fleet home instantly), the people using it then I think were called bug-abusers
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