Return bug

[TheRat]

I would really like you to look into the return bug, causing fleets to randomly return 1 tick before they should. Its very fun spending an evening planning a fleetcatch when a TT3 guy suddenly gets ETA8 return time.

-TheRat

[A2]

Are you sure he didn't just launch a fake attack, and therefore set off home 1 tick before you'd been planning for?

[TheRat]

Considering the amout of roids he stole from a few friends - Im quite sure.

[Jackal2112]

He had 2 fleets going for 2 different targets, both ETA 9 (as he had space travel 3 research and his fleets consisted of FI only). Amazingly he seemed to 'steal' a tick of travel as he landed and TATA surprisingly he managed to miss our fleet catch. More amazing is that every single launch I have done this round has had exactly the same eta to and back from the planets I have sent to, so this occurence seems 'random'.

Thanks Spinner, for creating a bug which defeats part of the game's tactics and fun.

[A2]

It is a bug that has been there for a couple of rounds, and generally seems to affect at most 3 battles all round for some reason that's not very obvious as none of the battles have anything in common. When I last asked the solution would involve a complete recode of the ticker which there wasn't time for between the last round and this one.

I'll bring it up again for you.

[TheRat]

What would be great was if you could (sine it is a bug and shouldnt happen) change the ETA of the fleets so everything goes ahead as if the bug wasnt there

[Kileman]

It happens a lot to me - I think it is to do with the combat/fleet movement tick being before the attacking planet tick.... this works nearly every attack for me because I signed up late and thus tick at about 3 minutes past.
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