Brothers and sisters I have shown you the liiiiigth!
Now deposit your donation in the box

Well,after all that orion has decided to attack me again with this unit.

Friday, October 17, 2003 - 17:43
Skirmish 38 Your army, Heavy Cavalry_9, was attacked by orionstinks : Scouts_6.
Army, Heavy Cavalry_9, has been destroyed.
Scouts_6(53,77) = Wounds : 2,626.6, Killed : 87, Exp : 1680
Heavy Cavalry_9(53,76) = Wounds : 4320, Killed : 24.

Req,can you do something about this retrospectively.You have my original attack history and his phantom defend history on me.
In fact i'd rather you waved a magic wand,totalled up all the damage i did to that scout stack b4 it first attacked,and work it all out in fairness...I seem to rememeber the last time i communicated with you i was getting stitched up by a battle bug and i had to 'chalk it up to experience'.
Well,it keeps happening and i'm starting to lose my grip on reality.
After a year playing your great game my anniversary is turning into a real ****ing letdown:
The troop pop bug in sk 38 has stopped me getting 2nd place.
It has stopped me finishing off orion and joint ending the game.
It has stopped me from attempting to finish the campaign at level 72(3rd highest ranked campaigner).Instead i will end up a measly level 71(5th),lol.

Finally,and most importantly,it makes a mockery of anyone playing a whole 109 turns out of 120 to have their entire gameplan ****ed.
It's depressing,having been on the receiving end of downtime and more than my fair share of bugs,in the past.

Anyway,the bottom line is orion has just abused this bug by attacking me 2 turns later with the same unit so he can gain a rank within the game.I have earlier saved Pm's from him stating he'd learnt about the bug and that he wasn't going to continue attacking with said unit.

Last Edited : Saturday, 18 October 2003 - 06:50

I don't really like posting someones PM's BUT as i'm whining 24:7...

Message From : orionstinks Sent : Friday, October 17, 2003 - 17:44
think of it this way i could use the bug to take you over but i aint going to cause i think it would be wrong

Message From : orionstinks Sent : Friday, October 17, 2003 - 17:46
Skirmish 38 i declare war on everyone in game you can hit me first but once you hit me you declared war on me so i can hit back if you dont hit me then i wont hit you thanks


"i didnt"
"THEN i get attacked again"


Message From : orionstinks Sent : Friday, October 17, 2003 - 19:19
lol i dont gain anything from it if you check its a bug in the scrypt the way it was wrote and you lose exp for you deaths thats why i aint using the bug and you would only get in that place cause you freaken on 24:7 so i dont want to hear about it so you deserved everything you get for freaken checking it every hour on the hour you need to get out and do soemthing beside play on computer


"As long as orions got the moral highground that's alright then"

split it into a 1015 and 1033 stack, both are still invincable, now we are looking at the 4 digits, gonna transfer one unit to 999 and see what that does, just waiting on the bp to build up now...

ta daaa

done, 999 is the magic number

Weird 1000 is not a computer number...must be the positions then...

Not internally. But it can be an extreme artificial limit, or to do (in some games) with the number of digits the display has room for

orions account ought to be deleted IMO. While I don't like bug exploiters anyway, this one is extremely severe.

holy sheet, i did not see that the bug does give out the death exp, cripes - tarims exp in that cat went from 14000 to 30000 - that is majorly f'd up

Yup my exp loss doubled in 1 turn!!!!!
As i said,the turn after he attacked,the casualties page couldn't handle the phantom losses and broke for that turn;
But the Rankings page showed the losses up for real!!!

I got retal exp but still dropped from 6k behind grump to 10k behind grump,when,if my initial attacks had worked there would have been no difficulty in making the neccessary exp(although i'm obviously not taking Grumps further exp gains into account)to challenge for 2nd place.

On the bright side i've just edged Mikalus out of the "Most Lethal top 6" for tarims anniversary,for a little while at least.
Also,during the battle,even with his killer unit in action,orion has dropped a place and my eliminated clanmate Cajen has moved up one.

yeah, boe and I ceased the attacks quickly, or I did and he agreed ;-), I couldn't see doing it, so we really didn't notice anything in his death column

well now that you know how to fix it are you going to fight??? If not may I fight??

ya let me transfer those others down

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This ties with my question on why the casualties page is ALWAYS much bigger than the scores pages.

The score page was able to display the huge looses, while the casualty page wasn't.

For the record Orion eventually saw sense in that game and tarim found it within himself to invite him into clan discordia.

The bug also inspired my suggestion for Hero units.
Although I was unable to damage Orion or even deal him retal damage when he was above 999 pop,my idea was for a 1 pop unit working on similar principles,only that when it attacked it would suffer retal,and when it's health finally dipped below a certain point the unit could then be effectively attacked and damaged by opposing forces.

The original thread - bumpo

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