Vortex In No Disasters Game

[Spikerocks101]

Well, as I said, in a no disasters multilayer game, we got a vortex. Was odd. BTW, I lost the round.

[Hidiot]

Is pie a Dynamix map or not?

Whatever the case, it's probably just a stray disaster not included in the check for enabled disasters.

Or not...

[TH300]

Several others followed that one. And only vortexes, no quakes, no storms, no meteors.

Now, how is that possible? We all played Pie before, also to mark 1500. And am I the only one who got the warning "vortex imminent"?

[Sirbomber]

I thought there was only the one?  I dunno...

It's weird, but it's not like OP2 hasn't done buggier things before.  If this is the first time it's ever happened to anyone, it's probably so rare we don't need to worry about it.  We (read: Hooman) could look into finding out why it happened, but since we really don't know what caused it, it'd be better if he looked into finding out more about SantaWalking.    

[Hooman]

Just a curious question, but who exactly was in that game?
 

[Hidiot]

Sirbomber, spikerocks and TH300

[TH300]

Sirbomber, spikerocks and TH300

Only the three.

[Arklon]

Was the game played over Hamachi or netfix?

[Spikerocks101]

Netfix

[Sirbomber]

Arklon can attest more than anyone how frequent short-burst lag has caused OP2 to BLAR[size=0] [/size]UGH in extremely bizarre ways (units not dying when they should, extra units getting created, etc.), and that game did suffer from a lot of that type of lag...

[Hooman]

Either that or someone had been up to something naughty. Hmm....

[Sirbomber]

You caught me.

No, I doubt it was someone doing something intentional.  If somebody could spawn a vortex at will, why would they put it in the middle of nowhere?

[Hidiot]

To test.

Come to think of it, I still recall one bug that may have been caused by a lag spike a while ago.

Whilst playing a survivor map in development with Sirbomber and Arklon, Sirbomber finished and I think quit the game (for reasons I forget).

A short while later, I notice a supernova Tiger magically appearing over the blight walls surrounding Sirbomber's base. Arklon said he couldn't see it.

I officially withdraw my original ignorant comment  :blush:  

[Sirbomber]

Meh, let's just forget this ever happened.  We don't want people figuring out how to reproduce this with more malicious results, after all...

[Arklon]

I wonder if it's something similar to the exploit that gives ConVecs random cargo, or the weird invincible "ghost units".

[Sirbomber]

I wonder if it's something similar to the exploit that gives ConVecs random cargo, or the weird invincible "ghost units".

Again, things that we shouldn't look into so they can't be exploited.  The "EMP Shockwave Guard Post" already runs the risk of breaking multiplayer, except you need to waste a perfectly good Structure Factory for a small chance of getting the type of GP you want.  Right now, the process seems to be blindly guessing and crossing your fingers.  Do we really want people figuring out how to get any weapon they want without fail?

Of course, if we don't look into them, then we can't fix the underlying problems...  (though the odds of that happening anyways are pretty slim.)

[Hooman]

I looked at the code and the disaster creation calls are fairly obviously guarded by checks if disasters are enabled. Further, if disasters are enabled, the type of disaster is random, so it won't always be the same type.

This sounds like either a bug or an exploit. This does seem quite possibly caused by something I know about. (And other people, hence why I asked who was playing). Although, I'd be surprised if that was really the case. Or maybe I should be more surprised if it was caused by something else I don't know about that is more random. Hmm, the lag comments are interesting.
 

[CK9]

seeing as we don't have the source code, it is possible there is something you don't know about yet...it could een be something that we triggered by tinkering with the game, heh

[Larrythepoet]

I think Dan said that Santa walks under similar circumstances to the dog, but the date has to be 12/25.

[Sirbomber]

LTP has a point.  It could just be an easter egg put in by somebody with a sick sense of humor.

[Arklon]

Forget it. You need to look into Swarm's infamous acid trip bug since I would love to reproduce it

[Sirbomber]

I whole-heartedly support Arklon's proposal.

[evecolonycamander]

strange dose that explain the blk colony attacking. in a colony game
note: have not been able to recrated the same sucomstances of blk colony and do not have spellcheck at this time

[Kayedon]

strange dose that explain the blk colony attacking. in a colony game
note: have not been able to recrated the same sucomstances of blk colony and do not have spellcheck at this time

What?

[CK9]

From what I gather, the black AI colony appeared and attacked him in a colony game...which shouldn't happen unless you're screwing with the .dll.......