trucutru posted:

Ah, yes, the infamous

code:

if (num_ships < 16) spawnNewShip();
else parp();

problem has troubled the greatest minds for decades

Tippis posted:

Whathowinthewhynow?!?

How the hell do you lose track of an object just because it's at a given speed? And if it didn't, how did it suddenly realise that it had too many ships? And why does it randomly remove ships when this happen rather than something sane and sensible?

MeLKoR posted:

It has when you can't trust num_ships.

You would if quantum travel was a load screen and the ship wasn't actually in the instance during that time.

Michaellaneous posted:

if shipspawn then num_ships++
elseif shipparp then num_ships--
else parp

kordansk posted:

ftfy

Michaellaneous posted:

Jokes on you parp is the only function that will ever be called, the rest is unreachable.

kordansk posted:

try parp
catch parp

MeLKoR posted:

I'm rereading that thing and it's loving amazing, here's what's happening...

The problem
When you go into QT you drop out of the instance. This means that the server then pops one of the ships in queue and when you drop out of QT the server realizes it hosed up and there are now too many ships in the instance. Since they can't seem to solve the actual problem they don't have many ways to deal with it.

Option 1: Drop the latest ship to enter the instance, ie yours when you came out of QT. This of course meant that people would come out of QT floating in mid air and that caused them great pain.

Option 2: Drop the latest ship to enter that does not have a pilot in it, hopefully it will be some ship that was just spawned but it could also be the ship of some idiot on EVA.

And here it is, Star Citizen in a nutshell. This game is going to be an unholy Frankenstein's monster held together with spit and prayer, loved by no one, hated by all, lashing out against it's tormentors by making their ships shake themselves apart.

Toops posted:

Oh come on dude. The media has a moral responsibility to find out what's happening in the world, and tell people. I can't imagine any decent journalist gives a drat about either of those points you listed.

What good would it do? Save people from wasting money on fraud and false advertising. Help set a higher standard for crowdfunding so charismatic morons stop wasting everyones loving money.

No one wants to be the bearer of bad news? Journalism is about presenting the news, without judgment or prejudice, and definitely without condescending to your audience as if they're autistic and hit themselves in the eyes with jumbo legos whenever you say "don't do that."

Michaellaneous posted:

finally parp
Finally parp.

MeLKoR posted:

Games journalism is 40% advertisement, 30% press releases, 25% fellating the industry and 5% kicking someone that already fell into the gutter all by themselves.

Michaellaneous posted:

if shipspawn then num_ships++
if shipparp then num_ships--

Mr Fronts posted:

if ( shiplist[ 15 ].in_use == 64 ) // 64 is the bit we need for ships in an instance
{
// Must fix these bracket indents!
if ( shiplist[ 15].speed == -1 ) // Note! Always set quantum travel ship speeds to -1!
{
// Goto jumps back to here if in trouble.
// Also jumps here from QuantumDrive.c and WakeUpJeff.c if jump_fix=122
AbortFreeShipAttempt:

DebugLine("AAA I am here and not crashing. jump_fix=%d", jump_fix);

for( ship=0;ship<1024;ship)) // CR made me set this to 1024 - put it back later
{
if (jump_fix == 122) break;

DebugLine("BBB I am here and not crashing. jump_fix=%d", jump_fix);

freeship = FindFreeShip( ship, shiplist[ lastship -1 ] );

if ( ( freeship == -1 ) || DoNotReUseLastShip(lastship-1))
{
++lastship;
goto AbortFreeShipAttempt;
}
else message_p = NULL; // Erin said to set this, and could use a little more brackets.

DebugLine("CCC I am here and not crashing. jump_fix=%d", jump_fix);
}
}
else { DisplayMessage( message_p );
}
}
else switch ( jump_fix ) {
case 20:
MessageJump:
DisplayMessage( message_p );
break;

case 53:
message_p = "Ready";
goto MessageJump;
break;

case 126:
{
// Need something here, and fix bracket indents.
}
}

Mr Fronts posted:

gently caress me, that formatted absolutely perfectly.

kordansk posted:

all integers have to be in multiples of 42. also lets be honest, you really think theres code?

kordansk posted:

all integers have to be in multiples of 42. also lets be honest, you really think theres comments in the code?

Mr Fronts posted:

gently caress me, that formatted absolutely perfectly.

Skellybones posted:

Can a laser exceed the speed of its explosion?

Beet Wagon posted:

Nope, it's been this way since forever. It's just bad design, through and through. The problem is they felt the need to try and automate a bunch of stuff for you to make your ship feel smart (as opposed to Elite's "put your gear down and then strafe down onto the pad" solution which works perfectly) and the end result is that regular flying is loving ruined, any kind of close manuevering is loving ruined, you can never tell where you're going to actually land or if your ship is just going to drift away when you get out, AND there's like three different kinds of assisted landing mode to help you out - all of which are completely loving unusable unless you've played their tutorial and learned how to use them. That tutorial is broken, by the way. So have fun with your brand new super-futuristic pile of poo poo.

All that poo poo that was in that video I made where the computer went apeshit while I was landing? None of that was done on purpose by me. That was just the game having the same loving aneurysm it does any time you fly next to poo poo.

Romes128 posted:

I live how their whole argument is they haven't delivered the game yet so no refunds but they have no release date for the game as it's still in development.

Iglocska posted:

Personally I prefer the "newer" version. It's a subjective thing. Besides, the newer textures may be better for performance.

MeLKoR posted:

Games journalism is 40% advertisement, 30% press releases, 25% fellating the industry and 5% kicking someone that already fell into the gutter all by themselves.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Michaellaneous posted:

code:

This is quite enough programming talk now

e:


ftfy

AP posted: