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sbach2o -> 1.5.0.0 Double rewards from killing Pirate Bases (1/5/2011 8:00:20 AM)
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Recently I have had two instances where after destroying a pirate base I was rewarded twice.
The first was the work of a small fleet. This yielded two times the monetary reward ("treasure found in the debris"). The amounts were different for both messages. Whether both were actually transfered to my account is difficult to say.
The second instance could be more enlightening, as a single ship did the deed. This time the reward was a pirate faction joining my empire, again both times. I really received a new base and a few ships each time. I react immediately to this kind of event every time, usually scrapping the base and sending the ships to retrofit or retirement. Anyway, this means there was not just simply one duplicate or fake message involved, instead the consequences played out fully.
Moreover, the ship in question wasn't automated (a hotkeyed single ship Strike Force sorta), so I received idle messages for it - two of those in the event. Then, after killing the one remaining pirate ship in the system, the ship produced again two idle messages. I observed the action, being by the time alerted to something out of the ordinary, so I can attest there was only one pirate ship left to kill.
Both the 'pirate faction joining' and idle messages for the ship were spaced out a little. After the first pirate faction joining I had paused the game, then looked up and scrapped the new base (a chore, as the message points to the place of the battle, which in this case lets me conveniently rule out that two different battles produced the events), found the ships belonging to it and sent them to retirement. Only after unpausing the game came the second event. The base and ships belonging to this second event hadn't been in the ships and bases list before, either.
It looks almost like the game was simulating two versions of the battles in parallel.
I am right now trying to see what happens with other pirate bases with my single ship strike force (its role is that of a pirate hunter, anyway). The next one I attacked produced no reward. I don't remember right now whether the idle messages for this were still duplicated, but probably not. I then called it a day, so now the question is whether the problem persists through save and reload. I think I going to rerun the last pirate battle a couple of times (made a save before that) to see what happens.
I could upload a save game, but other then showing off the message log, could there be anything else of value? If the problem doesn't persist through a save game, there'd probably not be much point.
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