ship.heatInsulation

[Commander McLane]

Stumbled across a strange behaviour of the heatInsulation property. Wiki says:

The ship’s heat insulation factor. 1.0 is normal, higher values mean more resistance to heat.

And that's what I see when I query it in the console:

player.ship.target.heatInsulation

returns 1 for e.g. a police viper.
But if I set it via the console, things get strange (quotations from now on from the JS-console):

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation=2
2

leads to

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation
512

Hm. Restoring it back with

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation=1
1

results in

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation
256

Now I'm getting curious. What would happen with

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation=0
0

? Answer:

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation
32

Aha. And what about:

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation=3
3

Now we arrive at

> player.ship.target.heatInsulation
768

Conclusion: Internally the value isn't 1, 2 or 3, but 1x256, 2x256 or 3x256. Only the 32 doesn't really fit.

And it is a little strange that these internal values only show up after the first change.

Or is something broken here?

[JensAyton]

Setting the heat insulation value does indeed multiply the value by 256. Silly copy and paste error, fixed for 1.72.1.