[Solved] Countdown display

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:02 am

Whilst preparing to hyperspace my way out of big trouble (I'm often in big trouble), I was firing the laser almost continuously and found that the hyperspace countdown multiplied across the screen, like this:

Very distracting, and almost lost me the fight.
I tried testing it several times, with the same results.

1.74.2 on Win XP

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:38 am

Further testing… this occurs with or without OXPs installed, and only happens when the laser temp enters the red, then every laser shot produces the multiple countdown message. If I let the laser cool to yellow, there is no problem.

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:26 pm

Out of interest, I just tried this myself and am getting the same thing. Weird

I'm running 1.74.1 on Ubuntu 10.04, so it seems to be a cross platform problem affecting more than one version of Oolite.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 2:05 pm

Thanks Smivs... always nice to have it confirmed.

When the multiple countdown appears, with the laser in the red, there is no weapon overheat message.
The same problem occurs with the gal-jump countdown… all other screen messages seem to be fine.

Post by **Kaks** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:30 pm

Thanks, will look into that!

Post by **Eric Walch** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:44 pm

I think it is always been this way and not typically 1.74. For the countdown to work, the bottom line is deleted and a new line with a lower number is added. But when you do other actions in the meantime that pushes the countdown up, the new message is deleted instead of the old count.

I don't thing there is an easy solution for that as I think that the content of the last line is not really remembered by the code.

Post by **Getafix** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:34 am

Eric Walch wrote:
...I don't thing there is an easy solution for that...

It seems there is a quick fix,
looking good so far and committed for review to the "Great Council".

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:12 am

Consuming energy with both continuous laser fire and cooling systems on high, causes there not to be enough energy for the initial energy surge needed to open the warp, rather than allow the warp to fail and requiring a brand new countdown, the computer simply delays the opening of the warp until enough energy is present.

The countdown is an approximate measurement, so not an actual countdown. It's like the download stats which say '100meg of 300 meg downloaded, 30 minutes remaining' , that time estimate can go up and down and is simply an estimate, it doesn't cause the download to complete. the countdown on a ship is much more reliable because there are less things to unexpectedly take up 'bandwidth', but firing a laser continuously and engaging the cooling system, may do that.

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Post by **Getafix** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:48 am

Fixed in r3733.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:57 am

Getafix wrote:
Fixed in r3733.

Great... many thanks.

Post by **Getafix** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:58 am

Many thanks for your feedback.

Cheers!