And I got

Clearly this is more just a matter of an incomplete analysis of elemental charges making up the total, coupled with a comment related to one of the charges.

It is also clear the "£0.6" portion could also be formatted properly, something like "£0.60", hopefully including in a multiple line case, the columns also line up.


Archangel

If it was only so simple Currently if the output routine sees a badly formated float (0.01000) and converts it to something nicer (0.01) and so it sees 2.30 and converts it to 2.3. I would have to rewrite the whole output routine to get this case through.... now the output routine is used by everything and is 3-4years old (hence crap - but works) and so i can almost guarentee that something else somewhere would go wrong as a result.

So yes its wrongly formated but there is a reason (blame dan - he made me do it)

No it just tells you about the update, there was no intension to tell you anything else - i counts down the free updates if you have them.

Updates cost £0.6 unless you have upgraded politicals, only gps and starship are free.

Yup and the answer is that updates cost. Its not a mistake and its done because special actions could (and would) be used to get updates for free.

Special actions can be done from GPs and Ships for no added cost and so it does not detriment anyone.

I know it sounds harsh but basically if there is a possible exploit in the game its approached with the 'would i do it'. Well i would have a big list of ops that needed an update and every time i needed a special done that was not linked to a distant location i'd use one of the outposts.

I understand the reasoning, but Special Actions done at starbases and from your Political position do not incur an update cost. I can see no logical reason why the paying positions are treated differently.

Cant you get a very cut-down outpost print back? ie. besides the SA results, it says nothing more (which is less than you see for free on your political report/online order editor)??


I do SAs from an outpost sometimes, because of where they are. I have found out, though, that you can do the SA from your political "on behalf of" the outpost - you get the same results, but cheaper, so I would suggest using this method to anyone in the same boat

Mark

No - paided updates have only ever applied to outposts and platforms. Starbase/political costs are fixed.

Indeed

What David means is that if you were planning to do an SA *anyway* and it could be done at an outpost, it's a way to do the SA *and* get a free update at the same time as a by-product.

I say go for a free return of the SA result with no position data included.

I think the point is that if you are making a special action that does not need to be made from a specific location, then a player may decide to use a platform/OP so that they would get the update on the position as a bonus.

It's harsh if you need to make an SA that is specific to the position, but if the SA could have been made at by any other position then KJC technically lose the 60p for the update.

What is an 'upgraded political'? Is this a reference to the £3/£4 options that are available or do you mean something else?

yes

And no, respectively

I see what you mean now!
wow ... people really do that?

I agree the best would just to be to send the SA result and no outpost details unless they request update then normal pricing would apply.

David has clearly spent too much time optimizing code and memory consumption.