DCoder
07.02.2010, 22:11:09
I don't normally go to XWIS forums because I consider them to be a cesspool of failure. And something recently proved to me, once more, that that opinion was correct.
I learned of a dumb bug in the game (sure ain't the first one or the last one...) - the Guard command affects your own units... and anyone's War Miners/Slave Miners, regardless of whether you're their owner, ally, enemy or even observer.
It was being abused on XWIS, and rationalized by some users as being there by design - "it didn't work in RA2, only YR", and "the Chrono Miner is immune to it". I can not favourably compare their intelligence to that of amoebas, so I'll just say that this issue has been fixed in Ares, and it took me less than 30 minutes to do it.
Oh, and hail Westwood for leaving it there in the first place. Where would I get my intellectual challenge without their lovely code to debug?
I learned of a dumb bug in the game (sure ain't the first one or the last one...) - the Guard command affects your own units... and anyone's War Miners/Slave Miners, regardless of whether you're their owner, ally, enemy or even observer.
It was being abused on XWIS, and rationalized by some users as being there by design - "it didn't work in RA2, only YR", and "the Chrono Miner is immune to it". I can not favourably compare their intelligence to that of amoebas, so I'll just say that this issue has been fixed in Ares, and it took me less than 30 minutes to do it.
Oh, and hail Westwood for leaving it there in the first place. Where would I get my intellectual challenge without their lovely code to debug?