[Possible Bug] TEC Starbase Upgrade

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Hello all,

I noticed that for one of my TEC Starbases, which had 3 of 8 upgrades done already, when I clicked the second armor upgrade the total upgrade count went from 3/8 to 2/8.

I haven't played entrenchment for long and it was really early in the morning when I noticed this.  Is this possible for a starbase to do that I'm describing or does this sound like a bug?

I'll try to repeat the same bug and report here.  Anyone else ever see this happen before?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Are you sure it's the upgrade count, or the upgrades remaining count?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I assumed it is the upgrades count because I had another starbase that was fully upgraded and it the window showed 8/8.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Bobucles is right, you had 3/8 anfd when to 2/8. You only had 2 spots remaining on your starbase. A starbase with NO upgrades on it will read: 8/8. A fully upgraded starbase will have: 0/8.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Dargoon999, reply 3
Bobucles is right, you had 3/8 anfd when to 2/8. You only had 2 spots remaining on your starbase. A starbase with NO upgrades on it will read: 8/8. A fully upgraded starbase will have: 0/8.
End of Dargoon999's quote

 

You may be right, I'll have to play more to confirm this

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Ok, no bug.  After a closer look, you guys are right!  The slots do count down as they are being used from 8/8 to 0/8.

 

But I did notice another bug, this one is real!

 

TEC starbase when built in a your own planet Gravity well with a frigate factory... you cannot get both the Starbase and the frigate factory to produce ships in parallel.  In fact you cannot get any ships to be produced from the frigate factory!

I'll start a new thread on this bug!

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

That's not really a bug either. The factories seem to stack up just fine. The issue is because the queue is tied to the Gravity Well, and not to the frigtate factories.

When a ship is produced at a gravity well, it goes to the first available spawn point to make the ship. The spawn points become ready almost instantly, so a ship built a half a second later can pop up at the same spawn point. This gives the illusion of one factory pumping out all the ships, while the rest are doing nothing.

Try it with four factories and a starbase. That base will be pumping out ships faster than octomom, while the factories just sit around doing nothing.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Bobucles, reply 6
That's not really a bug either. The factories seem to stack up just fine. The issue is because the queue is tied to the Gravity Well, and not to the frigtate factories.

When a ship is produced at a gravity well, it goes to the first available spawn point to make the ship. The spawn points become ready almost instantly, so a ship built a half a second later can pop up at the same spawn point. This gives the illusion of one factory pumping out all the ships, while the rest are doing nothing.

Try it with four factories and a starbase. That base will be pumping out ships faster than octomom, while the factories just sit around doing nothing.
End of Bobucles's quote

Ic Ic, thanks for the tip Bobucles, I check that out too.  If this is a spawn point issue, I hope IronClad can fix this in future patch.  It would make more sense to see ships spawning from all the factories in a gravity well.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

I agree, once the construction of a ship begins in a shipyard, it should come out of that specific shipyard.