emergency world maintenace already...........

[Tommykun]

I think that like with previous FF games, 99,999 is the max allocated in the hex string for damage. FFVIII was the first game able to break the 9,999 limit if I remember right.

But seriously... shouldn't they have the equations written down somewhere so they can just go "Oh, here's the problem... there's a 8 where there should be a 3."

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I think that like with previous FF games, 99,999 is the max allocated in the hex string for damage. FFVIII was the first game able to break the 9,999 limit if I remember right.

But seriously... shouldn't they have the equations written down somewhere so they can just go "Oh, here's the problem... there's a 8 where there should be a 3."

Any bets someone did it on purpose to get overtime or somthing or the sort?

[Tommykun]

Any bets someone did it on purpose to get overtime or somthing or the sort?

I wouldn't doubt it haha. Time's are hard for everyone. Or could have been that a dev -really- didnt want to go home due to his/her spouse wanting to stab him or he/she was desperately afraid of their spouse's cooking and wanted an excuse to order take-out.

[Nawesemo]

Why were they messing with the cure formula in the first place? hmmmmmm.. O.o

[Selzak]

Why were they messing with the cure formula in the first place? hmmmmmm.. O.o

They probably weren't, going by history I think their code is just very messy.

[Tommykun]

They probably weren't, going by history I think their code is just very messy.

Good point. The thing is, it really shouldn't be. Spell coding really shouldn't have been messed with according to what I've seen in the patch notes. I just really don't understand how they could have messed it up.

[Selzak]

Good point. The thing is, it really shouldn't be. Spell coding really shouldn't have been messed with according to what I've seen in the patch notes. I just really don't understand how they could have messed it up.

It's just all way more interconnected (and it seems overly so in FFXI's code) than you would probably think.

It would also make sense that this could take a while to fix if it's some obscure logic error or something that someone made in an unrelated section of the code that found its way into 99,999 damage cures on undead mobs. It could be anything, possibly something really small like a + where a - should be or an 'OR' where and 'AND' should be. It's almost like finding a needle in a haystack except that the needle makes the haystack sing Christmas Carols when it should just be hay. Definitely seems like they should have found it and fixed it a lot quicker though. Probably just forgot to account for something when they were changing whatever it is that they changed.

[Karbuncle]

They probably weren't, going by history I think their code is just very messy.

My guess is they used this to test the new Damage cap. The old Damage cap was 65,000 then it would just roll over (to 0), It would still do the large damage, the chat log would just read out the rolled over number.

They probably used Cures to test the new damage cap of 99,999 and forgot to change it back.

However, Seriously, 7 and a half hours to change it back...?

[Saefinn]

My guess is they used this to test the new Damage cap. The old Damage cap was 65,000 then it would just roll over (to 0), It would still do the large damage, the chat log would just read out the rolled over number.

They probably used Cures to test the new damage cap of 99,999 and forgot to change it back.

However, Seriously, 7 and a half hours to change it back...?

If what you say is true, then my guess would be there's something wrong with the 'Cure as damage' code that became apparent in the extension but wasn't noticed before because it posed no problems. Also, with buggy engine code, what would normally be considered a 'sensible' solution might not work, even if it works in other instances. It wouldn't surprise me, buggy engine code can result in some seemingly illogical errors.


But it's kind of difficult to speculate 'why'. We don't know their code, we don't know why the problem exists, how difficult it is to get to the problem. Or what the solution is and how much work is needed to fix it. What would look like a small problem to us could be a major problem to fix.

[Ninurta2217]

Vital organ transplants don't take this long.