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XpanD

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Weapon duplication and infinite money
« on: February 21, 2012, 10:41:00 AM »

Hi all,

Came across a few bugs earlier, most of which I have seen listed here already. There is however one that I haven't seen yet, so I'll outline that below. It involves the duplication of weapons, up to a maximum of however many fitting slots you can find on a ship for the weapon you want to duplicate. For example, you will be able to duplicate a single Tier 3 ballistic weapon up to 5 times using an Onslaught-class battleship (which carries the highest number of Tier 3 ballistic slots as far as I am aware).

Stop reading if you're prone to abusing bugs like this and want to play legitimately.

Here's how it works:

1. Select a ship with plenty of weapon slots, such as the Onslaught-class battleship in the example above.
2. Select a weapon that you do not have enough of to fill the entire ship with. For example a single railgun.
3. Put the railgun into one of the available slots.
4. Hold SHIFT and click the railgun into all of the other slots.
5. You have now duplicated the railgun! You could now gain a lot of money by taking off all the dupes, and selling them to a shop.

I found this out by accident earlier when I was filling up an Onslaught-class battleship with 4 Hephaestus Assault Guns, and accidentally SHIFT-clicked a 5th copy into the 5th slot. I then confirmed it with several other weapons. Just in case it's a mod-related issue - I'm using the following mods right now:
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=161.msg8766#msg8766
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=162.0

Apart from the occasional glitch here and there the game looks great to me so far, especially with all the mods out already. I've been playing it for a good 20 hours already, which is quite amazing for a mere alpha version. Keep up the good work! :D
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icepick37

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Re: Weapon duplication and infinite money
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2012, 10:49:16 AM »

I believe I've seen this before. I think Alex already "fixed" it.  :)

EDIT: It wasn't in it's own thread or anywhere obvious iirc.
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Re: Weapon duplication and infinite money
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 07:09:29 AM »

Just bumping to hopefully get some official news on this.
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Re: Weapon duplication and infinite money
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 08:23:00 AM »

Yep, fixed in the next release.

Thank you for the report, though!
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Re: Weapon duplication and infinite money
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 10:44:40 AM »

Aww :/ I liked being able to actually fit my ships out with weapons :P
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Re: Weapon duplication and infinite money
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2012, 02:41:53 AM »

I Noticed this aswell...


Then I turned off devmode and it was gone..

So I never reported it figuring it was part of devmode.

But if Alex fixed it, I guess it wasnt?
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Re: Weapon duplication and infinite money
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2012, 02:51:43 AM »

I haven't played with dev mode yet myself, so it wasn't that. ;)
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Re: Weapon duplication and infinite money
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2012, 06:58:50 AM »

I think tonight I'll build myself a bigger fleet. >.>
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