Erm ....what's happened

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Can you explain the sequence of events that got here?
Could you win? or did you lose or retreat ?
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Perhaps they tried to fix the bug with your own protects going negative... by giving the enemy a billion health instead
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Is this regarding Cap.Brit. yellow passive?
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lol I would have believed it without the screenshots. Weird things happening lately so why not this new one.
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@bluewolf said:
Can you explain the sequence of events that got here?Could you win? or did you lose or retreat ?
Polaris kept powering up my protect tiles through Agatha. I did CBs purple or Agatha Blue (can't remember which now) and it did this and they wouldn't die lol
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Looks like all you need to do is heal Rocket and Groot for 2 billion health, and you can win the match. What's the problem here?
Given the numbers involved, I'm guessing Rocket's health flipped from 2^31 -1 (2,147,483,647) to -2^31+1 (-2,147,483,647) plus a little bit more damage. Between your super strength protect tile and the damages done based on it, the code may not have realized that your number actually went negative.
(Edit - If you've seen memes with Ghandi saying that his words are backed with nuclear weapons, that's due to a similar bug. In the original Civilization, there was a scale from 0-255 on how likely civilizations were to use nuclear weapons. Ghandi, being a pacifist leader, had his value set to 1. When he chose democracy as a government type, the chances that they would use nukes were supposed to be reduced by 2, which means that his chances would have been -1. Due to the 8-bit math used for this calculation, the -1 flipped to the top end of the scale, meaning that his likelihood of using nukes was 255, which was the highest possible value. in other words, he'd nuke you at the drop of a hat.)
Given enough time, and assuming it wasn't matched, your protect tile would have gotten strong enough that its value probably would have flipped negative for the same reason, and would likely have acted as an enemy strike tile that would have ended the game very quickly.
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Pretty standard stuff with Agatha 3.
Be careful though. Do this too much and it flips to the negative, making every point of damage against you instant death.
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@Rejoinder said:
Pretty standard stuff with Agatha 3.Be careful though. Do this too much and it flips to the negative, making every point of damage against you instant death.
I did that with high Evo.. It was a surprise.
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@WilliamK1983 said:
lol I would have believed it without the screenshots. Weird things happening lately so why not this new one.These issues will all go away with the new engine..
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This is why it always pays to have a Loki Team-Up
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Reports are that 3Agatha now only boosts a protect once per turn. Which eliminates this problem, I guess.
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@bluewolf said:
Reports are that 3Agatha now only boosts a protect once per turn. Which eliminates this problem, I guess.Did they really nerf the old lady rather than fixing the actual problem?
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@WhiteBomber said:
@bluewolf said:
Reports are that 3Agatha now only boosts a protect once per turn. Which eliminates this problem, I guess.Did they really nerf the old lady rather than fixing the actual problem?
It's kind of a tricky problem to fix. They could increase the size of the variable that holds tile strength, but at the rate she increases them, you'd just run into the same problem a few turns later.
The best fix would just be to cap tiles at some ludicrously high number so you never overflow, but maybe there's some reason they can't do that.
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Exactly (he says without actually seeing the code). Nerfing the character over just turning the ability off at X number (or ANYTHING other than nerfing) is baaaaad business. Lazy? Deceitful?
Is Bustapup aware of this (as the only 5 star ascended Agatha in the world)?
I spent the time to immediately favorite her to 4*, so assuming (I'm still not even sure if it's true) she was nerfed do to laziness, well then...
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@Zalasta said:
@WilliamK1983 said:
lol I would have believed it without the screenshots. Weird things happening lately so why not this new one.These issues will all go away with the new engine..
I hope so. Granted it's nothing catastrophic, but a bunch of little things always give me pause that a giant thing is on the horizon.
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