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The new book of book writing has 95k pages, seems the field value to handle pages of books is too small. CTRL+K shows I only have to read 29464 pages (95000 - 65536 = 29464), looks like an overflow there. I think the field value is working with 16bit, which is too small. Never occured before because the max page count so far is 55k.

 

I hope you understand what I mean, not very good in such programming related things.

 

Update: I went to fastread and have now read 29832 / 29464 pages. ETA -10 min. So I assume the number of pages is counted correctly internally (I hope :sneaky:)

Edited by Raistlin

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This appears to be a restriction of both the client and server. The relevant code to extract the numbers from the server message is:

        your_info.research_completed=SDL_SwapLE16(stats[47]);
       your_info.researching=SDL_SwapLE16(stats[81]);
       your_info.research_total=SDL_SwapLE16(stats[82]);

 

This is indeed using 16 bit integers, but because it is extracting them from a stream of chars it will require simultaneous changes to both the client and server to support the 32 bit values without messing up the succeeding stats.

Edited by Torg

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Just a quick follow-up, don't know if it's relevant, but #research shows the correct numbers, both for the points left and total.

 

My #research replies:

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:38279/95000. ETA: 1739 minutes

 

The research window shows 56765/29464 ... hmm, wonder what will happen when research_completed excedes 16bit, will it overwrite stats[48]

Edited by DanRothar

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Just a quick follow-up, don't know if it's relevant, but #research shows the correct numbers, both for the points left and total.

 

My #research replies:

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:38279/95000. ETA: 1739 minutes

 

The research window shows 56765/29464 ... hmm, wonder what will happen when research_completed excedes 16bit, will it overwrite stats[48]

 

#research shows correct till ~65k .. after it messes up.. at least shows correct time left prolly..

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:65498/95000. ETA: 3638 minutes

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:65138/95000. ETA: 3618 minutes

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:65048/95000. ETA: 3613 minutes

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:65048/95000. ETA: 3613 minutes

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:63968/95000. ETA: 3553 minutes

as u can see after a certain point researched points start decreasing instead of increasing.

 

Hope this helps.

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Update: I read the book now, all fine. #research worked correct, yes.

The knowledge bar increased to a huge bar meanwhile, after it reached 65536/29464 , it dropped back to 0/29464, so in total it's correct :)

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I think #research shows completely different numbers..

On knowledge i am at 38934/29464 ... and #research shows:

You are researching Book writting. Research points left:56066/95000. ETA: 3114 minutes

(it has raised up to 65k since then decreased to 56k...)(was at ~65k when reached 29464)

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There's also an error in the name: writting with double t.

 

I already reported this in the spelling thread.

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Greetings all,

 

After being less active for about a year, I started to pick up things again. One of those things was a Book..the Book of Bookwriting, for a writer like me, a must-have! Although i stil dont have a clue what I can do with it, but I'll figure that out.

 

Now..whilst reading, all of the above mentioned issues came up.

I asked maxine about it, and she told me she thought it was solved.

Well, i dont think so..

Still getting the enormous progress bar..and the book gets longer whilst reading..now.for a good novel I wouldnt mind..but in this case..^^

Anyways, Maxine asked me to post here, so i did.

 

Thanks for listening!

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Just keep reading, you will finish it ;)

 

 

Yes Raistlin, I know that I only reported it coz Max asked me too, incase it was missed with the clientupdate.

 

Jez

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