Raistlin Report post Posted July 8, 2011 (edited) 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 ) Edited July 8, 2011 by Raistlin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torg Report post Posted July 9, 2011 (edited) 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 July 9, 2011 by Torg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanRothar Report post Posted July 9, 2011 (edited) 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 July 9, 2011 by DanRothar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghio Report post Posted July 11, 2011 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raistlin Report post Posted July 11, 2011 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghio Report post Posted July 11, 2011 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) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cycloonx Report post Posted July 11, 2011 There's also an error in the name: writting with double t. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maxine Report post Posted July 11, 2011 There's also an error in the name: writting with double t. I already reported this in the spelling thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jezebelle Report post Posted April 1, 2012 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raistlin Report post Posted April 2, 2012 Just keep reading, you will finish it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jezebelle Report post Posted April 2, 2012 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thingrim Report post Posted September 12, 2016 Bug still exist. Happened to me today. Progress bar says 100% complete, but I can't read another book. You have to click to see exac time left. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites