Darkwind - Viewing Topic: Removing Crew from Vehicles on the Squad Page can cause harm

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I wish I kept the vehicle in its state, but failed to do so.

I tried to remove one of my crew members from my truck because I wished to replace him with another. It took away an extra seat and did not free up the space taken by the crew; when I stripped out all the crew, it's showing me with 1 extra seat and 37 spaces, instead of 2 and 47 as it ought--I could just barely squeeze in my crew of three.

The only other unusual thing was that before I removed the character, I gave him a tag as he had had none.

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Posted Apr 8, 2007, 6:22 pm	Last edited Apr 8, 2007, 6:27 pm by Acierocolotl

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Did the total space available reduce by 10? In which case it's most likely your fueltank. I had mistakenly left the fueltank out of the space calculation in some circumstances, until fixing it yesterday.

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Posted Apr 8, 2007, 6:36 pm

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It was by 10, yes, but I was still missing a seat.

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Posted Apr 8, 2007, 7:28 pm

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The 'spare seats' only shows as many as you actually have space for: it was confusing people any other way.

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Posted Apr 8, 2007, 8:16 pm

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Aaaah, hmm, okay. That's starting to make more sense then. I can reconstruct what happened:

I had my full crew seated in the vehicle, you changed the reculation code, and when I removed a crewmember it recalculated everything, mysteriously coming up with -1 seat at that time, but deducting the extra space for the fuel tank as it ought to have.

Subsequently, thinking things were weird, I stripped out the crew and replaced them, but the space was now calculating correctly as opposed to what I was expecting, leading to one less seat.

As I'm rebuilding the same vehicle, we'll see how that turns out.

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Posted Apr 8, 2007, 8:33 pm