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[Knucklehead]

I just tryed the (/autobuy all on) command on my Teknikal. chracter.
It seemed to work I have 50 of each though why not 70 that would be a full load.
The message it gave me left me very puzzled it says I bought 4,294,967,276 countermeasures :unsure:
I've screenshotted it and posted it below.



//edit Ah I see why 50 now I reread the thread sorry and now I suspect my strange message was probably to do with me having more than 50 countermeasures to start with.

This particular readout occurs because of the way negative numbers are represented on a computer. To show it, open up the MS Calculator and select Scientific mode. Plug the number into the calculator. From there, switch to Hexadecimal display and select the DWORD length. Now hit the +/- button and switch back to decimal. Congratulations, you lost 20 Countermeasures. On the bright side, you spent -20,000 on them...

The technical reason why it displays that way is because the value used for displaying the amount gained/lost appears to use an unsigned Double-Word, while the actual value is likely a Signed Double Word.

Might be something worth looking at for the next version as well.

These another glitch to this also

If you have 69 CM with the auto buy on for that item. it will actually sell back the difference so it back to 50 (FL default).

I was kinda suprised and hoping it did something like give me that actuall amount of CM (then I'd sell back the unnecessary amount *evil grin*).

And get kicked for cheating, or cause massive character corruption...

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It's official, I have too few ships now...