Cannot build more of unit type?

[jackalope]

Maybe this is mod-specific, but I think it probably isn't.

Since 0.74 came out I've seen a couple games where global message goes out saying "cannot build more units of unit type" or something like that. After looking around the map I didn't see anyone at the unit limit (I was in spec mode) and there was no units banned in the battle room. What could this be about?

[trepan]

Mods can now specify per-unit type limits

[Chojin]

I have seen this too, when I was spectating an XTA v8.1 game on Small Divide. I believe XTA has no per-unit type limits (haven't read on how to specify them). I asked the guy hosting, whether he specified anything or played with limits. He told me he had no clue.

I don't exactly remember, but the message was something like this:
"Adv. Kbot Lab: Unit limit reached"

Btw, does that mean the maximum number of Adv. Kbot Labs has been reached or that the Adv. Kbot Lab cannot build the queued unit?

[tombom]

Yeah it's nothing to do with defined unit limits as I saw it/heard about it at least 4 times yesterday. Once was when I hit the limit on wolves in Nanoblobs, which was fine, but in the same game I saw it on Sheep, which have no limit, and the other person was reporting a similar thing, even when we hadn't hit the unit limit. I also saw it on a Balanced Annihilation game, where one commander someone had inherited from there ally refused to build mexes, complaining of "Commander: unit build type limit reached" while his other commander was building fine.

[Argh]

Doh! So UnitLimit has even more bugs than I saw during testing. Sorry, folks- I never saw this while running Spring single-player...

[trepan]

Does this only occur when sharing units? It looks like the
sharing code doesn't update the unitsType[team] counts.
If that's the case, then it can be easily remedied (ie: the
patch is already written)

P.S. This probably applies to captured units as well.

[jackalope]

I can't say for sure, but sharing happens pretty often when people .take so it's likely.

[Chojin]

Now that you mention it: there was a .take-over, right before those messages started showing up.

Here is a demo of it: http://ipxserver.dyndns.org/games/sprin ... 0.74b1.sdf

First message "Kbot Lab: Build failed, unit type limit reached" shows up around 17:30.

[Neddie]

Sometimes it happens at the most bizzare moments - on locally hosted games I have seen it without any .take or .give.

[Icebird]

by the way the bug is easily reproductible with the 'luamissiontest' :

- go to the waypoint
- build an aircraft plant when you've received the com
- destroy your atlas
- try to build an atlas


haven't tested with latest svn ..

[trepan]

I'll test / commit tomorrow (been otherwise occupied).

[hunterw]

i've seen it almost every game i've hosted, but it's always seemingly without rhyme or reason, so i can't pinpoint why it happens, sorry

[KDR_11k]

I think the message is sometimes caused when the construction is destroyed. No idea what exactly triggers it.

[trepan]

KDR_11k:
thanks, think I may have found that bug too

[trepan]

KDR_11k:
If you have a recording that you think contains a unit-limit bug
caused by a construction being destroyed, could you post it?

[tombom]

Sometimes it happens at the most bizzare moments - on locally hosted games I have seen it without any .take or .give.

Would this be on Nanoblobs by any chance? Because I've seen the same. I was pretty sure I wasn't hitting the unit limit, except for one time that I hit the limit on wolves (200)

[hunterw]

can you guys fix this yet? it's very annoying

i'll provide a demo if one is still necessary, just got one in my last game. the game also ends in a crash of spring.exe so it might be doubly interesting.