Creature Handler Archive
Thread: My bull is bugged
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Joker9125
Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:36 pm
#1
Ya know the bug where the numbers next to ur pet will say like 400-500(405-505)? Well it has happened to my bull rancor. Boy am I pissed 
hossp
Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:25 pm
#2
mine says that too..in fact a few of my pets have the min lowered by 5..i don't think it makes any difference..if so just do another 5 missions and get another one 
lmao
lmao
Isroz
Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:19 pm
#3
lol the devs r gettin u back for gettin one in 5 spawns i havea grauler like that....just think of it that it makes the pet more special
MST3Claye
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:33 pm
#4
I was with him when it happened. Took the wind out of his sails for taming it. lol Seriously though, that's rough. 
Joker9125
Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:49 am
#5
Its just the fact that its bugged. What difference isa vitality of 99/99 from 100/100? None, but the fact that its there makes all the difference in the world.
hossp
Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:38 am
#6
is it raelly a bug though? the way it presents itself leads me to believe it in the game for some unkown, obscure, and probably uselessreason...don't sweat it man, hey you have a bull
hossp
Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:22 pm
#7
you make it sound like it matters..i have 4 pets thet have a loss of 5 on min damage..a bull rancor, a prowling gurreck, a gurreck, and a gps..the max damage is still the same, and honestly pet damage is irrelevent anyhow, so i don't understand the dilemea...try doing around a thousand lairs, then see if you care if your bull has a minimun hit of 450 instead of 455 .., the max is still 620..it's meaningless really..mabey it matters in some way i'm not aware of, but i really don't see the problem..i've heard this called a "bug" but it appears to be coded into the game, mabey it had a wound and wasn't fed..there may be a reason, but don't get yourself tied up in a knot over it..the pet still hits just as hard for a mx, and the specials still work, and joker i know you are a rifleman, like me..so do you really count on your pets for any damage?
.., the max is still 620..it's meaningless really..mabey it matters in some way i'm not aware of, but i really don't see the problem..i've heard this called a "bug" but it appears to be coded into the game, mabey it had a wound and wasn't fed..there may be a reason, but don't get yourself tied up in a knot over it..the pet still hits just as hard for a mx, and the specials still work, and joker i know you are a rifleman, like me..so do you really count on your pets for any damage?
CritterControl
Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:42 am
#8
if i had a bull i wouldnt give a crap that its damage is down by 5. how often are you really gonna use it in combat that really matters? unless you want the chance of getting a vitality hit
hossp
Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:41 am
#9
i figured out why the min damage is off by 5 on some animals...if the adult min damage ends in a 5..such as the 455 for the bull or the 395 for the gps, when it is intially tamed the game rounds it down...i was looking at my second gps baby today and it is lvl 5 of 51, or 1/10th grown..the min damage is 39, or 1/10th of 395, rounded down..i imagine the freshly tamed baby bull, although i don't remember what mine said, was 45 , one tenth of 455 rounded down...i think this is the reason for this "bug" as people call it..it seems the numbers just round down, instead of fractional damage....
Kudali
Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:00 am
#10
hossp wrote:i figured out why the min damage is off by 5 on some animals...if the adult min damage ends in a 5..such as the 455 for the bull or the 395 for the gps, when it is intially tamed the game rounds it down...i was looking at my second gps baby today and it is lvl 5 of 51, or 1/10th grown..the min damage is 39, or 1/10th of 395, rounded down..i imagine the freshly tamed baby bull, although i don't remember what mine said, was 45 , one tenth of 455 rounded down...i think this is the reason for this "bug" as people call it..it seems the numbers just round down, instead of fractional damage....
For the dorky CS response. Yeah, thats integer division which leaves off the fractional part. If they had done division with floats or doubles behind the scene and then cast to integers you would get the correct display when the creature finished growing.
Yeah, I'm a dork.-kudali
Joker9125
Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:40 am
#11
Kudali wrote:
hossp wrote:
i figured out why the min damage is off by 5 on some animals...if the adult min damage ends in a 5..such as the 455 for the bull or the 395 for the gps, when it is intially tamed the game rounds it down...i was looking at my second gps baby today and it is lvl 5 of 51, or 1/10th grown..the min damage is 39, or 1/10th of 395, rounded down..i imagine the freshly tamed baby bull, although i don't remember what mine said, was 45 , one tenth of 455 rounded down...i think this is the reason for this "bug" as people call it..it seems the numbers just round down, instead of fractional damage....
For the dorky CS response. Yeah, thats integer division which leaves off the fractional part. If they had done division with floats or doubles behind the scene and then cast to integers you would get the correct display when the creature finished growing.
-kudali
The sad thing is I understood it. They really should change it from an int to a double type.
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