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Istrian

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Item duplication on transfer bug
« on: June 07, 2008, 02:07:23 pm »
I've transferred some equipment between two bases and upon arrival I notice that the destination base has received more items than I sent. Now I have about 30+ of each item, including things I'm not even supposed to have, like UFOs (of each of the six types), bloodspider weapons, particle weapons, etc...

Unfortunately for me, I saved my game after ordering the transfer so now every time I load my save and wait until the transfer completes I get the same result. Is there any way to cancel a transfer ?

I'm running version 2.2.1 under Windows XP.

Offline DanielOR

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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2008, 10:08:12 pm »
...and that is a bad thing?  You just got tons of free gear!  Sort of humanitarian aid from space... ;D

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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2008, 10:24:25 pm »
Yes, that's a bad thing; what about people who actually want a challenging game?

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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2008, 12:39:46 am »
Well...  it is a bug.  The ultra-dedicated, in the interim, can sell the excess gear and spend the money on ubundant uninstalled base defense systems that take up zero storage space.  The mone can be, effectively, donated.

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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2008, 02:02:52 pm »
Yes, that's a bad thing; what about people who actually want a challenging game?


put it on the hardest difficulty setting even with this bug you will find it more than challenging..


on my first hard level game i went into a mission with t he only 5 soldiers available to the phalanx project.. and i reran the battle 6 times best case scenario was 2 wounded 3 dead.... the equipment will be the least of your problems.



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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2008, 06:15:00 pm »
eeek.  Maybe I will try hard level, next.  Very Hard looks somewhat rediculous a this point - the quarter damage us / quad damage them.

Before I am accused of being a whimp, I play UFO:EU on "superhuman" only, with hardly ever a reload.

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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2008, 10:49:32 pm »
lol you are more of a badass than me.. I could never play xcom the original on anything higher than genius.. s uperhuman was just too hard

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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2008, 08:53:00 am »
Darkpriest: thank you, though this compliment speaks somewhat to the number of hours spent with that game.  I suppose everyone here is, to some degree, guilty of addiction to the XCOM series.   ;D  Geeks, unite!


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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2008, 03:32:12 am »
<- never played -ANY- of the XCOMs... does that make me a bad person? lol

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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2008, 12:40:23 pm »
Unfortunately it makes you a heretic. I'm afraid we're going to have to burn you at the stake now.

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Re: Item duplication on transfer bug
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2008, 11:14:11 pm »
I think I was hit by something like this, too. I played the current Windows version, 2.2.1, and created a second base. It might have to do with me transferring something over to there, I don't know, but when I checked again I had about 60 items of lots of things, stuff that's quite expensive like aircraft armor and weaponry, things like UFOs, and even stuff that I never saw in the game before, like Miniguns. I'll create a post and add it to the other things that I found while playing.