Researchers no longer available after finished research

[Raistlin]

Hi,

In many threads this point is already mentioned and the hint is given that this topic is already submitted to the bug tracker, but i was not able to find exactly this report in the bug tracker.
This problem is very annoying because you have to fire and rehire your scientists in order to research a new project. And this has to be done quite often.
If i am wrong and there is a report in the bug tracker considering exactly this topic, you can forget this posting. :-(
Otherwise this posting will hopefully lead to a higher priority for the solution of the problem. ;-)

Keep up the good work!
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Raistlin

[Bandobras]

Hi!

Could you state the version you are playing?

[Raistlin]

Hi,

@ Bandobras I'm currently playing SVN version 2943.

Another feature i just discovered is that antareans use plasma grenades in combat although they are not supposed to do so.
At least this is stated in the corresponding antarean wiki description. ;-)

The new reaction fire behaviour is superb, because this time a single soldier as at least a small chance to survive a close distance combat situation with an antarean soldier.

It's amazing to see the progess in gameplay and stability.

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Raistlin

[HaJo]

i was not able to find exactly this report in the bug tracker.

Forum: http://ufo.myexp.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=405&highlight=Scientists

Now it is issue 1545854 on sf.net, see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1545854&group_id=157793&atid=805242

[Raistlin]

Thanks HaJo for raising an issue on sf.net.

Regarding the antarean feature, i confused antareans and ortnoks.
I meant ortnoks and i just saw that HaJo has already reported the same problem on sf.net. So forget this topic it's already covered.

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Raistlin

[EsbenMoseHansen]

Here's a patch for the disappearing scientists problem

Code: [Select]


Index: src/client/cl_research.c
===================================================================
--- src/client/cl_research.c    (revision 2931)
+++ src/client/cl_research.c    (working copy)
@@ -837,8 +837,16 @@
                                MN_AddNewMessage(_("Research finished"), messageBuffer, qfalse, MSG_RESEARCH, tech);

 /*                             B_ClearBuilding(&gd.buildings[tech->base_idx][tech->lab]);*/
+                               while (tech->scientists>0) {
+                                       employee_t* employee = E_GetAssignedEmployee(&gd.bases[tech->base_idx], EMPL_SCIENTIST);
+                                       if (employee) {
+                                               employee->buildingID = -1;
+                                       } else {
+                                               Sys_Error("CL_CheckResearchStatus: More scientists assigned to tech than scientists assigned total.\n");
+                                       }
+                                       tech->scientists--; /* Moved here to avoid inf loop in case of data struction corruption*/
+                               }
                                tech->base_idx = -1;
-                               tech->scientists = 0;
                                RS_MarkResearched(tech->id);
                                researchListPos = 0;
                                newResearch++;

I tried to post this on the issue tracker on sourceforge, without much success.

[Hoehrer]

Thanks for that patch, i'll apply it as soon as i get some quirks out of it ... There already exist some functions that will handle all the assignment-stuff.

Thanks,
Werner