unplayable because of fuel bug

[ChemBro]

I wanted to try 2.3 stable, because of the "new tactical mission radar" (which I don't know how to activate), but for that, I need to go to a mission. The problem is: I cannot reach it.

My base is (for example) in France and the mission is in north Germany. I cannot reach it, because halfway between France and Germany, the game says: not enough fuel, back to base. So at this point.... I cannot play the game. :-(

[alienfood]

I'm seeing this as well - the interceptor or dropship runs out of fuel the moment it lifts out of the base.

I saw a thread about this in the 2.4-dev bugs forum, so I posted a little more detail there. Presumable once a fix is found it will be backported to 2.3.

[Kobold]

I wanted to try 2.3 stable, because of the "new tactical mission radar" (which I don't know how to activate), but for that, I need to go to a mission. The problem is: I cannot reach it.

My base is (for example) in France and the mission is in north Germany. I cannot reach it, because halfway between France and Germany, the game says: not enough fuel, back to base. So at this point.... I cannot play the game. :-(

you guys play the version from forum  (Win32 Development Binary Installer Links) or the SVN version or the download from official release (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufoai/files/UFO_AI%202.x/2.3/ufoai-2.3-win32.exe/download) and you use both the Windows version?

i use the official release from 2.3 (Windows) now and i have to say there is no fuel bug... really i fly above the half planet without no fuel problems.

[ChemBro]

I'm on Arch Linux here.

[alienfood]

Arch Linux here as well.

I tried the Win32 version today (on someone else's PC) and it didn't show this bug.

[songangel]

For my fellow linux users, just recompile without the --enable-release flag to configure and it will work.  I am the OP of this same bug still being present in the 2.4 dev version and I never got an answer from anyone so as a workaround you can build the debug version.

I use Arch as well so just download the tarball from the AUR and make the change to the PKGBUILD and it will work as expected.

[songangel]

Arch Linux here as well.

I tried the Win32 version today (on someone else's PC) and it didn't show this bug.

The Win32 version is compiled as debug by default I think.  I'm surprised to find a bug this serious in a stable release but at least there's a workaround for now.

[alienfood]

Tried it on 64-bit Arch Linux today (i.e. built a 64-bit binary), and it works! No fuel bug. I used the --enable-release flag.

Hope this helps find the problem.