negative inventory

[Crush7100]

Just wondering about a situation I been having. Running a terran mercenary out of Idan in Zilon. After a little while was selling some cargo and noticed some of the stations inventory was at a negative value. Ran a search of the forum but didnt find anything related. Not something important just a bother when it happens to be an item I trade in. Happen to anybody else?

[Guest MIKE113]

Just started playing with the RC23 and RC30 patches and I have noticed the same thing. Also if I sell an item (1) to a station that has that item(1) the one I sell it disappears and the one it had also. Strange.

[Fractux]

I noteiced this as well, but i wasn't sure what it was. I thought maybe it had to do with demand or somehting.

Can anyone explain?

[Supreme Cmdr]

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Originally posted by Crush:

Just wondering about a situation I been having. Running a terran mercenary out of Idan in Zilon. After a little while was selling some cargo and noticed some of the stations inventory was at a negative value. Ran a search of the forum but didnt find anything related. Not something important just a bother when it happens to be an item I trade in. Happen to anybody else?

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Are you running the latest version?

Do you have a saved game?

[ 12-26-2002, 07:46 AM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

[Guest MIKE113]

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Are you running the latest version?

Do you have a saved game?

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Yes, 1.0.08 RC30.

Yes.

I will continue to play this one today so I can get more stations in the file.

[Supreme Cmdr]

If you have a saved game with a station that has negative inventory, send that saved game to [email protected]

[Crush7100]

I am running RC28 and do have a saved game. Still want me to send it, dont want to overdo it if Mike113 sent one. Also grabbed screen shots from early on in mine. They are here

http://www.geocities.com/crush7100

[Guest MIKE113]

Saved game sent.

[Supreme Cmdr]

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Originally posted by Crush:

I am running RC28 and do have a saved game. Still want me to send it, dont want to overdo it if Mike113 sent one. Also grabbed screen shots from early on in mine. They are here

http://www.geocities.com/crush7100

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Don't bother. I suppose the latest version query above was lose on you.

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Originally posted by MIKE113:

Saved game sent.

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The archive is corrupt. And I sent you email asking you to check it before resending.

[ 12-28-2002, 09:22 AM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

[Guest MIKE113]

Having trouble with attachments on my e-mail account. I will try later using my e-mail at work.

[Guest MIKE113]

OK, files sent again under different e-mail.

[Supreme Cmdr]

Forgot to reply to this. Anyway, I got 'em but by that time, I'd already looked at the code and determined that negative inventory has been supported in all previous BC games - but it never became a problem because it was hard to deplete a station's resources.

In BCM however, due to how the resupply works and due to the ability to siege stations etc, this can happen (as you have discovered). Its not dangerous and in fact, in modern day applications, inventory can be negative to indicate how many of an item are needed. e.g. -5 means you need 5 more. BUT because the BCM inventory system does not have the concept of restocking items based on demand, a negative inventory looks odd.

For this reason, in the next patch, the inventory amount will be clamped to zero if it ever goes below zero. But in BCO - which will have a brand new supply and demand enconomy system, it might be re-instated again.

So, its not a bug. It works as designed.