Negative Oil

davetheroad · Post by **davetheroad** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:29 pm

in the end game of a pbem match rumania fell and the axis oil went to MINUS 555
As this was a pre patch game i ran some checks with the patched version
rumania falling causes a number of points to be deducted from the axis stockpile. Why? i can see no logic in this.

worse still even in the patched game you get NEGATIVE stockpile values, this is just plain silly, we all know you cant have a negative value here. it just cripples the axis and spoils the game and needs fixing ASAP
Dave

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:09 am

This sounds like a bug. Do you have a saved game before the issue occured?

davetheroad · Post by **davetheroad** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:18 pm

Yes but I am away from home and only have dialup.
the negative numbers and a deduction for losing Rumania can be replicated easily by firing up a hotseat 44 scenario, moving the germans out of the way, running down the oil to say 5 points and then occupying Bucharest with a russian. you will then see the negative oil total
Dave

YohanPBEM2 · Post by **YohanPBEM2** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:02 pm

I am asking over here as well as at Matrix why a hot fix for this has not been issued. The game dies post 1943 without a fix.

firepowerjohan · Post by **firepowerjohan** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:17 pm

The oil bug will be fixed for next patch. There are reasons for not relasing too many hotfixes and it should really only be used for crashes. We do not want to release a doussin of patches for CEaW instead we want to keep them big. Especially this is better due to ppl not having to update so often and delete their old saves and also compatibility issue in multiplayer.

Despite the oil bug being a terrible thing that cannot be defended in any way, I do not see it as a game breaker in many games. Once USSR can conquer Romania (and it often happens in the late phase), Germany should be close to defeat.

Stryder · Post by **Stryder** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:01 pm

firepowerjohan wrote:The oil bug will be fixed for next patch. There are reasons for not relasing too many hotfixes and it should really only be used for crashes. We do not want to release a doussin of patches for CEaW instead we want to keep them big. Especially this is better due to ppl not having to update so often and delete their old saves and also compatibility issue in multiplayer.

Despite the oil bug being a terrible thing that cannot be defended in any way, I do not see it as a game breaker in many games. Once USSR can conquer Romania (and it often happens in the late phase), Germany should be close to defeat.

Johan, is there a list of what will be in the next patch?