unpowered armory

[Benny Lava]

In Niveus, when RC is built in new base location, with armory and some other stuff already in place, the armory at the new base is not powered even when the RC is next to it.  I observed this happening twice in the same map.  Any ideas why?

[superspirality]

You forgot to plug it into the wall socket.

[c4]

You forgot to plug it into the wall socket.

ohi quintin

[RoHAK]

I think I may have seen the same problem. We resolved it by building a repeater (which then destroyed itself because of the RC), but then the arm had power... No idea what was wrong tho.

[superspirality]

You forgot to plug it into the wall socket.

ohi quintin

f1 or bus won't leave

[Haraldx]

Lol, once all our base got unpowered  Strangely, we could build, but the buildings didn't work

[c4]

Lol, once all our base got unpowered  Strangely, we could build, but the buildings didn't work

Reset the wall socket.

[superspirality]

Lol, once all our base got unpowered  Strangely, we could build, but the buildings didn't work

Power cycle the map.

Fixed a little bit.

[cron]

It's pretty easy to replicate this bug on Niveus. If done right, it can easily ruin the round, or at least cause the entire human team to freak out for a couple minutes as half of their new base blows up around them.

[Undeference]

Video or it didn't happen. (But really, put a demo and/or instructions to reproduce on Bugzilla—which is where bug reports belong, after all.)

[cron]

Video or it didn't happen. (But really, put a demo and/or instructions to reproduce on Bugzilla—which is where bug reports belong, after all.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6dJG7zYkM

Here's a video showing this happening. At the end, you can see how the armory and medistation have no power. It's possible to build a base that will be almost completely unpowered after the rc move, in which almost every structure will blow up if not deconstructed in time.

[Teapot]

I've seen this a few times too. I believe the bug is related to having the sum of all buildings near the RC greater than the build points the team has minus the build point queue (or something, not really sure about this whole sentence). I'm not sure that's possible (with repeaters maybe?) but I'll think about it later. My suspicions come from discovering a bug like this in a mod I made. I'll see if I can dig up a patch but iirc I just powered everything near the RC for simplicity -- which only worked because of the nature of the mod. It might help though.