Potential time bug found

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Potential time bug found

Post by Guest » 03.07.2011, 17:21

As some of you know, I work as a php programmer, and im not exactly sure if this is a bug, and by any means, the potential of it is fairly limited, but it seems something I should draw to your attention.

I was creating power when i typed 9 in by accident, meaning to use the shortcut key for 99,999,999. I noticed that (and quite right) it finished instantly, which drew my attention to the speed of the production itself.

I worked out that at 0.00543 seconds per unit, i could produce 153 units per second, so i wondered what would happen if the time taken was less than one second?

So i produced 152 units of power, which finished instantaneously, then I hit f5 and enter at the same time, due to my fast internet speed and the speed of your servers, i worked out that using this method, I can produce 456 units of power per second, instead of just 152.

I have done some preliminary tests, and I am not sure yet if it is miscalculation on my part or an actual bug, but I thought I would draw it to your attention.

Obviously, the implications of this for me are very small, an extra 0.8 caps per second is nothing to me, but to a new player, who set there computer to auto refresh across 5 or 6 browser tabs? they could make 4 caps per second whilst sleeping, which works out to:

240 caps per minute.
1480 caps per hour.

So over 10,000 caps whilst they sleep, which would be a large advantage.

Anyway, if this turns out to be nothing, sorry for wasting your time.

Regards,
Unity

P.S. If it is, who do i send the extra 6k power to?

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Post by Duffhead » 04.07.2011, 13:09

Hello UnityGasExchange,

I've forwarded this issue to the programmer and make sure he'll look into it.

Guest

Post by Guest » 05.07.2011, 10:21

Thanks a lot :)

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