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Cloak Fuel Burn - Critical Change for Cloaking Races Sunday, May 22, 2011 It has come to our attention that the amount of fuel burned while cloaking has been calculated incorrectly for cloaking ships weight > 100kt. These ships should burn their Floor((hull mass / 100) * 5) fuel per turn. Due to a small miscalculation all ships have been burning 5 fuel per turn regardless of their mass. This problem needs to be fixed and will affect Lizard and Fascist players most significantly and Birdman players to a lesser extent (Darkwings and Resolutes do not burn fuel while cloaked). This change could result in some of your ships suddenly running out of fuel and decloaking in bad situations. We do not want that to happen. So this bug fix is going to occur in two parts. Today we changed the user interface to reflect the correct fuel usage. So the program will show you the amount of fuel you are going to burn to cloak. However, the host program which actually uses the fuel will not be changed for 1 week (on 5/29/2011). After that the full fuel usage will take effect. Please plan accordingly on your ships. CommentsThere are 10 comments - add your comment darvster - Sunday, May 22, 2011 7:41 PM Oh dear !!! this can only be bad for my poor lizzy captains deep in enemy territory. I guess its time to set a course for home and start to jettison all those colonists who were hoping to set up camp in the midst of the enemy tom graves - Sunday, May 22, 2011 8:08 PM Does this also mean that smaller mass ships will burn LESS than 5 KT/turn of cloaking? challengespaceyard - Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:47 PM No. Minimum burn is 5kT. stepheniniowa - Monday, May 23, 2011 3:00 AM drat...........some one has called due the bird/lizie bill on cloaking...........do we have to pay off previous debts? stepheniniowa - Monday, May 23, 2011 3:03 AM darvster.......we "assume" nobody was jettisoned" and that all lizard families had returning members......but it was dark out there........records were scanty......who really knows crackpot - Monday, May 23, 2011 8:05 PM Oh dear, time for a Picard face palm for me ! (as a Lizard player) stepheniniowa - Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:42 AM the actual mass was honestly in dense mass radioactive Krugerrands........they jettisoned radioactive gold.......not colonists.......honest mihai2303 - Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:41 PM yes, noticed this was happening, but haven't said a thing, being lizard :)). appreciate how you are handling the transition period. crackpot - Friday, May 27, 2011 11:15 PM LCC's up from 5 to 8kt per turn to cloak. Boooooh Anonymous - Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:21 AM Yay!!! LOL
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