[kovarex] [0.15.X] Multipler Lifetime Green Circuit Achievments
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:36 am
I noticed this the first time I joined an MMO event from Katherine of Sky for the No Spoon Achievement. Previous to that, I had about 2 million GCs produced. After the event, I achieved the 20 million award. The total production of GC in the play through was only around a million, which had me very confused. It seemed it was inflated somehow.
I've been watching Katherine's latest MMO video using 0.15.21 or so, I'm not quite sure of the exact version, and I noticed that after a server crash and everyone had to re-join, that someone received the 20 million GC achievement upon rejoining. I've suspected for a while what happened is that rejoining somehow increased the GCs in the lifetime by the total produced over the lifetime of the map, which results in way higher GC lifetime than was real. This seems to confirm it for me that they are somehow related. If I am right, one could join a multiplayer even where, say, 1 million circuits have been produced, and then drop and re-join a few times, and get the achievement very quickly, despite doing little real work.
I'm not super familiar with the way Factorio code works, but there are a few potential solutions, if this in fact proves to be true (I don't really have a way to test it). One could be to store the number of GCs produced to date when joining a map, and subtracting the total the map has produced from the number at joining, and using that in calculations, which seems to me to be the most straightforward. Again, I'm not certain that I have the exact mechanism, but I am sure it existed in 0.14, and I have seen evidence that it might still exist in 0.15.
I've been watching Katherine's latest MMO video using 0.15.21 or so, I'm not quite sure of the exact version, and I noticed that after a server crash and everyone had to re-join, that someone received the 20 million GC achievement upon rejoining. I've suspected for a while what happened is that rejoining somehow increased the GCs in the lifetime by the total produced over the lifetime of the map, which results in way higher GC lifetime than was real. This seems to confirm it for me that they are somehow related. If I am right, one could join a multiplayer even where, say, 1 million circuits have been produced, and then drop and re-join a few times, and get the achievement very quickly, despite doing little real work.
I'm not super familiar with the way Factorio code works, but there are a few potential solutions, if this in fact proves to be true (I don't really have a way to test it). One could be to store the number of GCs produced to date when joining a map, and subtracting the total the map has produced from the number at joining, and using that in calculations, which seems to me to be the most straightforward. Again, I'm not certain that I have the exact mechanism, but I am sure it existed in 0.14, and I have seen evidence that it might still exist in 0.15.