discussion Mining Rigs Info request and maybe a bug.

[Darkrift411]

Not sure if this is actually a bug, and from what I can tell the mining system is still new/experimental, so some of this may simply be unfinished. I spent some time testing it and even threw the observed numbers into AI to see if I could reverse engineer how it works, but there are still a few things that aren't clear from the information currently provided.

1: Repair / Damage / Durability

The durability system is very unclear. You can't even see the durability stat until after purchasing a rig.

The rig description says "2% break / cycle", but it doesn't explain what that means. Is that:

• 2% durability loss per cycle?
• 2% chance to take damage?
• 2% chance to fully break?
• Something else?

My Midline Rig earned 39.6 LC while dropping from 150/150 durability to 62/150 durability, but even with those numbers I couldn't correlate the durability loss to the listed 2% value.

2: Repair Button

The Repair button currently appears to do nothing. (This is the maybe-bug)

There is no error message, popup, confirmation, page refresh, or visible action. Looking in DevTools, it didn't appear to even attempt a request to the server.

Can rigs only be repaired after reaching 0 durability, or is the button currently non-functional?

Also, is the repair cost prorated based on missing durability, or does it always cost the full repair amount regardless of current durability?

3: Mining Timing

How often does mining actually occur?

I purchased my rig shortly before 10 PM and checked multiple times over the next several hours. Nothing changed until sometime overnight, when a reward of 39.6 LC appeared all at once.

Is mining processed:

• Hourly?
• Every few hours?
• Once per day?
• On a fixed server schedule?
• Based on the time the rig was purchased?

A little more information about the mining cycle would be helpful.

Overall, the mining itself appears to be working now, but a lot of the underlying mechanics are difficult to understand from the current UI.

Again, not bitching, and I do understand this is new, so I am just trying to get some info about it. As well as maybe hinting at the parts you need to edit to clarify stuff for users (if this sticks around, I see there are frequent changes to the coins/activity systems).

 

[Jack Of Blades]

currently in the process of fixing it all.

Post automatically merged: Thursday at 3:41 PM

Not sure if this is actually a bug, and from what I can tell the mining system is still new/experimental, so some of this may simply be unfinished. I spent some time testing it and even threw the observed numbers into AI to see if I could reverse engineer how it works, but there are still a few things that aren't clear from the information currently provided.

1: Repair / Damage / Durability

The durability system is very unclear. You can't even see the durability stat until after purchasing a rig.

The rig description says "2% break / cycle", but it doesn't explain what that means. Is that:

• 2% durability loss per cycle?
• 2% chance to take damage?
• 2% chance to fully break?
• Something else?

My Midline Rig earned 39.6 LC while dropping from 150/150 durability to 62/150 durability, but even with those numbers I couldn't correlate the durability loss to the listed 2% value.

2: Repair Button

The Repair button currently appears to do nothing. (This is the maybe-bug)

There is no error message, popup, confirmation, page refresh, or visible action. Looking in DevTools, it didn't appear to even attempt a request to the server.

Can rigs only be repaired after reaching 0 durability, or is the button currently non-functional?

Also, is the repair cost prorated based on missing durability, or does it always cost the full repair amount regardless of current durability?

3: Mining Timing

How often does mining actually occur?

I purchased my rig shortly before 10 PM and checked multiple times over the next several hours. Nothing changed until sometime overnight, when a reward of 39.6 LC appeared all at once.

Is mining processed:

• Hourly?
• Every few hours?
• Once per day?
• On a fixed server schedule?
• Based on the time the rig was purchased?

A little more information about the mining cycle would be helpful.

Overall, the mining itself appears to be working now, but a lot of the underlying mechanics are difficult to understand from the current UI.

Again, not bitching, and I do understand this is new, so I am just trying to get some info about it. As well as maybe hinting at the parts you need to edit to clarify stuff for users (if this sticks around, I see there are frequent changes to the coins/activity systems).

should be fixed. (every hour)

 

[Darkrift411]

Ok, just noticed this:

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It seems to be miscalculating the durability hit. My newly rented rig went from 150 dura to 54 during this period, so I feel one of those 2 should show that. I think from 150>62 was in the bottom one, and the top one would have been 62>54.
But I guess it is possible you were not tracking that at the time, so any rewards issued before you made that change could just show 0, and if this is the case the next reward would show the correct dura loss #.

 

[Darkrift411]

I know you are still working on it, but I was wondering if the crons are disabled, broke, or are running as they should but the status is just confusing.

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Nothing happened at the 5:15 point, and the 6:15 point was almost an hour ago. The "never" part of the cron health is kinda confusing. I assume it has never run since the new cron monitoring code was put in place? And based on the due now, I take it that it has not run in 4 hours and when it does, it will catch up on all of the cycles that were missed/skipped?

Also, side note, I notice in some screens, times (such as renting a rig) are in what appear to be server time (I think its 8 hours behind me), and other times are my local time. You might want to look into syncing those so they all match to reduce confusion.

Actually... that last part might be incorrect. When I first saw that, it was 5:45pm my time, so I manually assumed 5:15 my time. But I just realized that would likely have shown 17:15 if it was my time. So ignore the whole time part. Although showing a time for stuff like this in server time without clearing showing the current server time could be part of the confusion.

 

[Darkrift411]

Im assuming you are aware, but just in case. The mining page has been throwing a 500 ise for a few hours. I figured it was worth bringing up incase it was something you were not aware of.

 

[TheDarkKnight]

Im assuming you are aware, but just in case. The mining page has been throwing a 500 ise for a few hours. I figured it was worth bringing up incase it was something you were not aware of.

The error is still on duty.

 

[Kilinger]

prety sure we can assume it will take couple days to get it back up, shame i just spent coins on it before it went down tho.

 

[Darkrift411]

prety sure we can assume it will take couple days to get it back up, shame i just spent coins on it before it went down tho.

I doubt you will lose anything. He will likely just run whatever jobs didnt process. If you dont get anything and do lose out on what oyu would have gotten, Im pretty sure he would fix it.

 

[Darkrift411]

Well, mining is back up, but my rig rental expired and the backdated tasks still didnt run, so I didnt get the LC from the last 1.5 or so days. Not a huge deal, since I don't really have anything to spend it on and I can earn that in 1-2 days in the vault.