Skies of Glory - from the makers of F.A.S.T.

[Origami]

I want Shiden-Kai!!!!

[Handy]

Originally Posted by Origami

I want Shiden-Kai!!!!

Ha ha! bill gates has one. Give him a call...

[orion7319]

Originally Posted by Razvan

Hello Cometti,

First of all I need to say WOW, that's a really nice bug you found there.
I looked in the code and your observations are pretty accurate.

What is really happening is the following:
Each plane has 2 properties (among others): firepower and armour (examples: 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.3 ...)
Each bullet/rocket/bomb has a damage expressed in percentage like this: 0.02 means it takes 2% of the plane life, 0.2 means it takes 20% of the plane's life and so on...
When you spawn, the plane has the life 1.0 meaning 100%.

When plane1 shoots plane2 the formula of the damage given to plane2 is the following:

plane2_damage = bulletdamage x plane1_firepower / plane2_armour

This means if plane1 has more firepower it will give more damage, if plane2 has more armour it will get less damage.

The bug ... is the following.
Right now the formula is like this:
plane2_damage = bulletdamage x plane1_firepower / plane1_armour

That means plane1's armour is taken into account instead of plane2's. The formula was incorrect and we apologize.
The fun part of the bug is that if you have a low armour plane you will take more damage to the other planes.

The good news is that we only need to do a minor modification for the server and not an actual application update.

My respect for finding this bug! It will be immediately fixed.
Also we are planning to do a minor update with some bugfixes including the one with the player's name. You will have 18 characters maximum name length.

Thanks for the bug once again!

Cheers,
Razvan.

No wonder I was finding it easier to down planes! So right now less armor=greater firepower... Neat! Way to go Cometti Also I had a bad case of the choppies yesterday after upgrading to the latest version (long story) and I had to totally restore my iPod. Is this issue server related or a problem with the software getting installed funny or something. Knowing this kind of stuff would help us out greatly in determining for ourselves if we should try fixing the issues ourselves, by resetting, uninstalling, reinstalling, ect... or if we should just be paitent and wait for you guys to resolve things on your end. I lost my 100 dogfight stat along with all the others. I wish there was a way to get those back. In future versions could there be a way to sync all your userdata to your pc via iTunes somehow? Also if someone upgrades their iPhone/iPod then there previous ranking then becomes null and void. All of the top 10 worked hard to get there, it will be a shame seeing people having to start from scratch trying to get back there simply because their batteries eventually wore out.

[orion7319]

Originally Posted by shern25

Yup. It seems to be so. Funny isn't it.

Have u tried all planes? I've just complete my tour of flying all the planes, including Corsair I, P40 I, Mosquito and P38.

I can't do any test now. Wife has taken back her iPhone.

Yes I have tried all the planes though not extinsively. It sounds like though after Razvan fixes this firepower armor bug, I should try them all out again to see how the perform as they were intended too.

[shern25]

Originally Posted by orion7319

Yes I have tried all the planes though not extinsively. It sounds like though after Razvan fixes this firepower armor bug, I should try them all out again to see how the perform as they were intended too.

Razvan said he has not fixed yet. He will let us know when he's done. Btw, after the fixed, u'll find u down faster on planes having less armor than your plane but down slower on planes that has higher armor.

[shern25]

After the fix we will have 18 characters for name. Now let's start thinking of our name. Let's see, I will change to [SAB]Sparrowhawk. 16 characters. Haha.

Edit: or "google toucharcade". 18 characters!

[Razvan]

The bug should be fixed now. I haven't done any testing but I suppose it should be fixed.

Razvan.

[orion7319]

Originally Posted by shern25

Razvan said he has not fixed yet. He will let us know when he's done. Btw, after the fixed, u'll find u down faster on planes having less armor than your plane but down slower on planes that has higher armor.

Yeah, I know! Sounds like I will like the Yak more after that correction is made! I really do hope he will be kind enough to respond about the choppiness issues, and also about our scores being tied to our hardware. I know you have brought up that last concern in the past when you were considering upgrading your iPhone.

[orion7319]

Originally Posted by Razvan

The bug should be fixed now. I haven't done any testing but I suppose it should be fixed.

Razvan.

Thanks!

[Cometti]

Originally Posted by Razvan

Hello Cometti,

First of all I need to say WOW, that's a really nice bug you found there.
I looked in the code and your observations are pretty accurate.

What is really happening is the following:
Each plane has 2 properties (among others): firepower and armour (examples: 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.3 ...)
Each bullet/rocket/bomb has a damage expressed in percentage like this: 0.02 means it takes 2% of the plane life, 0.2 means it takes 20% of the plane's life and so on...
When you spawn, the plane has the life 1.0 meaning 100%.

When plane1 shoots plane2 the formula of the damage given to plane2 is the following:

plane2_damage = bulletdamage x plane1_firepower / plane2_armour

This means if plane1 has more firepower it will give more damage, if plane2 has more armour it will get less damage.

The bug ... is the following.
Right now the formula is like this:
plane2_damage = bulletdamage x plane1_firepower / plane1_armour

That means plane1's armour is taken into account instead of plane2's. The formula was incorrect and we apologize.
The fun part of the bug is that if you have a low armour plane you will take more damage to the other planes.

The good news is that we only need to do a minor modification for the server and not an actual application update.

My respect for finding this bug! It will be immediately fixed.
Also we are planning to do a minor update with some bugfixes including the one with the player's name. You will have 18 characters maximum name length.

Thanks for the bug once again!

Cheers,
Razvan.

Hi Razvan,

It was my pleasure.
Thank you for a detailed explanation.
I am looking forward to the update.

There are a lot of SoG fans also in Japan.
They fight hot every evening.
Thank you for a wonderful game.