URL:
<http://gna.org/bugs/?15422>
Summary: Illness popup in client is inaccurate -- doesn't
show risk from trade
Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: jtn
Submitted on: Friday 19/02/10 at 00:03
Category: rulesets
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Release: 2.2.0-RC1
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: None
Planned Release:
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Details:
In the Gtk client, I'm getting a different number in "Plague Risk" in the
city dialog to the total shown in the popup when I click on that risk.
For instance I have a city where the dialog claims a risk of 10.2, but the
popup says:
+9.0 : Risk from over crowdness
+0.0 : Risk from trade
+0.1 : Risk from pollution
==== : Adds up to
9.1 : Total chance for a plague
The difference between the two is that the city dialog,
gui-gtk-2.0/citydlg.c:city_dialog_update_information(), used the cached value
in the city structure (which comes from the server, I think?), whereas
get_city_dialog_illness_text(), which is used for the popup, works it out
from scratch (calling city_illness()) on the client.
In my setup these are on the same machine built from the same codebase. (The
patch for bug #15373 is applied locally, but I don't think that's
significant, see analysis below.)
I think the problem is that the calculation in get_trade_illness() depends on
"turn_plague", which is not included in
PACKET_CITY_INFO/PACKET_CITY_SHORT_INFO, so the client always sees it as -1
(never); thus, I don't think the displayed "Risk from trade" can ever be
non-zero, even if the real contribution is.
I tested this by hacking the server to always treat trade risk as zero but
keeping the client unmodified; the two numbers then agreed (and were the same
as the previous popup calculation). Also, the trade route endpoints of the
city in question do have a turn_plague that will cause a penalty.
The obvious fix is to add turn_plague to
PACKET_CITY_INFO/PACKET_CITY_SHORT_INFO, but presuambly that needs doing
carefully if it's possible at all. Perhaps it can be done with capabilities?
I haven't yet investigated what's possible here.
If it can be added in a backwards compatible way, then new clients can cope
with old servers by either refusing to display a popup at all or by
displaying incomplete information in the popup (no total).
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