Update of bug #19272 (project freeciv):
Severity: 3 - Normal => 4 - Important
Status: None => Ready For Test
Assigned to: None => jtn
Release: => 2.2.7, 2.3.1
Planned Release: => 2.2.8, 2.3.2, 2.4.0,
2.5.0
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Follow-up Comment #1:
Oh dear, that's embarrassing. Reproduced (see attached incite_test4 savefile
with the multiplayer ruleset -- try to incite Bordeaux).
So... I have a fix for this, but it's possible that you may not like the
effects.
The fix is simply to use double arithmetic rather than int in
city_incite_cost(). This calculates intermediate results much larger than the
final cost, and it's certainly plausible that these overflow with the
coefficients in the multiplayer ruleset.
For good measure, if the *final* cost ends up greater than
INCITE_IMPOSSIBLE_COST (_one BEELLEEON dollars_), then we just return
IMPOSSIBLE (not that this is likely to happen in practice).
I've verified the fix continues to give the same results in non-wrapping
cases (e.g., incite_test3 savefile).
What I've found is that, with the multiplayer ruleset at least (haven't
checked Longturn), it's rather easy to run into the "wrapping" range with
plausible scenarios -- I've run into trouble when the "correct" incite cost
exceeds about two million (the test file here is just over the edge). So, it
seems likely that some previously-positive-but-incorrect incite costs in real
games will become much bigger.
It would thus probably be a good idea to plausibility check the incite costs
if applying this fix to a running Longturn server.
(If we take a "baseline" incite cost (before other factors) to be
base_incite_cost * incite_total_factor / 100, then for the default ruleset we
start at 1000*100/100 = 1000 and it goes up and down (mostly up) from there,
but for the multiplayer ruleset we start at a cool million (10000*10000/100).
That doesn't leave much headroom for the other multiplicative factors before
running into trouble.)
(file #14791, file #14792, file #14793)
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