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"Just 1 ta is painful" - God help me.

Attorneyatlawl
Attorneyatlawl
Community Ambassador
The words echo through my mind now...

Painful. So painful. I'm debating quitting.... it hurts so much.

:(

A few minutes ago, I opened my mailbox to a mail I sent myself a 200-stack of "Ta" to on a secondary account, figuring I would sell them in zone chat while leveling a relative's character for her some.

The horror... the sheer horror, pictured (warning: graphic image not appropriate for children or sane adults):

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(bug reported, but... the sheer horror... :p)


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  • KitLightning
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    This is a ta to much for me :(
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  • SFBryan18
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    Were you able to take the attachments?
    Edited by SFBryan18 on August 17, 2014 7:18AM
  • Attorneyatlawl
    Attorneyatlawl
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    Nope, as explained in the chat there, it's not lootable (thankfully) :).

    -First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent. =P
    Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!

    -Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
    -Order of Mundus, Nightfighters, LoM, and Mostly Harmless founding member, "DPS: We Deliver."
    ________________
    -In-game mains abound with "Nerf" in their name. As I am asked occasionally, I do not play on anything but the PC NA Megaserver at this time.
  • phaneub17_ESO
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    I knew I seen that number before, someone withdrew all their Ta runes from the guild vendor as they weren't selling, he put up a couple of stack and when the game sent them back that exact same number came up.
  • NakedSnake
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    Leave it in your mail just in case. Eventually it may get fixed.
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  • BulbousMeathead
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    it looks like the result of some sort of uninitialised or incorrectly-initialised 32-bit integer in the code.
    4,294,967,240 is the highest number that can be expressed with an unsigned 32-bit integer MINUS 255. Or, another way of looking at it is a 4-byte integer in which the first 3 bytes are all binary '1' s and the 4th byte is all zeroes.

    so, yeah it looks like a bug. :-)
    Edited by BulbousMeathead on August 17, 2014 8:57AM
  • stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO
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    32-bit underflow on an unsigned integer. I wonder if we will ever see a 130% damage reduction proc to 374656353627 damage instead of 0?
  • BulbousMeathead
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    Actually, I'm thinking that they have some sort of signed integer with a negative amount (ie negative representing "withdrawing" of items or something like that) and then they have accidentally cast it into an unsigned integer further dowm the track.
    That's what it looks like.
    Edited by BulbousMeathead on August 17, 2014 9:15AM
  • Pele
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    Wow. This is amateur at best. I am splitting my rune stacks to 100 in case their fix deletes anything over.
  • daneyulebub17_ESO
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    Pele wrote: »
    Wow. This is amateur at best. I am splitting my rune stacks to 100 in case their fix deletes anything over.

    Yes, bugs are completely amateurish. Never ever seen one in a professional software, ever. Especially not an MMO!!!

    Boggles the mind!
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  • theyancey
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    I like ta-tas.
  • Dominoid
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    FYI: There is a current known bug when sending more than one stack of the same item.
  • nerevarine1138
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    I feel like I saw this exact picture in another thread. Not that you posted it, but I swear someone else got some extreme stack of Ta.
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  • Tabbycat
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    Ack, is that bug back? It was present during beta and I think part of the reason why the amount per stack was reduced.

    Best way to prevent it is to mail smaller stacks.
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  • ShadowscaleSithis
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    Nope, as explained in the chat there, it's not lootable (thankfully) :).

    Was it not looted because you did not have 4billion in pack space or because the mail was bugged? Now that is the question lol

  • Pele
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    Pele wrote: »
    Wow. This is amateur at best. I am splitting my rune stacks to 100 in case their fix deletes anything over.

    Yes, bugs are completely amateurish. Never ever seen one in a professional software, ever. Especially not an MMO!!!

    Boggles the mind!
    You've no idea what that specific error means.
  • UPrime
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    Pele wrote: »
    Wow. This is amateur at best. I am splitting my rune stacks to 100 in case their fix deletes anything over.

    Yes, bugs are completely amateurish. Never ever seen one in a professional software, ever. Especially not an MMO!!!

    Boggles the mind!

    I'd say it's more the QA that's the problem then the programming bug. It's easy to overlook something like that when coding, QA for a system this large should be automated a lot and should have caught that. They need better test cases I think.
  • daneyulebub17_ESO
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    Pele wrote: »
    Pele wrote: »
    Wow. This is amateur at best. I am splitting my rune stacks to 100 in case their fix deletes anything over.

    Yes, bugs are completely amateurish. Never ever seen one in a professional software, ever. Especially not an MMO!!!

    Boggles the mind!
    You've no idea what that specific error means.

    Okaaaay.... but I know bugs happen in all games. And to insultingly declare something like this one is "amateurish at best" is ridiculous, annoying hyperbole... at best.

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  • Gillysan
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    WTH? OP got no LOL's and you guys start some side argument. Fraken forum warriors, all of you nubs. I gave him one LOL.
  • Tabbycat
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    Sadly, when it does that, the item is corrupted beyond repair. You never do get it back. :(
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  • Attorneyatlawl
    Attorneyatlawl
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    Tabbycat wrote: »
    Sadly, when it does that, the item is corrupted beyond repair. You never do get it back. :(

    I'd better unstack my kuta/rekuta :eek: .

    -First-Wave Closed Beta Tester of the Psijic Order, aka the 0.016 percent. =P
    Exploits suck. Don't blame just the game, blame the players abusing them!

    -Playing since July 2013, back when we had a killspam channel in Cyrodiil and the lands of Tamriel were roamed by dinosaurs.
    -Order of Mundus, Nightfighters, LoM, and Mostly Harmless founding member, "DPS: We Deliver."
    ________________
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  • Srugzal
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    Pele wrote: »
    Pele wrote: »
    Wow. This is amateur at best. I am splitting my rune stacks to 100 in case their fix deletes anything over.

    Yes, bugs are completely amateurish. Never ever seen one in a professional software, ever. Especially not an MMO!!!

    Boggles the mind!
    You've no idea what that specific error means.

    You've no idea what sarcasm is.
  • Moonshadow66
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    I haven't encountered the "Ta" problem yet, but often when I recieve fresh hireling stuff, it says "1657 days ago" (or 1567, something like that) instead of 1 minute ago. Apparently there's something wrong with numbers in mails. Well, at least the attachments are still there and not expired since they last only 3 days, as far as I know ;)
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  • Pele
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    Tabbycat wrote: »
    Sadly, when it does that, the item is corrupted beyond repair. You never do get it back. :(

    I'd better unstack my kuta/rekuta :eek: .
    That would be wise. Someone on the crafting forums stated they were doing so as a precaution; I thought he was being too cautious. However, after viewing the OP's screenshot, I am not going to take any chances.

    UPrime wrote: »
    Pele wrote: »
    Wow. This is amateur at best. I am splitting my rune stacks to 100 in case their fix deletes anything over.

    Yes, bugs are completely amateurish. Never ever seen one in a professional software, ever. Especially not an MMO!!!

    Boggles the mind!

    I'd say it's more the QA that's the problem then the programming bug. It's easy to overlook something like that when coding, QA for a system this large should be automated a lot and should have caught that. They need better test cases I think.
    Indeed.
  • Srugzal
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    UPrime wrote: »
    They need better test cases I think.

    Wow, this is the understatement of the year. :o

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