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Bulletin Board Duplicate Items Shown (lots)
Observed behaviour
Bulletin Board is populated with many dozens of missions etc.
Expected behaviour
Typically only maybe a couple scan missions if even, maybe a dozen or two missions/items max total.
Steps to reproduce
* Yet to determine.
Park outside a station and wait for days. Or even just park inside a station and wait for days. If waiting on the bulletin board screen, any action (visiting an item, leaving & coming back) refreshes with the new entries.
My pioneer version (and OS):
** Half notion may relate to save reloading, but that's a tenuously formed notion, may be a red-herring
*** (Marginally less tenuous a notion, when encountering this before, [(while saves were not retaining shop state from a prior bug(... I thought I knew which to link, but failed to find ... maybe mandela effect, heh.)], an exit out and load back in and this could be reverted to a normal bulletin board listing... ~ I think. not 100% sure about that. Vague recollection suggests. But now, I caught a save with that overpopulated bulletinboard, that reloads with the bulletin board still overloaded.)
- Pioneer version: Master branch, 48efc4667,
- OS: Linux
My output.txt (required) and game save (optional, but recommended)
- output: http://ks392457.kimsufi.com/stuff/pioneer/output.txt
- Save with example overpopulated bulletin board at Poseidon station : http://ks392457.kimsufi.com/stuff/pioneer/M20240130%20b%20mola%20hd4%20100
Screenshots:
http://ks392457.kimsufi.com/stuff/pioneer/scrots/
I made these with a scrot ; sleep 1 ; scrot ; sleep 1 type of command chain while I scrolled through. These screenshots give some idea what it's like, though by far not all that's there. For example, look how small the scrollbar handle is.
A feature, not a bug.
When playing, and encountering this on rare occasions, it can be interpreted with a narrative of some event taking place nearby that caused the surge in activity. Then there's no shattering of suspension of disbelief. ... Though, it is a stretch when that there are that many an increase over the norm. [Edit: Okay, so understanding the bulletin board starts with few, then accumulates more over time, it stretches the suspension of disbelief in a different way... which would seem less jarring by keeping the total number of bulletinboard items in a range similar to as originally appear when first arriving, rather than continually accumulating.]
Yeah, this is definitely a bug, not a feature. Doesn't look like they're duplicates, so for some reason very many adverts are generated sometimes.
I confirm, orbited nearby planet for days and this awaited me in a Station nearby.
https://i.imgur.com/8g4SYvX.gif
I confirm, orbited nearby planet for days and this awaited me in a Station nearby.
https://i.imgur.com/8g4SYvX.gif
Thanks.
As amended to original post:
Okay, so understanding the bulletin board starts with few, then accumulates more over time, it stretches the suspension of disbelief in a different way... which would seem less jarring by keeping the total number of bulletin board items in a range similar to as originally appear when first arriving, rather than continually accumulating.
... Does that count as a feature request? :)
to mention / to compare #4273 is still kept open (Sorry, I can not run pioneer and test)