Vgstation13: Electrical storm event refills SMES's

[D3athrow-Issues]

(WEB REPORT BY: dragonbro REMOTE: 172.93.109.202:7777)

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General description of the issue
For some strange reason, when the electrical storm fires and does its thing, previously near-empty SMES's come out of it completely refilled, despite not having any power sources

What you expected to happen
The turned off power to not produce more power

What actually happened
FREE POWER

Steps to reproduce if possible
Have a shit engineering team
Watch as they die in stupid ways, not getting power set up
An electrical storm rolls in and out, turning station power on and off as it goes
Marvel that SMES's are now at full, enjoy another 40 minutes to get the station's power problems sorted

[mrpain666]

ITS A FEEEAAAAAAAATURRRREEEEEEE

[ghost]

Why was this closed when it wasn't explained/fixed?

[PJB3005]

Here's the reason this happens.

The problem is, oldcoders are fucking braindead, and their method of implementing this was to, instead of disabling output on the SMES, forcefully turning OFF APCs and stuff, they decided that it should wipe everything to 0% charge, AND turn off the output and input on the SMES while they were at it.

Guess what, they didn't actually bother to code a method to _store_ what they ruined, result being, they just blindly force everything to 100% charge, including setting input and output values on SMES cells on the maximum.

[ghost]

If that's the case, why was this issue closed?

[Exxion]

Fantastic question

[ComicIronic]

Because it's a bad use of the web reporting tool. This isn't a bug, it's just how the code works, and the web reporter shouldn't be used to make change requests because we have no followup from the user who submitted it originally.

[ghost]

So, you're saying power from nowhere isn't a bug? It refilled SMES's that had no power source

Also, I'm the guy who reported it

[PJB3005]

Is it a bug? Technically no.

Is it goddamn retarded? Certainly yes.

[Exxion]

I would argue that it is a bug
Batshit stupid behavior coming from something being poorly-coded

[ComicIronic]

That's not a bug. Bugs are when something is intended to have a specific behaviour, and doesn't. It's not when a general idea is implemented in a way you don't like.

[Exxion]

Good thing we definitely know that this is exactly what the coders who made it work this way intended, not anything that would actually make sense

[9600bauds]

Who gives a shit about the semantics, this is certainly not misuse of the webreporter and certainly shouldn't be closed