My robot stops working, but there's no bug!

[Great Ramil]

So, i made robot which collects fire made by other robots and move it into the bonfire, and it were working very well! But... They just stop working for no reason, there's no red square and so on, i do not change anything... They just stop working. They have energy, they have a access to the things they have to pick, they just stop working after few times. But robots which make a fire and move it to the storage from which other robots gets a fire works without any issues! Why it happens?

Note: i tried to use some robots who makes the fire, they worked very well, but they broke too after few times... And also after i restart program they go to first thing they have to pick up, they pick it up and then just standing

[Ovrscout]

Hi, the same thing happens to me a lot when i use the same "program" in multiple robots.
I tried to stop, reset and clear the robots memory then recreate the program. But after few cycles, it happens again. Hope this will be fixed before release :(

[Great Ramil]

Originally posted by Ovrscout:

Hi, the same thing happens to me a lot when i use the same "program" in multiple robots.
I tried to stop, reset and clear the robots memory then recreate the program. But after few cycles, it happens again. Hope this will be fixed before release :(

They should fix that in demo version too tho

[Great Ramil]

I lost right now 5 of mines bots, one of them were making energy and moving it to the storage and 4 which where moving fire to the bonfires, this is so annoying. It's impossible to play while that bug exists, idk how but my friend got just 1 glitched bot, but i getting tons of them in all saves.

[GlutenBoy]

I agree same thing happened to me, everything was moving along and then this happened. It's unplayable with this bug :(

[Great Ramil]

Originally posted by GlutenBoy:

I agree same thing happened to me, everything was moving along and then this happened. It's unplayable with this bug :(

I agree, i quit game when that happened, but then joined again. My friend had just 1 glitched bot, so i tried again. Then all bots broke again, it's unplayable!

[ivolff]

Wow It's so sad to see you have such problem, I passed it to our QA.

Did you report it by ingame reporter, if it contineously exists after restarting game, it should be wery usefull for us.

Looks really serious, hope will fix soon.

[Great Ramil]

Originally posted by ivolff:

Wow It's so sad to see you have such problem, I passed it to our QA.

Did you report it by ingame reporter, if it contineously exists after restarting game, it should be wery usefull for us.

Looks really serious, hope will fix soon.

Yes, i reported this bug ingame already. I restarted game once after my robots broke, but this bug happened again.
Note: robots with starter functions (that you don't need to buy) works perfectly, but when i buy something and use it with some chance this code can break robots after few times they complete it. Every time i use that code which broke one robot will break like that other robots with that code, and then nothing helped me to make them work again. After code restart, after changing code to the other which works perfectly (which has only starter functions), but it broke and it won't work again. They after code restart just doing first command as i said and then freezes.

[Great Ramil]

Originally posted by ivolff:

Wow It's so sad to see you have such problem, I passed it to our QA.

Did you report it by ingame reporter, if it contineously exists after restarting game, it should be wery usefull for us.

Looks really serious, hope will fix soon.

Will my broken robots will start work again after fix, or i will need to restart game? Also my friend already completed demo, and he got that bug only once on 1 robot while i were getting it every time. I don't know why. But game is very cool, i really liked it! I played it few hours in first day and then left beacuse of bug, but then returned again with hope this bug won't happen again and left it before it will get fixed again =( (but if there would be no bug i would play it MUCH more!)

[Ovrscout]

Hi ivolff,
i sent the bugreport today after re-testing with today game update.
(The bug report dialog can also use some improvement. It seems the text cannot be easily edited - no cursor and only deleting from last character. Also new line seems to be ignored? It is bit anoying.)

Copy(more or less) of bug report message:
Tested on version 0.70.6.steam demo 562
With this saved game the Game crashes after a few minutes (this starts happen after previous game update i think).

Also robots stop doing things for no reason - no error (this is even befor the previous update).
It happens often when having multiple robots with the same program.
Most often they stuck in "Find and Pick" step. They pick the item, put it to right-hand but they do not swap it into the left-hand as they should.
Reseting and restarting robots doesnot help, restarting and loading/continuthe game also doesnot help.

I hope the report it is clear enough, my english is not the best one :)

[okster]

I had the same problem - then i noticed that the 'equals' condition had no path. once i had resolved that, it never happened again.

to spell it out i was using the conditional block i had a route for more, a route for less, but no route for equals. once i routed the equals condition (usually to less) then they kept working

[okster]

to explain even more:

all my bots started (from idle) with a conditional checking that their energy was more or less than 5. less sent them off to find a coal brick, more sent them to whatever the rest of their program was. but when it was exactly 5 they did nothing and appeared to be sitting on idle all the time without doing anything.

i can see this catching people learning coding ( it should be obvious to someone with years of experience (ahem, like me, oops) ). perhaps some kind of message should appear when you dont have a route for every condition. i dont know, that could be annoying, maybe just an optional toggle for an error state to occur if the program had no path to continue (rather than a default to idle)

[okster]

I have thought about this a little more, and i think the bots should always halt (and maybe flash or something) if a condition is reached where they cant proceed. just going back to idle is not satisfactory.

I read a post where someones bots where eating whatever they had, and you stated that this was desired. which i agree with - but i belive this is the same deal. dont cover up an unexpected condition, fail on it.

[Ovrscout]

Hi okster, it would be nice to have some message in that case. However i think that this is a different issue than mine. I see that my bot is in "Find and pick" block which have only one output(plus error output which do nothing in my case)

[Great Ramil]

Originally posted by ivolff:

Wow It's so sad to see you have such problem, I passed it to our QA.

Did you report it by ingame reporter, if it contineously exists after restarting game, it should be wery usefull for us.

Looks really serious, hope will fix soon.

Did it get fixed? I tried to launch the game and my broken robots started working! (as i remember this bot didn't work, but i still not sure. Gonna look what will happen with my bots)

Edit: nevermind, i guess my bot somehow started working but it broke again. I hope it will get fixed soon, beacuse i enjoy this game very much =(

[Morocka]

I downloaded the demo yesterday and had zero issues with them stopping other then not getting coal. NOW what annoyed me is they would pick up the storage box if the item they are looking for is not in it. That needs adjusted.