Ships per account - Patching up the bugs

kmiller

So Discovery finally started to experiment with this and so far results have been great, there’s been little problems. I do believe being able to solve these problems would benefit the entire fl community as the 5 ships per account restriction has been a pain for many players.

There is one that’s been found and makes the account unable to be logged. I’ve spent a few hours on it and I’ve been able to pinpoint it.

The issue seems to be related to “cargo =” entries and a very specific amount of them.

I’ve based my replication around one vessel, but it will work with removing the cargo entry from any of them.

Complete guide on how to replicate the issue using the latest version of discovery (+ launcher patches installed):

Create an empty account with a local server
Copy the account files from yodq.zip to that new account
Attempt to create a new character, you will be logged out of the account and unable to log again.
Open 06-3abd1e5a.fl
Remove one “cargo =” entry
You are now able to log, create new ships if you want, up to 10.
Log on XZ-450, the character associated with 06-3abd1e5a.fl
Go to the commodities dealer, buy Drill Bits as you shouldn’t have that item in your cargo already.
F1, select new character, you will be disconnected.
Edit the character file again, remove one cargo entry. Log on XZ-450.
Purchase two or more commodities that you don’t have already in your cargo. Drill Bits and Basic Alloy should work.
F1, select new character. You are not disconnected and all ships can be logged.
Log again, sell one of the two items you previously bought.
F1, select new character. you are disconnected.

Same way avoiding the issue:

Create an empty account with a local server
Copy the account files from yodq.zip to that new account
Log on XZ-450.
Sell a bunch of cargo items to the dealer. I tried with 5.
Log off the character, create new characters. No problem happens.

SWAT_OP-R8R

not entirely correct

There is an account wide item limit which leads to problems. You have experience this with 5 chars already and you might also have luck with 20 chars.
The problem is the number of items the chars (not just the cargo stuff).

The 5 char limit of course minimizes this issue.

kmiller

Hello,

I am aware of this limit and this is what surprises me. As you can see in the steps, adding more items do not cause the problem to happen, but one very specific amount will.

The exception thrown when this very specific amount of items is reached is the following: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000000.

Once I create the new vessel, the total count of items combined across all charfiles is:

177 cargo items
194 equipment items
which is a total of 371 items.

370 will work, 372+ will work. exactly 371 items will cause the account to be unloggable until someone removes one item.

I have attempted this on another account and you can hold 371 items, but with yoda’s account files, it won’t work.