Bug - Not A Bug use command in mafia results in buying too many scrolls of drastic healing

taltamir

taltamir

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Code: 
[COLOR=olive]> use drastic healing[/COLOR]

Searching for     "scroll of drastic healing"...
Search complete.
Purchasing     scroll of drastic healing (8 @ 949)...
Desired purchase quantity not     reached (wanted 30, got 8)
Using 1 scroll of drastic healing...
Finished     using 1 scroll of drastic healing.
why is it trying to buy 30 when i only used 1?
 
It's a hard-coded case to save server hits. If you are in aftercore, auto-buying a cheap item when your resources should be plentiful, then save KoL's bandwidth by not buying them 1 at a time.
 
taltamir said:
Code: 
[COLOR=olive]> use drastic healing[/COLOR]

Searching for     "scroll of drastic healing"...
Search complete.
Purchasing     scroll of drastic healing (8 @ 949)...
Desired purchase quantity not     reached (wanted 30, got 8)
Using 1 scroll of drastic healing...
Finished     using 1 scroll of drastic healing.
why is it trying to buy 30 when i only used 1?
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There are several cases where mafia will deliberately buy 30 of something because the expectation is that, over time, that will result in fewer server hits. These tend to be restores. I was amused to find I has the #1 spot on the SEGA display case. What happened is that the character would buy, via a script, a SEGA and get 30. The character then stored all acquired items from the day in the Display Case. The next day it buys 30 and you see where this is going.
 
lostcalpolydude said:
It's a hard-coded case to save server hits. If you are in aftercore, auto-buying a cheap item when your resources should be plentiful, then save KoL's bandwidth by not buying them 1 at a time.
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This is still a bug, just not as wide spread one.

The issue is not that it is buying 30, but that it does not consider how rich you are first. This behavior should require at least 100k meat in the bank before being engaged.

As it is it bankruped that character leaving it with no meat all. it was a new account on its first ascension, I was trying to heal before a tough boss fight... it healed, but then because it wasted all my meat on it i could not afford to buy buffs
 
If you don't think that Not A Bug is accurate (I do), then you'll have to accept Won't Fix. I would never suggest KoLmafia for someone that is genuinely new to KoL, and someone creating a new multi should be sufficiently knowledgeable to figure things out.
 
lostcalpolydude said:
If you don't think that Not A Bug is accurate (I do), then you'll have to accept Won't Fix. I would never suggest KoLmafia for someone that is genuinely new to KoL, and someone creating a new multi should be sufficiently knowledgeable to figure things out.
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While I agree this is Not A Bug, Won't Fix, I do note a discrepancy between the suggestion that it only happens in aftercore and the claim that it happened during an ascension.
 
fronobulax said:
While I agree this is Not A Bug, Won't Fix, I do note a discrepancy between the suggestion that it only happens in aftercore and the claim that it happened during an ascension.
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The first ascension for an account is identical to aftercore in just about every way that matters, except for an assumed lack of resources.
 
lostcalpolydude said:
The first ascension for an account is identical to aftercore in just about every way that matters, except for an assumed lack of resources.
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OK. My working definition of "aftercore" was the time since the king was freed and before the next ascension began. I'll adjust.
 
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