Bug with encumbrance levels

[dyx]

It looks like GCA consideres ST 10 for encumbrance calculation. My character with ST 13 should be at Light Encumbrance at 4*13=52 lbs. GCA starts showing Light Encumbrance from 40 lbs. The same problem is with other encumbrance levels. The latest patch is installed.

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by dyx

It looks like GCA consideres ST 10 for encumbrance calculation. My character with ST 13 should be at Light Encumbrance at 4*13=52 lbs. GCA starts showing Light Encumbrance from 40 lbs. The same problem is with other encumbrance levels. The latest patch is installed.

1) your math for encumbrance levels sounds off:
Basic Lift for ST 13 character is 13*13/5 = 33.8
Light encumbrance should be twice that, or 67.6 rounded up to 68, and my GCA shows Light encumbrance for a ST 13 character as 68 correctly.

(For a ST 10 character it's 10*10/5=20, twice that is 40)

2) It sounds like GCA may not be recalculating automatically. Try going up to the Tools menu and picking Recalculate everything

[dyx]

My bad, the light encumbrance level is 68 lbs. However, it still sets light encumbrance on 40 lbs. Recalculating everything doesn't seem to help. The encumbrance table in the stats section is OK, but the load-out manager gives the wrong encumbrance level, and this (wrong) level is highlited on the charsheet.

[Armin]

If GCA is showing the correct encumbrance values on the Attributes tab, then it should also be determining the encumbrance levels correctly on the Load-Out Manager, since it uses those exact same encumbrance values to determine them. GCA doesn't calculate special encumbrance values for the Load-Out Manager, when it already has them for the attributes.

I'd suggest applying the Program Update patch again. Yes, even if you're already patched up to the current version. Sometimes a patch seems to not apply correctly on some machines, and a second run fixes odd behavior.

If that doesn't help, then I'm probably going to need more detailed specifics on what you're seeing, and I may want to look at your character directly.

Armin

[dyx]

Thanks, that fixed the problem.

[Armin]

Originally Posted by dyx

Thanks, that fixed the problem.

Great! I'm glad to hear that. I apologize for the patcher apparently being a tad flakier than it should be.

Armin