Big Ben results in negative gold (Fixed)

[Troy Bruckner]

Playing as Bali I had ~90,000 gold and was earning ~2,250/turn. Completed Big Ben and my cash on hand became NEG 30,000. I reloaded and spent ~30K and then when Big Ben completed I went to negative 70,000.
I got siphoned for ~23,000 a few turns before this, but that doesn't explain the huge negative.

On a side note my spy didn't seem to be getting experience. Usually after one or two successful defenses a level is gained, but after 5 or 6 defenses + the one failure to defend my spy was still base level.

 

[xiaoyu101]

When you have more than 55925 gold in treasury and finish building this big clock,the next turn your treasury will be incorrect just as the pictures below.

 

[Boyan_Sun]

We can also provide possible reason and solution for solving the bug.

Notice that no matter how much money you have, your final money will be always in a fixed range after Big Ben, value is among -83886 ~ +83885.
We know that 2^23 = 8,388,608, That means the return value of the Big Ben is converting from a fixed-point number, which precision is 23; then keep 2 decimal places.

So please to improve the precision of its return value (for example, double, which is 64-bit), should probably be able to solve this problem.

 

[dshirk]

We've reproduced this one. Thanks for the info!

 

[Troy Bruckner]

Just lost about 100K gold as Mali. Basically ruined my marathon game after 8 hours.

 

[Halcyan2]

My temporary workaround was to spend enough of my gold (mainly spent on Great People) before building Big Ben, to ensure that it didn't overflow.

So I would suggest loading your game to the turn before you build Big Ben and then spending a lot of your excess gold.

 

[Troy Bruckner]

My temporary workaround was to spend enough of my gold (mainly spent on Great People) before building Big Ben, to ensure that it didn't overflow.

So I would suggest loading your game to the turn before you build Big Ben and then spending a lot of your excess gold.

First time I did it I went negative 50K gold after spending most of my reserve before I completed it. It might just be a Mali thing.

 

[bbufa]

Just got this negative gold bug, now I should buy some great people aggggggggggggggggg
End this turn and I'm in dead debt!

 

[Browd]

Patch notes state that this has been fixed:

• Fixed an overflow that some players noticed when they had large amounts of gold and completed Big Ben, which gives a 50% gold bonus.