Dec 28th 2011, 16:33:25
I figured out the problem.
The javascript was filling in BOTH the units to buy field and the price to buy field with the same number.
So if you tried to buy X units using the You Can Buy, it would try to buy X units at $X, costing a total of X*X dollars, which is displayed if you don't have any money.
I figured this out when I tried to buy 300k troops and it tried to use 900m dollars, so I checked our trying to buy 719551 tanks and it tried to spend 719551 * 719551 = 517753641601 dollars (as a democracy, so no commision interference).
See the first post of this thread: 3696 * 3696 * 1.06 = 14480040.96 (as non democracy).
As another example, the post just above this one: 86171 * 86171 * 1.06 = 7870967715.46
This problem doesn't happen as often on the Buy Tech page because people buy less quantities of tech (say 5000 tech at $5000 only costs 25 mil dollars, but it will buy 5000 tech at the lowest prevailing price rather than at $5000).
The javascript was filling in BOTH the units to buy field and the price to buy field with the same number.
So if you tried to buy X units using the You Can Buy, it would try to buy X units at $X, costing a total of X*X dollars, which is displayed if you don't have any money.
I figured this out when I tried to buy 300k troops and it tried to use 900m dollars, so I checked our trying to buy 719551 tanks and it tried to spend 719551 * 719551 = 517753641601 dollars (as a democracy, so no commision interference).
See the first post of this thread: 3696 * 3696 * 1.06 = 14480040.96 (as non democracy).
As another example, the post just above this one: 86171 * 86171 * 1.06 = 7870967715.46
This problem doesn't happen as often on the Buy Tech page because people buy less quantities of tech (say 5000 tech at $5000 only costs 25 mil dollars, but it will buy 5000 tech at the lowest prevailing price rather than at $5000).