Construction Vessel - drone equip bugs and apparent exploit

[donzi]

I'd a stabilized station and CV situation, 40 cargolifetsr all in place on the station units list by delivering them to the CV as cargo.

Has been fine for days. Today I had a blocked up cargolifter production line so I bought 25, 19 construction drones and 24 Intercepter (?) Mk1 drones the URV forge also makes.

I delivered all of them (orders -> transfer) to the CV as cargo. Let things idle for a few minutes and all looked good.

Called the architect and equipped the new drones (cargolifters and fight drones since the construction drones are apparently invalid for the station -- dont show in the architect list).

The units list started off showing the right amount at the staion, I added 25 to the slider. The confirmation that they were in the CV cargo was good..

Did the same for the 24 fight drones..

I then figured I'd try to orders->transfer [equip] the construction drones to the station, which worked okay.

After doing the operation the station showed 90 cargolifters for a couple minutes and looking at the architect they showed like 124 'on station' -- the fight drones showed proper on the station units list but 48 when checking the architect.

Gave it a few more minutes and the station settled on 74 as did the architect for the number of cargolifter units available. The fight drones remain showing proper on the staion but 48 though the architect menus.

I've seen the architect not sync numbers with the station numbers before and quite bothering with it for days, leaving the original 40 cragolifters alone -- which all matched up when looking between architect and station.

I can't recall exactly the outcome, but previously I'd used the architect to remove all the drones in an attempt to clean up the mess. AFAIk those drones were destroyed and I may have actually gotten fair market value for them.. don't recall.

In contrast, the numbers on the staion represent actual drones I can go get using the transfer orders. The architect having inflated numbers, despite not being able to take possession of the extra drones, if they refund credits when removing them then it seem that would be a money exploit.

None of the ships (CV or trade ship) got their drones compliments mangled fwiw.

Unless this is on some sort of long count to fully digest the transactions, it seems like this exposed a couple exploits along with the bugs.

1. able to equip construction drones at station with trade ship -> orders -> transfer [equip] when CV/Architect implies that those drones are not valid for the staion by their exclusion from their equip drones list.

2. seems I picked up 9 cargolifters for free by the architect