2.0 BUG Build station copy sequence changing module scale.

[Imperial Good]

• Version 2.00 (release as of 16/03/2019).
• English language.
• Unmodified save.
• Teladi trader (not exact name) start which began around the time of 1.20.
• System specifications probably are not relevant to this issue.

During a multi hour session to design a new station I started to notice that occasionally the copy sequence function would result in a physically scaled down version of the sequence that was copied. This is best demonstrated with images, with the report continuing after.

NOTE: Images may be removed from this post in the distant future.

This image clearly shows the issue. These are all water purification modules and so should all be the same size. Instead as I progressively copied them they became smaller and smaller. Not only the purification modules, but also the interconnect modules that they were attached to (I copied the entire sequence to extend the row).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/95yr0ijzva6s1 ... 5151_1.jpg
This is a front/back on view showing the differences in scale.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xo5y7ealmmoid ... 5140_1.jpg
Here is a more complete overview of the entire factory with the water modules in place.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2smpkldyze1ut ... 2052_1.jpg
Not just water purification suffered from this bug. This Paranid Medical Supply factory at the end of the 10 long columns was also scaled down slightly.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c40wkyvv3g5r ... 2040_1.jpg

This persisted after confirming module changes. However the scaling was fixed by saveing, restarting the X4 client and loading. Although the scaling was fixed, the offsets from the scaling were not resulting in deformed sequences with impossibly placed modules. As seen in the following images.

My nice straight line of water purifiers is all bent and clipping into each other...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0idpwvnmbbl2q ... 2750_1.jpg
And my medical supply factory block is not uniform...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/23cvpab0ylw17 ... 2934_1.jpg

Currently I am unaware of how to reliably recreate this. Also the factory is still under construction so I have no idea how this effects the finished factory.

[DocAce]

I've quickly tried to reproduce this myself, without success so far. If you happen to find a reliable way to do it please let me know, ideally with a savegame and instructions like "copy sequence of module X in station Y".

[Imperial Good]

So far have not been able to recreate it in simple test cases. I will keep a look out for it.

For anyone trying to investigate this or encountering it, the following might be factors to its cause.

• Remaining in Plan Build view for many hours.
• Alt tabbing a lot when in plan view.
• Moving hundreds of modules around in plan view.
• Changing the order of hundreds of modules in plan view.
• While alt tabbed, sending computer to sleep and waking it several times.
• Deleting a lot of modules.
• Changing loadout for a lot of modules.
• Working on a brand new plot which is 10x10x10 and was moved around a few times before starting.
• Working on a plot without a licence in such a way that the warning is visible for hours.

These are all potential variables I can think of when the bug occurred.

[SPiDER]

I was wondering whether it was this bug that killed my save...in my game the module's got massively larger not smaller and they were defense bridge modules.

@ego check out the huge station just north of AP wharf ..its as the defense ring got back to the E docks that it occured..I managed to delete most of them but there is one thats still visibile about 15 times too big.
See my post for link to the save file.