Losing FXP from seemingly bugged upgrade prices

[jim_99]

I feel like I must be missing something here, but I've lost thousands of FXP now through misleadingly labelled upgrade prices.

 

For instance, today, Nassau shows 650 XP to upgrade the range.  But when I click on it, the price becomes 800 XP.  

 

Problem is, I have a reflex to click "yes" because I'm already comfortable with the price - and so in some cases the 5,000 XP upgrade I was happy to buy becomes 5,000 XP plus several thousand FXP I never expected to spend.  Am I missing something obvious or is this just a bug?

 

 

[DFens_666]

Must be a "display" bug.

 

I went to check, and for every ship, the gunfire control system supposedly costs 6200XP - even for my FDG. In reality, its 25k tho, which is correct.

Or here for Vauquelin: Ofc the upgrade is not 6200 XP, but 17k which would be correct.

 

And its ONLY the gun fire control system which is bugged

 

@MrConway @Crysantos

could you pass this along?

[jim_99]

12 minutes ago, DFens_666 said:

Must be a "display" bug.

 

I went to check, and for every ship, the gunfire control system supposedly costs 6200XP - even for my FDG. In reality, its 25k tho, which is correct.

Or here for Vauquelin: Ofc the upgrade is not 6200 XP, but 17k which would be correct.

 

 

And its ONLY the gun fire control system which is bugged

 

@MrConway @Crysantos

could you pass this along?

Thank you, glad I'm not going crazy.  I thought at first I must have just been tired and clicking without reading properly but finally caught it today and knew I wasn't imagining it. 

 

Frustrating how many FXP I wasted without realising what was going on but I guess at least it's sussed now.

[Commander_Ericson]

Yep, I got caught out by this with the Jutland hull upgrade just recently. I figured they had changed the XP costs for some of the upgrades and just happily clicked the second research notice without actually reading it was taking about 15-20k of FXP.

 

I will be more cautious next time.

 

New UI already makes it harder to see if you've accumulated enough XP for the next upgrade/ship. Not a fan of it. Feels half baked, when you consider it has nothing in common with anything else, like Captain skills or flags & camo. Just means there's another separate menu to go through for information that was available from port previously.

[Karasu_Browarszky]

2 minutes ago, Commander_Ericson said:

Yep, I got caught out by this with the Jutland hull upgrade just recently. I figured they had changed the XP costs for some of the upgrades and just happily clicked the second research notice without actually reading it was taking about 15-20k of FXP.

 

I will be more cautious next time.

 

New UI already makes it harder to see if you've accumulated enough XP for the next upgrade/ship. Not a fan of it. Feels half baked, when you consider it has nothing in common with anything else, like Captain skills or flags & camo. Just means there's another separate menu to go through for information that was available from port previously.

 

It's a hassle. Another needless hassle is when you pick a ship from the tech tree it takes you to that equipment screen instead of port as was the case before.

[Isoruku_Yamamoto]

Ooh hey, i made this mistake on my St Louis (T9 fr) tonight, costing me 23k fxp instead of 4k xp. Weird stuff. 

[Eternus_Damnatio]

lol I thought i was going crazy myself kept looking at my FXP thinking I was sure I had more now I know why thx WG.....

[Lord0]

Bloody show offs with their upgraded ships!

[Notmi]

I've noticed that some time ago. It is clearly some kind of display bug. I can replicate this bug quite easily. Just take two tech tree ships which have same module (say Gun Fire Control System, GFCS) not researched yet. Open Equipment-tab for ship 1. You can see the research price for GFCS. Now choose ship 2 and open Equipment-tab. It has got the same research price for GFCS, even if ship 1 is tier V and ship 2 is tier IX. Same goes to ships 3, 4 and 5 and so on, until you open the tab for ship which doesnt have upgrade for GFCS or you already have researched it. Then the research price is "reset" and now if you open Equipment-tab for ship 2, it shows its correct research price. 

 

[MrConway]

11 hours ago, DFens_666 said:

Must be a "display" bug.

 

I went to check, and for every ship, the gunfire control system supposedly costs 6200XP - even for my FDG. In reality, its 25k tho, which is correct.

Or here for Vauquelin: Ofc the upgrade is not 6200 XP, but 17k which would be correct.

 

And its ONLY the gun fire control system which is bugged

 

@MrConway @Crysantos

could you pass this along?

 

This sounds and looks like a mod issue to me, please try cleaning your client using the game center.

 

Mine:

[Notmi]

MrConway:

 

I haven't used any mods ever in World of Warships and I still can replicate that bug.

[jim_99]

35 minutes ago, MrConway said:

 

This sounds and looks like a mod issue to me, please try cleaning your client using the game center.

 

I have never used any mods.  It isn't a consistent issue, it just happens sometimes, and then it will disappear again.

[MrConway]

11 minutes ago, Notmi said:

MrConway:

 

I haven't used any mods ever in World of Warships and I still can replicate that bug.

 

8 minutes ago, jim_99 said:

I have never used any mods.  It isn't a consistent issue, it just happens sometimes, and then it will disappear again.

 

Then both of you please do me a favour and check if it is displaying incorrectly. If it is, take a screenshot and send a ticket including  a WGCheck report and we can investigate. Please feel free to send me the ticket ID as well.

[Notmi]

Will do that after I got home. But have you tried to replicate it the way I described it in my first post in this thread (post #9)?

[jim_99]

22 minutes ago, Notmi said:

Will do that after I got home. But have you tried to replicate it the way I described it in my first post in this thread (post #9)?

You are spot on.  I just confirmed that my Shiratsuyu and Trento will "swap" prices.

[Isoruku_Yamamoto]

1 hour ago, MrConway said:

 

This sounds and looks like a mod issue to me, please try cleaning your client using the game center.

 

Mine:

I'm running clean vanilla WoWS, and i have experienced this issue on my St Louis (T9 FR) on researching the hull yesterday. 
I will check if i can confirm the problem on some other module
 

[jim_99]

41 minutes ago, MrConway said:

 

 

Then both of you please do me a favour and check if it is displaying incorrectly. If it is, take a screenshot and send a ticket including  a WGCheck report and we can investigate. Please feel free to send me the ticket ID as well.

I've reported and sent.  

[Isoruku_Yamamoto]

5 hours ago, MrConway said:

 

This sounds and looks like a mod issue to me, please try cleaning your client using the game center.

 

Mine:

Tiny bit of browsing on my tier 8s, and i've already found the first error. Clearly a big difference and quite wasteful if you're using free XP. 
I will report to support, i'm running completely clean vanilla WoWS

Grtz I_Y

[MrConway]

5 minutes ago, Isoruku_Yamamoto said:

Tiny bit of browsing on my tier 8s, and i've already found the first error. Clearly a big difference and quite wasteful if you're using free XP. 
I will report to support, i'm running completely clean vanilla WoWS

Grtz I_Y

 

There is no need to report it anymore. It is indeed a bug and will be fixed with the next update. It is however only a display issue, the amount of XP needed is correct.

[Isoruku_Yamamoto]

2 minutes ago, MrConway said:

 

There is no need to report it anymore. It is indeed a bug and will be fixed with the next update. It is however only a display issue, the amount of XP needed is correct.

Yeah i figure that the amount of XP needed is correct, and if i had used regular XP it wouldnt be so much of an issue to me

However, i normally only spend tiny amounts of free XP on upgrades, saving all my free XP for ships (i have the missouri, kronstadt, Musashi, Friesland and Hayate because of this policy), so if it had displayed correctly i wouldnt have researched the hull upgrade. 
I know i get a "confirm" pop-up, but normally that just says stuff i already know so it won't change what i was doing. 
In this case though i lost 20k FXP more than i meant to spend (23k instead of 4k), and thats a bit annoying. 
Not a very big deal, but still

[jim_99]

All figured out

[Bellegar]

On 8/17/2020 at 4:35 PM, MrConway said:

 

There is no need to report it anymore. It is indeed a bug and will be fixed with the next update. It is however only a display issue, the amount of XP needed is correct.

And what will happen to the spent Free XP of the volunteers that helped you research and identify this bug?