Hi Kevin, My guess is some of the bots have so many hours or "ticks" played that they are causing some calculation in ltd stats to create a negative number for hours. So the ratings are appearing as negative. Any suggestion how to fix welcome. The scores A tool does not work for ltd stats so not sure how to modify the player database. Thanks, Bill On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:16 PM Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > netrek.beeseenterprises.com is a Sturgeon public server. Some of the > bots have amassed very large "Offense" and "Defense" ratings, so much so > that the player list in netrek-client-cow shows them as garbled characters. > > Further investigation reveals that ftoa() is not designed to emit > negative numbers properly, and that for some reason, the client tries to > call ftoa() on a negative number when displaying these bots' ratings. > > The attached patch replaces the garbled characters with '??????'. > Further investigation is needed to root cause the problem. It's unclear > whether or not this is a problem with the server. > > Regards, > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Zheng > kevinz5000 at gmail.com | kevinz at berkeley.edu > XMPP: kevinz at eecs.berkeley.edu > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20200430/0f5dc15d/attachment.htm>