Selling class 1 hyperdrive 4t only frees up 1t.

[impaktor]

Start at New Hope.
7t free.
Sell Class 1 hyperdrive (4t)
now "free: 8t" displayed in the footer, but I can still fill it with 10t.

Strangeness: This doesn't happen with class 3 hyperdrive (20t) on Earth starting ship.

Stranger than strange: Sell any and all equipment from New Hope starting ship: First item frees up 1t (no matter how big), rest of it frees up 0t. However, sell any and all equipemnt from Earth starting ship, and all works fine!

EDIT: Change startup ship on Earth to Pumpkinseed and same strangeness happens there.

[impaktor]

OK, I'm not familiar with data/ships/*.lua, but changing capacity from 17 to 10, so it has the same value as cargo (as it is the case for Natrix and Sinonatrix) seems to fix this problem. I don't have time to understand why, or what those variables are supposed to do in the first place.

[laarmen]

OK. After investigation, I should say that the bug is NOT in the code. What happens is that the "cargo capacity" gauge doesn't directly use the capacity, but the totalCargo property.

    if slot == "cargo" then -- TODO: build a proper property system for the slots
        ship:setprop("usedCargo", self.slots.cargo.__occupied)
    else
        ship:setprop("totalCargo", math.min(self.slots.cargo.__limit, self.slots.cargo.__occupied+ship.freeCapacity))
    end

So when you have the 4t drive, plus all the goodies, totalCargo is the m_stats.free_capacity + usedCargo, but when you remove it, bam, the slot size becomes the new limit.

[laarmen]

AKA:

It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)

[lwho]

The conclusions from IRC seem to be

• No bug in code
• No bug in pumpkinseed
• But confusing display

Possible resolution: Split the display of free tonnage in two numbers:

• total available
• available for cargo

Now we need a volunteer implementing it ;)

[PVJeltz]

Hi,
I take this as a warmup :) assign to me please.

[fluffyfreak]

Glad to see you're interested @PVJeltz feel free to work on it and ask us anything you need to know either here or on our devloper forum