From space pirate to accidental billionaire: the expedition bug gave me 4 billions of units
Today, I was wrapping up an expedition and transitioning back to my main save when I encountered something quite funny during the tally of my achievements and the calculation of my earned currency. Here's the thing: while waiting for the completion of the fifth stage of the expedition, I engaged in piracy, looting a significant number of Gek ships. My relationship with the Geks plummeted to around -500. When it came to calculating achievements, there was a section for relations with alien races, and in this section, my currency earnings took a massive hit due to my poor relations. It turned out that I had earned a total of -1 unit of currency.
I was a bit disheartened and surprised to find that accumulating bad reputation is penalized by the game. However, when I transitioned back to my main save, a surprise awaited me – since I had earned -1 unit, it seems there was an overflow in the game's unsigned int variable, and I ended up with 4,294,967,295 units in my main save. It was a hilariously unexpected turn of events.
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