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By haslo, in X-Wing

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On 12/10/2017 at 0:05 AM, sozin said:

It isn’t hard to do. It is a loose violation of the xws specification, which clearly states that passing points around is a no no (this is to prevent fragility and promote resilience). Whatever, it is just a guideline. The practical implication is that everyone has to calculate out silly things like Vaksai title (which sadly is not just a database lookup, it has to be calculated on the fly, same goes for the Tie Advanced title).

EDIT: Here's a practical example of this: there's currently a bug in voidstate involving it putting things into the xws payload that aren't listed on the web page. For example

http://xwing-builder.co.uk/view/753478/dashnym with xws payload

http://xwing-builder.co.uk/xws/753478#view=full

The xws payload lists the squad as 100 points, but if you total it up its actually 108 points. We noticed this bug because both listjuggler and r2-d7 reported the squads as 108 points (despite the xws payload listing it as 100). If listjuggler or r2-d7 had relied on the xws source for the point totals, as opposed to calculating it themselves, the bug could have lied dormant.

Fair! I was trying to think of anything had a variable points cost and couldn't immediately think of one, but Vaksai and /X1 would be trickier.

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Yeah, they are annoying edge cases, quite representative of what they truly are -- hard coded hax left to us by the game designers, patching their flawed design via point adjusting upgrade title cards :-)