Bug in Landgrabbing

[Chezz]

I was attacked recently and lost some land. I had 750 before the attack and the BR was:

[close] 130,000 allied Hippy attacked, distracting 122,587 hostile staff.
[close] 130,000 allied Yob attacked, disabling 144,203 hostile staff.
[close] 3,210 hostile Wheelbarrower stole 89 land. [12] tree. [74] bush. [0] flower. [3] grass. [0] uncultivated.

Distracted: 122,587 [£291,278,200] enemies distracted.
Disabled: 144,203 [£378,271,800] enemies disabled.

You gained 241 effectiveness.

The landgrab rate of wheelies is 12%, meaning that the maximum possible is 0.12*750=90. Also, each wheelie can grab 0.03 land, so 3210 is more than enough to grab 90 land. However, only 89 land was lost. Any ideas why?

PS. I'm not complaining that I have 1 more acre than I was supposed to have!

 

[Tombi]

I was attacked recently and lost some land. I had 750 before the attack and the BR was:

[close] 130,000 allied Hippy attacked, distracting 122,587 hostile staff.
[close] 130,000 allied Yob attacked, disabling 144,203 hostile staff.
[close] 3,210 hostile Wheelbarrower stole 89 land. [12] tree. [74] bush. [0] flower. [3] grass. [0] uncultivated.

Distracted: 122,587 [£291,278,200] enemies distracted.
Disabled: 144,203 [£378,271,800] enemies disabled.

You gained 241 effectiveness.

The landgrab rate of wheelies is 12%, meaning that the maximum possible is 0.12*750=90. Also, each wheelie can grab 0.03 land, so 3210 is more than enough to grab 90 land. However, only 89 land was lost. Any ideas why?

PS. I'm not complaining that I have 1 more acre than I was supposed to have!

Probably just the way it rounded out or something.

 

[CFalcon]

Nobody can have done 3 route developments yet, so it won't be anything to do with land cap.

My guess would be the problem is when the ticker tries to decide what type of acre you are going to steal. True, you should have lost 90, but that 90 might have been 12.2 tree, 74.7 bush, 0 flower, 3.1 grass (pulling numbers out of the air here).

You'd think that the 74.7 would be rounded up. I don't know how bush is written, but in alot of scripting languages decimal numbers are always rounded down, not up. That's probably the reason, because seeing as you are mostly bush acres, any decimal on bush acres should be greater than 0.5.

Short answer: rounding error

 

[Chezz]

Perhaps, but 3210*0.03 = 96.3 > 90 ! That's quite a large difference!

 

[Martin]

I think it does it based on the individual acre counts. So it is so so so so rare you get a 'full' grab, without missing the odd 1-2 acres.

 

[f0xx]

It rounds up (or down) the acres from each land type separetely.

 

[Azzer]

Yeah, always rounds down too, for acres and troop losses, never rounds up.

 

[atsanjose]

same goes for stealing seeds :link

 

[Chezz]

ok, thanks everyone! 8)