Bug#658756: opencity: unauthorized construction is observed!

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: opencity
Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1
Severity: normal

Hello,
I often experience what I think is a bug in the implementation
of opencity.

During the growth of my city, I often find cases of unauthorized
construction: I mean that some building has been constructed without
complying with regulations imposed by me.

For instance, a building is sometimes created on a, say, commercial
area, even though there are not enough adjacent commercial area cells
to accommodate for the building itself: this infringing building
overlaps with adjacent buildings or replaces road segments, thus
interrupting previously built streets.

One example of this misbehavior is included in the city I attached
to bug #657890 [0]: the market I wanted to destroy (the one adjacent to
the hospital) was created on a commercial area cell and on an adjacent
road cell (thus interrupting the street).
I don't think this behavior is intentional: I am therefore under the
impression that it is due to an implementation bug.

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/657890

It is probably due to the same bug that causes some buildings to be
created partially out of the map. This bug seems to be known by
upstream, as one screenshot [1] illustrates it and is labelled
"The OutOfMap panic" [2].
However, I don't know whether the upstream developers are aware
of the fact that the bug is still unfixed.

[1] http://www.opencity.info/screenshot/full/opencity-0.0.4-outofmap.jpg
[2] http://www.opencity.info/en/Screenshot.html

Please forward this bug report upstream, so that the developers
of opencity know that this issue still affects the game.

Thanks for your time!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages opencity depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.13-24
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-12
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.11.2-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    7.11.2-1
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.46-4
ii  libsdl-image1.2           1.2.11-2
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2           1.2.12-1
ii  libsdl-net1.2             1.2.8-1
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.14-7
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-12
ii  libtinyxml2.6.2           2.6.2-1
ii  opencity-data             0.0.6.4stable-1

opencity recommends no packages.

opencity suggests no packages.

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