is there a lower limit on force vectors on avatars?

I was playing around with the jetpack script a couple weeks ago, trying to make a way to slow down the avatar, i.e. multipling the force vector by a decimal, to gain more precision when walking. But if i multiply the vector by a float, none of the speeds work, regardless of what the number they are multiplying by. So i am wondering if this is a bug, or am i not understanding something? Tomorrow or tonight, i am going to multiply the vector by (1/4) instead of .25, to see if that works any different.

i was helping a friend with the burning script which has an offset associated with it. We tried to make the offset vector -.5 in the z by

vector offset = <0,0,-.5>;

but it said invalid type... now i know that vectors don't have to have integer calues in them, so what is happening here?

<0.0,0.0,-0.5>

if you throw a 0 between them it's all good.
that one drove me insane for a long time.

and it's not only vectors I don't think, I had the same problem with a straight float.

heh it would have taken me a long time to figure that one out! course that only solves the one problem. hmm I bet you need 0.## to do any kind of operations, I will test that this evening

so while -.5 is invalid, -5 is a valid float, you don't need -5.0