So I've been working on a rather long event in VX and something was going wrong, so I tracked the problem down to the variables and when I checked them, I found out that when I multiplied them, they were instead set to the value that they were being multiplied by.
(Example: When Variable 3-at a value of 400-was multiplied by 4, it ended up just becoming 4)
So...WTF is going on?

multiply it by 1600 then.

Well, it turns out I'm not the only one who's encountered that problem, but I found the Variable Fix and it worked!

That just reminds me that muliplication of variables is so rarely used...

well, you can always do it by the Script command:

$game_variables[1] *= $game_variables[2]

But yeah, nobody really uses multiplaction in variables.

scripting will not be necessary...
But yeah, I think this is the first time I'm using variable multiplication, though it's very necessary because my situation is...special (but I don't want to reveal it until I reveal the project it's part of).

Oh, I see.