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- From: dlevine@dorsai.com (David Levine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: VGA PLANETS - ARGH MY HOMEWORLD!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.153656.18814@dorsai.com>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 15:36:56 GMT
- References: <goldberg.724690789@vincent2.iastate.edu>
- Organization: The Dorsai Embassy +1.718.729.5018
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- goldberg@iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) writes:
- : I got hit!@!!!!!1 I hate this game!!!! MY homeworld population went
- : from 300,000 to 3000 overnight.... no reason! WHAT GIVES?!?!?!!
- : I can't be the only person who has seen this problem, can I?!?!?!
-
- This sounds like the "dimensional rift bug that's mentioned in the docs.
- If you look around you will probably see that all of the home planet stats
- mirror those of another one of your worlds. This is temporary! I think that
- quiting and restarting the program may fix it. If not you will lose a turn
- of working on that planet - the problem will go away in the next turn.
-
- The author, after a bug report resopnse of "stupid user problem" (not his exact
- words - but that's what he was impling), admitted that the bug is still there.
- He says that he can't find it because it is so intermitant.
-
- If you want to help find the answer, try this: Make a copy of your playerx.trn
- file. If the bug happens try to recreate it - it seems to appear only in
- response to some sequences of commands. Mail the file and the complete seqence
- of events that activated the bug to the author.
-
- One of my friends says that examining one of your "new" worlds before your
- home world may cause the bug.
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- David Levine
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