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- From: elliott@oliafd.shel.isc-br.com (Elliott Kleinrock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: VGA PLANETS - ARGH MY HOMEWORLD!
- Message-ID: <elliott.45@oliafd.shel.isc-br.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:24:12 GMT
- References: <goldberg.724690789@vincent2.iastate.edu> <1992Dec20.153656.18814@dorsai.com>
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- In article <1992Dec20.153656.18814@dorsai.com> dlevine@dorsai.com (David Levine) writes:
- >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.
-
- That sounds familiar, I found a new world, looked at it to see the minerals,
- and then my homeworld was 0'rd. (I think).
-
- By the way, how does a ship in orbit get a mineral report???
-
- >--
- >David Levine
- >dlevine@dorsai.com
- >305 W. 18th St., New York, NY 10011
- >212-924-3628
- - Elliott
-
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