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- From: leonard@mimsy.umd.edu (Leonard Dickens)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
- Subject: Re: Server Bug
- Message-ID: <63715@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:39:01 GMT
- References: <cfMo3_u00VAzA5yXIK@andrew.cmu.edu> <2B642B46.18857@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan25.232911.25142@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- Andrew Markiel writes:
- >While I haven't looked at the code, I'm pretty sure that there's some
- >bug by which a docked ship never generates any fuel, so any fuel it
- >uses must be replaced from the ship it's docked to.
-
- Precisely.
-
-
- >In this case, the
- >proper fix is to change it so that the docked ship replenishes it's
- >own fuel. How to actually do this, I have no idea.
-
- See my fix, posted yesterday.
-
-
- >This bug was noticed a few years ago, but it wasn't really considered
- >important so nothing ever got done.
-
- What a strange concept... how could you notice a bug without wanting
- to fix it? Or at least, want to try to fix it enough to look at the
- code and determine it is an easy fix? Did Terence know about this?
-
-
- >We determined all this back when we
- >discovered the bug that allows you to dock ships onto scouts (was this
- >fixed in the bronco distribution?)
-
- Yes it was... ships docked automatically undock when a SB refits... I
- don't know offhand what happens when a SB refits into SB, but that
- could go either way and be OK.
-
- -Leonard
-
-