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From: dgibbs@bnr-fos.UUCP (David Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs,rec.games.misc
Subject: Omega bug(fix)
Message-ID: <810@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 20:59:46 GMT
Reply-To: dgibbs@bnr-fos.UUCP (David Gibbs)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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I have found a small error in Omega, which is (I think) a bug, not designer
intent.  If a person with a high power (>21) and very chaotic (alignment
< -30)  he can end up being charged a large fee to enter the sorcerors
guild, and this will go up if his power increases.  I had this occur
to a character of mine who had to paw several thousand gold to join.
(greater than 10000) 

The bug is caused by two lines in oguild2.c , 477 and 478

at the top of the function fee is initialized to 3000.

477: fee += Player.alignment * 100
478: fee = (int)(fee*(1 + (12-Player.Pow)/9.0))

if alignment is, say -300 (Servant of Chaos, not hard to get)
and Pow is 25, this can be very costly.

probably the easiest way to fix this is to change line 477 to:

     fee = max( 0, (fee + Player.alignment*100));

-David Gibbs