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From: boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: More conquer4 bugs
Message-ID: <1300005@hplvli.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 89 15:34:14 GMT
Organization: Loveland Inst. Div
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A couple of more strange conquer4 bugs:

BTW, I was playing solitaire, with NPC nations enabled.

1.  On several moves, I logged in as a neighboring NPC nation
    and directed the moves for that nation: moving its armies
    away from my nation, declaring war on another neighboring
    NPC nation, etc, (to give me some breathing room - cheating,
    I know).  After about 20 moves of doing this, strange things
    started to happen:

    1) the 2nd NPC nation got errors stating that it tried to
       move population to sectors it didn't own - may be related
       to the both nations taking sectors belonging to the other.

    2) *really* rich metal and gold mines started popping up -
       like values of 8 to 12 - all over the place, including
       in the middle of land I had owned from the beginning
       (or is this *supposed* to happen??).

    3) sectors that I owned began to be redesignated as churches,
       roads, etc.

2.  In god mode, I redesignated some sectors owned by the nomads
    as owned by my nation, then redesignated their trade goods as
    rich steel, mithral, and gold mines, the redesignated them as
    goldmines and mines.  When I then logged in as my nation,
    sure enough, they belonged to me and were goldmines/mines, but
    they had *no* metal/jewel value.  Back to god mode - which
    reported the rich values.  Something is strange here!

3.  In god mode, you can create new armies, but only of militia -
    why?

It's a great, but addicting, game!

Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.hp.com