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From: her3@tank.uchicago.edu (Ben 'Drew' Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: More conquer4 bugs
Message-ID: <4521@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 89 18:17:17 GMT
References: <1300005@hplvli.HP.COM>
Reply-To: her3@tank.uchicago.edu (Ben 'Drew' Herman)
Organization: University of Chicago
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In article <1300005@hplvli.HP.COM> boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne) writes:
>A couple of more strange conquer4 bugs:
>
>    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??).

This is suppose to happen.. ie. You have a percent chance of finding an item
granted that it exists in your land. So on turn one your 5% chance fails 
but on turn two it succeeds. (ie you get lucky and find something) 
Note: dwarves have a better chance of finding mines than others

>2.  In god mode, I redesignated some sectors owned by the nomads
>    as owned by my nation, then redesignated their trade goods as XXX
>    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!

See above: Just because an item exists does not mean you have the ability to
find it. Finding it is of course a probability dependant on race and item.
just as there is a probability to depleat a mine.

>It's a great, but addicting, game!
Hear Hear!!!!
>
>Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.hp.com

 Ben Herman
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