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From: amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan)
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Subject: Re: Powermonger comments
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.163843.3255@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 16:38:43 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.033406.24251@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>>> *  Inventing things: Sometimes people work for ages without producing 
>>>    anything... why?
>>> 
>>
>>You got me, if they aren't inventing I just issue the command again and
>>usually that gets them in gear.
>
>Make sure you have food in the village you are inventing at.  I made this
>mistake *dozens* of times... Once I dropped some food, *poof*, there was my
>catapult.

If there is no food in the village, then the people will go right to trying
to grow food - no matter what you tell them to do...
(BTW, you dangled your participle... 'are inventing _at_' ;-))

>Dave Hopper

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