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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
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Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho! (BUG?)
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Date: 5 Feb 91 23:12:46 GMT
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>I called Delta Tao last week and they said they'd ship my copy after
>they fixed a major bug that affected playability.  They said it would
>go out this week.  Anyone encountered this bug?

Versions up to 1.03 have what is called the "negative money bug". If during
a game of Spaceward Ho! you hoard a lot of metal and then later start spending
that money on a highly miniaturized ship (one which needs very little metal)
such that the ratio of stored metal to ship metal cost is big enough, your
metal will go to zero the next turn and then your money will go very negative-
which will cause most/all of your planets to die.

This has been fixed in 1.1, which became available this morning. All registered
1.0-1.03 users will receive a free update sometime in the next two weeks.




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Peter Commons		
commons@cs.stanford.edu	
Computer Science Department, Stanford University