Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!jessica.stanford.edu!bard From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Can PowerMonger actually be won? Message-ID: <1991Feb1.222857.9138@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Feb 91 22:28:57 GMT References: Sender: news@portia.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.games Organization: Academic Information Resources Lines: 48 In article rad@avenger.think.com (Bob Doolittle) writes: > >Now, in the final territory, most of my soldiers start bare-handed, but my >general starts with a different random color pattern. The only effect >seems to be that he can't pick up a boat (although everyone else can), and >even if everyone has a boat and there is a surplus, the general can't sail >anywhere, so the army can't either. Once again, this may be a feature - it >seems like everybody is leaving their villages and attacking my land >anyway, so maybe if I play long enough I can just kill them all off and I get this same 'feature' about ten rows up from the bottom, in a territory where you start on a separate continent in the north. It's awful. I've done everything to try to pick up a boat, to no avail. It just goes into the troop surplus. As a result, I can only conquer the northern continent, and then leave the game going. I left it on for 48 hours before I figured that this was a bug, and not the way you won that particular territory. I've tried this on different machines, and it's the same all around. >eventually win that way... HOWEVER, this territory constantly causes >gurus, usually when I am trying to save or restore a game! I know this is >supposed to be the toughest land to win, but is it supposed to be hard >because you always have to start over again when the game gurus??? ;-) I haven't had a guru (yet), but if your drive is the least bit mis-aligned, there's no way in hell you're going to save your game. I can save on my 1000 and my 500 at school, but not on my 500 at home, that has a drive that works with every disk I own except PowerMonger. >I've had very little trouble up until now - some 10-second hangs, and a >very occasional guru, but this last territory is a drag. Just when I get >to the end, too! I wouldn't know. Unfortunately, I don't think I ever will. >Has anybody else gotten this far who has had similar experiences, or is my >game buggy, or what?? Yup. MASSIVELY buggy. What pisses me off is that they promised that this game is copyable. I've thrown every damn German, English, and American nibbler I own at the thing, and I'm still forced to run off the original. Can't say I'll ever buy anything from EA or BullFrog again. No loss on my part. Dave Hopper | /// Yesterday, CS. | Academic Info Resources | __ /// Today, Anthropology. | Mac & UNIX Sys-Support bard@jessica. | \\\/// | "Somebody get me a job Stanford.EDU | \XX/ Tomorrow: napping in gutters.| with a computer I LIKE"