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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho! 1.1 bug/feature:  Limits on number of fleets
Keywords: Spaceward ho
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.225423.16943@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:54:23 GMT
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>OK, bug or feature?
>
>I have a habit of leaving a scout ship on any planet I'm not colonizing (and
>that isn't being occupied by an enemy :-) ), and thus rack up a lot of
>individual fleets, since a fleet is assigned to each scoutship.  Last night,
>on reaching Fleet #100, I started having problems where:
>
>    When trying to separate a fleet of four ships into four seperate fleets
>    with the Clover-F function, the "New" button is grayed out, so that I
>    can't create any new fleets.
>
>    When a new ship is built on a planet, it is announced in the game log,
>    but when I click on the planet, the ship is nowhere to be seen -- 
>    unless a fleet was already there, which is made up of that type of ship.
>
>When I start scrapping other fleets, however, I'm able to begin creating new
>fleets.  (Fleet #101, 102, etc.)
>

Feature. There is currently a limit to the number of fleets that can be created
at one time. Satellites do not count as fleets.



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Peter Commons		
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Computer Science Department, Stanford University