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From: danp@sabre.bellcore.com (Daniel Pomplun)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: mdg bug
Keywords: mdg
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.173400.26718@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 17:34:00 GMT
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Reply-To: danp@sabre.bellcore.com (Daniel Pomplun)
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(Sorry about the previous message;  xrn was behaving badly.)

A bug in player combat percentages was found at our site.  In the file
combat.c, function ccomp(), the lines:

        if (odds < MAX_CHANCE)
                chance = MAX_CHANCE;

should be changed to:

        if (odds > MAX_CHANCE)
                chance = MAX_CHANCE;

We found that without this change, the game was far too easy.  The amount of
time required between "proficiency" (about 15 HP, a few spells, armor and
weapon) to "godhood" was about eight hours of playing.

Game administrators should also note that receiving an extra life for
killing another player is a