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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spaceward Ho! 1.1 bug/feature: Limits on number of fleets
Keywords: Spaceward ho
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.205940.2374@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 91 20:59:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.204228.2846@tc.fluke.COM> <1991Feb26.225423.16943@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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In <1991Feb26.225423.16943@Neon.Stanford.EDU> commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons) writes:

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

Peter explained this to me in more detail: apparently, there's a limit of
around 50 fleets.  (However, since there seems to be several "kinds" of
fleets: Fleets, Scout Fleets and Colony Fleets, it may be 50 for each
category -- I'm not sure about 50 being the right number.)  By scrapping
fleets, more are made available.  Most important, if you create a ship on a
planet with no fleets, and you're "out of fleets", it doesn't just disappear
-- it gets added to another one of your fleet, somewhere else in the galaxy.

(Thanks, Peter.)

*Sigh*  Spent another enjoyable 8 hours on S.H. this weekend.  So much for
getting those Christmas thank-you letters out.... :-)

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