Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: How to win at 'bt'
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.235638.407@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <530@perle.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 23:56:38 GMT
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In article <530@perle.UUCP> kevin@perle.UUCP (Kevin Pickard) describes
a problem with the Broken Throne terrain handling...

But a faster way to win against robots involves moving a negative number
of troops.... which will _create_ troops as neccesary, awarding you
action points in the process!

I have made a few changes to btclient, which I could send out if there
was interest.

* a "move one troop" command
* things that take a <to> and a <from> now use the current position as a
  <from>, so to move troops you
  * move to the right place
  * press m
  * move to the new place and press return or space
  * type the number and press return
* things like "recruit" also use the current location, so you simply
  type "r" instead of r-space.


The only major problem I've found is that sometimes either a client will
get disconnected for no obvious reason (you're told you're dead, but the
other players see you as still alive), and sometimes the server (or one
of the robots) will go into an infinite loop, which is a pain.

I don't have fixes for those.  This is on a Sun 4/110 under SunOS 4.0.3.

Lee


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Liam R. E. Quin,  lee@sq.com, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, +1 (416) 963-8337