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From: seebs@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Major PowerMonger Bugs. (I mean, *MAJOR*)...
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Date: 12 Jun 91 02:45:33 GMT
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Well, I have had powermonger for a while now. And one of my friends just
got what appears to be the final victory screen - a little thing about
"Now at last I rule the world." He has taken less than half of the world.
Apparently, you see, when you take the lower right hand sector of the world,
you have won. No, it's not even bothering to keep track of whether or not
you've taken all of them.

However, the bugs we have noted are:
1] Apparently men periodically turn brown and stop moving. After this has
happened, they seem not to exist... They also sometimes have sheep with
them. ;-) (And, of course, the same thing happens to the sheep.)

2] On the last world, every so often your food will drop suddenly to zero,
and there will be a blue flash on the title bar, after which many of your
men will desert. And, immediately after this, you get some large quantity
of your food back - or possibly more, leading to...

3] Periodically, you somehow end up with 27,000 or more food - with no clear
indication of where the last, oh, say, 25,000 of that came from. This peaks
around 32,000.

All in all, I would have to say that this game is rather buggy. Between these
and the amount of disk-gronking it does, I'm probably going to be compelled
to write a rather nasty letter to EOA...

ps: does anyone know why they often use "EOA"? Like, what does the 'O' stand
for?

--SeebS--
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doesn't speak for me, and Marcel Marceau |     | "Forgive them Father, for they
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