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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Subject: Weather Control
Message-ID: <313@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 14:27:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  3 14:27:41 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 02:41:50 EST
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Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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Since reporting bugs in Empire has become popular, I am hereby reporting a
bug that was discovered by one of our players a couple of months ago, and,
under our ground rules, made known to the other players after a brief
period of exclusive use by the discoverer.  The bug is that a weather
forecast, even for a small portion of a country, is an implied forecast for
the whole country, and the forecast weather becomes the actual weather
until the player logs out of empire.  So, your weather station keeps getting
hit by tornados and hurricanes, and the rest of your country always lives
under sunny skies.  The damage to the weather station is irrelevant; you
don't care whether the forecasts are accurate, you just want to try various
numbers of hours in the future until you hit a good day.

Herb Kanner
Tymenet, Inc.