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From: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Subject: Fun DB bug
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 15:29:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 15:29:15 1985
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Organization: The evil geniuses who play adventure on huge computers
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If you realize that empire is basically a huge database manager with a
wargame tilt, and consider what problems usualy face the designers of such
a database, some fascinating bugs can be found by exploiting the weaknesses
of the database implementation.

Using this technique it is possible to do things such as turn water into land.
To do this you need merely to get people into a sea sector, once you own it it
can be redesignated as wilderness or any other normal sector type. The trick is
to get people into the sea.

Think about this.. there are sereval viable concepts at least one of which
works. It does take some preparation and cooperation, however. Think about it.

Eric Anderson, UC San Diego
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