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From: chris@spock (Chris Ott)
Newsgroups: rec.games.empire,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Conquest bugs
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 00:01:57 EST
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To the author(s) of the game "Conquest":

     I tried to send mail, but got no response, so I'm posting it. I had a few
problems getting it to compile, but I fixed them myself. I would have posted my
fixes, but it seems that other people have already. Here are the the bugs I
have found so far:

  1) Your program only accepts UNIX's newline as an input terminator, NOT the
     return key. It would be best if it accepted both. In case you don't know,
     the RETURN key is ^M or character code 13 (decimal). The NEWLINE key is
     ^J or 10 (decimal).

  2) It took me quite some time to figure out how to use the armies. This
     should be documented at least a little bit and, as far as I can see, it
     isn't at all.

  3) What are movement points, and how do you get more of them? I have an army
     stuck out in the middle of nowhere because they ran out of movement
     points. Again, LET'S SEE SOME DOCUMENTATION!!

  4) Finally, let's see some better documentation for the commands. The
     existing list is not very self-explanatory.

     I apologize if it sounds like I'm flaming you, but I just spent an hour
trying to figure this out, and I didn't get very far. I am not familiar with
UNIX games like Empire or others. The only ones I have experience with are
Hack and Rogue. My temper just gets out of hand sometimes. Tell me what's wrong
(if you want to) and get back to me.

     If nothing else, at least it LOOKS interesting. I'd like to play with it
for a while.

                                                           Thanks,
                                                           Chris

 Chris Ott                    |
 Computer-Aided Engr. Lab     |  Chinese saying: "He who speak with forked
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